Orange County median home valuation prices rose by 2.7% in Q4 2025

Hugh Nguyen, Clerk & Recorder of Orange County
Hugh Nguyen, Clerk & Recorder of Orange County
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The median sale price of a home sold in the fourth quarter of 2025 in Orange County rose by $35,000, while total sales decreased by 15.3%, according to BlockShopper.com.

From October through December of 2025, 3,104 homes were sold in the county, with sale prices around averaging $1,325,000. This is a 2.7% increase over the $1,290,000 median sale price during the same period in 2024, when there were 3,664 homes sold.

Based on the latest available data from 2021, the median property tax on homes in Orange County was $5,978, which equates to 0.5% of the median home sale price for the fourth quarter of 2025.

U.S. home prices continued to rise in 2025, with the national median reaching about $447,000 in June. That’s up 1.13% from a year earlier, according to Redfin. The data also show a significant gap in supply and demand, with 36% more sellers than buyers (a difference of 508,715 homes). By Redfin’s definition, a balanced market has seller and buyer numbers within 10% of each other.

The following histogram displays changes in median sales prices in Orange County from October 2024 to December 2025.

Information in this article was obtained from BlockShopper.com. The source data can be found here.



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