Published September 20, 2026 in Market Update

The Price Range That Held Up Best in Brentwood

By Listing Leads

Real estate, Brentwood

As of September 16, 2026, 894 lived-in homes had sold in Brentwood. I went through all of them, cut every way I could think of, and one question kept coming back: which sellers actually got what they asked?

I started with the whole market

The typical home sold for $1,197,500. It took 53 days to find a buyer. Sellers got 95.5% of what they first asked, and 97.8% of what they last asked before closing. Those are decent numbers. But they hide a lot.

188 homes never sold at all. For every 10 that sold, 2.1 gave up. The typical home that gave up first asked $1,449,500. The typical home that sold first asked $1,250,000. That $199,500 gap tells you something right away: price is where this market sorts itself out.

So I split the sold homes into price ranges, not by what they eventually sold for, but by what they first asked. That is the number a seller controls.

Then I looked at who got their price

I measured each range by the share of sellers who got at or over their asking price. That is the clearest sign that a price landed in the right place.

The $800,000 to $1,250,000 range came out on top. 42.9% of sellers there got at or over their asking price. The $1,900,000 and up range was lowest, at 24.1%.

The gap between the strongest range and the weakest is not small: 42.9% against 24.1%. That is not noise. That is a real difference in how buyers behave at different price points.

The homes that gave up told the same story

I also counted how many homes in each price range came off the market with no sale. In the $750,000 to $1,250,000 range, only 12.6% gave up. In the $3,000,000 and up range, nearly 3 in 10 gave up, at 29.8%.

The middle of the market is where sellers have the most protection. Price too high and you are in a range where more than 1 in 5 sellers walk away with nothing.

What happened as homes sat longer

Speed matters here too. Homes that sold in their first month got 100% of what they first asked. Homes that took five to six months got 89.9%. That is not a rounding difference. Every extra month on the market cost sellers ground.

What this means for you right now

If you are selling, the data points to one thing: price it to land in the range where buyers are most active. Right now, 60.7% of homes for sale have already dropped their price, with a typical cut of $107,500. Starting too high does not buy you room to negotiate. It buys you time you do not want.

If you are buying, the homes that have been sitting are worth a closer look. Sellers who have been on the market for months have already shown they will move on price. The data shows those homes settled at 89.9% of their first asking price after five to six months. That is real room, and it is already baked into the numbers.