Altadena weekly desk note
Altadena saw 9 price cuts, 6 new listings and 15 status changes this week — up from 27 last week, as of October 4, 2026.
AltadenaCaliforniaWeek of September 28, 2026
The week in Altadena
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Altadena, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Altadena file →The largest reduction on the desk was 1688 E Mendocino — down $200,000, from $2,499,990 to $2,299,990, listed by eXp Realty of Greater Los Angeles, Inc..
15 listings changed status: 6 sold, 5 active under contract, 4 pending. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
6 homes came to market, asking from $650,000 to $2,100,000.
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 Altadena street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 249 HighlawnJohnHart Corp.Sold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1390 E Palm StreeteXp Realty of Greater Los AngelesActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1831 E Calaveras StreetCOMPASSPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 3223 N Mount Curve Avenue NColdwell Banker RealtyPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 813 Mountain ViewOwn Real Estate Inc.Active Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 3383 Glenrose AvenueHILL TOP REAL ESTATEActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2713 Marengo AvenueBerkshire Hathaway HomeServices California PropertiesSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1501 New York DriveChristie's International Real Estate SoCalSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 Altadena this week: $2,848,000 on 2098 Roosevelt
The highest-priced home listed in Altadena this week is 2098 Roosevelt at $2,848,000. This week in Altadena: 10 new listings, 6 price cuts, 5 closed sales and 6 homes going under contract. Data as of October 11, 2026.
NeighbourhoodChristmas Tree Lane
A 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.
NeighbourhoodMillionaire'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.
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