Biggest Santa Monica price cut this week: $500,000 on 249 23rd Street
The asking price on 249 23rd Street dropped from $5,995,000 to $5,495,000. This week in Santa Monica: 32 new listings, 24 price cuts, 9 closed sales and 6 homes going under contract. Data as of October 18, 2026.
Santa MonicaCaliforniaWeek of October 12, 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 249 23rd Street — down $500,000, from $5,995,000 to $5,495,000, listed by Compass.
16 listings changed status: 9 sold, 3 pending, 3 active under contract, 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 $649,000 to $7,999,999.
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
- 943 14th Street 101Vista Sotheby’s International RealtyPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 838 17th Street 103CompassSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 647 Navy StreeteXp Realty of California, IncSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2312 32nd StreetCompassSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2312 30th StreetRE/MAX OneSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1436 20th Street 15CompassSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1834 9th Street 5RedfinActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2429 26th StreetRodeo RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 October 12, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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