Hermosa Beach

Hermosa Beach has the fewest sales of the Beach Cities and the widest in its range of prices, and both facts come from the same geography: nearly two miles of sand with the Strand and the pier at its center, then a hill, then a valley, all inside a city small enough to walk end to end. Over the twelve months from October 2025 through September 2026, single-family detached homes sold at a median of $2,650,000 and $1,396 per square foot across 91 closed sales, in a median of 21 days at 97.3 percent of the original asking price, with 1.9 months of inventory. The average, $3,853,121, sits about $1.2 million above the median because the Sand Section and the Strand trade in a different league from the rest of the city.

Three sections, three markets. The Sand Section runs from the water to Valley Drive and carries the walk streets, the Strand and most of the price; Hermosa Valley sits between Valley Drive and Pacific Coast Highway on lots that are often a little larger for the money; and East Hermosa climbs the hill above the highway to views that are priced by what they take in. The first question on any valuation here is which of the three a house is in, and the second is how far it sits from the sand, because the same square footage moves by hundreds of dollars a foot between them.

Chhabria Real Estate Company has sold on this coast since 1984. Raju Chhabria was the number one agent at Shorewood Realtors every year from 1995 to 2014, and Neil and Anand Chhabria carry that work forward with more than $422 million of Neil’s own career sales behind it. What follows is the city as we price it: the numbers, the three sections, the speed of the market, and how life here works.

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Neighborhoods in Hermosa Beach

Hermosa Beach runs three sections from the sand inland, and the difference between them is the difference between beach living and neighborhood living.

What do homes cost in Hermosa Beach?

Over the twelve months from October 2025 through September 2026, single-family detached homes in Hermosa Beach sold at a median of $2,650,000 and an average of $3,853,121, across 91 closed sales, at a median of $1,396 per square foot.

Average and median measure the same market two ways. The average adds every sale together and divides by the number of sales, so a few high-value homes pull it up. The median is the middle sale, so it stays closer to the typical home. We show both. 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 45.4 percent above the median over the twelve months, the widest spread of the cities we report, against 15.9 percent in Manhattan Beach, 16.5 percent in Redondo Beach and 29.1 percent in Palos Verdes Estates.

A spread 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 21 days at 97.3 percent of the original asking price, about $27,000 under asking for every $1 million. With 22 sales from July through September and 14 homes for sale on October 11, everything listed would sell in about eight weeks at that pace. Across the Beach Cities combined, the median was 18 days and 98.7 percent; across the Palos Verdes Peninsula, 26 days and 96.9 percent. If you’re selling, the Beach Cities still move faster and closer to asking than the Peninsula. If you’re buying in Hermosa, the homes that sit past a month are where you’ll find room to negotiate.

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.

South Bay life from Hermosa Beach

Hermosa has a lively nightlife, one of the largest beachside arts and crafts fairs in Southern California twice a year, and 71 public volleyball courts. It also has strict rules about what you can do on the sand.

Working in Hermosa Beach

Chhabria Real Estate Company has sold homes on the Palos Verdes Peninsula and in the Beach Cities since 1984. Raju Chhabria was the number one agent at Shorewood Realtors every year from 1995 to 2014, and Neil and Anand Chhabria carry that work forward here today. 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 and matches neither of them.

Source: CRMLS closed sales, single-family detached homes, October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026, from Chhabria Real Estate Company’s October 11, 2026 pull. Months of inventory uses active listings counted on October 11, 2026. Stats presented here represent the city or area as a whole, not any one individual property. Our next update follows the November 10, 2026 market report.

By Neil Chhabria, Broker and CEO, Chhabria Real Estate Company. Facts checked September 17, 2026. Market figures updated from our October 11, 2026 CRMLS pull.