Saugus's median home price climbed from $530,000 in 2017 to $800,000 in 2025, a 51% move over 9 years. Homes sold fastest in 2021 at just 13 days on market. This page is the running record: real closed numbers from the MLS, year by year, going deeper into Saugus's history than anything else published on the SCV.
How have Saugus home prices changed since 2017?
Up 51%. Saugus's median sale price ran from $530,000 in 2017 to a peak of $800,000 in 2025. The chart below is our own render of the CRMLS aggregate numbers (never someone else's image): median sale price by year, with average days on market laid over it.
Saugus home prices, year by year
| Year | Median sale price | Avg days to sell | Closed sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $530,000 | 36 days | 901 |
| 2018 | $545,900 | 33 days | 795 |
| 2019 | $565,000 | 37 days | 900 |
| 2020 | $610,000 | 23 days | 980 |
| 2021 | $735,000 | 13 days | 1,097 |
| 2022 | $790,000 | 21 days | 729 |
| 2023 | $770,000 | 29 days | 552 |
| 2024 | $790,000 | 25 days | 556 |
| 2025 | $800,000 | 45 days | 587 |
| 2026 (partial) | $800,000 | 39 days | 285 |
All-residential aggregates (detached and attached) from CRMLS. 2026 covers January through July only and will keep filling in.
How fast do homes sell in Saugus?
The clearest read on demand is days on market, and Saugus's history shows the cycle plainly. Homes sold fastest in 2021, an average of just 13 days, at the peak of the low-rate frenzy. In 2025 the median sale takes 45 days. The pattern that never changes: homes priced to the closed comps sell in the first two weekends, and homes priced to hope sit, cut, and often fall out of the MLS entirely.
Is now a good time to sell in Saugus?
Well-priced Saugus homes still move. The one lever a seller fully controls is the starting price. Price to the closed numbers on this page and you compete for today's buyer pool; price to a number from the peak and you spend your best two weeks overpriced and burn the buyers who were ready. That is the entire playbook behind the $17,000 Fair Fixed Fee listing program: full service, sellers only, and the fee does not balloon with your price.
Are Saugus homes selling above or below asking?
One more number, because it shows where the leverage sits. Comparing the price Saugus homes first asked against what they actually sold for, month by month over the last year: the strongest month for sellers was Sep 2025, when the typical home closed about $51,000 over its original asking price. In Jun 2026, the most recent complete month, the typical home closed about $3,600 over asking. Holding right at asking this deep into the cycle says one thing: Saugus sellers who price to the closed comps are still getting their number, while the overpriced homes do the sitting and the cutting.
Monthly medians of original list price vs closed price (All Saugus residential, ~850 listings, pulled July 4, 2026). Group medians, not the same homes tracked twice; small-sample outlier months excluded.
Which SCV cities does this almanac cover?
The Santa Clarita Valley market almanac tracks all six major SCV cities, each with its own 2017-2025 history:
Common questions about the Saugus market
- What is the median home price in Saugus, CA?
- In 2025, the median Saugus home sold for $800,000, based on 587 closed sales in the CRMLS. That is up 51% from $530,000 in 2017. These are closed prices, what buyers actually paid, not asking prices.
- How have Saugus home prices changed over the last decade?
- Saugus's median sale price went from $530,000 in 2017 to a peak of $800,000 in 2025, a 51% climb over the period. The full year-by-year table is on this page. The current partial year (2026) is flagged as incomplete.
- How long does it take to sell a house in Saugus?
- In 2025 the median Saugus home took 45 days to sell. The market's fastest year on record here was 2021, when homes sold in an average of just 13 days. Speed tracks demand: the lower the days-on-market, the hotter the market.
- Is Saugus a good place to sell right now?
- Saugus homes priced to the closed comps still move. The lever every seller controls is the starting price: price to what actually sold on this page and you compete for the 2025 buyer pool; price to hope and you chase the market down. That is the entire idea behind the $17,000 Fair Fixed Fee listing model.
- Where does this Saugus market data come from?
- Every number is an aggregate compiled from the California Regional MLS (CRMLS) by Connor T. MacIvor, CalDRE #01238257, a licensed Santa Clarita agent since 1998. Charts are our own renders from the licensed numbers; no MLS images are republished. The series covers 2017 through 2025; 2026 is a partial year.
Sources and method
All statistics are aggregates compiled from the California Regional MLS (CRMLS) under licensed access by Connor T. MacIvor, CalDRE #01238257, Sync Brokerage, Inc., CalDRE #02031490. Series covers 2017 through 2025 at yearly intervals via the CRMLS Matrix Stats module (no record cap on aggregates); 2026 is a partial year (January through July) and flagged throughout. Figures are all-residential (detached and attached) unless noted. Charts are original renders from the licensed numbers; no MLS-generated images are republished. Aggregate market statistics only; no individual listing data appears on this page. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.