Biggest Del Mar price cut this week: $438,000 on 1241 Crest Rd
The asking price on 1241 Crest Rd dropped from $5,288,000 to $4,850,000. This week in Del Mar: 0 new listings, 3 price cuts, 2 closed sales and 1 home going under contract. Data as of October 18, 2026.
Del MarCaliforniaWeek of October 12, 2026
The week in Del Mar
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Del Mar, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Del Mar file →The largest reduction on the desk was 1241 Crest Rd — down $438,000, from $5,288,000 to $4,850,000, listed by Compass.
3 listings changed status: 2 sold, 1 pending. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
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 Del Mar street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 14004 Mercado DriveBerkshire Hathaway HomeServices California PropertiesPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2726 Caminito VerdugoKeller Williams Realty-SDNISold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 519 Stratford Court RDel Mar Realty Assoc.,IncSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2171 Del Mar Heights RdCompassCut $265,000▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 13723 Recuerdo DriveRealty ONE Group PacificCut $300,000▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1241 Crest RdCompassCut $438,000▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 October 12, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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Desk noteBiggest Del Mar price cut this week: $438,000 on 1241 Crest Rd
The asking price on 1241 Crest Rd dropped from $5,288,000 to $4,850,000. This week in Del Mar: 0 new listings, 3 price cuts, 1 closed sale and 1 home going under contract. Data as of October 19, 2026.
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