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Desk note · Oct 26

Lowest-priced home listed in Lake Forest this week: $665,000 on 281 Chaumont

The lowest-priced home listed in Lake Forest this week is 281 Chaumont at $665,000, 2 bedrooms. This week in Lake Forest: 7 new listings, 11 price cuts, 9 closed sales and 20 homes going under contract. Data as of November 1, 2026.

Lake ForestCaliforniaWeek of October 26, 2026

The inspector’s eye on Lake Forest real estate

The week in Lake Forest

What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Lake Forest, read the way an inspector reads a house.

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The largest reduction on the desk was 21 Manzanillo (HIGHLANDS (BKHGL)) — down $100,000, from $2,290,000 to $2,190,000, listed by EpicPoint Properties.

25 listings changed status: 9 sold, 8 active under contract, 5 pending, 2 back on market. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.

7 homes came to market, asking from $665,000 to $1,599,900.

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 street

A 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

  • 22651 Shady GroveeXp Realty of Southern Ca, IncPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
  • 24812 Calle El Toro GrandeT.N.G. Real Estate ConsultantsSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
  • 13 BarberryH Barton, BrokerPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
  • 25761 Le Parc 23CompassSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
  • 25072 CastlewoodDOMU Real EstateSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
  • 25281 Romera PlaceSeven Gables Real EstateActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
  • 28392 Klondike DriveIML Real EstateSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
  • 28474 PorsenaBerkshire Hathaway HomeServices California PropertiesComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 26, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.

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