Ojai weekly desk note
Ojai saw 6 price cuts, 6 new listings and 9 status changes this week, as of September 11, 2026.
OjaiCaliforniaWeek of September 7, 2026
The week in Ojai
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Ojai, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Ojai file →The largest reduction on the desk was 952 E Ojai Avenue — down $375,000, from $2,170,000 to $1,795,000, listed by LIV Sothebys Ojai.
9 listings changed status: 5 active under contract, 2 pending, 1 sold, 1 back on market. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
6 homes came to market, asking from $875,000 to $10,900,000.
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 Ojai street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 1230 Foothill RoadLIV Sothebys OjaiActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2170 Ladera RoadKeller Williams Santa BarbaraSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 921 Shokat DriveNextHome Pacific Coast RealtyPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1975 Maricopa Highway 23eXp RealtyActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 233 El Plano DriveRE/MAX Gold Coast REALTORSActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1273 S Rice Road 69Keller Williams WestlakeBack on market▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 410 Church Road 53LIV Sothebys OjaiActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 920 El Centro StreetLIV Sothebys OjaiPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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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Desk noteOjai weekly desk note
Ojai saw 10 price cuts, 5 new listings and 14 status changes this week — up from 21 last week, as of September 20, 2026.
NeighbourhoodDowntown / The Arcade
Glass magnate Edward Drummond Libbey financed architects Frank Mead and Richard Requa's 1916-17 Spanish Colonial Revival redesign of Nordhoff's Main Street into the Mission-style Arcade, pergola, and post office bell tower that still anchor Ojai Avenue; the town renamed itself Ojai the following spring.
NeighbourhoodThe Arbolada
Libbey bought 360 wooded acres north of downtown in 1922, cleared the underbrush by hand to save the largest oaks, and laid out winding, stone-curbed streets for half-acre-plus lots; the oak-canopied enclave still carries the name Arbolada, Spanish for "woodland.".
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