Alhambra weekly desk note
Alhambra saw 16 price cuts, 16 new listings and 23 status changes this week — up from 29 last week, as of October 4, 2026.
AlhambraCaliforniaWeek of September 28, 2026
The week in Alhambra
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Alhambra, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Alhambra file →The largest reduction on the desk was 320 S Cordova — down $196,000, from $1,195,000 to $999,000, listed by James Birmingham, Broker.
23 listings changed status: 9 active under contract, 8 sold, 4 pending, 2 back on market. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
16 homes came to market, asking from $459,000 to $2,680,000.
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 Alhambra street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 223 E ValleyEXP REALTYActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1825 S Sierra Vista AvenueK.W. EXECUTIVEPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1604 S. Monterey St.BALSWICK REALTYActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 517 S Almansor 81Re/Max Champions/WCActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 3104 Norwich AvenueCarolwood EstatesSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1417 CameliaMeridox Real EstateSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 68 E Bay State Street 3GRe/Max Elite RealtyBack on market▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 104 106 E Linda Vista AvenueWetrust 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 September 28, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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Desk noteLowest-priced home listed in Alhambra this week: $475,000 on 210 E Woodward
The lowest-priced home listed in Alhambra this week is 210 E Woodward at $475,000, 1 bedrooms. This week in Alhambra: 8 new listings, 9 price cuts, 3 closed sales and 8 homes going under contract. Data as of October 11, 2026.
NeighbourhoodAlhambra Tract
Alhambra's first tract, in the northeast of the city, was platted by founding developer Benjamin Wilson; the Victorian Italianate home of his daughter and son-in-law, James de Barth and Maria Shorb, still stands here.
NeighbourhoodRamona Park Tract
Established in the early 1900s in southern Alhambra, this tract's Arts and Crafts homes were designed by architects John and Daniel Althouse, contemporaries and colleagues of the Greene and Greene brothers.
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