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Sales Data Keep Topping Recent Years - Manhattan Beach Market Update for 4/30/26

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by Dave Fratello

Would it surprise you to learn that more homes sold in Manhattan Beach, for more money, so far in 2026 than in 2025?

It shouldn't. 

For one thing, you've probably already cheated and glanced at our first chart. 

For another, we've been reporting on versions of this phenomenon since early in 2026, when the market unexpectedly took off like a rocket.

(Examples: "January Almost Best Ever,"  "February Busier than 2025," "Q1 Bests 2025," and so on.)

The total value of MLS-reported closed sales in Manhattan Beach for the first 4 months of the year reached nearly $500 million, at $491.2M, an increase of $34.4M (+7.5%) year-over-year. 

That higher dollar volume came on just a 2% increase in sales, as our next chart shows. 

Sales rose moderately from 111 last year to 114 this year from Jan. 1-April 30. Both figures are about 40% above 2024's totals of 81 sales, and even further above the anemic 2023 figure (65). 

Cash Purchases Still a Major Factor

As you might recall, we've built a custom tool here that makes it easier for MBC to calculate the number and percentage of cash sales from MLS data. (See "Share of Cash Purchases Rose for Last 5 Years.") So we've included as the green bar for each year in the chart above the number of all-cash home sales for each year. 

This is one department where 2025 still stands out, with an extra 11 cash sales (52) compared to this year's 41 (and 12 more than 2024). Meantime, cash sales totaled 21 in 2023. 

We know everyone's interested in where the cash purchases are. (We ran the data for 9 years in this post.) Interestingly, in the first 4 months of 2026, almost half of home purchases in the Tree Section were all-cash (15 out of 31, or 48%).

For the Hill Section, it was 3 out of 8 sales (37%) coming in all-cash, and in the Sand, 14 out of 32 (44%).

Overall, the proportion of cash sales in Manhattan Beach was down and off-trend (for now), at 36% cash, versus 47-49% in each of the two prior years during this period. That's because sales were plentiful in East MB (43 sales) but cash purchases were more rare (9 out of 43, or 21%). 

Higher-Priced Homes, Higher Median

Prices were simply higher during this recent period than in prior years. 

As our first chart here shows, there were 24 sales on homes closing at $6.000M or more in just 4 months, which equals the total from same period for the two previous years combined. 

Truly, both 2025 and 2026 stand head-and-shoulders above prior years on this measure. 

And median prices for homes sold within the first 4 months also rocketed this year.

We never, ever like to use short spans of data for median prices, but we're going to do it just this once for dramatic effect. 

Looking only at the 114 sales from Jan. 1-Apr. 30, we see that the median value was over $3.8M, a jump of nearly $500K over last year, and $1.0M over 2023. 

(We ordinarily only use a 12-month rolling set of data, to minimize wild fluctuations like this. With a full 12-month sample, the median is $3.372M, a jump of "only" $72K year-over-year.)

First Thoughts on Winter/Spring 2026

We've mentioned before, our email inbox is chock full of real estate industry news from all around the country, and it seems to be mostly written by Debbie Downer. (She stays busy.)

Rates stopped declining, buyers are pulling out of contracts, days on market are growing and some markets are flipping to where buyers have a clear advantage. Sales totals for the year are shaping up to decline year-over-year. 

But none of that seems to apply in Manhattan Beach. As is so often the case, our little hamlet/bubble has its own happy dynamics, and even crises seem to feed our real estate market.

All that national, regional or statewide news just doesn't apply. You have to look hyper-local, and right here, right now, hyper-local is doing hyper-well – better even than 2025, when a sudden influx of wealthy new residents came to Manhattan Beach after the tragic LA County wildfires. 

Yeah, it's a good bet to buy here. 

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The "Movers" listed below are the changes to inventory and sales since our last update 2 weeks ago. Click any address for photos & details. 

New Listings (12)

ADDRESSBD/BASQFTLOTPRICE$PSFDOMSTART $START
1704 N Poinsettia 4/3 3,018 4,469 $3,899,000 $1,292 1 $3,899,000 04/30/26
221 17th 5/6 4,551 2,696 $7,250,000 $1,593 1 $7,250,000 04/30/26
721 Marine Avenue 5/5 3,633 5,120 $5,875,000 $1,617 7 $5,875,000 04/24/26
16 Sausalito 3/3 2,045 3,432 $2,550,000 $1,247 7 $2,550,000 04/24/26
1307 Curtis Avenue 4/4 3,513 5,148 $4,099,000 $1,167 7 $4,099,000 04/24/26
919 N Herrin Street 2/2 1,000 3,743 $1,495,000 $1,495 8 $1,495,000 04/23/26
644 Manhattan Beach 10 2/2 841 10,020 $1,250,000 $1,486 9 $1,250,000 04/22/26
592 30th Street 5/7 4,648 4,804 $6,500,000 $1,398 11 $6,500,000 04/20/26
315 25th 3/4 2,597 1,350 $6,999,000 $2,695 15 $6,999,000 04/16/26
1404 Manhattan 5/6 4,274 2,987 $15,495,000 $3,625 15 $15,495,000 04/16/26
1300 12th Street E 2/3 1,256 11,924 $1,499,000 $1,193 15 $1,499,000 04/16/26
425 23rd Place 4/3 2,040 1,349 $3,499,000 $1,715 24 $3,699,000 02/25/26

 

New Pendings (14)

ADDRESSBD/BASQFTLOTPRICE$PSFDOMSTART $START
2516 Walnut Avenue 5/6 3,317 4,480 $4,600,000 $1,387 9 $4,600,000 04/22/26
586 36th 3/2 1,568 5,205 $2,700,000 $1,722 41 $2,700,000 03/21/26
3609 Walnut 5/4 3,780 4,643 $3,299,000 $873 38 $3,299,000 03/24/26
1729 Pacific Avenue 3/3 2,850 4,769 $3,400,000 $1,193 22 $3,400,000 04/09/26
229 41st 3/4 2,009 1,350 $4,899,000 $2,439 7 $4,899,000 04/24/26
2108 Grandview Avenue 4/3 2,333 3,509 $3,199,000 $1,371 7 $3,199,000 04/09/26
3203 Vista Drive 5/5 3,178 1,751 $5,999,999 $1,888 14 $5,999,999 04/17/26
436 32nd St. 4/4 3,774 2,710 $4,750,000 $1,259 86 $4,750,000 02/04/26
865 10th Street 4/4 3,369 6,000 $5,995,000 $1,779 9 $5,995,000 04/17/26
1756 10th 5/5 4,424 10,000 $4,750,000 $1,074 8 $4,750,000 04/23/26
2101 Lynngrove 4/4 3,334 5,436 $3,499,000 $1,049 15 $3,499,000 04/16/26
1721 2nd Street 5/6 4,390 6,625 $4,995,000 $1,138 17 $4,995,000 04/14/26
1530 21 St Street 3/2 2,100 7,194 $2,849,000 $1,357 15 $2,849,000 04/16/26
1820 9th Street 6/7 4,666 7,500 $4,998,000 $1,071 41 $5,199,000 03/10/26

 

New Sales (20)

ADDRESSBD/BASQFTLOTPRICE$PSFDOMSTART $CLOSED
124 33rd 3/4 1,720 2,697 $3,850,000 $2,377 19 $3,799,000 04/30/26
461 26th Street 5/6 4,728 2,698 $8,400,000 $1,798 26 $8,500,000 04/30/26
720 Manhattan Beach 2/3 1,850 9,995 $2,599,000 $1,405 5 $2,599,000 04/30/26
1623 8th Street 5/4 3,805 7,499 $4,250,000 $1,051 10 $3,999,000 04/29/26
213 Aviation Place 3/3 1,747 59,693 $1,480,000 $850 26 $1,525,000 04/29/26
1140 Manhattan Beach D 2/3 1,190 9,564 $1,250,000 $1,092 25 $1,325,000 04/29/26
525 Manhattan Beach Blvd 2/1 1,682 2,999 $2,150,000 $1,307 12 $2,199,000 04/28/26
137 15th Street 2/2 888 1,347 $2,915,000 $3,373 48 $2,995,000 04/23/26
1304 The Strand A 3/3 1,690 3,320 $4,800,000 $2,956 14 $4,995,000 04/23/26
2004 Manzanita Lane 5/4 3,062 5,398 $3,800,000 $1,174 0 $3,595,000 04/23/26
966 Rosecrans Avenue 3/2 1,788 5,956 $2,650,000 $1,510 36 $2,699,000 04/22/26
3013 Maple Avenue 3/3 1,742 4,589 $3,025,000 $1,713 8 $2,984,000 04/21/26
718 N Poinsettia 5/6 5,477 6,502 $7,350,000 $1,342 0 $7,350,000 04/21/26
628 13th 3/2 1,752 2,998 $3,250,000 $1,855 13 $3,250,000 04/17/26
3521 Pine Avenue 3/2 1,664 4,638 $2,995,000 $1,788 9 $2,975,000 04/17/26
436 1st Street 4/3 1,912 3,006 $3,750,000 $1,961 7 $3,750,000 04/17/26
1515 Artesia 2 2/3 1,363 6,743 $1,075,000 $844 100 $1,250,000 04/17/26
1769 Gates 2/2 1,294 6,214 $1,675,000 $1,545 104 $2,150,000 04/17/26
5 Nantucket 3/3 1,970 4,028 $2,500,000 $1,269 6 $2,500,000 04/16/26
2208 The Strand 9/8 5,193 3,512 $11,995,000 $2,310 157 $11,995,000 04/15/26

Here's the rest of our local real estate market update report for the period ending 4/30/26:

> 59 active listings as of 4/30/26 (-1 from 4/15/26) 

> 44 SFRs (-4)

> 15 THs (+3)

See the Inventory list as of 4/30/26 here, or see the MB Dashboard for up-to-the-minute data.

Active listings by region of Manhattan Beach in this report:

> Tree Section: 11 actives (-2)

> Sand Section: 28 actives (+1)

> Hill Section: 5 actives (+1)

> East MB: 15 actives (-1)

We're also providing a report on closed sales by region of MB.

Sales data, including PPSF for all properties, are organized by sub-region of Manhattan Beach.

Here's a link to the spreadsheet: "MB Pending/Sold as of 4/30/26".

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