Orinda detached home prices rose 19.4% year over year in May 2026, 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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Orinda detached home prices rose 19.4% year over year in May 2026, 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 buyers and sellers inside Moraga Country Club specifically, where floor plan and sale history tell a more precise story than the citywide numbers alone. 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.
8 Sycamore Rd closed 29.31% over list in 11 days.
829 Reliez Station Rd closed 20.12% over list in 7 days.
1122 Via Media closed 14.38% over list in 7 days.
91 Shuey Dr closed 13.9% over list in 7 days.
657 Byrdee Way closed 11.71% over list in 14 days.
30 Quail Xing - spent 177 days on market before closing 6.04% below list.
950 Hough Ave spent 132 days on market before closing.
38 Vista Del Mar spent 82 days on market before closing 5.39% below list.
29 Whitehall Drive spent 56 days on market before closing 5.88% below list.
Moraga Country Club sales are reported as detached and townhouse homes only. MCC has no condominium sales in our data, so its price split is narrower than Moraga citywide.
May 2026 closings by floor plan:
Every closed sale across Lafayette, Moraga, and Orinda for May 2026, reported by property type.
| Address | City | Type | Sale price | Closed | DOM | Sq ft |
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In May 2026, Moraga's median sale price was detached homes at $2M, townhouses at $766.5K. 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 May 2026 was $2M across 31 closings, with a median of 11 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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