Palm Desert: 39 homes went under contract this week, up from 26
39 homes in Palm Desert went under contract this week, against 26 the week before. This week in Palm Desert: 91 new listings, 61 price cuts, 27 closed sales and 39 homes going under contract. Data as of November 8, 2026.
Palm DesertCaliforniaWeek of November 2, 2026
The week in Palm Desert
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Palm Desert, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Palm Desert file →The largest reduction on the desk was 73218 Fiddleneck Lane — down $151,000, from $2,300,000 to $2,149,000, listed by HomeSmart.
25 listings changed status: 8 sold, 7 active under contract, 5 pending, 4 coming soon. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
25 homes came to market, asking from $325,000 to $9,475,000.
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 Palm Desert street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 97 LookoutSurterre Properties Inc.Active Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 41628 Woodhaven Drive EEquity UnionComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 45314 Driftwood Drive SHomeSmartComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 47360 Jadida AvenueColdwell Banker RealtyComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 783 Montana Vista DriveEquity UnionActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 72631 Homestead RoadeXp Realty of California, Inc.Sold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 39784 Manzanita Drive 4Palm Desert Greens Real EstatePending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 43935 Via GranadaBerkshire Hathaway HomeServices California PropertiesPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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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