Lake Forest weekly desk note
Lake Forest saw 25 price cuts, 13 new listings and 25 status changes this week, as of September 11, 2026.
Lake ForestCaliforniaWeek of September 7, 2026
The week in Lake Forest
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Lake Forest, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Lake Forest file →The largest reduction on the desk was 24541 Penfield Street (Laguna North (LN)) — down $284,000, from $1,279,000 to $995,000, listed by HomeSmart, Evergreen Realty.
25 listings changed status: 9 active under contract, 7 pending, 6 sold, 2 back on market. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
13 homes came to market, asking from $650,000 to $3,488,000.
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 Lake Forest street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 24668 JutewoodPellego, Inc.Back on market▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 21227 Camelia 18First Team Real EstatePending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 24462 Redlen StreetPacific Sterling RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 21281 Calle RecreoPacific Sotheby's Int'l RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 24261 Ontario LaneeXp Realty of Southern California, IncActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 25885 Trabuco 304Landmark RealtorsPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 24001 Muirlands 12Realty One Group WestPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 3 AlondaASD Realty TeamPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 7, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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Lake Forest saw 21 price cuts, 23 new listings and 25 status changes this week — up from 63 last week, as of September 20, 2026.
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Annexed into Lake Forest in 2000, this 1990s master-planned community backs up to the Santa Ana Mountains foothills.
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A hillside district annexed into Lake Forest in 2000, built around canyon terrain near Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park.
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