What homes actually sold for in Chatsworth

Every number here comes off a real closing, not an estimate. Including the one most owners get wrong: when to go live.

The median home in Chatsworth sold for $965,000 over the last 90 days. Half sold for more, half sold for less. That is 87 real closings, not an estimate.

Last updated August 23, 2026 · built from closed MLS sales · recalculated weekly

The last 90 days

87 homes sold in Chatsworth in the last 90 days, at a median of $965,000.

The average was $1,103,205. That runs higher than the median because a handful of large sales pull an average up. When you want to know what a normal house here is worth, use the median.

Right now against this time last year

In the last 90 days, 87 homes sold in Chatsworth at a median of $965,000. In the same 90 days a year earlier, 96 sold at a median of $1,000,000.

9.4% fewer homes closed this time around. That is close enough to call flat. A gap that small comes from which homes happened to sell, not from the market changing. Flat does not mean nothing is happening here. It means the market will not make this decision for you, so how you price and present your house will.

The past 12 months

The lowest sale closed at $328,333. The highest closed at $2,800,000. Chatsworth is not one market. Homes at the bottom of that range and homes at the top are priced by completely different rules, and the citywide number sits somewhere in between.

How that compares to the year before

In the 12 months before this one, 321 homes sold in Chatsworth at a median of $908,000.

In the last 12 months, about the same number of homes changed hands, and the median price went up 3.4%.

Price per square foot moved the other way. It went from $476 to $455, down 4.5%. When those two disagree, it is usually because the size of the homes that sold changed, not because the market did two things at once.

A move that small is not the market repricing itself. It can come from which homes happened to sell. Read it as flat and look at your own street instead.

Either way, the citywide number is not your number. Your street, your lot, and the condition of your house move your price more than an area median does. If you want the number for your address instead of a whole city, have your home run against these same closed sales.

The best time to list in Chatsworth

Closings in Chatsworth run heaviest from April through August. June is the single busiest month, running 28% above a normal month. The quiet stretch is December through February, and January runs 36% below.

We split the record in half and checked each year on its own. The same shape turned up both times. That is what separates a pattern from one odd year.

Work backward and you get your answer. Escrow alone runs about 30 to 45 days. Add the weeks a house sits before an offer shows up, and a home that closes at the front of that busy stretch went live around February. That is the target, not the closing date. That window already passed for this year. The next one is about 6 months out.

What this does not say. It does not say you get a higher price in spring. We checked that separately and it is not in the data. Median price by month swings on which houses happened to sell, not on the season. Across these cities February averaged $1.6 million in one year and $1.33 million in the next. Same month, a swing that size, entirely from the mix of homes that closed. What the calendar actually changes is how many buyers are out looking. More buyers means more competition for your house. That is the whole edge, and it is enough.

Price per square foot

Homes in Chatsworth sold for a median of $455 per square foot over the past 12 months. That is across 314 sales where the square footage was recorded.

Price per square foot is a rough tool. A 2,000 square foot house on a flat lot and a 2,000 square foot house with a view do not sell for the same number. Use it to sanity check a price. Do not use it to set one.

Which homes in Chatsworth have buyers waiting

These are the 315 sales in the past 12 months where the bedroom count was recorded.

The deepest pool is 4 bedroom homes, at 106 sales in the last 12 months and a median of $1,055,000. If your home sits in that group, more buyers are competing for it, and a fair price tends to find them quickly. If it sits outside that group, the pool is thinner. That does not mean less money. It means the first two weeks matter more, because you are waiting on fewer people to walk through the door.

Sell now, or wait?

Nobody knows where prices go next. Anyone who tells you they do is guessing with a straight face. So here is the part that is actually knowable, and it is enough to decide on.

Waiting moves you around the calendar. Push a spring listing into the December through February stretch and you put your house in front of the smallest group of buyers in the year. The house did not change. The number of people who will walk through it did.

Waiting also runs a meter. Every month you hold, you pay property tax, insurance, upkeep, and whatever is left on the loan. We are not going to print a monthly figure here, because your tax basis depends on when you bought and your loan is nobody's business but yours. You already know roughly what that number is. Multiply it by the months you are thinking about waiting, then ask what the delay buys you.

And sometimes waiting is the right call. If the kitchen is half torn apart, if you cannot move until a lease is up, if two months of work would put your house in front of a different kind of buyer, then wait. A ready house in a quiet month beats an unfinished house in a busy one.

The wrong reason to wait is the common one. Not knowing what the house is worth, so doing nothing. That one is free to fix.

Shopping in Chatsworth rather than selling? See what your budget actually buys here, or read what sellers here actually took.