San Diego's largest 1970s tract: consistent stock, four bedrooms as standard, and a month of supply.
Mira Mesa carries far more condos and townhomes than the neighborhoods to its south. In the last three months 56 attached homes closed here against 67 detached ones, so attached product is roughly 45% of everything that trades. Those attached sales ran a median of $629,667, about 58% of the detached median above. If you are buying or selling a condo or townhome in Mira Mesa, the headline number on this page is not your number. Call and ask for the attached figures.
On a smoothed basis the median here has risen roughly 32% over the past five years, ahead of both Bay Park and Bay Ho at 27% and Linda Vista at 24%. The last twelve months are a different story: the trailing three month median is up only about 2% year over year. Five years of gains have not reversed, but they have nearly stopped compounding, and a seller pricing off 2025 comparables will sit.
The recent median sits around $1.10M, with about 0.8 months of supply, homes selling at 99.2% of original list, and a median of roughly 15 days on market. Supply is under one month, which is the whole story here: prices have gone sideways while there are almost no houses to choose from.
Over five years the median sale price in Mira Mesa is up about 32%, but the price per square foot is up about 22%. Those two usually move together. When the median runs well ahead, it is mostly a sign that larger or higher end homes make up more of what sells now, not that any given house gained 32%. The price per square foot figure is the closer read on what an owner actually gained.
Price per square foot is the sale price divided by the home's interior square footage.
Both figures use the same smoothed five year comparison: the average of the last twelve monthly medians against the average of the first twelve. A gap of eight points or more is treated as a mix shift. That threshold was set by testing, not picked: an earlier version flagged nine of nineteen areas, which is noise. It now flags eight of forty.
Flat prices and under one month of supply is an unusual pairing, and it favors you more than it looks. The median has not moved in a year, so you are not bidding against a rising number, but there are very few houses, so the one you want will go fast. Be fully pre-approved before you start looking. If a four bedroom fits, you are shopping the deepest part of this market.
Homes here are closing at 99.2% of original list in about two weeks, so the market is rewarding correct pricing quickly. The catch is that the median is up only about 2% from a year ago. Price off the last six months, not off what your neighbor got in 2025, or you will be the listing that sits while everything around it sells.
Supply is running under one month. That collapse is what has held prices flat instead of letting them fall. If listings return, it would be felt here quickly, because the stock is uniform enough that buyers can genuinely comparison shop one house against the next.
Almost every buyer here is financing, so rates move this market harder than they move anywhere on the coast. A meaningful drop would bring buyers back fast, and at under a month of supply there is very little for them to buy.
Get Pre-Approved →Mira Mesa sits inland and north, between the 15 and the 805 above Miramar. It runs about 28% below Bay Park and Bay Ho and about 13% above Linda Vista. Compare against Bay Park and Bay Ho and Linda Vista.
Four bedroom homes are the single largest group here, and together with three bedrooms they are about 85% of all sales. That is unusual, and it is why families keep choosing Mira Mesa. Condition and lot do the rest, because the floor plans repeat.
The median home in Mira Mesa was built in 1975 and runs about 1,568 square feet. This is not a postwar neighborhood and it is not an old one: across 1,515 sales there is not a single house built before 1960. About two thirds went up in the 1970s, another sixth in the 1980s, and the rest is later infill running as recent as 2026.
That consistency is the thing to understand about pricing here. Square footage runs from 744 to 3,520, a much narrower band than Bay Park across the freeway, where sales run from under 400 square feet to over 5,000. Four bedroom and three bedroom homes together are about 85% of sales. Where Bay Park can put two houses a million dollars apart on the same street, Mira Mesa mostly cannot. Floor plans repeat, lots are similar, and that means condition and updates carry more of the price difference than they do anywhere nearby. It also means buyers can genuinely comparison shop, which is why a house priced above the pattern tends to sit rather than find its own buyer.
What is the median home price in Mira Mesa?
The median sale price in Mira Mesa is $1.10M on a trailing three month basis, using closed sales through September 2026. That is up 1.9% versus the same period a year earlier.
How long do homes take to sell in Mira Mesa?
Homes in Mira Mesa are selling in a median of about 15 days.
Is Mira Mesa a buyer's or a seller's market?
Mira Mesa has about 0.8 months of supply, which reads as a seller market. Under three months favors sellers, three to six is balanced, and above six favors buyers.
How much have home prices risen in Mira Mesa?
The median in Mira Mesa is up about 31.8% over the past five years, measured as the average of the last twelve monthly medians against the first twelve.
Are homes in Mira Mesa selling for asking price?
Homes in Mira Mesa are closing at about 99.2% of original list price.
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