Highest-priced home listed in Brea this week: $1,330,000 on 1300 Rutledge
The highest-priced home listed in Brea this week is 1300 Rutledge at $1,330,000. This week in Brea: 9 new listings, 6 price cuts, 11 closed sales and 7 homes going under contract. Data as of October 11, 2026.
BreaCaliforniaWeek of October 5, 2026
The week in Brea
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Brea, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Brea file →The largest reduction on the desk was 1051 Site 190 — down $70,100, from $370,000 to $299,900, listed by Drive Real Estate, Inc..
20 listings changed status: 11 sold, 4 pending, 3 active under contract, 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 $389,900 to $1,330,000.
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 Brea street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 1321 N Puente StreetRE/MAX 2000 REALTYSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 330 Magnolia AvenueColdwell Banker RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 812 De Jur StreetColdwell Banker DiamondBack on market▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 766 Cactus CourtRedpoint RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 229 Buena VidaRealty ONE Group WestSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 395 Pineridge StCentury 21 MastersPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1414 W Central Avenue 89Realty One Group UnitedActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 545 Cycod PlaceColdwell Banker DiamondSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 5, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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Desk noteBiggest Brea price cut this week: $26,000 on 399 Olinda Drive
The asking price on 399 Olinda Drive dropped from $325,000 to $299,000. This week in Brea: 5 new listings, 6 price cuts, 4 closed sales and 6 homes going under contract. Data as of October 18, 2026.
NeighbourhoodDowntown Brea (Birch Street)
The city acquired roughly 60 acres of its old, blighted city center and rebuilt around Birch Street, a pedestrian-first corridor with about 350,000 square feet of commercial space that won the California Redevelopment Association's 2001 Award of Excellence.
NeighbourhoodOlinda (Historic Townsite)
The original oil-boom village founded in the 1890s was folded into the new city of Brea at incorporation in February 1917; the site is now California Historical Landmark No. 918, registered January 1, 1978.
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