Biggest Costa Mesa price cut this week: $200,000 on 288 E Bay Street
The asking price on 288 E Bay Street dropped from $3,395,000 to $3,195,000. This week in Costa Mesa: 16 new listings, 16 price cuts, 10 closed sales and 10 homes going under contract. Data as of November 8, 2026.
Costa MesaCaliforniaWeek of November 2, 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 288 E Bay Street — down $200,000, from $3,395,000 to $3,195,000, listed by Kase Real Estate.
25 listings changed status: 10 sold, 5 pending, 5 active under contract, 4 coming soon. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
16 homes came to market, asking from $199,900 to $3,199,000.
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
- 2563 Oxford LnRE/MAX Fine HomesComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 594 Hamilton St 5Keller Williams OC Coastal RealtyPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2043 N Capella CourtSerhant California, IncSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2558 WestminsterCompassActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2103 ContinentalCasa Real EstateActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 525 FairfaxReal BrokerSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 674 Senate StreetTimes Real Estate CAPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2425 BowdoinReal BrokerSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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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