Santa Monica weekly desk note
Santa Monica saw 19 price cuts, 25 new listings and 25 status changes this week — up from 58 last week, as of October 4, 2026.
Santa MonicaCaliforniaWeek of September 28, 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 867 Berkeley Street — down $352,000, from $5,750,000 to $5,398,000, listed by Christie's International Real Estate SoCal.
25 listings changed status: 15 sold, 5 active under contract, 4 pending, 1 coming soon. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
25 homes came to market, asking from $795,000 to $13,998,000.
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
- 2429 26th StreetRodeo RealtyPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2648 23rd StreetLambert Investments, Inc.Active Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 650 Pacific Street 8Core Realty, Inc.Pending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2339 23rdCompassPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 943 14th Street 101Vista Sotheby’s International RealtyActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 201 Ocean Avenue 1910BRodeo RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1518 12th StreetLyon Stahl Investment Real Estate, Inc.Sold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 713 Bay StreetKeller Williams Beverly HillsSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 28, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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