Lowest-priced home listed in Berkeley this week: $849,000 on 1701 Russell St
The lowest-priced home listed in Berkeley this week is 1701 Russell St at $849,000, 2 bedrooms. This week in Berkeley: 16 new listings, 6 price cuts, 16 closed sales and 21 homes going under contract. Data as of November 8, 2026.
BerkeleyCaliforniaWeek of November 2, 2026
The week in Berkeley
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Berkeley, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Berkeley file →The largest reduction on the desk was 2522 Hilgard Ave — down $500,000, from $2,750,000 to $2,250,000, listed by SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY INC.
25 listings changed status: 16 pending, 9 sold. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
16 homes came to market, asking from $355,000 to $2,800,000.
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 Berkeley street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 1220 Channing WayRed Oak RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2232 Derby StThe AgencyPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1117 The AlamedaDistrict HomesSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2747 Forest AveThe Grubb Co. Inc.Sold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2081 Bonar StRedfinPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 6900 Charing Cross RdKeller Williams RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1521 StuartWinkler Real Estate GroupPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1537 Carleton StDistrict HomesPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 November 2, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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