What homes actually sold for in West Adams
Cut to ZIP code 90016 inside Los Angeles, not to all of Los Angeles.
Every number here comes off a real closing, not an estimate. Including the one most owners get wrong: when to go live.
The median home in West Adams sold for $966,500 over the last 90 days. Half sold for more, half sold for less. That is 46 real closings, not an estimate.
Last updated October 4, 2026 · recalculated weekly
The average home in West Adams sold for $940,781 over the last 12 months, and the median sold for $925,000. Use the median. A small number of very expensive sales pull an average upward, so the average describes the top of the market rather than a normal house. Both figures come from 171 closed sales from the California Regional MLS, through October 4, 2026.
| Average sale price | $940,781 |
|---|---|
| Median sale price | $925,000 |
| Median price per square foot | $684 |
| Homes sold | 171 |
The last 90 days
46 homes sold in West Adams in the last 90 days, at a median of $966,500.
The average home sale price in West Adams was $962,159 over the same 90 days, close to the median. That happens when no single sale is big enough to skew the math.
Right now against this time last year
In the last 90 days, 46 homes sold in West Adams at a median of $966,500. In the same 90 days a year earlier, 47 sold at a median of $1,002,618.
About the same number of homes closed in both windows. That is close enough to call flat. A gap that small comes from which homes happened to sell, not from the market changing. Flat does not mean nothing is happening here. It means the market will not make this decision for you, so how you price and present your house will.
The past 12 months
The lowest sale closed at $26,400. The highest closed at $1,850,504. West Adams is not one market. Homes at the bottom of that range and homes at the top are priced by completely different rules, and the areawide number sits somewhere in between.
How that compares to the year before
In the 12 months before this one, 166 homes sold in West Adams at a median of $997,450.
In the last 12 months, 3.0% more homes changed hands, and the median price went down 7.3%.
Price per square foot moved the same way. It went from $730 to $684, down 6.2%.
More homes sold while the middle of the market eased back. That combination usually says more about which homes sold than about what every home is worth. That is a large enough move to check against your own street before you assume it applies to your house.
Either way, the areawide number is not your number. Your street, your lot, and the condition of your house move your price more than an area median does. If you want the number for your address instead of a whole zip code, have your home run against these same closed sales.
How long homes take to sell in West Adams
The typical home that sold here in the last 12 months went under contract in 21 days. That is the median across 171 closed sales that carried a days on market figure.
Read that as how fast a correctly priced home finds a buyer here, not as a promise about your home specifically. A home priced at the market tends to move at roughly this pace. One priced ahead of it does not.
A year ago the median was 21 days, so the pace has held about steady. Steady means the calendar is not doing the work for you here. Pricing and presentation are.
One thing to know about this number. The clock counts from the day a listing goes live to the day it goes into contract, and it restarts if a listing is pulled and put back up. So a home that sat, came off, and went back on looks newer than it was. This figure runs a little low for that reason, not a little high.
What homes sold for against what they asked
The typical home in West Adams sold for 100.0% of its asking price, across 171 closed sales over the last 12 months.
53% of sales closed at or above the asking price. The other 47% closed below it.
A year ago the median was 100.0%, which is effectively the same.
Half of the homes here sold for at least what they asked. When that is true, a fair asking price tends to get met rather than negotiated down.
Homes for sale in West Adams, Los Angeles County right now
West Adams real estate today: 73 listings are on the market. At the rate homes have sold here over the past year, that is about 5.1 months of supply.
Three to six months is the balanced range. There is enough for sale to give buyers a choice, and not so much that a fairly priced home gets lost.
How to read this. The count of homes for sale is today's number. The selling rate behind it is the average of the last 12 months. Mixing a live count with a trailing rate is the standard way this is measured, and it means a sudden change in either one shows up here before it shows up anywhere else.
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West Adams zip code
The zip code for West Adams, California is 90016.
That is the zip West Adams homes actually close under when they sell. A zip boundary and a city boundary are not the same line, so a handful of addresses near the edge carry a neighbouring city's zip on their mail.
What homes in 90016 sold for, counted from closed sales.
What these numbers say about selling in West Adams
Read together, these favor a seller right now, and there is no reason to be coy about it. 5.1 months of supply, homes closing at 100.0% of asking, 53% of sales at or over the asking price and a median of 21 days to go under contract. Those point the same direction.
That is not a promise about your house and it is not a reason to rush. It is the backdrop you would be selling into. A seller's market rewards a home that is ready and priced at the market. It does not rescue one that is priced above it.
The best time to list in West Adams
Closings in West Adams run heaviest from April through September. June is the single busiest month, running 35% above a normal month. The quiet stretch is November through January, and January runs 36% below.
We split the record in half and checked each year on its own. The same shape turned up both times. That is what separates a pattern from one odd year.
Work backward and you get your answer. Escrow alone runs about 30 to 45 days. Add the weeks a house sits before an offer shows up, and a home that closes at the front of that busy stretch went live around February. That is the target, not the closing date. That window already passed for this year. The next one is about 4 months out.
What this does not say. It does not say you get a higher price in spring. We checked that separately and it is not in the data. Median price by month swings on which houses happened to sell, not on the season. Across these cities February averaged $1.6 million in one year and $1.33 million in the next. Same month, a swing that size, entirely from the mix of homes that closed. What the calendar actually changes is how many buyers are out looking. More buyers means more competition for your house. That is the whole edge, and it is enough.
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38% of the homes that came off the market in West Adams over the last 12 months came off without selling. That is 100 homes that expired, were cancelled, or were withdrawn and did not close, against 164 that sold.
Those owners hired someone. They had the photos taken. They held the open houses and kept the place clean for strangers walking through on a Sunday. Then the listing ran out and the house went back to being a house.
This is the number that never makes it into a listing presentation, and it is the one worth staring at. Those homes did not fail because the market was closed. 164 homes sold in that same window in that same city. They failed on the things a seller controls: the price it went up at, how it was shown, and how fast it reacted when the first two weeks came back quiet.
How this is counted, because it is easy to inflate. Each home counts once, no matter how many times it was listed, pulled and relisted. And any home that came off the market but then sold inside the same 12 months is counted as a sale, not a failure. Both of those choices push this number down, not up.
Price per square foot
Homes in West Adams sold for a median of $684 per square foot over the past 12 months. That is across 171 sales where the square footage was recorded.
Price per square foot is a rough tool. A 2,000 square foot house on a flat lot and a 2,000 square foot house with a view do not sell for the same number. Use it to sanity check a price. Do not use it to set one.
Which homes in West Adams have buyers waiting
These are the 171 sales in the past 12 months where the bedroom count was recorded.
| Size | Sales | Share | Median price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bedroom | 14 | 8% | $554,500 |
| 2 bedrooms | 55 | 32% | $640,000 |
| 3 bedrooms | 78 | 46% | $1,040,000 |
| 4 bedrooms | 16 | 9% | $1,357,500 |
| 5 or more bedrooms | 8 | 5% | $1,187,500 |
The deepest pool is 3 bedroom homes, at 78 sales in the last 12 months and a median of $1,040,000. If your home sits in that group, more buyers are competing for it, and a fair price tends to find them quickly. If it sits outside that group, the pool is thinner. That does not mean less money. It means the first two weeks matter more, because you are waiting on fewer people to walk through the door.
Sell now, or wait?
Nobody knows where prices go next. Anyone who tells you they do is guessing with a straight face. So here is the part that is actually knowable, and it is enough to decide on.
Waiting moves you around the calendar. Push a spring listing into the November through January stretch and you put your house in front of the smallest group of buyers in the year. The house did not change. The number of people who will walk through it did.
Waiting also runs a meter. Every month you hold, you pay property tax, insurance, upkeep, and whatever is left on the loan. We are not going to print a monthly figure here, because your tax basis depends on when you bought and your loan is nobody's business but yours. You already know roughly what that number is. Multiply it by the months you are thinking about waiting, then ask what the delay buys you.
And sometimes waiting is the right call. If the kitchen is half torn apart, if you cannot move until a lease is up, if two months of work would put your house in front of a different kind of buyer, then wait. A ready house in a quiet month beats an unfinished house in a busy one.
The wrong reason to wait is the common one. Not knowing what the house is worth, so doing nothing. That one is free to fix.
How much is a house in West Adams?
The median sale price in West Adams over the last 12 months was $925,000, across 171 closed sales. The average home price in West Adams was $940,781. Use the median. A handful of very expensive sales pull an average upward, so it describes the top of the market rather than a normal home.
Are West Adams home prices going up or down?
The median sale price in West Adams over the last 12 months was $925,000. That is down 7.3% from $997,450 in the 12 months before.
How long does it take to sell a house in West Adams?
The median home in West Adams went under contract in 21 days over the last 12 months, across 171 closed sales where a days on market figure was recorded. A year earlier the median was 21 days. The count restarts if a listing is withdrawn and relisted, so it runs slightly low rather than high.
Do homes in West Adams sell for asking price?
The median home in West Adams sold for 100.0% of its asking price over the last 12 months, across 171 closed sales. 53% of those sales closed at or above the asking price and 47% closed below it.
When is the best time to sell a house in West Adams?
Closings in West Adams run heaviest from April through September, and June is the busiest single month at 35% above a normal month. Because escrow runs about 30 to 45 days on top of the time a home spends on the market, a home closing at the front of that stretch generally went live around February. This reflects how many buyers are active, not a higher sale price. Median price by month varies with which homes happen to sell rather than with the season.
Is West Adams a buyer's market or a seller's market?
The West Adams real estate market today: 73 homes are currently listed for sale in West Adams. At the rate homes sold there over the past 12 months, that is about 5.1 months of supply. Taken with sale to list price and time on market, the current figures favor sellers. Under three months of supply is generally considered a sellers market, six months or more a buyers market.
What is the median home price in 90016?
West Adams covers ZIP code 90016 in Los Angeles, California. The median closed sale price there over the last 12 months was $925,000, across 171 closed sales. These figures are cut to the zip code rather than to Los Angeles as a whole, because a citywide figure spans neighborhoods with very different price levels.
Every figure on this page comes from closed sales recorded in the MLS for ZIP code 90016 inside Los Angeles, California. We keep our own copy of that record: 111,698 closed sales across Los Angeles and Ventura counties going back to July 26, 2024. 337 of them are in this area. We run the math ourselves.
- Closed prices only. What a buyer actually paid. Never an automated estimate.
- Each home counted once. The MLS records a listing side and a buying side for the same sale. We count the house, not the paperwork.
- Thin numbers get left out. If a figure does not have enough sales behind it to mean anything, it is not on this page.
- The read follows the numbers. Every interpretation on this page is picked by what the figures came back as. When they favor buyers, the page says so.
- Why a zip code and not a city. The MLS files Los Angeles as one city. That single label covers more than 15,000 sales a year at wildly different price levels, so a citywide median would describe nowhere. These figures are cut to 90016 only.
- Time on market, asking price and inventory. Our closed sale archive stores what a home sold for, not what it asked or how long it sat. Those three are counted live across every qualifying listing in this area, and never stored per listing.
Last updated October 4, 2026. Recalculated every week. These are area statistics only. They are not a valuation of any individual property and not advice about one.
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