Costa Mesa weekly desk note
Costa Mesa saw 13 price cuts, 18 new listings and 25 status changes this week — down from 59 last week, as of October 4, 2026.
Costa MesaCaliforniaWeek of September 28, 2026
The week in Costa Mesa
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Costa Mesa, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Costa Mesa file →The largest reduction on the desk was 181 Cecil Place — down $200,000, from $2,350,000 to $2,150,000, listed by CB Richard Ellis, Inc..
25 listings changed status: 12 sold, 5 pending, 4 back on market, 4 active under contract. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
18 homes came to market, asking from $145,000 to $5,450,000.
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 Costa Mesa street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 2210 Pacific Ave. #F1T.N.G. Real Estate ConsultantsPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 284 E 18thATTY, Inc.Sold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 273 MesaColdwell Banker RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 339 E 19thColdwell Banker RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1651 Iowa Street CBalboa RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 166 CecilKELLER WILLIAMS REALTY COLLEGE PARKPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 162 CecilKELLER WILLIAMS REALTY COLLEGE PARKPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2425 BowdoinReal BrokerBack on market▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 28, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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