KindHome is a technology platform, not a brokerage and not an MLS. We have no proprietary sales feed, so any median price or inventory figure we put on this page would be someone else’s number repeated without the ability to check it — or, worse, an estimate that looks like a measurement.
So this page does the two things we can do honestly: point you at the organisations that actually collect California housing data, and send you to the tool that answers the question you probably came here with.
Each of these publishes its own methodology. Reading what a number measures before quoting it is most of the skill — a “median price” and an “average price” for the same county can differ by six figures.
What it gives you. Sales and median price for California and by county, from a survey of more than 90 associations of REALTORS® and MLSs across the state, representing about 90 percent of the market. Also publishes a housing market forecast and a weekly market write-up.
What it will not tell you. County-level for detached homes. It will not tell you what is happening on one street, and a county median moves when the mix of homes sold changes, not only when values do.
What it gives you. Housing among more than 40 topics, collected continuously since 2005 and released annually. One-year and five-year estimates are both published.
What it will not tell you. It is a survey, released with a lag, and the five-year estimates deliberately average over five years. Good for structure and comparison between places; not for "what happened last month".
What it gives you. The actual recorded sale price of individual properties, and the assessed value your property tax will be based on after a purchase.
What it will not tell you. Per-property and per-county, with no state-wide view. This is the primary record — it is what every other dataset is ultimately built from.
Almost nobody wants the market data for its own sake. “What is the market doing?” is usually standing in for something specific and answerable about one household and one house.
This page previously showed price, inventory and days-on-market charts for five California regions, described as sourced from MLS and public records. Those figures were not measured. We removed them rather than restate them more carefully, because a chart is a claim about the world and a decorative one is worse than no chart — people make six-figure decisions against these.
If you have seen a confident number about the California market recently, it is worth asking three things of it: what exactly was counted, over what area, and when. A great deal of published market commentary does not survive those questions, and the figures that do are almost always narrower and less dramatic than the headline built on them.
When KindHome has a real data feed and can show its working, this page will have charts again — sourced, dated, and reproducible from the underlying records. Until then it points you at the people who already do it properly.