Homes for Sale in
Pasadena

Old Pasadena is a restored historic district where brick-lined streets are filled with upscale dining, independent boutiques, craft cocktail bars, and sidewalk cafes. But Pasadena's appeal goes far beyond its nightlife. Caltech and JPL anchor the local economy and employ thousands of researchers and engineers. The Rose Bowl, home to the annual Tournament of Roses and one of the best flea markets in the country, anchors the city's identity as a place where tradition and energy coexist.

Architecturally, Pasadena is extraordinary. The city has one of the finest collections of Craftsman bungalows in the United States, alongside Spanish Colonial Revival estates, stately Art Deco buildings, and modern hillside homes with sweeping views. The tree-lined residential streets, particularly in areas like Madison Heights, Bungalow Heaven, and Oak Knoll, are among the most beautiful in all of Los Angeles. South Pasadena, just across the border, has its own commercial district and local shops.

World-class museums like the Norton Simon Museum and the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens make Pasadena a cultural destination in its own right. The Metro Gold Line provides convenient rail access to downtown LA without fighting freeway traffic. Pasadena is served by the Pasadena Unified School District, and a number of independent schools also operate in the city. Attendance boundaries are published by the district and should be verified for any specific address.

All five statistics below come from one merged, deduplicated set of 636 closed sales. Exact scope of every stat: closed detached single family residence sales, City of Pasadena, all Pasadena zip codes, arms-length (retail) sales only, living area 50 to 9,950 sqft, close dates 2025-08-05 through 2026-07-31, pulled live from CRMLS on 2026-08-04. Condominiums, townhouses, and 2-4 unit properties are excluded by the like-kind filter. These are citywide figures spanning every Pasadena sub-market, from the flats to the Arroyo, San Rafael hills, and the Hastings Ranch and East Pasadena corridors. Arcadia is a separate city with its own CRMLS record and is not included in this set.

Scope for every figure above: City of Pasadena, detached single family sales, 12 months to August 2026, CRMLS. Pulled 2026-08-04.

Close price range: low was 100 Palmetto Dr Unit 9 in 91105 (MLS WS26073591, closed 2026-06-23), a fee simple bungalow court unit that CRMLS codes as a single family residence rather than a condominium; high was 600 Columbia St in 91105 (MLS P1-24442, closed 2025-11-07). Median days on market is the CRMLS DaysOnMarket field; observed range 0 to 271. Price per square foot is close price divided by CRMLS LivingArea; median $891 per sqft; low was 397 Catalina Ave (1,859 sqft); high was 1338 Glen Oaks Blvd (2,006 sqft). Small homes skew high and large homes skew low, so treat price per square foot as a range, never a single expected value.

Closings by month (same 636 records): Aug 2025: 43, Sep: 60, Oct: 55, Nov: 56, Dec: 61, Jan 2026: 37, Feb: 36, Mar: 54, Apr: 58, May: 50, Jun: 68, Jul: 58. By zip code: 91107: 204, 91104: 164, 91105: 101, 91103: 103, 91106: 56, 91108: 4, 91101: 3, 91170: 1.

How these numbers were produced

Sales data is drawn exclusively from live CRMLS queries run on August 4, 2026. Pasadena resolves cleanly as its own CRMLS city, so Empower tiled the full city bounding box directly: 36 tiles at 0.6 mile radius over the dense southern flats, 24 tiles at 0.75 mile over the mid-density band, and 15 tiles at 1.1 mile over the northern hillside and foothill streets, 75 base tiles in all. Five tiles hit the tool's 100 candidate fetch cap in the dense downtown core and were subdivided, one of them twice, until every subdivision cleared under the cap; 95 tile pulls total. The entire northern quarter of the grid, the JPL, foothill, and Angeles National Forest boundary zone, returned zero candidates at every one of its 23 tiles; this was confirmed as a genuine geographic boundary effect, not a query failure. Results were merged and deduplicated by listing number. The tool enforced the window start live. Five closings recorded after 2026-07-31 fell outside the 12 month window and are excluded by the window rule, not by judgment. Scope filters on every query: detached single family residences only, arms-length sales only, living area 50 to 9,950 sqft. Days on market is the CRMLS DaysOnMarket field as reported. Residual limits: a closed sale with no coordinates in CRMLS would be invisible to radius search, and any sale above 9,950 sqft would be excluded. A small number of records carry a San Marino (91108) or other adjacent mailing zip despite a Pasadena CRMLS city value; that reflects a legitimate cross boundary mailing address, not a data error.

The 636 CRMLS listing numbers behind every statistic above, the full query log (all tiles, search centers, radii, and candidate counts), and the complete record set are preserved in Empower's internal records.