Hermosa Beach
Hermosa Beach is a beach city in the South Bay of Los Angeles County, California, sitting between Manhattan Beach to the north and Redondo Beach to the south. It is the smallest of the three by transaction volume and the widest in its range of prices.
What do homes cost in Hermosa Beach?
Over the twelve months ending August 2026, detached homes in Hermosa Beach sold at a median price of $2,720,000 and an average price of $3,718,818, across 119 closed sales. The median price per square foot was $1,294.
| Hermosa Beach | Twelve months ending August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Median sale price | $2,720,000 |
| Average sale price | $3,718,818 |
| Median price per square foot | $1,294 |
| Closed sales | 119 |
| Median days on market | 12 |
| Median share of original list price | 99.9% |
| Months of inventory | 3.3 |
Average and median describe the same market differently. The average is every sale added together and divided by the number of sales, so a small number of high-value homes lifts it. The median is the middle sale, so the median stays closer to the typical home. Both are shown here. Why the two numbers differ, and which one to use.
Why is the price range so wide in Hermosa Beach?
The average sale price in Hermosa Beach ran 36.7% above the median over the twelve months ending August 2026. That is the widest spread of any South Bay market tracked on this site, against 16.3% in Manhattan Beach, 14.7% in Redondo Beach and 27.3% in Palos Verdes Estates.
A gap that wide means the top of the Hermosa Beach market sits a long way above its middle. In a city roughly a mile and a half deep, a walk-street or Strand-adjacent property and a home east of Pacific Coast Highway are in the same city and not in the same market. Anyone pricing from a Hermosa Beach city average will be wrong in one direction or the other by a wide margin, and the median is the safer starting point.
How quickly do homes sell in Hermosa Beach?
Detached homes in Hermosa Beach sold in a median of 12 days at 99.9% of original list price over the twelve months ending August 2026, matching Manhattan Beach on both counts. Across the three beach cities the median was 12.7 days and 99.8% of original price; across the three Palos Verdes Peninsula cities it was 19.7 days and 97.2%. The beach cities clear faster and closer to asking than the Peninsula does.
What MLS areas make up Hermosa Beach?
Hermosa Beach divides into three MLS areas: 148 (Sand Section), 149 (Valley) and 150 (East). The Sand Section has its own page: Hermosa Beach Sand Section.
Working in Hermosa Beach
Chhabria Real Estate has sold the South Bay for forty years. In Hermosa Beach the practical question on any valuation is which of the three sections a property competes in, because the city-wide figure sits between markets rather than describing either of them.
Source: California Regional MLS (CRMLS), via InfoSparks. Residential detached homes, rolling twelve months ending August 2026, reported by city. Refreshed quarterly. Market statistics describe cities and neighborhoods, not individual homes, and no figure here is an appraisal or opinion of value for any specific property.