Newport Beach weekly desk note
Newport Beach saw 25 price cuts, 24 new listings and 25 status changes this week — up from 59 last week, as of October 4, 2026.
Newport BeachCaliforniaWeek of September 28, 2026
The week in Newport Beach
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Newport Beach, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Newport Beach file →The largest reduction on the desk was 642 Via Lido Nord (Lido Island (LIDO)) — down $1,505,000, from $18,500,000 to $16,995,000, listed by Douglas Elliman of California Inc..
25 listings changed status: 11 sold, 7 active under contract, 5 pending, 1 coming soon. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
24 homes came to market, asking from $569,000 to $22,500,000.
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 Newport 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
- 2005 BarrancaSurterre Properties Inc.Pending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2242 Orchard DriveSeven Gables Real EstateActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 981 Bayside Cove 405Serhant California, IncSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 102 Scholz 234Coldwell Banker RealtyActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 142 LibertyColdwell Banker RealtyActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1312 Nottingham RoadCompassActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 218 Evening StarArbor Real EstateSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2975 CATALPA STREETCompassComing 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 September 28, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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