Santa Barbara Market Report: July 2025
Every recorded house sale through Jul 2025, taken from the Palm Beach County deed record, including the sales that never reached the MLS: foreclosures, tax deeds and private transfers.
This edition covers Aug 2024 through Jul 2025.
Harvested 24 Aug 2026 · Houses
Homes sold
14
in the 12 months to Jul 2025
Median price
$983,000
across those 14 sales
Range
$700k to $1.26M
lowest to highest in the window
This year so far
$1,000,000
median of 9 sales since January
Year-over-year
Current median
$983,000
14 sales · Aug 2024 through Jul 2025
Prior median
$890,000
15 sales · Aug 2023 through Jul 2024
Median change
+$93,000
+10.4%
The twelve months to Jul 2025 brought 14 sales in Santa Barbara, with a median of $983,000; the same period a year earlier brought 15 sales, with a median of $890,000. The median was $93,000 higher in the later window, a difference of 10.4%.
Half of the 14 homes that changed hands sold above $983,000 and half below it.
The sales sit within a narrow band, from $700,000 to $1,260,000.
This year's 9 sales have a middle figure of $1,000,000, against $983,000 across the full 12 months.
Where the sales sat
- $700k to $800k 2 sales
- $800k to $900k 3 sales
- $900k to $1M 3 sales
- $1M to $1.10M 3 sales
- $1.10M to $1.26M 3 sales
A median describes the middle of a community. This shows the whole spread, so a seller can see how many homes traded in their own band rather than in the average one.
The market as a whole
For sale now in Santa Barbara
Homes on the market and available today. Highest price first. These are not counted in any figure on this page; every statistic here comes from closed sales only.
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Under contract and pending in Santa Barbara
Homes that have accepted an offer and have not yet closed. Highest price first. These are not counted in any figure on this page; every statistic here comes from closed sales only.
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Sold / closed sales
What the words mean
- Median
- The middle sale. Half sold for more, half for less. It is not an average, which one very large sale can drag upward on its own.
- Qualified sale
- A sale the county judges to be at arm's length. A home passed between family members for ten dollars is a real transfer but not a sale, and is left out of every figure here.
- The window
- The twelve months these figures cover. It is always a full year, and is never stretched to reach a threshold.
- County record
- The public appraiser page for the parcel, where the recorded sale can be checked.
How this report is put together
The figures are drawn from the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser's record of recorded deeds, harvested on 24 Aug 2026. Every sale links to its parcel's public record, so any figure here can be checked. This is not an MLS report: it includes sales that never appeared on the MLS at all, such as foreclosures, tax deeds and transfers between family members.
Those family and nominal transfers are counted but not priced. The county marks each conveyance as arm's-length or not, and 20 transfers were set aside on that basis in this window. A home changing hands for ten dollars is a real event, but it is not a sale, and leaving it in would drag the median to nothing.
The window runs 12 months and holds 14 sales. A median is published only from eight sales or more in a single year, because below that the middle figure is really just one or two houses. The most recent two months are held back deliberately: a deed reaches the county weeks after the sale, so the newest months always look emptier than they were, and drawing them would show a fall that did not happen.
What this report does not measure: it carries no price per square foot, because the county record does not hold living area, and no days on market or asking price, because those exist only in the MLS. Where a number is not shown here, it is because we could not stand behind it.
Disclaimer
This report is published for general information and education only. It is not an appraisal, a broker price opinion, or real estate, legal, tax, financial or engineering advice, and it must not be relied upon in making any decision about any property.
The figures are taken from the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser's public record of recorded deeds and are reproduced as that record published them. Public records can contain errors, omissions, misclassified property types, and late or amended entries, and they continue to change after this page is built. Nothing here has been verified against the MLS or against any individual home, and no figure on this page is a statement about the value, size or condition of any particular property.
Nationwide Realty International, LLC and The Gioia Group make no representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness or currency of anything on this page, and accept no responsibility or liability for any action taken, or not taken, in reliance on it. Check anything that matters against the county record itself, and speak to a licensed real estate professional, attorney or tax adviser before you act.