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The median asking price in San Bernardino is about $512,000 as of Sep 2026, up 1.0% from a year ago. That is the asking price on listed homes, so sold-price and home-value sites show different numbers (why).
Only on the right house. Neither side has the upper hand in San Bernardino right now. The signals split. Compared with 2017–2019 at this time of year, there are 32% fewer homes for sale, but the typical listing has been up 43% more days. The market will not hand you a discount. You have to find it in one specific listing.
San Bernardino has 32% fewer homes for sale than in 2017–2019 at this time of year, and the typical listing has been on the market 49 days, shorter than 66% of the 765 cities we track. For every 100 homes still for sale, 53 are under contract. Well-priced homes will draw more than one offer. Your discount is in the listing that has sat, so set a price alert and move when a stale one gets cut.
For every 100 homes still for sale, 53 are under contract. In 2017–2019 at this time of year it was 68. The rest are still waiting for a buyer. Few sellers are dropping their price. Asking prices are holding firm. Your discount will come from one stale listing.
The typical San Bernardino listing has been on the market 49 days. That is 8% shorter than a year ago. There are 255 homes for sale in San Bernardino. That is 2.2 times the tightest month on record, but below the peak of 524. Supply is shrinking against last year.
The median asking price is 4.3% below its Jun 2026 peak. You are not buying at the top. Prices stopped falling about a year ago. They are flat now. Waiting will not get you a cheaper house. It might still get you a more motivated seller. San Bernardino prices have risen in 103 of the last 111 months. Drops here have been short and shallow. Buying in a slow month has rarely hurt a long hold.
This market is turning. Which way is not settled yet. Check the monthly numbers above before you commit.
In San Bernardino, 49 out of every 100 households rent. That is nearly half. The renter share is shrinking. Five years ago it was 52 in 100. San Bernardino added about 800 renter households in five years. Renter households here average 3.3 people. Families rent here. Buy bedrooms. Studios will sit.
Households grew 7% in five years. The housing stock grew 5%. Demand is outrunning supply. Just 4.2% of homes sit empty. A well-priced rental fills fast here.
The median San Bernardino household earns $70,012 a year. Incomes here have grown 7.6% a year since 2019. Incomes are rising faster than home prices. Affordability is improving. A typical home costs 7.3 times the median income. Most locals cannot buy. That keeps rental demand deep. It also caps the rent they can pay. At 30% of income, a tenant on the median income can pay about $1,750 a month.
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Read how the pending ratio measures demand and how we read these numbers, then run the numbers on a deal.
The median asking price in San Bernardino is about $512,000 as of Sep 2026, up 1.0% from a year ago. This is the asking price on homes listed for sale. Sites that report sold prices or estimated home values will show a different number. Our San Bernardino figures cover the 15 ZIP codes with a San Bernardino mailing address, which can reach past city limits.
Neither side has the upper hand in San Bernardino right now. We compare San Bernardino with 2017–2019 at this time of year: there are 32% fewer homes for sale; the typical listing has been up 43% more days; there are 53 pending sales per 100 listings, against 68 then.
The median asking price is 4.3% below its Jun 2026 peak. You are not buying at the top. Prices stopped falling about a year ago. They are flat now. Waiting will not get you a cheaper house. It might still get you a more motivated seller.
92410. Only 42 homes under contract for every 100 still for sale. 27% of sellers there have cut their price, and the typical listing has been up 58 days.
Across 9 full years, San Bernardino asking prices ran lowest in January, about 5.1% below the year's average. They peaked in November. The most homes for sale show up in November, about 10% above the yearly average.
HUD's fiscal year 2026 fair market rent for San Bernardino County is $2,201 a month for 2 bedrooms and $2,912 for 3 bedrooms. The figures include tenant-paid utilities and cover the whole county.
ZIP 92404 is on both lists. That is rare. It is the one place in San Bernardino where leverage and growth overlap.
| ZIP | $/sqft, 2 yrs | $/sqft now | Buyers per home | For sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92410 | +11.7% | $427 | 0.42 | 34 |
| 92404 | +10.0% | $366 | 0.48 | 61 |
| 92411 | +5.4% | $407 | 0.76 | 17 |
| 92405 | +3.7% | $367 | 0.53 | 39 |
| 92408 | +3.3% | $346 | 0.31 | 18 |
Computed from each ZIP's own ten-year history. ZIPs with fewer than 10 homes for sale are excluded: a median across a handful of listings is noise, not a signal.
San Bernardino has 15 ZIP codes. Each links to its live market dashboard.
Closest matches on asking price, price per square foot, time on market, buyer demand, and price cuts.
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