Pasadena Has 333 Active Listings and a $1,149,000 Median List Price That Barely Moved
· City Deep Dive
Pasadena shows 333 active listings and a $1,149,000 median list price, nearly flat from yesterday. Here is how a first-time buyer should read that.
Here is the plain version of today's Pasadena picture. Our MLS feed, snapshot of 2026-11-09, shows 333 active listings in the Pasadena 91106 row, with a median list price of $1,149,000. The previous snapshot, 2026-11-08, had the median at $1,148,500, so the asking price barely moved. One caveat up front: the feed gives us a day-over-day comparison, not a clean two-week series, so we will not claim a two-week trend we cannot verify.
First, a few terms a local takes for granted. "Active listings" means homes currently for sale and not yet under contract. "Median list price" is the middle asking price: half the homes are listed above it and half below. It is what sellers ask, not what buyers eventually pay, and in the U.S. the final sale price can land above or below the ask. Do not treat the list price as the price you will pay.
Now the speed of the market. Pasadena's median days on market is 28 days, meaning the middle home has been listed about four weeks. The price per square foot in the feed is $765. For comparison, Arcadia shows $1,550,000 as its median list price, 41 days on market and $683 per square foot, while Irvine's median list price is $1,600,000 at $785 per square foot. Pasadena's price per square foot sits between those two, though homes differ in size, age and condition, so use these only as reference points, not verdicts.
How should a buyer read a flat asking price? It tells you sellers as a group have not cut or raised their asks in the latest snapshot. It does not tell you that every seller is firm, because the median can stay still while individual homes drop or rise. Another city in our feed shows what a visible move looks like: Fullerton's median list price went from $942,500 to $919,950 in the same one-day comparison. Pasadena shows nothing like that, so there is no broad price-cut signal to lean on today.
A word on financing. Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week of 2026-11-05 reports a 30-year fixed average of 7.18% and a 15-year fixed average of 6.57%. These are national weekly averages, not quotes. Your own rate depends on credit score, loan size, down payment, property type and occupancy. For a current personalised quote, talk to Treasure Mortgage. If you are a foreign national buying without U.S. status, the loan is passport-based, generally starts at 30% down, and needs no U.S. credit history, SSN or ITIN. See https://tuhaousa.com/rates/ for that program rather than relying on a number from us.
Suppose you buy at $1,150,000 and put 20% down. That is $230,000 down, leaving a loan of $920,000 (1,150,000 minus 230,000). If you assume a 6.5% rate purely for illustration, principal and interest would be roughly $5,815 a month. Property tax in California starts from Prop 13's 1% base rate and commonly lands around 1.1-1.25% effective, so at 1.2% you would owe about $13,800 a year (1,150,000 x 0.012), or roughly $1,150 a month. Insurance and any HOA dues come on top, and closing costs commonly run about 2-5% of the price, so confirm all of it for your own case.
What would we do with this data if we were buying? Treat the list price as an opening conversation, not a fixed number. Ask your agent for recent nearby sold prices, because those show what buyers actually paid. Check how long a specific home has been listed, since a home sitting well past 28 days may leave more room to negotiate than one just posted. Escrow typically runs about 30-45 days with financing and roughly 14-21 days for cash, so plan your move and your rate lock around that timeline.
This note covers only one snapshot, so please look at the full picture yourself. The complete distribution tables and current homes for sale are at tuhaousa.com/zh/city/pasadena. If you want help turning those numbers into a buying plan, message Shirley and she will walk you through it in English or Chinese, with no pressure.
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