Brea weekly desk note
Brea saw 8 price cuts, 5 new listings and 22 status changes this week — up from 34 last week, as of September 22, 2026.
BreaCaliforniaWeek of September 21, 2026
The week in Brea
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Brea, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Brea file →The largest reduction on the desk was 846 De Jur — down $75,000, from $1,125,000 to $1,050,000, listed by Century 21 Affiliated.
22 listings changed status: 8 sold, 7 pending, 6 active under contract, 1 back on market. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
5 homes came to market, asking from $749,999 to $2,680,000.
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 Brea street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 605 Forest Lake Drive 248Eva Raleigh, BrokerPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 616 Crest Lake Circle 216Eva Raleigh, BrokerSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 229 Buena VidaRealty ONE Group WestPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 812 De Jur StreetColdwell Banker DiamondActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1854 W SkywoodBK Platinum PropertiesActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 401 Brea Hills AvenueSeven Gables Real EstateSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 141 MeadowcreekRedpoint RealtyBack on market▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 330 Magnolia AvenueColdwell Banker RealtyPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 21, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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Brea saw 7 price cuts, 4 new listings and 23 status changes this week — up from 29 last week, as of September 20, 2026.
NeighbourhoodDowntown Brea (Birch Street)
The city acquired roughly 60 acres of its old, blighted city center and rebuilt around Birch Street, a pedestrian-first corridor with about 350,000 square feet of commercial space that won the California Redevelopment Association's 2001 Award of Excellence.
NeighbourhoodOlinda (Historic Townsite)
The original oil-boom village founded in the 1890s was folded into the new city of Brea at incorporation in February 1917; the site is now California Historical Landmark No. 918, registered January 1, 1978.
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