Roseville’s median home sale price rose 2 percent over the past year, reaching $652,940 in the three months ending June 2026, according to newly released data from Redfin. But the price buyers paid per square foot moved more slowly, rising just 1.7 percent to $339. That roughly 0.3-percentage-point gap between the two measures is small, but it suggests the mix of homes selling shifted slightly toward larger properties — meaning the headline price increase reflects the size of homes changing hands as much as any broad jump in underlying values.

Prices and the mix behind them

The two-percent annual gain in Roseville’s median sale price put it at $652,940, up from $640,000 a year earlier. On a month-over-month basis, the median rose 2.8 percent from $635,000 in the three months ending May, a step-up consistent with typical spring buying activity when demand tends to firm.

Because the median sale price counts the whole home while price per square foot adjusts for size, the two figures can diverge when buyers favor bigger or smaller properties. Here, the median rose faster than the per-square-foot figure, a pattern that generally points to more larger homes in the sales mix rather than an across-the-board escalation in what buyers pay for a given amount of space.

Over a longer horizon, prices have risen about 7 percent over the past five years, from a median of $610,000 in the three months ending June 2021 — a modest gain by the standards of the pandemic-era housing market. Two years ago, the comparable median was $629,990, so recent movement has been gradual rather than sharp. Nationally, home prices continued to rise modestly year over year, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller National Home Price Index.

A market still tilted toward sellers

Roseville remains a seller-friendly market by most measures. Homes sold in a median of 20 days, two days faster than the 22 days recorded a year ago, and unchanged from the prior three-month period. The share of homes selling above their list price climbed to 37.2 percent from 30.3 percent a year earlier, and the typical home sold at exactly its asking price.

Inventory has tightened. Active listings totaled 994, down 8.6 percent from 1,087 a year ago, even as sales rose. A total of 549 homes sold, up 9.4 percent from 502 in the same period last year and up 5.8 percent from the prior three months. With demand outpacing supply, Roseville had just 1.8 months of supply — well below the four-to-six months generally considered a balanced market, and a clear indication that buyers face limited choice.

For longer-term perspective, homes are still moving faster than a balanced market but slower than the frenzied conditions of recent years: two years ago the median time on market was 12 days, and five years ago it was just six. The city’s population grew 2.7 percent over the past year to 165,455, adding demand pressure to an already tight market.

Affordability and borrowing costs

Mortgage rates eased over the past year, with the 30-year fixed averaging 6.49 percent in June 2026, down from 6.82 percent a year earlier, according to Freddie Mac. That decline, combined with the modest price increase, means the monthly principal-and-interest payment on a median-priced Roseville home — assuming 20 percent down — works out to about $3,298, roughly $47 less per month than a year ago.

Still, affordability remains stretched. At current prices, a median-priced home costs about 5.5 times the median household income of $119,288, according to U.S. Census Bureau data — above the five-times threshold generally considered unaffordable. That monthly payment represents about 33 percent of median household monthly income, a level that is manageable but demanding for typical buyers.

Neighborhood breakdown

Roseville’s three main zip codes showed notable differences in price and pace:

  • 95661 was the most expensive and fastest-selling area, with a median sale price of $771,826 and homes finding buyers in a median of just 9 days — down sharply from 20 days a year ago. This zip recorded 90 sales, and its median price rose substantially from $655,000 a year earlier.
  • 95678 was the least expensive, with a median sale price of $546,876. It was one of the few pockets to see prices fall year over year, down from $595,000, and homes there sold in a median of 20 days.
  • 95747 was the highest-volume zip by a wide margin, with 395 sales — the most of any Roseville zip code — and the largest active inventory at 744 listings. Its median price of $667,349 was up modestly from $652,500 a year ago, and homes sold in a median of 22 days, the slowest of the three.

Because Redfin compiles zip-level and citywide figures from independently drawn samples, these neighborhood totals do not add up to the citywide numbers and should be read as separate slices of the market rather than shares of the whole. Still, the contrast is clear: the eastern 95661 area commanded the highest prices and the quickest sales this spring, while 95678 remained the most accessible entry point for buyers.