Langley detached homes ask $1,859,000 and sell for $1,440,000. We use our own MLS sold data to explain the $419,000 gap, and where the real volume sits.
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Houses for sale in Langley carry a median asking price of $1,859,000 for a detached home, but detached homes in Langley actually sold for a median of $1,440,000 between April and June 2026. That $419,000 gap is the most important number in this market, and almost none of it is negotiation. Sellers collected 97.0% of their asking price in a median of 19 days. The gap is there because Langley's listing pool holds two very different markets at once, and the expensive one barely trades. Working out which of the two you are shopping in is most of what separates a buyer who overpays in Langley from one who does not.
Langley had 1,436 active listings as of August 2026, at a citywide median asking price of $949,900. For scale, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Tsawwassen, Ladner and Pitt Meadows had 1,330 active listings between the five of them. Langley on its own had more.
That volume matters for a practical reason. Of those listings, 681 are asking $900,000 or less, which is 47.4% of the market. Langley gets described as an expensive detached suburb, and the detached figures support that reputation, but close to half of what is for sale in the city sits under the price point where most first-time buyers in British Columbia are actually shopping.
The detached asking median of $1,859,000 is real in the sense that 622 detached listings genuinely carry prices in that neighbourhood, with the range running from $349,900 to $32,500,000. It is still misleading, because those listings are not the ones selling.
Langley's boundaries take in a large amount of rural and semi-rural land, which is unusual for a Metro Vancouver municipality, and the acreage pockets price accordingly. Campbell Valley's 52 active listings carry a median asking price of $3,225,000. County Line Glen Valley sits at $3,649,000 across 19 listings. Salmon River asks $2,299,000 across 73, and Fort Langley $2,499,150 across 42. Those are estates, hobby farms and heritage character homes, and they can sit for a long time before the right buyer appears.
Willoughby Heights is the other Langley. It has 530 active listings at a median asking price of $832,400, which is more than a third of everything for sale in the city, and it is where the real transaction volume lives. Walnut Grove adds another 110 listings at $994,000, and Langley City another 267 at $550,000. All of those neighbourhood medians cover every property type, not detached alone.
Blend those two pools into one citywide figure, and the median drifts up toward homes that rarely change hands. Sold records correct it. Between April and June 2026, 287 detached homes sold in Langley at a median $1,440,000, and those sales are the honest picture of what a detached house in this city costs.
The pattern shows up in how long stock sits, too. The typical detached listing on the market right now has been listed for 61 days, against 37 days for the typical townhouse listing. When you see a Langley number that looks high, the first question is always whether it came from asking prices or from sold records.
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Here is what each property type asks today and what it actually sold for. Asking figures are active listings as of August 2026, and sold figures cover April to June 2026.
Two things stand out. Townhouses are the tightest segment in the city, at 98.5% of asking price, 20 days to sell, and 254 sales in a single quarter. That is not a segment where a lowball offer is a strategy. Condos are the opposite end of the same market: a $514,900 median asking price makes Langley one of the cheapest entry points in Metro Vancouver for a buyer who wants to be near rapid transit, and the Surrey Langley SkyTrain extension is the reason that sentence is worth taking seriously.
The per-square-foot figures also invert the usual assumption. Langley condos ask $637 per square foot while detached homes ask $611, so the detached premium here is a premium on land and on total floor area rather than on the quality of the square footage itself. We looked at how that gap between detached and attached homes behaves across British Columbia in a separate piece.
Langley is a township wrapped around a city, and its internal price range is wider than most single municipalities in BC can manage, running from $550,000 to $3,649,000 depending on the pocket. Every median below is an asking price across all property types as of August 2026.
Townhouse buyers, first and clearly. 254 townhouse sales in a single quarter at a median $830,000 is a level of choice most Metro Vancouver municipalities cannot offer at that price, and Langley is one of the few BC suburbs where you can compare a townhouse, a condo and an acreage inside the same municipal boundary.
Condo buyers do well here too, particularly those buying ahead of transit rather than after it. A $514,900 median asking price compares with $714,900 in Port Moody and $631,750 in Tsawwassen for the same property type, and 228 Langley condos sold in the spring quarter, so it is a liquid market rather than a thin one.
Detached buyers are the group the headline number misleads in both directions. The honest figure is $1,440,000. That is above Port Coquitlam at $1,325,000 and Pitt Meadows at $1,228,000, and below Tsawwassen at $1,530,000 and Port Moody at $1,848,000, all measured over the same April to June 2026 window. Langley detached is mid-pack for the eastern suburbs, not the outlier its asking prices suggest.
Langley suits you least if you need to be downtown several days a week right now. The transit argument here is a forward-looking one, and you are paying today's price for tomorrow's connection.
Langley in 2026 is a $1,440,000 detached market wearing a $1,859,000 price tag, an $830,000 townhouse market that clears in 20 days, and a $506,500 condo market that is one of the cheapest transit-adjacent entry points left in Metro Vancouver. With 1,436 active listings and 47.4% of them under $900,000, there is more genuine choice here than in most of British Columbia's inner suburbs. The mistake to avoid is treating any of it as one market. Browse current Langley listings, check the Langley housing market page for the monthly trend, and then measure anything you like against what comparable homes actually sold for.
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