Lowest-priced home listed in Encinitas this week: $975,000 on 981 N Vulcan Avenue 4
The lowest-priced home listed in Encinitas this week is 981 N Vulcan Avenue 4 at $975,000, 2 bedrooms. This week in Encinitas: 11 new listings, 9 price cuts, 8 closed sales and 6 homes going under contract. Data as of October 18, 2026.
EncinitasCaliforniaWeek of October 12, 2026
The week in Encinitas
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Encinitas, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Encinitas file →The largest reduction on the desk was 398 Andrew Avenue — down $200,000, from $2,995,000 to $2,795,000, listed by Willis Allen Real Estate.
15 listings changed status: 8 sold, 6 pending, 1 back on market. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
11 homes came to market, asking from $975,000 to $4,999,888.
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 Encinitas street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 1504 Valleda LaneWillis Allen Real EstatePending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 803 Saxony RoadCompassSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 235 Coneflower StreetBerkshire Hathaway HomeServiceSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 518 SheffieldSand & Sea InvestmentsSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 350 N El Camino Real 57CompassSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 647 Lynwood DrBarry EstatesSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 145 5Th StreetSwell PropertySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1156 E Cove Pl.Redfin CorporationPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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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