Strong Tahoe Donner Home Sales in 2025
The real estate market in Tahoe Donner is showing strong gains in 2025 with a healthy mid-year outlook. But if you're trying to sell your Tahoe Donner home this summer, it might not feel that way.
More Tahoe Donner homes have sold this year so far than last year, and single-family homes are fetching higher prices. Overall sales volume is up 10 percent, and the median sales price rose 7 percent over mid-2024.
Slow Condo Market
- Decreased Activity: Volume and units sold significantly decreased in 2025.
- Increased Prices: Despite fewer sales, the median and average prices increased by 17%, indicating that the condos that are selling are doing so at higher values.
- Less to Choose From: As of today, there are only 11 Tahoe Donner condos on the market for sale
High-End Tahoe Donner Market
Luxury Tahoe Donner sales (those homes priced over $1 million) represented almost three-quarters of all sales, a 10 percent increase over last year. That's a trend I saw emerging as Tahoe Donner home prices began rebounding from the last Recession (click here for a 2021 analysis of that shift), and it skyrocketed in 2020.
Amid the Covid lockdowns, more affluent buyers flocked to Tahoe for an escape from the confines of urban life. For some, it was the discovery of a new lifestyle, and they have stayed on, spending half the year here (or more) with the freedom to work from home part-time. Not everyone had that luxury, and those with children eventually had to head back to school when in-classroom learning resumed.
But you would think that once urban life returned to normal, and owners were spending less time in Tahoe, that the trend would have reversed itself. In Tahoe Donner, at least, that has not happened yet. In fact, the opposite is true: Over the last four years, luxury sales have consistently represented about two-thirds of Tahoe Donner's overall sales, with steadily increasing median sales prices. Today's median sales price of $1.275M is down slightly from where we started at the beginning of the year, but up 7 percent from where we were this time last year. (Read more ...)
Many Tahoe Donner Homes to Choose From
The biggest change we have seen this year is the sheer "volume" of Tahoe Donner homes for sale. By the weeks following the July 4th holiday, new listings traditionally have tapered off, and a "normal" level of inventory would be around 30 to 40 homes. (That said, during the Covid boom, there were weekends when we had little more than a handful of homes to show buyers)
Today, however, there are 71 homes for sale in Tahoe Donner. That's roughly four months of inventory (six months of inventory is considered a balanced market, favoring neither sellers nor buyers. Less than six tilts the scales toward the seller's side; more than six shifts toward a "buyer's market.")
How to Sell Fast in a Crowded Real Estate Market
The low inventory that marked the first few months of the year rapidly shifted, inspiring many sellers to adjust their prices downward to compete in an increasingly crowded market. The average days on market now sits at 59 for Tahoe Donner's existing inventory (but just 22 days on market for those homes that sold in the past three months).
For sellers, it's a competitive mid-Summer market in Tahoe Donner. Smart pricing, and attention to the little details like fresh paint, repairs, and an eye for staging (or at least, de-cluttering) are key for Tahoe Donner sellers now.
This Tahoe Donner home in a peaceful setting on Tyrol Road boasts new exterior paint, remodeled kitchen & a brand new fireplace (Click for details)
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*BTW, the fluid skier in the video is my son, who learned to ski at Tahoe Donner Downhill when he was 2 years old. I don't just work here; I live here.
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