Biggest Oakland price cut this week: $150,022 on 981 Vermont St
The asking price on 981 Vermont St dropped from $1,000,000 to $849,978. This week in Oakland: 61 new listings, 23 price cuts, 46 closed sales and 57 homes going under contract. Data as of November 8, 2026.
OaklandCaliforniaWeek of November 2, 2026
The week in Oakland
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Oakland, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Oakland file →The largest reduction on the desk was 981 Vermont St — down $150,022, from $1,000,000 to $849,978, listed by Keller Williams Tri-Valley.
25 listings changed status: 14 pending, 11 sold. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
25 homes came to market, asking from $99,888 to $4,750,000.
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 Oakland street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 3768 Harrison St 307RedfinPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 978 63rd STVanguard PropertiesPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 32 Sheridan RdGolden Gate Sotheby's Int'l ReSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2927 58Th AveeXp Realty of CaliforniaSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 5619 Harmon AvenueInfinite Real EstateSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 3541 68th AveCompassSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 260 Brooklyn Basin Way 531Polaris PacificPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 4330 Mountain BlvdThe Grubb Co. Inc.Pending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 November 2, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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