Biggest El Cajon price cut this week: $100,000 on 1521 Shadow Knolls Ln
The asking price on 1521 Shadow Knolls Ln dropped from $1,249,900 to $1,149,900. This week in El Cajon: 35 new listings, 25 price cuts, 21 closed sales and 23 homes going under contract. Data as of October 18, 2026.
El CajonCaliforniaWeek of October 12, 2026
The week in El Cajon
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in El Cajon, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The El Cajon file →The largest reduction on the desk was 1521 Shadow Knolls Ln — down $100,000, from $1,249,900 to $1,149,900, listed by Century 21 Affiliated.
25 listings changed status: 11 sold, 11 pending, 3 back on market. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
25 homes came to market, asking from $130,000 to $5,500,000.
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 El Cajon street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 700 Wakefield CourtIS Luxury of CaliforniaSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 12376 Royal RoadColdwell Banker WestPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1605 Vista Del ValleColdwell Banker RealtyPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1137 Mona PlaceCompassPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 117 La CrestaKeller Williams RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1339 MarlineKeller Williams RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 668 Van Houten AveBeach City Brokers, Inc.Pending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1854 Grove RoadColdwell Banker WestPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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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