Indio housing market shows increase in home sales, home prices dip valley-wide
Indio homes are taking nearly 10 days longer to sell than last year, but sales volume jumped 10% amid a valley-wide price dip.
According to the latest Greater Palm Springs Realtors (GPSR) Desert Housing Report, the median price for an average-sized detached home in Indio fell almost 6% to $618,000 compared to the year before while attached home prices fell more than 7% to $276,0000. Median prices usually hit their seasonal high in spring and lows sometime in the fall.
The city’s inventory of housing units also shrank compared to last year, with 397 homes on the market at the start of this month compared to 452 last year. Valley-wide, inventory is down 7% year-over-year to 3,534 units
The median price of an average-sized detached home in the Coachella Valley last month was $691,000, a decrease of just 4.6% compared to last year and up. Attached home prices were down just .5% to $498,000.
All nine valley cities saw decreases in home prices year over year, but Indian Wells, La Quinta, and Rancho Mirage all saw slight increases in attached home prices.
Indio recorded 95 sales during the three-month period ending in April, an increase of nine homes compared to 2025. Palm Desert and Palm Springs saw the highest volume of sales.
Homes in Indio are spending more time on the market this year than last, the average home took 60 days to sell compared to 51 last year. That’s the second-slowest in the valley behind Bermuda Dunes. In Palm Springs homes are selling in an average of 43 days, almost 30% faster than Indio.
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