Rancho Santa Margarita weekly desk note
Rancho Santa Margarita saw 15 price cuts, 9 new listings and 25 status changes this week — up from 48 last week, as of September 20, 2026.
Rancho Santa MargaritaCaliforniaWeek of September 14, 2026
The week in Rancho Santa Margarita
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Rancho Santa Margarita, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Rancho Santa Margarita file →The largest reduction on the desk was 22 Lazurite — down $51,000, from $1,250,000 to $1,199,000, listed by Shorecrest Real Estate, Inc.
25 listings changed status: 11 sold, 7 pending, 5 active under contract, 2 coming soon. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
9 homes came to market, asking from $430,000 to $1,624,900.
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 Rancho Santa Margarita street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 22 LazuriteShorecrest Real Estate, IncPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 23 SocorroEHM Real Estate, Inc.Sold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 25 Paseo EstrellasCoast to Canyon Real EstatePending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 28741 Via CoronaRegency Real Estate BrokersActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 7 SilktasselMidas Realty GroupSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 28515 KlondikeJason Mitchell R. E. CalifPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 33 LazuriteColdwell Banker RealtyActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 18 Via PelayoIML Real EstateSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 14, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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Rancho Santa Margarita saw 14 price cuts, 10 new listings and 25 status changes this week — about the same as last week, as of September 22, 2026.
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Rancho Santa Margarita saw 20 price cuts, 11 new listings and 17 status changes this week, as of September 11, 2026.
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One of RSM's original 1980s-90s SAMLARC villages near the town center and elementary schools.
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