A typical Desert Shores home is worth roughly $179,000
Home prices around Desert Shores have risen about 84% over the past 5 years.
What kind of housing town is Desert Shores?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 4.8 years of income
Less than across California (7.7 years). Try your own numbers below.
That’s $34K short of a typical Desert Shores home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $2,080 a month here, $1,010 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Desert Shores’s typical property tax (0.89% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Home prices up 84% in 5 years
The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Desert Shores rose 84% over the past 5 years, faster than across California (40%). Last year prices rose 11%.
Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Desert Shores, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.
100% of Desert Shores households own their home
Half of Desert Shores’s homes were built before 1983.
California: 56% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
A two-bedroom rents for about $2,080
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (El Centro, CA MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
Neighbors talk housing
What Desert Shores buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.