Trilogy La Quinta Home Price History
A year-by-year MLS study of closed-sale prices, price per square foot, sales activity and marketing time from the community’s earliest recorded sales through July 2026.
Last Updated: August 6, 2026 | Time To Read: 10 minutes | Author: Mark Miller | Category: 55+ Communities
Trilogy La Quinta’s resale record is not one smooth appreciation line. It contains an early-cycle peak, a deep housing correction, years of gradual recovery, a sharp 2020–2022 repricing and a more selective market after that surge.
This study follows 1,766 cleaned, MLS-recorded detached-home closings from December 24, 2003 through July 20, 2026. Median price is the lead measure, supported by price per square foot, transaction count, days on market and sale-to-final-list ratio. Those measures need to be read together because each year contains a different mix of floor plans, sizes, lots, views, pools and renovation levels.
The result is useful market context—not an appraisal of an individual home and not proof that one typical Trilogy property appreciated at the same rate as the annual median.
Key findings
The MLS export returned records from the community’s 2003 development era through July 2026. After removing duplicate, implausible-price and non-Trilogy records, the study uses 1,766 closed sales.
2005 is the first reasonably sampled full year, with 40 closings and a $448,500 median. The 2025 median was $675,000—50.5% higher in nominal dollars, equal to 2.07% annualized. That comparison describes two groups of sales, not the appreciation of one home.
The highest completed-year median in the cleaned series was $717,500 in 2022. It fell 16.4% to $600,000 in 2023, then recovered to $647,500 in 2024 and $675,000 in 2025.
In the exact 12 months ending with the latest recorded closing, 72 homes closed at a $626,750 median, $333.08 per square foot, 62.5 median MLS days on market and 97.33% of final list price.
A stricter repeat-sale test found 646 same-property sale pairs held at least two years with reported living area within 10%. Their median nominal annualized change was 3.39%, but renovations, condition, furnishings and transaction costs remain uncontrolled.
How to read this study
Five guardrails matter. The figures are nominal and not adjusted for inflation. Annual medians compare different homes rather than tracking the same property. The 2003 and 2004 samples are too small to characterize those years. The 2026 point is year to date and must not be treated as a complete calendar year. Private, off-market and some direct-builder transfers may not appear in an MLS subdivision search.
Trilogy at La Quinta—also commonly called Trilogy La Quinta and labeled Trilogy Country Club on some real-estate portals—is a 1,238-home active-adult community. City records show the core residential tract was approved in January 2003, and the earliest closing returned by this export occurred on December 24, 2003. That makes the file unusually deep, but it does not establish that every deed transfer since development is present.
The annual median answers a narrow question: what was the middle price among the Trilogy homes recorded as sold in that year? It does not answer what a specific Monterey, Maurea, Oasis or other plan would have sold for after accounting for lot position, condition and upgrades.
Interactive MLS history
Trilogy La Quinta Sales Explorer
Switch among five measures to see how prices, activity and negotiating conditions changed across the community's recorded sales history.
Checked August 6, 2026 · Closed data through July 20, 2026 · 2026 is year to date
Annual median closed price
Full calendar years, with 2026 shown separately as year to date.
Read the mix, not just the line. Each point summarizes a different set of homes. The 2003 and 2004 samples contain only 2 and 7 closings, and 2026 is partial. Dollars are nominal and not adjusted for inflation.
Year-by-year Trilogy La Quinta sales
The table keeps the underlying figures visible to readers and search engines. Average price is intentionally secondary because it is more sensitive to a handful of unusually high or low sales.
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| Year | Cleaned Closings | Median Price | Median Price / Sq. Ft. | Median MLS DOM | Median Sale / Final List |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003* | 2 | $443,857 | $172.39 | 4.5 | 100.00% |
| 2004* | 7 | $379,000 | $203.92 | 63 | 100.00% |
| 2005 | 40 | $448,500 | $254.09 | 56 | 98.06% |
| 2006 | 28 | $515,000 | $279.28 | 57 | 97.56% |
| 2007 | 35 | $507,525 | $268.46 | 69.5 | 95.44% |
| 2008 | 48 | $443,000 | $229.83 | 91 | 94.55% |
| 2009 | 66 | $372,000 | $190.76 | 98 | 93.86% |
| 2010 | 78 | $395,000 | $201.60 | 132 | 93.90% |
| 2011 | 92 | $372,500 | $184.04 | 121 | 94.68% |
| 2012 | 85 | $384,500 | $194.30 | 89 | 95.75% |
| 2013 | 112 | $422,500 | $220.20 | 87 | 96.41% |
| 2014 | 98 | $412,500 | $217.92 | 76 | 96.46% |
| 2015 | 97 | $435,000 | $224.07 | 83 | 96.98% |
| 2016 | 87 | $450,000 | $223.31 | 83 | 96.55% |
| 2017 | 94 | $447,500 | $234.29 | 71 | 97.27% |
| 2018 | 105 | $445,000 | $224.72 | 98.5 | 97.55% |
| 2019 | 92 | $457,500 | $228.72 | 91.5 | 97.08% |
| 2020 | 128 | $479,750 | $240.96 | 62 | 97.64% |
| 2021 | 147 | $585,000 | $292.50 | 33 | 100.00% |
| 2022 | 82 | $717,500 | $360.53 | 28.5 | 100.00% |
| 2023 | 67 | $600,000 | $326.76 | 62 | 97.10% |
| 2024 | 56 | $647,500 | $348.09 | 51 | 97.41% |
| 2025 | 81 | $675,000 | $348.30 | 69 | 97.31% |
| 2026 YTD** | 39 | $600,000 | $326.76 | 38 | 97.48% |
The 2003 and 2004 samples are exceptionally small and should not be treated as stable annual benchmarks.
2026 covers January 1 through July 20 only.
The current market
The latest exact trailing 12 months ended with more closings but lower pricing and longer marketing time than the preceding 365-day window. Both use the same July 21–July 20 boundaries, eliminating unequal partial-month comparisons.
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| Measure | July 21, 2025– July 20, 2026 |
July 21, 2024– July 20, 2025 |
Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaned closings | 72 | 66 | +9.1% |
| Median closed price | $626,750 | $647,000 | −3.1% |
| Price interquartile range | $545,000–$821,225 | $571,250–$881,875 | — |
| Median closed price / sq. ft. | $333.08 | $366.20 | −9.0% |
| Median reported living area | 1,952 sq. ft. | 1,840 sq. ft. | +6.1% |
| Median MLS DOM | 62.5 | 51 | +11.5 days |
| Median sale / final list | 97.33% | 98.01% | −0.69 percentage points |
The price-per-square-foot decline was larger than the median-price decline even as the median reported size increased. That is useful evidence that the change was not solely the result of smaller homes selling. It still does not isolate every difference in plan, renovation, pool, lot and view.
Sixty-one of the 72 closings, or 84.7%, finished below the final list price. Final list matters here: it may already reflect one or more reductions from the original asking price.
Where the latest closings landed
| Closed-Price Band | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Under $500,000 | 12 | 16.7% |
| $500,000–$699,999 | 30 | 41.7% |
| $700,000–$899,999 | 19 | 26.4% |
| $900,000 or more | 11 | 15.3% |
The middle of the distribution remained broad. A single community-wide median therefore cannot serve as an offer target for every floor plan.
Active and pending snapshot
As of the August 6, 2026 export, the file contained 33 active listings and 4 pending listings. This is a point-in-time asking-price snapshot, kept separate from the closed-sale trend.
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| Status | Count | Median Asking Price | Median Asking Price / Sq. Ft. | Median MLS DOM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active | 33 | $679,900 | $367.18 | 78 |
| Pending | 4 | $659,000 | $340.46 | 85.5 |
The active median asking price was 8.5% above the latest trailing closed median, while active median asking price per square foot was 10.2% above the latest closed result. Those gaps describe different groups of homes at different transaction stages; they do not predict where the active listings will close.
A simple listing-supply proxy—33 active listings divided by 72 trailing closings, multiplied by 12—equals 5.5 months. It is not a formal historical months-supply series because the file contains only one current inventory snapshot.
Five eras in the sales history
1. Early development and the first visible cycle: 2003–2008
The export begins in the development era, but the first two annual samples contain only 2 and 7 closings. The first year with a more useful sample is 2005, when 40 homes closed at a $448,500 median.
The median rose to $515,000 in 2006 before easing to $507,525 in 2007 and $443,000 in 2008. Median price per square foot moved from $279.28 in 2006 to $229.83 in 2008, while median MLS days on market rose from 57 to 91.
Those movements show the market turning before the full correction appeared in the annual median.
2. Housing correction and the low-price years: 2009–2012
The 2009 median was $372,000, 27.8% below the 2006 median peak. Price per square foot reached its lowest annual median in 2011 at $184.04, 34.1% below 2006.
Marketing time also stretched. Median MLS days on market reached 132 in 2010 and 121 in 2011. The 2012 median improved to $384,500 and median days on market fell to 89, but pricing remained well below the earlier peak.
This is why selecting one trough year can dramatically change any long-term percentage claim.
3. Gradual recovery: 2013–2019
The 2013 median rose to $422,500. For the next several years, the annual median stayed in a comparatively narrow band—from $412,500 in 2014 to $450,000 in 2016—before reaching $457,500 in 2019.
Price per square foot moved from $220.20 in 2013 to $228.72 in 2019. The record shows recovery, but not a straight ascent: the median slipped in 2014, 2017 and 2018 even as the longer trend improved.
4. Pandemic-era repricing: 2020–2022
The sharpest move in the series arrived from 2020 through 2022. The median increased from $479,750 to $717,500, up 49.6%. Using the pre-surge 2019 baseline, the 2022 median was 56.8% higher.
Median price per square foot rose 57.6% from 2019 to 2022, which confirms that the move was not only a shift toward larger homes. At the same time, median MLS days on market fell to 33 in 2021 and 28.5 in 2022. The median sale-to-final-list ratio reached 100% in both years.
Sales volume peaked at 147 closings in 2021, then fell to 82 in 2022. The MLS record documents the repricing and faster market; it does not, by itself, assign a single cause.
5. Post-surge adjustment: 2023–July 2026
The 2023 median fell to $600,000, down 16.4% from 2022. Median price per square foot declined 9.4%, a smaller move that suggests some of the headline-price drop reflected the homes that happened to sell.
The median recovered to $647,500 in 2024 and $675,000 in 2025. Yet 2025 median price per square foot was almost unchanged from 2024—$348.30 versus $348.09—even as the median sale price rose 4.25%. Median reported living area increased from 1,840 to 1,965 square feet, making the shift in sales mix visible.
The 2026 year-to-date median is $600,000, based on 39 closings through July 20. The smoother 12-month comparison also points to a more selective market: median price and price per square foot were lower than in the prior window, while median marketing time was 11.5 days longer.
One major community event overlapped this era. The golf course and restaurant closed in late 2022; homeowners approved an acquisition and restoration in January 2024; the course reopened to resident play on December 9, 2024 and limited public play on December 16. Those dates are useful timeline markers, not proof that the course caused a particular price move.
What the same-home resales show
Annual medians have a built-in composition problem. A year with more large, remodeled, pool or golf-front homes can post a higher median even when like-for-like values changed less.
To get closer to a same-home comparison, the audit matched consecutive sales by valid assessor parcel number, repaired malformed identifiers only when one normalized address produced an unambiguous match, required at least a two-year holding period and limited the final set to records whose reported living area differed by no more than 10%.
That stricter test produced 646 repeat-sale pairs:
Median holding period: 5.21 years
Median total nominal change: +19.48%
Median nominal annualized change: +3.39%
Middle 50% of annualized changes: +0.96% to +6.06%
A long-horizon subset of 35 homes first recorded as sold from 2003–2007 and sold again from 2021–2026 had a median 32.16% total increase over 17.59 years, equal to 1.58% nominal annualized. Thirty-three of the 35 later sales were higher than their early sale.
This is stronger evidence than comparing annual community averages, but it is still not a formal repeat-sales price index. The MLS does not consistently measure the value added by renovation, a new pool, a changed view, furnishings, solar ownership, distressed-sale conditions, seller concessions or transaction costs. The figures are also not inflation-adjusted.
The right conclusion is modest: the matched resales generally moved higher in nominal dollars, but outcomes varied widely and the holding period mattered.
Why prices separate inside Trilogy
The latest sales record shows a wide price range because Trilogy is not one interchangeable housing product.
Living area and floor plan
Among the latest 72 closings, size alone divided the market into distinct price bands:
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| Reported Living Area | Sales | Median Closed Price | Median Closed Price / Sq. Ft. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1,600 sq. ft. | 11 | $479,000 | $312.70 |
| 1,600–1,999 sq. ft. | 36 | $592,500 | $340.23 |
| 2,000–2,399 sq. ft. | 9 | $824,900 | $380.14 |
| 2,400 sq. ft. or more | 16 | $867,500 | $343.98 |
These are descriptive groups, not a valuation grid. The 2,000–2,399-square-foot band has only nine sales, and every band still mixes plans, lots and finish levels.
Renovation and system age
Updated kitchens, baths, flooring, windows, mechanical systems and outdoor spaces can separate two otherwise similar plans. Cosmetic finish should also be distinguished from roof, HVAC, pool-equipment, solar and other system obligations.
Private pool and outdoor improvements
Older MLS records often use a general pool field that can refer to a community pool rather than a private backyard pool. That field is not reliable enough to calculate a clean historical “pool premium.” Recent private-pool markers show an association with higher prices, but they also overlap with larger homes, stronger lots and more extensive renovations.
Golf frontage, view and privacy
Direct golf frontage, fairway orientation, mountain exposure, street position and rear-yard privacy can materially change the comparison set. A raw price difference is not proof of an independent golf or view premium because those attributes overlap with floor plan, condition and lot improvements.
Casita and room utility
A casita, office, third bedroom or flexible living area can change buyer utility even when reported square footage looks similar. Listing language and assessor records do not always classify those spaces consistently.
For lot orientation, gates and amenity geography, use the Trilogy La Quinta community map with the Trilogy La Quinta visual guide.
What the data mean for buyers and sellers
For buyers
The community median is a market marker, not an offer price. A stronger comparison begins with the same floor plan or a narrow living-area range, then adjusts for recency, lot position, golf frontage, pool, view, renovation, casita, solar terms and included furnishings.
The latest period also rewards attention to listing history. With 84.7% of closings below final list and a 97.33% median sale-to-final-list ratio, negotiation remained common. But final list can already include reductions, so the original ask, status history and time exposed to the market still matter.
Golf should be evaluated accurately as part of the ownership picture. Trilogy Golf Club is a public daily-fee course. Current resident benefits include earlier booking and a limited weekday discount under the January 2026 course-use guidelines; golf is not automatically bundled as free play with a home.
For sellers
Long-run community growth does not establish the present value of one property. The latest 12-month median was below the prior period, and the active-listing median sat above recent closing evidence. Pricing from the highest active competitor can therefore build in an untested expectation.
The best launch price comes from recent like-for-like closings. Renovation, system updates, lot advantages and outdoor improvements need to be documented clearly. A distinctive golf-front or heavily remodeled home may justify a narrower comparison set, but it still needs evidence.
Historical context is valuable. Present value comes from present comparables.
Frequently asked questions
Early development and the first visible cycle: 2003–2008
The export begins in the development era, but the first two annual samples contain only 2 and 7 closings. The first year with a more useful sample is 2005, when 40 homes closed at a $448,500 median.
The median rose to $515,000 in 2006 before easing to $507,525 in 2007 and $443,000 in 2008. Median price per square foot moved from $279.28 in 2006 to $229.83 in 2008, while median MLS days on market rose from 57 to 91.
Those movements show the market turning before the full correction appeared in the annual median.
How much have Trilogy La Quinta prices changed since the early years?
The first reasonably sampled full year is 2005, when 40 closings had a $448,500 median. The 2025 median was $675,000, 50.5% higher in nominal dollars, or 2.07% annualized over 20 years. That is not the appreciation rate of one typical home, and it is not adjusted for inflation, renovations or changes in the mix of homes sold.
Did Trilogy La Quinta prices decline after the housing crash?
Yes. The annual median fell 27.8% from $515,000 in 2006 to $372,000 in 2009. Median price per square foot reached its series low in 2011 at $184.04, while median MLS days on market remained above 120 in both 2010 and 2011.
Does this file contain every Trilogy sale from the start?
It appears to provide unusually broad MLS coverage beginning in December 2003, but the export cannot prove that it includes every transaction. Private sales, direct-builder transfers, off-market deeds and listings entered under another subdivision spelling may be absent. The analysis therefore says “MLS-recorded sales,” not “all transactions.”
Can the community median determine what one Trilogy home is worth?
No. A credible value analysis needs recent comparable sales for the same plan or a narrow size range, then adjustments for condition, renovation, pool, golf frontage, view, privacy, casita, solar terms and furnishings. The community median establishes context only.
Mark Miller | Real Estate Agent
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Sources and methodology
MLS analysis
Source file: CDAR MLS export received August 6, 2026
Raw rows: 1,865 across 120 fields
Raw statuses: 1,828 closed, 33 active and 4 pending
Closed-date span returned: December 24, 2003–July 20, 2026
Analytical cohort: 1,766 detached single-family closed-sale records
Excluded: 3 Casitas Las Rosas/Old Town La Quinta condo records incorrectly labeled Trilogy; 51 records with implausible $1,000–$5,000 closed-price fields against six-figure list prices; and 8 duplicate cross-MLS transaction records
Deduplication: matching valid parcel number, closed price and same or adjacent closing date, retaining one representation per transaction
Calculated fields: closed price per square foot equals closed price divided by reported living area; sale-to-final-list ratio equals closed price divided by final list price
Annual periods: calendar years; 2026 is explicitly year to date
Current comparison: two equal 365-day windows, July 21, 2025–July 20, 2026 versus July 21, 2024–July 20, 2025
Repeat-sale subset: consecutive matched-property sales, at least two years apart, with reported living area within 10%
Not used for conclusions: raw concessions, historical pool checkbox, original-list ratios with obvious input errors, and unsupported causal amenity “premiums”
Prices are nominal. The analysis does not adjust for inflation, seller concessions, furnishings, renovation, distress, financing costs, taxes, insurance, HOA obligations, golf costs or transaction expenses. Closed price is not net seller proceeds. MLS DOM is not necessarily cumulative days on market across every relist.
The subdivision-field export may omit direct-builder, private, off-market or differently labeled sales. Early new-construction status is largely blank, so builder sales cannot be separated reliably from resales.
Annual medians describe the sales recorded in each period. They are not appraisals, forecasts or guarantees of future value.