Biggest Newport Beach price cut this week: $1,000,000 on 1444 W Bay
The asking price on 1444 W Bay dropped from $10,995,000 to $9,995,000. This week in Newport Beach: 27 new listings, 17 price cuts, 17 closed sales and 23 homes going under contract. Data as of October 18, 2026.
Newport BeachCaliforniaWeek of October 12, 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 1444 W Bay (Balboa Peninsula (Residential) (BALP)) — down $1,000,000, from $10,995,000 to $9,995,000, listed by Compass.
25 listings changed status: 10 pending, 8 sold, 5 coming soon, 2 active under contract. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
25 homes came to market, asking from $799,000 to $12,775,000.
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
- 31 Seabird CourtReal Brokerage Technologies, IncComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 238 Walnut StreetFirst Team Real EstatePending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 54 AnjouColdwell Banker RealtyActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1950 Port Trinity PlaceColdwell Banker RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 3121 W. Coast Hwy 7A 7BKarly Brown, BrokerComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 19 Montecito DriveHarcourts Blue WaterPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 421 CatalinaBeach EquitiesSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 255 Ocean ViewSerhant California, IncSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 12, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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Desk noteBiggest Newport Beach price cut this week: $1,000,000 on 1444 W Bay
The asking price on 1444 W Bay dropped from $10,995,000 to $9,995,000. This week in Newport Beach: 24 new listings, 18 price cuts, 17 closed sales and 26 homes going under contract. Data as of October 19, 2026.
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