LA Condo Market Pulse: October 2026

As of October 10, 2026, the Los Angeles condo market on /market-stats showed 1,984 condos published for sale at a median asking price of $788K, or $675 per square foot, and a median monthly asking rent of about $4K. These are asking prices on CRMLS listings this site publishes, not closed sales.

We read /market-stats and five neighborhood reports on the morning of October 11, 2026. Every page gave October 10, 2026 as the date of its latest inventory refresh, so every figure below carries that date. The feed is scheduled to refresh every six hours, so the live pages may already show different numbers.

The four citywide numbers and what each one counts

The 1,984 figure is the eligible, deduplicated set of for-sale condo listings LA Condo HQ publishes from CRMLS as of October 10, 2026. The report says its geographic and property-type coverage is limited, so the count describes the listings on this site, not every condo for sale in Los Angeles County.

The $788K median asking price means half of those listings asked more and half asked less. The $675 median price per square foot is a separate median, so it will not multiply out to the $788K. The citywide page displays rent rounded to thousands, as $4K a month; the neighborhood reports give exact rents.

The page also states what it leaves out: closed-sale medians, absorption rates and year-over-year changes, because those need a verified transaction history. Our July pulses quoted a median sale price and months of supply from an earlier version of the report. Those figures are not comparable to the asking-price medians here, so this reading makes no comparison with them.

Fourteen days of recorded medians

Since September 27, 2026, /market-stats has recorded the median asking price of its published listings once a day. Through October 10, 2026, the recorded values stayed between a low of $780K and a high of $790K. The rent line read $4K a month on every recorded day at the page's display rounding.

That line is the median of whatever happened to be published on each day. A listing that goes under contract and leaves, or a new listing at either end of the range, moves it without any condo changing in value. A band of $10K across two weeks tells you the mix of published listings held steady over that stretch. It does not tell you whether prices rose or fell. Downtown LA's own line held between $579K and $589K over the same days, per /market-reports/downtown-la.

Where the 1,984 listings sit

The neighborhood table on /market-stats shows uneven supply. As of October 10, 2026, Downtown LA had 329 condos for sale, West Hollywood 171, Santa Monica 159, Koreatown 127 and Westwood 116. Those five rows hold 902 listings between them, a little under half of the citywide count.

At the other end, Marina del Rey had 14 condos for sale, and Venice and Westlake had 15 each. University Park had none for sale and 38 for rent. A median resting on 14 or 15 listings can move sharply when two or three come or go, so treat the small rows as a rough guide.

The five deepest pools, side by side

Downtown LA's 329 for-sale listings asked a median $579,000, about $608 a square foot, for a median 970 square feet as of October 10, 2026. Its report puts 40 percent of them under $500K. The median listing had been on the market 82 days, the longest of the five.

Koreatown's 127 asked a median $695,000, about $591 a square foot, for a median 1,206 square feet, per /market-reports/koreatown. The median Koreatown listing is larger than Downtown's and asks $116,000 more, yet costs less per foot. Of Koreatown's for-sale listings, 62 percent asked between $500K and $1M, and the median listing had been up 65 days.

West Hollywood's 171 asked a median $899,000, about $832 a square foot, for a median 1,111 square feet, per /market-reports/west-hollywood. Just over half asked between $500K and $1M, while nine asked $5M or more. The median listing had been up 55 days.

Westwood's 116 asked a median $1,062,000, about $735 a square foot, for a median 1,551 square feet, per /market-reports/westwood. Santa Monica's 159 asked a median $1,295,000, about $977 a square foot, for a median 1,370 square feet, per /market-reports/santa-monica. The median Westwood listing is larger than Santa Monica's and asks $233,000 less. Only two Santa Monica listings asked under $500K; 45 percent asked between $1M and $2M. Median days on market were 56 in Westwood and 52 in Santa Monica.

Days on market here is how long the current listings had been up, not how quickly condos sell. A long median can reflect a few stale, overpriced listings, so check the individual listings before reading it as weak demand.

The neighborhood price ladder

As of October 10, 2026, the lowest neighborhood medians on /market-stats were Westlake at $399K, West Adams at $475K, Highland Park at $530K, Downtown LA at $579K and Culver City at $595K. The highest were Century City at $2.11M, Beverly Hills at $1.95M, Venice at $1.4M, and Santa Monica and Marina del Rey at $1.29M each.

No neighborhood sits right at the citywide $788K. Mid-Wilshire at $755K is the closest below it, and the next row up is West Hollywood at $899K. The citywide median is a blend of a large, lower-priced base in Downtown LA and Koreatown and a pricier Westside, so it describes almost no single neighborhood. Compare a unit with its own neighborhood's report, not with the citywide figure.

What this reading leaves out

Nothing here measures what condos sold for. An asking price is the seller's opening position, and the gap to the closing price varies by building and by how long a unit has been listed. For closed prices, ask an appraiser or licensed agent for comparable sales in the same building.

The figures also leave out the monthly cost of owning. Two units at the same asking price can carry very different association dues and reserve positions, so request the budget, reserve study and recent board minutes, using the checklist at /condo-associations.

Questions buyers ask about the LA condo market in October 2026

Checking this reading before you act

These figures are fixed to October 10, 2026; the pages are not. Reopen /market-stats and the report for your neighborhood before making an offer or signing a lease, then browse the units themselves on /condos-for-sale or /condos-for-rent. Confirm availability with the listing agent, since a unit can go under contract between refreshes.

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