Duarte Homes for Sale & Real Estate Market
Reviewed by Bryan Nguyen, Broker of Record · CA DRE #01972339 · Updated August 2026
Duarte sits against the San Gabriel Mountains between Monrovia and Azusa, where historic Route 66 runs through the city as Huntington Drive. It is best known as the home of City of Hope, the national cancer research and treatment center that anchors the south side of town, and a Metro A Line station at Duarte/City of Hope puts the city on the light rail line running from Pasadena through the foothill corridor. Housing climbs from postwar tracts on the valley floor into canyon neighborhoods below the wilderness boundary. Most of the city is served by Duarte Unified School District.
21 active listings from $380,000 to $1,077,900
Homes for Sale in Duarte
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$380,000
848 Cinnamon, Duarte
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2
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896
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$798,000
2036 Pepperwood, Duarte
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3
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2.5
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1,606
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ACTIVE
$399,000
0 Las Lomas, Duarte
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0
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0
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0
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$749,000
1319 Heather Lane, Duarte
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3
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3
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1,500
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ACTIVE
$700,000
2164 Goodall Ave, Duarte
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3
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1
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960
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ACTIVE
$899,900
3234 Conata, Duarte
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3
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2
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1,357
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$799,888
1243 Monterey Court, Duarte
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3
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2.5
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1,420
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ACTIVE
$730,000
1931 Delford, Duarte
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2
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1
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866
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ACTIVE
$769,900
1829 Park Rose, Duarte
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3
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2
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1,132
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ACTIVE
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is the median home price in Duarte?
- Duarte pricing splits along elevation and era, much like its foothill neighbors. The canyon streets on the north side, up toward Fish Canyon and Mel Canyon, carry larger lots, hillside views, and most of the city's custom construction, and they generally trade at the top of the market. The flatter blocks south of Royal Oaks and along the Huntington Drive corridor hold the postwar single-story homes that make up much of the housing stock, with townhome and condo communities adding a more attainable entry point than several neighboring cities offer. Because the mix of what happens to be listed in a given month can swing a simple average, a single citywide number rarely tells the whole story. Current medians, price per square foot, and days on market are on our Duarte market data page, refreshed from the MLS every 15 minutes.
- Which school district serves Duarte?
- Duarte Unified School District serves most of the city, and the district's history is tied to the city itself: it was formed in 1957, the same era Duarte incorporated. Portions of the city fall instead within Monrovia Unified School District, so the city name on a listing is not by itself a guarantee of a district assignment, let alone a particular school. Attendance boundaries are set by the districts and can shift as enrollment changes. Before writing an offer on a specific property, verify the assigned district and schools for that address directly, and confirm any enrollment or transfer policies that matter to your plans.
- What is Duarte known for?
- Two things above all: City of Hope and the mountains. City of Hope's research and treatment campus is the city's defining institution and one of the region's major employers, and its presence shapes everything from weekday traffic patterns to rental demand near the campus. On the north side, the city runs directly into the San Gabriel foothills, with trail access toward Fish Canyon and the wilderness beyond. Add the Route 66 heritage along Huntington Drive and a Metro A Line station, and Duarte reads as a small city with an unusual amount of infrastructure for its size.
- Is Duarte served by public transit?
- Yes. The Metro A Line stops at Duarte/City of Hope station near Duarte Road and Highland Avenue, with service west toward Pasadena and downtown Los Angeles and east toward Azusa and Pomona. The area around the station is also where most of the city's new construction is concentrated: the station-area plan has apartment and mixed-use projects in the pipeline, including affordable and market-rate phases, which is worth knowing both for buyers weighing future density and for owners watching what comparable land is being planned for.
The Duarte Market
Duarte is a small foothill city that behaves like two markets sharing a name, and the divide is elevation. North of Royal Oaks Drive the streets climb into the canyons, the lots widen, and the housing stock turns custom: view properties, hillside construction, parcels that back up to the wilderness boundary. South of it, the city flattens into the postwar grid along Huntington Drive, where the homes are smaller, the lots are regular, and the comparisons are cleaner. A citywide search mixes the two and produces noise; most buyers are really shopping one side of that line or the other.
City of Hope is the variable that distinguishes Duarte from every other city on this corridor. A major research and treatment campus at the south end of a small city produces steady demand that has little to do with the usual family-buyer cycle: medical staff relocating on offer timelines, visiting fellows renting for a year, families staying near a patient for a season. That demand shows up most visibly in the townhome and condo communities and in anything walkable to the campus or the A Line station beside it. For an investor, it is the closest thing the foothill corridor has to institutional rental demand; for a seller near the campus, it means the buyer pool is wider than the city's size suggests.
The station area deserves its own attention. Duarte's new construction is concentrated around the Metro A Line stop, where the station-area plan has both affordable and market-rate phases in the pipeline. Buyers weighing a purchase nearby should read the plan rather than the rumor: transit-adjacent density tends to lift land values and add amenities over time, but construction timelines are long and the interim years are loud. Neither point should be discovered after closing.
The canyon streets carry the opposite set of questions. Hillside lots below the San Gabriels can involve slope, drainage, and fire-zone considerations, and insurance availability in the wildland interface has become a real underwriting question rather than a formality. None of that is unique to Duarte, but the north side of the city sits close enough to the mountains that it should be part of any offer conversation, priced deliberately rather than discovered during escrow.
Practically: decide which Duarte you are buying. The canyon side rewards patience and careful diligence on the lot itself. The valley side rewards speed and clean comparisons. The campus side rewards understanding who else is bidding, because near City of Hope, the answer is often somebody on a timeline.