Laguna Beach weekly desk note
Laguna Beach saw 10 price cuts, 15 new listings and 22 status changes this week — up from 46 last week, as of October 4, 2026.
Laguna BeachCaliforniaWeek of September 28, 2026
The week in Laguna Beach
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Laguna Beach, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Laguna Beach file →The largest reduction on the desk was 629 Balboa Avenue (Portafina (PF)) — down $255,000, from $3,750,000 to $3,495,000, listed by Coldwell Banker Realty.
22 listings changed status: 7 active under contract, 7 sold, 6 pending, 2 coming soon. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
15 homes came to market, asking from $1,300,000 to $23,995,000.
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 Laguna 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
- 590 Seaview StreetFiduciary Real Estate ServicesActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2840 Zell DriveBerkshire Hathaway HomeServices California PropertiesComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 477 HillBren and Furstenfeld Estates, Inc.Pending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 31876 CircleBullock Russell RE ServicesSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 933 Coast ViewSerhant California, Inc.Active Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 429 AsterTeam Laguna IncPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 21701 WesleyAuthentic PartnersPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1425 Skyline DrivePacific Sotheby's Int'l RealtyPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 28, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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Desk noteBiggest Laguna Beach price cut this week: $1,500,000 on 2049 Ocean Way
The asking price on 2049 Ocean Way dropped from $12,495,000 to $10,995,000. This week in Laguna Beach: 9 new listings, 12 price cuts, 5 closed sales and 9 homes going under contract. Data as of October 11, 2026.
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