Lafayette
Detached 7 closed
- Median sale price
- $1.5M -19.4% YoY
- Median $/sq ft
- $727
- Median days on market
- 11
- Sale to list
- 100.0%
January 2023 Issue
The Lamorinda Report January 2023
Lafayette detached home prices fell 19.4% year over year in January 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.
- Total closings
- 19 -38.7% YoY
- Lafayette Detached median
- -19.4% year over year
- Median days on market
- 24 days +166.7% YoY
- Sale to list
- 100.0% -3.9% YoY
At a Glance
January 2023 at a glance
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.
Moraga
Detached 6 closed
- Median sale price
- $1.72M -8.5% YoY
- Median $/sq ft
- $796
- Median days on market
- 50
- Sale to list
- 100.5%
Condo 1 closed
- Median sale price
- $410K -25.5% YoY
- Median $/sq ft
- $526
- Median days on market
- 65
- Sale to list
- 93.4%
Orinda
Detached 5 closed
- Median sale price
- $1.65M -5.0% YoY
- Median $/sq ft
- $707
- Median days on market
- 23
- Sale to list
- 94.3%
Trends
Market trends over time
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What This Means for Lamorinda
Lafayette detached home prices fell 19.4% year over year in January 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. Worth a conversation if any of that sounds like where you are.
Transactions with a Story
The sales that beat expectation, and the ones that fought for it
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.
$2.8M
1456 Rancho View Dr
Closed over list
$1.72M
370 Calle La Montana
370 Calle La Montana closed 7.57% over list in 11 days.
$2M
3169 Diablo View Rd
3169 Diablo View Rd closed 5.32% over list in 10 days.
$1.72M
1229 Larch Ave
1229 Larch Ave closed 1.18% over list in 10 days.
$1.72M
264 Sandringham Dr
264 Sandringham Dr closed 0.94% over list in 86 days.
$2.8M
1456 Rancho View Dr
1456 Rancho View Dr closed 0.18% over list in 124 days.
The long road to closing
$1.13M
30 Crescent
30 Crescent spent 153 days on market before closing.
$1.1M
1062 Oak Hill Rd
1062 Oak Hill Rd spent 145 days on market before closing 4.35% below list.
$1.95M
1336 San Reliez Ct
1336 San Reliez Ct spent 142 days on market before closing.
$2.8M
1456 Rancho View Dr
1456 Rancho View Dr spent 124 days on market before closing.
Transaction log
Closed sales in Lamorinda, January 2023
Every closed sale across Lafayette, Moraga, and Orinda for January 2023, reported by property type.
| Address | City | Type | Sale price | Closed | DOM | Sq ft |
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Questions
About this month's data
What was the median home price in Moraga in January 2023?
In January 2023, Moraga's median sale price was detached homes at $1.72M, condominiums at $410K. 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.
What was the median detached home price in Lafayette in January 2023?
Lafayette's median detached sale price in January 2023 was $1.5M across 7 closings, with a median of 11 days on market.
When are Lamorinda home prices highest during the year?
Across 2021 through 2025, our detached-only seasonal index shows sale prices peaking in May and reaching their low in January.
Does Moraga Country Club include condominiums?
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
Ben Olsen
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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