The Inland Empire Seller’s Market Report
Inventory is climbing, homes are sitting longer, and price cuts are spreading across Riverside and San Bernardino Counties — even as buyers keep transacting. Here’s what the latest data means if you’re thinking about selling.
Compiled by Roman Home Solutions · Data: C.A.R. · Realtor.com · ATTOM · Freddie Mac
Inland Empire median
$601,000
Median sold price, June 2026
Time to sell
33 days
Median days to go under contract
Price cuts
4,004
IE listings that cut their price in June
30-yr mortgage
6.58%
Freddie Mac, week of Jul 23
Still balanced on price, but momentum is shifting toward buyers: more listings, longer days on market, and widespread price reductions.
The bidding-war market is fading.
Prices haven’t fallen off a cliff — but every other signal points the same direction. More homes for sale, more days to sell them, and thousands of price cuts a month. For a seller, that means more competition and less leverage than a year ago.
Riverside County
Median sold price, June 2026 (C.A.R.)
- Days to sell
- 35
- Months of supply
- 3.3
- Sales vs. last year
- +7.1%
- Zillow home-value index
- −1.2% YoY
San Bernardino County
Median sold price, June 2026 (C.A.R.)
- Days to sell
- 28
- Months of supply
- 4.3
- Sales vs. last year
- +13.1%
- Zillow home-value index
- −1.3% YoY
Active listings, Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario metro
Up about 18% since January 2026
59 days
Median age of active listings
Median age of active listings hit 59 days in June, up from 54 in April — homes are taking longer to move.
+21%
U.S. foreclosure filings vs. a year ago (first half of 2026, ATTOM)
- 1 in 680
- California homes had a foreclosure filing (H1 2026)
- 16,040
- California foreclosure starts — 3rd-most of any state
- 21,543
- total California foreclosure filings, first half of 2026
Foreclosure activity is climbing again nationwide and across California. If you’ve fallen behind on payments, you have more time and more options than most people realize — but they narrow as an auction date approaches.
If you’re behind on payments, here are your optionsFor most of the last few years, Inland Empire sellers held all the cards. That’s changing. The number of homes for sale has risen every month this year, listings are taking longer to sell, and roughly four thousand sellers cut their asking price in June alone. Prices haven’t crashed — Riverside County is flat year over year and San Bernardino is still up — but the easy, bidding-war market is fading.
What that means in practice: if you list a house that needs work, or you need a predictable closing date, you’re now competing against a growing pile of nicer, move-in-ready listings for a buyer pool that’s become choosier and is paying more than 6.5% on their mortgage. Homes that don’t show well are the ones that sit — and sitting is exactly what a seller on a timeline can’t afford.
This is the market where a straightforward cash sale gets more attractive relative to listing: no repairs, no staging against fresh inventory, no price-cut chase, and a closing date you set. Not because listing is wrong — for a turnkey home with time to spare, it may still net more — but because certainty is worth more in a softening market than it is in a hot one.
“I sat down with a homeowner in Upland this week — his house has been listed almost four months, only two offers the whole time and both lowballs, and it needs enough work that retail buyers keep walking. He asked me the question I’m hearing more and more: would an investor just be faster? For a house that needs work, in a market that’s sitting like this one, the honest answer is usually yes.”
Thinking of selling before the market softens further?
Get a fair, no-obligation cash offer and a closing date you choose — in as little as 7 days, any condition, no repairs.
- California Association of Realtors — June 2026 county median prices, sales, days-to-sell, months of supply
- Realtor.com Residential Data (via FRED) — IE metro active listings, price reductions, days on market
- ATTOM Data Solutions — 2026 Mid-Year U.S. Foreclosure Market Report
- Freddie Mac PMMS — 30-year fixed mortgage rate, week of July 23, 2026
- Zillow Research — Riverside & San Bernardino County home value index
Figures reflect the most recent data available at publication. “Median time to sell” and “days on market” are measured differently by different sources (time to contract vs. age of active listings), so they are labeled separately rather than combined. County median prices are C.A.R. figures for existing single-family homes. This report is general market information, not an appraisal or financial advice.