Lafayette detached home prices fell 6.8% year over year in August 2023, the largest move of the three communities.
Median prices, days on market, and full property-type detail for Lafayette, Moraga, and Orinda. Every figure is split by property type. No blended medians.
Each city is broken out by property type. Reporting a single blended median would misstate this market, most of all in Moraga, where condominium and townhouse prices sit well below detached homes.
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Lafayette detached home prices fell 6.8% year over year in August 2023, the largest move of the three communities. The picture shifts for different kinds of buyers and sellers across Lamorinda this month. That's a real opportunity for anyone whose listing expired elsewhere and is ready to relaunch with a different strategy instead of just cutting the price, or sellers with genuine multi-offer potential who want real-time visibility into where demand actually sits. Worth a conversation if any of that sounds like where you are.
The month's standouts across all three towns: the top sale, the homes that closed furthest over list, and the ones that took the longest road to closing. Every note below is computed from the closing data.
1064 Via Alta closed 20.29% over list in 15 days.
1357 Camino Peral - closed 20.24% over list in 14 days.
4061 Marianne Dr closed 18.92% over list in 13 days.
289 Camino Pablo closed 17.7% over list in 32 days.
70 Meadow View Rd closed 15.75% over list in 5 days.
6 Tofflemire Dr spent 124 days on market before closing.
14 Vista Via spent 54 days on market before closing.
60 Vista Encinos spent 53 days on market before closing.
788 Upper Pond Ct spent 53 days on market before closing.
Every closed sale across Lafayette, Moraga, and Orinda for August 2023, reported by property type.
| Address | City | Type | Sale price | Closed | DOM | Sq ft |
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In August 2023, Moraga's median sale price was detached homes at $2.1M, condominiums at $620K, townhouses at $1M. BrightWork reports each property type separately because a single blended median misrepresents the Moraga market, where condominium and townhouse prices sit far below detached homes.
Lafayette's median detached sale price in August 2023 was $1.74M across 22 closings, with a median of 12 days on market.
Across 2021 through 2025, our detached-only seasonal index shows sale prices peaking in May and reaching their low in January.
No. Moraga Country Club sales in our data are detached and townhouse homes only. It has no condominium sales, so its detached versus townhouse price gap is narrower than the citywide Moraga split.
REALTOR, BrightWork Realty Advocates
DRE 02014153 / 01409268 (Ben Olsen)
Ben Olsen represents buyers and sellers through BrightWork Realty Advocates, with a practical, data-driven focus on Lafayette, Moraga, and Orinda, the pricing patterns that actually move within each city, and the details that separate a well-timed decision from a rushed one.
This report is designed as a field guide for Lamorinda decisions: real closing data every month, split by city and property type, the sales that beat expectation and the ones that didn't, and a clearer way to read what's actually happening before you list or make an offer.
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