Orinda detached home prices rose 22.4% year over year in November 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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Orinda detached home prices rose 22.4% year over year in November 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.
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.
1022 Hoedel Ct closed 27.3% over list in 6 days.
228 El Toyonal closed 24.72% over list in 3 days.
3134 Sweetbrier Cir closed 21.77% over list in 0 days.
3 Whitehall Dr closed 17.95% over list in 10 days.
192 Hall Drive closed 15.2% over list in 7 days.
1203 Upper Happy Valley Rd spent 176 days on market before closing 11.99% below list.
916 Brown Ave spent 101 days on market before closing 2.09% below list.
9 Wildwood Road spent 98 days on market before closing 13.16% below list.
1026 Larch Ave spent 96 days on market before closing 8.1% below list.
Every closed sale across Lafayette, Moraga, and Orinda for November 2023, reported by property type.
| Address | City | Type | Sale price | Closed | DOM | Sq ft |
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In November 2023, Moraga's median sale price was detached homes at $1.65M, condominiums at $940K, townhouses at $905K. 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 November 2023 was $1.82M across 13 closings, with a median of 16 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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