Biggest Altadena price cut this week: $100,000 on 2223 Mar Vista Avenue
The asking price on 2223 Mar Vista Avenue dropped from $2,895,000 to $2,795,000. This week in Altadena: 9 new listings, 7 price cuts, 2 closed sales and 8 homes going under contract. Data as of October 18, 2026.
AltadenaCaliforniaWeek of October 12, 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 2223 Mar Vista Avenue — down $100,000, from $2,895,000 to $2,795,000, listed by Kobeissi Properties.
12 listings changed status: 5 pending, 3 active under contract, 2 sold, 2 back on market. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
9 homes came to market, asking from $585,000 to $2,388,000.
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
- 523 E Mount CurveEngel & Voelkers PasadenaSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 200 W Terrace StreetMAISONREActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 988 Wapello StreetCOMPASSSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 3483 Glenrose AvenueCOMPASSBack on market▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1933 Maiden LaneCOMPASSPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 181 E Palm Street EWarmington Residential CaliforniaBack on market▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2295 Norwic PlaceCOMPASSPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1318 Boston StreetCOMPASSPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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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Desk noteLowest-priced home listed in Altadena this week: $1,099,000 on 93 Reever Way
The lowest-priced home listed in Altadena this week is 93 Reever Way at $1,099,000, 3 bedrooms. This week in Altadena: 9 new listings, 7 price cuts, 3 closed sales and 8 homes going under contract. Data as of October 19, 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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