Whittier weekly desk note
Whittier saw 22 price cuts, 19 new listings and 25 status changes this week — about the same as last week, as of October 4, 2026.
WhittierCaliforniaWeek of September 28, 2026
The week in Whittier
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Whittier, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Whittier file →The largest reduction on the desk was 10503 Oberon Street — down $8,909,100, from $9,899,000 to $989,900, listed by PEN FINANCIAL.
25 listings changed status: 9 sold, 8 pending, 6 active under contract, 2 coming soon. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
19 homes came to market, asking from $410,000 to $5,600,000.
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 Whittier street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 5618 AdeleCentury 21 CornerstoneComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 12522 BroadwayRE/MAX TOP PRODUCERSSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 11100 Carmenita RoadeXp Realty of Greater Los AngelesActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 12433 Laurel AvenueCentury 21 Realty MastersPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 5523 MavisJ.R.A. & Associates RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 13820 Hawes StreetRe/Max Top ProducersActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 7252 LynalaneXp Realty of Greater Los AngelesPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 6229 Canobie AvenueLPT Realty, IncActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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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Desk noteHighest-priced home listed in Whittier this week: $1,269,900 on 11739 Rancho Verde Drive
The highest-priced home listed in Whittier this week is 11739 Rancho Verde Drive at $1,269,900. This week in Whittier: 22 new listings, 22 price cuts, 21 closed sales and 28 homes going under contract. Data as of October 11, 2026.
NeighbourhoodUptown Whittier
The area around Philadelphia Street and Greenleaf Avenue forms the city's traditional central business core, lined with early-1900s commercial buildings including the Hoover Hotel and the former Southern Pacific Railroad depot.
NeighbourhoodCentral Park Historic District
Just north of Uptown, this designated historic district is heavy with Craftsman and Spanish Colonial Revival homes and forms most of the Whittier Historic Neighborhood Association area.
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