Lund Team Journal

71 homes closed in Vista in May at a median of $885,000 and $489 a square foot, the lowest cost per foot of the five cities.

• $489 per square foot, against $540 in Oceanside and $679 in Carlsbad
• The top sale reached $2,145,000, five bedrooms across 3,510 square feet, built in 2016
• Detached homes at a median of $945,000, attached at $553,000

Vista is the only one of these five cities where a typical house still starts with an eight.

Homes closed at 99.4% of the final asking price but 97.7% of the original, and that gap says a fair number of Vista sellers started too high and corrected. 28% cut their price. Over the three months to May, Vista sat 1.1% below the same quarter last year, which is essentially flat.

If you're thinking about selling

Vista buyers are price sensitive in a way that Encinitas buyers are not, and the two point gap between the original and final asking price is where you can see it. This market will not carry an ambitious starting number for you.

If you're thinking about buying

If your budget is under a million and you want a detached house with some land around it, Vista is the answer more often than anywhere else on this list.

Looking closer

Browse every home for sale in Vista, or read the rest of the market reports. As of 3 August there were 152 homes active and 79 in escrow across Vista, about 2.6 months of supply at the current pace. If you want the read on your own street rather than the whole city, get in touch or see what your home is worth on our seller's guide. Buying instead? Start with the buyer's guide and the financing tools.

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