Altadena weekly desk note
Altadena saw 3 price cuts, 11 new listings and 17 status changes this week, as of September 11, 2026.
AltadenaCaliforniaWeek of September 7, 2026
The week in Altadena
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Altadena, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Altadena file →The largest reduction on the desk was 3172 Rubio Canyon Road — down $200,000, from $1,500,000 to $1,300,000, listed by Carolwood Estates.
17 listings changed status: 9 sold, 4 active under contract, 3 pending, 1 back on market. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
11 homes came to market, asking from $385,000 to $4,490,000.
That is the week, address by address. What any one of these rows means for a house on the same street is the question the file answers next.
On the streetA Altadena street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 181 E Palm Street EWarmington Residential CaliforniaActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 16 E Altadena DriveFirst American Realty GroupBack on market▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 137 W Harriet StreetColdwell Banker RealtyPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 245 Laun StreetKeller Williams RealtyActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 3705 Alzada RdCOMPASSSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2386 Glenrose AvenueCOMPASSSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2482 New York DriveCOMPASSSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2482 New York DrCOMPASSSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
Bought by: I follow these closings myself — some of these buyers I know, a few were my clients. The names are for Vault members; everything else on the row is open.
Week of September 7, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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Altadena saw 1 price cut, 9 new listings and 16 status changes this week — down from 31 last week, as of September 20, 2026.
NeighbourhoodChristmas Tree Lane
A 0.7-mile stretch of Santa Rosa Avenue lined with towering deodar cedars planted in 1885; the trees have been strung with lights as a public holiday display every year since 1920, making it one of the longest-running Christmas light displays in the country.
NeighbourhoodMillionaire's Row (Mariposa Street)
In 1887 printing magnate Andrew McNally and businessman George Gill Green built mansions on Mariposa Street near Santa Rosa Avenue, kicking off a run of Eastern-money estates; novelist Zane Grey bought a home nearby in the same district in the early 1900s.
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