Market Intelligence
The Bay Area market,
read daily.
Mortgage rates, Alameda County inventory, and home values across 16 Silicon Valley and East Bay cities. The daily figures on this page refresh themselves every weekday from the same board data behind my live dashboard.
Today's Board
Rates and the Alameda County board
Single-family board totals for Alameda and Contra Costa, with national mortgage rates. Published July 7, 2026.
30-Year Fixed
6.69%
15-Year Fixed
6.16%
30-yr fixed, last 7 weekdays
Active
2,725
down 23 vs prior day
New Today
114
fresh listings
Closed
223
sales recorded
Closed sales outran new listings on the day, pulling the board's inventory down.
Single-family board, Alameda and Contra Costa counties, NorCal MLS Alliance. Rates via Mortgage News Daily.
The Week in Motion
New listings against closed sales
Each weekday the board adds new listings and records closings. When closings win, inventory tightens. Active inventory sits beneath each day.
211200
Jun 26
2,964 active
230190
Jun 29
2,945 active
217198
Jun 30
2,901 active
177206
Jul 1
2,805 active
143212
Jul 2
2,794 active
95216
Jul 6
2,748 active
114223
Jul 7
2,725 active
Bar scale: 0 to 230 listings per day. Counts are printed under every bar; weekends are not published.
Inventory Composition
What is actually for sale
Across the 12 East Bay and Tri-Valley cities tracked daily: every active listing by property type, and each city's full on-market picture including homes already pending.
1,392
Active listings
Active single-family, condo, and townhome listings across the 12 tracked cities, July 7, 2026. Shares recomputed from the day's counts.
On-market by city
Fremont
231 active·98 pending
Hayward
194 active·68 pending
Livermore
146 active·56 pending
San Ramon
155 active·45 pending
Dublin
140 active·50 pending
Danville
129 active·49 pending
Pleasanton
108 active·38 pending
Newark
76 active·40 pending
Milpitas
69 active·37 pending
Castro Valley
49 active·39 pending
San Leandro
43 active·43 pending
Union City
52 active·27 pending
Bar scale: 0 to 329 on-market listings (active plus pending), July 7, 2026.
Fresh Inventory
New listings by city, July 7, 2026
Where the day's fresh single-family, condo, and townhome inventory landed across the 12 tracked cities.
Bar scale: 0 to 13 new listings. Board-wide on July 7, 2026, 114 new listings posted across all Alameda and Contra Costa cities, including those not tracked here.
Home Values
The 16-city value ledger
Zillow's Typical Home Value for the cities my clients ask about most, with each city's 13-month shape. Average across the 16: $1,632,342. 13 of 16 sit below their value of a year ago.
City
13-mo shape
Relative value
Typical value
1-yr change
Source: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), all homes, middle tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, city level, April 30, 2026. One-year change is measured April 2025 to April 2026 on the same series. Sparklines trace each city's 13 monthly readings, scaled per city; value bars scale from zero to Palo Alto's $3,683,761. ZHVI describes the broad housing stock and can differ from sale-price medians, which only reflect homes that recently sold.
The National Frame
How the country is moving
The latest national existing-home numbers, for context under the local story.
+3.2%
Existing-home sales, May
The strongest month since December, well past forecasts.
$429,000
Median existing-home price
The national median reached a new May high.
+11%
Sales of $1M+ homes, year over year
The price tier most Bay Area moves live in.
National Association of REALTORS® existing-home sales for May 2026, as published in the June 10, 2026 REALTY EXPERTS Daily Market Glance.
Go Deeper
The live dashboard, and the reports behind it
Updated every weekday
The Alameda County interactive dashboard
The full daily briefing behind this page: an interactive per-city inventory chart, rate commentary, and the day's market, stock, economy, and crypto notes. New data lands every weekday morning, and this page picks it up automatically.
Open the live dashboardSources and Methodology. Daily figures (rates, board totals, week trend, per-city inventory): REALTY EXPERTS Daily Market Glance, sourced from Mortgage News Daily and the NorCal MLS Alliance, most recently July 7, 2026; these refresh automatically each weekday when new board data publishes. Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), all homes, middle tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, city level, April 30, 2026. National: NAR existing-home sales, May 2026.
Not a Guarantee. Real estate market data reflects past and current conditions and is not a guarantee of future results. Median or typical values describe the broader market and may not represent any individual property. For a property-specific analysis, contact me directly.
Listing & Compliance. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Buyer to verify all data including but not limited to schools, square footage, lot size, and HOA. Equal Housing Opportunity. Harv Balu, REALTOR® · GRI, CIPS, PSA, FTBS · DRE #02195792 · REALTY EXPERTS®, 41051 Mission Blvd, Fremont, CA 94539 · Cell 510-600-3425 · homes@HarvRealtor.com · HarvRealtor.com