Imperial Beach weekly desk note
Imperial Beach saw 13 price cuts, 6 new listings and 3 status changes this week — down from 30 last week, as of September 22, 2026.
Imperial BeachCaliforniaWeek of September 21, 2026
The week in Imperial Beach
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Imperial Beach, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Imperial Beach file →The largest reduction on the desk was 236 Palm — down $1,000,000, from $3,990,000 to $2,990,000, listed by Colwell Realty IB Inc.
3 listings changed status: 2 sold, 1 back on market. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
6 homes came to market, asking from $599,000 to $1,299,500.
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 Imperial Beach street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 940 Calla Ave 15Spirit Realty, Inc.Sold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 217 Evergreen AveCompassSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 680 682 Ocean LnDavid LarsonBack on market▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 831 Hickory Ct.Costa Modern PropertiesCut $29,001▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 126 EldereXp Realty of California, Inc.Cut $12,001▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 236 PalmColwell Realty IB IncCut $1,000,000▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 801 809 SeacoastColwell Realty IB IncCut $690,000▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 809 Seacoast DriveColwell Realty IB IncCut $200,000▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 September 21, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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Imperial Beach saw 15 price cuts, 7 new listings and 8 status changes this week — up from 16 last week, as of September 20, 2026.
NeighbourhoodSeacoast District
The oceanfront corridor along Seacoast Drive, rebuilt under the city's 2004 redevelopment plan and anchored by the $22 million Pier South Resort, completed in 2013 on the site of the old Seacoast Inn.
NeighbourhoodPortwood Pier Plaza
The public plaza flanking the Imperial Beach Pier, home to the Surfhenge monument and a row of surfboard-shaped benches commemorating the town's 1937-1950s big-wave surfing history.
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