Santa Monica weekly desk note
Santa Monica saw 16 price cuts, 25 new listings and 20 status changes this week, as of September 11, 2026.
Santa MonicaCaliforniaWeek of September 7, 2026
The week in Santa Monica
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Santa Monica, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Santa Monica file →The largest reduction on the desk was 402 11th Street — down $500,000, from $7,995,000 to $7,495,000, listed by Coldwell Banker Realty.
20 listings changed status: 7 sold, 6 active under contract, 4 pending, 3 coming soon. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
25 homes came to market, asking from $495,000 to $9,995,000.
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 Santa Monica street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 818 18th Street BRe/Max Premier PropertiesPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1217 Yale Street 103Coldwell Banker RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2021 California Avenue 20CompassSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1243 12th StreetMarcus & MillichapPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1021 5th Street 206CompassComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 238 BicknellEquity UnionActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 537 15th StreetThomas James Real Estate Services, IncComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 540 Lincoln BoulevardThomas James Real Estate Services, IncComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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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Santa Monica saw 14 price cuts, 25 new listings and 25 status changes this week — up from 61 last week, as of September 20, 2026.
NeighbourhoodOcean Park
Developed starting in May 1895 by Abbot Kinney and Francis Ryan along the coastal strip south of the pier, giving the neighborhood its enduring beachy, artsy character similar to neighboring Venice.
NeighbourhoodSunset Park
Took shape during a 1920s-1940s building boom tied to workers at the nearby Douglas Aircraft plant, leaving a stock of small one-story homes on quiet, walkable residential streets.
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