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This week

  • Price cuts7 in Altadena
  • New listings9 in Altadena
  • Status changes13 in Altadena

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Altadena this week

What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Altadena, read the way an inspector reads a house.

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Pushing Back: Altadena residents stand against SB 9, SB 1123 housing laws

Pasadena Weekly · Sep 12

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As of October 19. Listing brokerage shown on each row. A named property carries photography only when it matches the exact feed record.

NeighbourhoodsLiving in Altadena →

Christmas Tree LaneA 0.7-mile stretch of Santa Rosa Avenue lined with towering deodar cedars planted in 1885; the trees have been strung with lights as a public holiday display every year since 1920, making it one of the longest-running Christmas light displays in the country.Millionaire's Row (Mariposa Street)In 1887 printing magnate Andrew McNally and businessman George Gill Green built mansions on Mariposa Street near Santa Rosa Avenue, kicking off a run of Eastern-money estates; novelist Zane Grey bought a home nearby in the same district in the early 1900s.Altadena Meadows (The Meadows)Occupying Altadena's central flatlands, this tract of wide streets and ranch-style homes built mostly in the 1940s-1960s was exempt from the redlining that barred Black homebuyers elsewhere in the region, making it one of the first middle-class African American neighborhoods in the San Gabriel Valley.Janes VillageRoughly 160 homes built between 1924 and 1926 by developer Elisha Paul Janes, known for steep roofs and multiple gables despite Janes's own lack of building credentials; the tract's distinctive character earned it designation as a Los Angeles County heritage area in 2002.La VinaOriginally an 1878 hillside ranch and vineyard above Millard Canyon, the site became La Vina Sanatorium in 1911, a nonprofit tuberculosis hospital that burned in a 1935 wildfire before being rebuilt; the land was redeveloped starting in 1993 into today's gated community of roughly 272 homes.Farnsworth ParkCompleted in 1934, this hillside park anchors the surrounding residential pocket, where homes were built across nearly every decade of the early 20th century in styles ranging from Craftsman to Spanish Revival to Mid-Century Modern.

Who is buying in Altadena

How local buyers financed recent purchases, alongside the homes whose listing status changed this week.

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ConventionalAn appraiser and an inspector both price condition.
CashNo lender, so condition lands as a discount, not a repair list.
VAThe home has to pass, not just appraise.
FHAThe appraiser flags the same condition items.
OtherTerms decide it more than the loan type does.
PasadenaLa Cañada FlintridgeSouth PasadenaSierra MadreAltadena
Altadena and the markets next to it. Boundaries: US Census Bureau, TIGER/Line.

Closed sales that stated how the buyer paid, as of October 19, 2026. Addresses as of October 19; listing brokerage shown on each row.

Properties worth watching

The homes I’m following in Altadena. See the listing, then talk through what it means for your next move.

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Listing snapshots, as of October 19. Property photos are supplied with the listing; brokerage credited on each card.

Where prices moved in Altadena

Closed sales by ZIP, the last twelve months against the twelve before. It tells you which side of the city is moving, not what your house is worth.

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91001$1,405,500Median sale price$751Median $/sq ft$1,200,000Median a year ago202Closed salesUp vs last year

Oct 2025–Oct 2026 against Oct 2024–Oct 2025, as of October 19, 2026.

Auctions & what's moving

No agency publishes one authoritative trustee-sale calendar, so we never print one — here is what actually exists, next to this week's real Altadena headlines.

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Auction calendar

  • Los Angeles County Treasurer and Tax Collector — Tax-Defaulted Property AuctionSold through GovEase. Dates and the parcel list come from the county — every source is listed on /auctions/.
  • Trustee salesPrivate aggregators carry the actual lender foreclosures; no central California calendar exists. We watch four of them and bid for you.
  • Came off the market unsoldListings leave without selling every month. Registered members see those addresses.
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What's moving in Altadena

  • Pushing Back: Altadena residents stand against SB 9, SB 1123 housing lawsPasadena Weekly · Sep 12
  • Altadena to Celebrate $15 Million CARE Fund Investment for Eaton Fire RecoveryColorado Boulevard - Altadena search · Yesterday
  • Altadena Library’s Carnegie Science Family Star PartyColorado Boulevard - Altadena search · 2 days ago
  • What It Takes To Come Home. Altadena’s Complicated Road To Recovery.Forbes · 4 days ago
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