By Paarth Shah, REALTOR® · August 17, 2026 · Contra Costa County
Contra Costa is one of the few Bay Area counties where prices have drifted down rather than up over the past year, and where homes still sell quickly anyway. Both things are true at once, and it is worth understanding why.
Zillow puts the typical Contra Costa County home value at $786,730 as of June 30, 2026, down 2.5 percent over the prior twelve months. The median sale price was $801,667 in May 2026. Redfin, which measures closed sales rather than estimated values, reported a median sale price of $837,488 in May 2026, up 2.1 percent year over year. The two figures use different methods, so treat the gap as a reminder that a single countywide number is a starting point, not an answer.
Speed has not softened the way price has. The median Contra Costa home went pending in 16 days as of June 2026, and 52.7 percent of May sales closed above list price, with a countywide sale-to-list ratio of 1.001. There were 2,869 homes for sale at the end of June with 1,131 new listings added that month. That is more standing inventory than most of the inner Bay Area carries, which is a large part of why the county reads as steadier and less frantic than San Francisco or the Peninsula right now.
The countywide median also hides an unusually wide spread. Zillow's mid-2026 typical values run from $568,060 in Pittsburg and $596,320 in Antioch, through $737,771 in Concord, $1,002,198 in Pleasant Hill and $1,039,520 in Walnut Creek, up to $1,881,510 in Danville and $2,573,435 in Alamo. A buyer with $800,000 and a buyer with $1.9 million are shopping in what is effectively the same county and two completely different markets. Housing stock differs just as much, from postwar tracts in the north and east to larger lots along the San Ramon Valley corridor.
Rents have moved the other way. Zillow's observed average rent in the county was $2,901 in June 2026, up 3.2 percent year over year, which changes the rent-versus-buy math from what it looked like two years ago.
If you want the comps behind any of these figures, ask me and I will send them.
As of mid-2026 the typical Contra Costa County home value was about $787,000, down 2.5 percent year over year, with homes going pending in a median of 16 days and roughly 53 percent of sales closing above list price. City values range from under $600,000 in Antioch and Pittsburg to over $1.8 million in Danville.
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