La Honda South Coast, CA
The village of La Honda along Highway 84, among the redwoods.
Living in La Honda
La Honda grew up around the redwood lumber trade in the late 1800s, after John Howell Sears bought 400 acres and settled here in 1862. This MLS area covers the village along Highway 84 in the Santa Cruz Mountains, with homes and cabins among the redwoods. Only a few homes sell each year, and sales can take months: 2025 sales took a median of about 4½ months at a median around $1.18M.
Parking & walkability: Homes have off-street parking on wooded lots along rural roads. La Honda's small store and community spots are close by, and Woodside and Highway 280 are about 20 to 30 minutes over the hill, with the coast about 20 minutes west.
What homes in La Honda are doing
Single-family homes in La Honda sold for a median of about $1.03M in 2015–16 and $1.24M in 2024–25, a 21% increase. Prices peaked in 2020 at $1.75M. In 2025, homes here sold slowly (median 141 days on market) and usually below asking (97.7% of list price on average).
Median single-family price, 2015–2026
* 2026 covers January through September. Hollow dots mark years with fewer than 3 single-family sales; treat those medians as rough. 30 single-family sales since 2015.
| Year | Sales | Median price | $/sq ft | Days on market | Sale-to-list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 1 few sales | $600K | $600 | 73 | 85.8% |
| 2025 | 5 | $1.18M | $580 | 141 | 97.7% |
| 2024 | 1 few sales | $1.55M | $988 | 13 | 111.1% |
| 2023 | 1 few sales | $540K | $711 | 15 | 108.2% |
| 2022 | 2 few sales | $905K | $637 | 38 | 97.7% |
| 2021 | 1 few sales | $999K | $456 | 12 | 100.4% |
| 2020 | 3 | $1.75M | $615 | 193 | 100.0% |
| 2019 | 3 | $1.19M | $757 | 70 | 99.2% |
| 2018 | 3 | $898K | $462 | 41 | 90.8% |
| 2017 | 3 | $593K | $476 | 94 | 99.0% |
| 2016 | 3 | $1.25M | $537 | 177 | 100.0% |
| 2015 | 4 | $858K | $507 | 40 | 97.6% |
La Honda on the map
Borders are built lot by lot from the county's property lines and where homes have been listed (MLS neighborhood codes), and stay inside official city limits (dashed), so a home or two along an edge may differ from official MLS lines.
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Source: MLSListings, Inc. closed sales, 2015–September 2026, summarized by Drew Lehr. Neighborhood figures combine the MLS area(s) that make up La Honda; where there are several, yearly figures are sales-weighted. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.