Lund Team Journal

A citywide median tells you almost nothing useful about Carlsbad. The city runs from beach cottages to golf course estates to manufactured homes, and the four ZIP codes sit at genuinely different prices. This is the twelve month read, ZIP by ZIP and then community by community, split into detached houses and attached townhomes and condominiums, because mixing those two is how a median ends up describing nothing at all.

• 92008, Olde Carlsbad, the Village and the coast: detached median $1,925,000, attached median $1,159,990
• 92009, La Costa and the southeast: detached median $1,860,000, attached median $775,000
• 92010, Calavera Hills and the northeast: detached median $1,538,000, attached median $840,000
• 92011, Aviara, Poinsettia and the southwest coast: detached median $1,917,500, attached median $980,000

Detached medians across the four ZIP codes run from $1,538,000 to $1,925,000.

Before the tables, two things to know

The window is the same everywhere: closed sales from October 3, 2025 through October 2, 2026. Every figure is a median, the middle sale, which is the right tool here because one eight million dollar oceanfront closing would drag an average into fiction. A median is shown only where at least ten homes of that type closed. Below ten, the figure would be a coin toss dressed up as a statistic, so it says too few instead.

The community rows do not add up to the ZIP row, and they are not meant to. Community boundaries overlap, most of all in 92008, where the listed areas carry 408 sales between them against 336 actual sales in the ZIP. A home near the lagoon can sit inside two of these areas at once. Read each community line on its own and do not sum them.

92008: Olde Carlsbad, the Village and the coast

Across the communities we track in 92008, 183 detached homes closed at a median $1,925,000, or $900 per square foot on a typical 2,128 square feet, and 139 attached homes closed at a median $1,159,990, or $719 per square foot. Detached homes here took a median 15 days to sell and attached homes 31.

The spread inside one ZIP code is the point. Terra Mar carries the highest detached median at $3,204,124, Hedionda Point the lowest at $1,850,000, and the most expensive dirt by the foot is Terra Mar at $1,391 per square foot. One ZIP code, four or five different answers.

What renters paid in 92008

Closed leases over the same twelve months, shown where at least ten leases closed. These are signed rents, not asking rents.

92009: La Costa and the southeast

Across the communities we track in 92009, 279 detached homes closed at a median $1,860,000, or $697 per square foot on a typical 2,711 square feet, and 189 attached homes closed at a median $775,000, or $581 per square foot. Detached homes here took a median 12 days to sell and attached homes 23.

The spread inside one ZIP code is the point. Rancho Carrillo carries the highest detached median at $1,797,500, Rancho La Costa the lowest at $1,557,000, and the most expensive dirt by the foot is La Costa South at $762 per square foot. One ZIP code, four or five different answers.

What renters paid in 92009

Closed leases over the same twelve months, shown where at least ten leases closed. These are signed rents, not asking rents.

92010: Calavera Hills and the northeast

Across the communities we track in 92010, 99 detached homes closed at a median $1,538,000, or $700 per square foot on a typical 2,057 square feet, and 50 attached homes closed at a median $840,000, or $599 per square foot. Detached homes here took a median 10 days to sell and attached homes 24.

The spread inside one ZIP code is the point. The Foothills carries the highest detached median at $1,900,000, Calavera Hills and Tamarack Point share the lowest at $1,475,000, and the most expensive dirt by the foot is Tamarack Point at $838 per square foot. One ZIP code, four or five different answers.

What renters paid in 92010

Closed leases over the same twelve months, shown where at least ten leases closed. These are signed rents, not asking rents.

92011: Aviara, Poinsettia and the southwest coast

Across the communities we track in 92011, 148 detached homes closed at a median $1,917,500, or $814 per square foot on a typical 2,339 square feet, and 59 attached homes closed at a median $980,000, or $700 per square foot. Detached homes here took a median 9 days to sell and attached homes 13.

The spread inside one ZIP code is the point. Aviara carries the highest detached median at $2,185,000, Sea Cliff the lowest at $1,455,000, and the most expensive dirt by the foot is Sea Cliff at $1,033 per square foot. One ZIP code, four or five different answers.

What renters paid in 92011

Closed leases over the same twelve months, shown where at least ten leases closed. These are signed rents, not asking rents.

Looking closer

The city as a whole: Carlsbad real estate. What sold most recently: What Sold in Carlsbad, August 2026, and the community editions for Olde Carlsbad, La Costa, Aviara, Carlsbad Village and Calavera Hills.

Thinking about timing rather than price: the best month to list a home in North County.

How these figures are put together

Every figure above is calculated from closed residential sales and closed leases reported to the multiple listing service, from the pull dated October 3, 2026, covering October 3, 2025 through October 2, 2026. Detached means a single family home. Attached means a townhome or a condominium. Other property types, including manufactured homes and multi unit buildings, are counted in neither column, which is why the two columns do not always add to the ZIP total. Medians are taken from the individual sales rather than averaged from community figures. Where the same home closed twice on two listings, it is counted once. A median is shown only where at least ten homes of that type closed. The communities named here are a sample of the more than one hundred and seventy we track, and not every Carlsbad sale sits inside one of them, so the ZIP lines are a broad read rather than a census.

These are recently closed sales in the area and are not represented as transactions of The Lund Team. This is not an appraisal, a valuation, or financial advice.

Tyson Lund · Broker · DRE #01385039
The Lund Team, Inc. · DRE #01394870

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