Between April and August 2026, the median list price for a home in Cameron Park fell from $714,000 to $650,000, a drop of roughly 9 percent in four months. Anywhere else in El Dorado County, a swing like that would be the headline. In Cameron Park, it isn't a warning sign about values. It's a reminder that this town sells too few homes each month for a single median to mean much on its own.
Why The Number Moves So Much
Cameron Park is not a large market. Redfin recorded 66 closed sales in May 2026, up from 55 the year before, yet the three-month median through May still slipped to $595,000, a 3.2 percent dip from the same window in 2025. Over that stretch, the typical home took 21 days to sell, up from 14 days a year earlier. Sales rising while price falls and days on market lengthens usually points to one thing: the type of home changing hands shifted, not the value of any particular home.
A quick note on methodology, because it matters here more than most places: Movoto's figures above track list prices, while Redfin's track closed sales. The two won't line up exactly. What they agree on is the direction of the story. In a market like Folsom or El Dorado Hills, where hundreds of homes close every month, one unusual sale barely moves the median. In Cameron Park, a single closing at Cameron Park Country Club or inside the airpark can swing the number by tens of thousands of dollars. The median isn't tracking appreciation so much as tracking which of Cameron Park's very different neighborhoods happened to trade that month.
One Town, Four Housing Markets
Cameron Park was built out of a single 5,000-acre cattle ranch that Larry Cameron converted into a planned community in the 1950s, and the plan left behind four real estate products that still don't behave like one market today.
Cameron Airpark Estates sits on the west side of Cameron Airpark, a public-use general aviation field the FAA lists under the identifier O61. Streets here double as taxiways, wide enough and low enough at the curb for a wingtip to clear the stop signs, and many homes back directly onto a private hangar. Association dues run roughly $1,300 a year for access to the shared runway system. Listings don't come up often, and when they do they tend to move quickly, because the buyer pool is narrow and specific: people who want to taxi home.
El Dorado Royale, wrapped around the Cameron Park Country Club golf course, is the neighborhood's only gated section built around a golf amenity. The course started life as the El Dorado Royal Country Club and was renamed in 1981 when the membership bought the club outright. It's an 18-hole, par-72 layout sitting at roughly 1,200 feet of elevation, and homes along the fairways carry a premium for the view and for golf cart access to the clubhouse.
Eastwood Park and Cameron Woods are the neighborhoods most people picture when they think of Cameron Park: established, non-gated subdivisions with quarter-acre lots, mature trees, and a mix of original and remodeled houses. This is the volume segment, and it's also the segment most exposed to ordinary rate and affordability swings, since there's no amenity premium propping up the floor.
Cameron Estates and the surrounding parcels handle the acreage buyer, with lots running two to six acres and room for a barn or a few horses. Sales here are infrequent enough that a single large parcel changing hands can look like a market move when it's really just one transaction.
| Sub-market | What defines it | Typical buyer | Price behavior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameron Airpark Estates | Taxiway streets, private hangars, dues near $1,300/year | Pilots and aircraft owners | Rare listings, quick sales, narrow pool |
| El Dorado Royale (golf) | Gated, fairway lots on Cameron Park Country Club | Golf and lifestyle buyers | Premium for view and clubhouse access |
| Eastwood Park / Cameron Woods | Non-gated tract subdivisions, quarter-acre lots | Move-up families | Highest volume, most rate-sensitive |
| Cameron Estates (acreage) | 2 to 6 acre parcels | Horse and hobby-farm buyers | Infrequent sales, high per-sale swing |
What's Coming Will Make The Median Swing Harder, Not Easier
If four sub-markets already blur the median, the next several years add a fifth. El Dorado County is working through a tentative subdivision map for the Cameron Meadows project: 161 single-family lots ranging from 6,300 to about 16,668 square feet on 104 acres adjacent to Rasmussen Park, near Mira Loma Drive and Carousel Lane. Sixteen of those lots would include an attached accessory dwelling unit, deed-restricted as low-income housing under the state's density bonus law. As of the county's January 2026 project update, the proposal is still moving through environmental review.
A larger project, Lime Rock Valley, is proposing roughly 800 homes in Cameron Park and remains in environmental review as of a March 2026 report, with buildout potentially stretching into the early 2030s. The same reporting notes county officials are continuing to expand the El Dorado Trail, with planned extensions adding new connections into Cameron Park. Neither housing project is close to delivering finished homes, but both point toward the same outcome: a wave of new, higher-density construction that looks nothing like the airpark, the golf course, or the acreage lots. When that inventory starts closing, it will pull the median in a direction that has nothing to do with what a resale home at Eastwood Park is actually worth.
What This Means If You're Comparing Neighborhoods
If you're cross-shopping Cameron Park against El Dorado Hills or Folsom using the median price alone, you're comparing a blended number against a much more uniform one. The better question isn't what Cameron Park homes cost. It's which of the four sub-markets your target home belongs to, because the answer changes the comps, the HOA math, and the competition you'll face.
A seller in Eastwood Park competing against a future Cameron Meadows-style new-construction wave will want comps pulled from resale inventory specifically, not blended with new-build pricing once that project starts closing. A buyer chasing a hangar lot should expect inventory to sit empty for long stretches between listings, which makes patience part of the strategy rather than a red flag. A buyer eyeing acreage should plan for comps thin enough that one unusual sale can throw off a valuation for months at a time.
Quick Answers
Is Cameron Park a buyer's market or a seller's market right now? Both signals show up at once as of mid-2026. Redfin's competitiveness score, updated in June 2026, still rates Cameron Park highly competitive at 78 out of 100, even as the same data shows days on market running roughly 50 percent longer than a year earlier. That's consistent with a market loosening on the tract-home side, where inventory is more common, while the golf and airpark segments stay tight simply because so few of those homes exist.
Do all Cameron Park neighborhoods have an HOA? No. Cameron Airpark Estates and El Dorado Royale both carry association dues tied to shared infrastructure, the runway system in one case and the gate and common areas in the other. Eastwood Park, Cameron Woods, and most of the acreage parcels do not, though it's worth confirming per parcel before writing an offer.
Will the Cameron Meadows or Lime Rock Valley projects affect resale values nearby? Too early to model precisely. Both remain in county environmental review, and Lime Rock Valley's buildout timeline could extend into the early 2030s. Anyone buying near Rasmussen Park or that section of Cameron Park should factor future construction and eventual new inventory into a long-term hold, even if it won't affect a purchase closing this year.
Cameron Park rewards a buyer or seller who knows which of its four markets they're actually standing in. Andi & Trent works these micro-markets on a daily basis, from airpark hangars to acreage parcels, and can tell you within one conversation which comps actually apply to your situation. Reach out for a free home valuation and consultation before you anchor on a number pulled from the wrong neighborhood.
