Since Q1 2020, home prices have risen 48.4% in the Los Angeles metro and 16.3% in the San Francisco metro. The US rose 60.5% over the same quarters, so Los Angeles trails the US by 12.1 points and San Francisco trails the US by 44.2 points.
Measured against each other, Los Angeles is 32.1 points ahead of San Francisco since Q1 2020. Over the four quarters to Q2 2026, home prices rose 1.2% in Los Angeles and fell 0.3% in San Francisco, against +3.0% for the US.
Home prices and the 30-year mortgage rate
The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate was 3.5% in Q1 2020. It fell to 2.8% in Q4 2020 and stayed at or below its starting level through Q4 2021, then climbed to 7.3% in Q4 2023. It averaged 6.4% in Q2 2026.
From Q1 2020 to Q4 2021, while rates stayed low, home prices rose 12.1% a year in Los Angeles and 2.1% in San Francisco. From Q4 2021 to Q2 2026, as rates climbed, they rose 4.4% a year in Los Angeles and 2.6% in San Francisco. San Francisco picked up after Q4 2021, by 0.5 points a year, while Los Angeles slowed by 7.7 points. The US went from 13.1% a year to 5.9%.
| Q1 2020 to Q4 2021Rate 3.5% to 3.1% | +12.1% | +2.1% | +13.1% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 2021 to Q2 2026Rate 3.1% to 6.4% | +4.4% | +2.6% | +5.9% |
| Four quarters to Q2 2026Rate 6.8% to 6.4% | +1.2% | −0.3% | +3.0% |
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How the numbers are built
Home prices come from the Federal Housing Finance Agency's all-transactions house price index, which tracks repeat sales and refinance appraisals on the same homes through mortgages bought or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Because it follows the same homes, it measures price change on a steady basket, where a median sale price moves with the mix of homes that sold. FHFA splits the largest metro areas into smaller metro divisions, and where it does, this page uses the division that holds the city. The Los Angeles line is FHFA's Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA metro division and the San Francisco line its San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA metro division. Figures are quarterly, nominal and not seasonally adjusted.
The mortgage rate is Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey average for a 30-year fixed-rate loan, a weekly series averaged over each quarter. Yearly paces are compound rates over each period. Data as of September 28, 2026.