Costa Mesa weekly desk note
Costa Mesa saw 13 price cuts, 21 new listings and 25 status changes this week — down from 65 last week, as of September 27, 2026.
Costa MesaCaliforniaWeek of September 21, 2026
The week in Costa Mesa
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Costa Mesa, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Costa Mesa file →The largest reduction on the desk was 1578 San Bernardino (Eastside South (ESCM)) — down $100,001, from $3,500,000 to $3,399,999, listed by Robin Fenchel, Broker.
25 listings changed status: 12 pending, 7 sold, 5 active under contract, 1 back on market. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
21 homes came to market, asking from $99,000 to $3,475,000.
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 Costa Mesa street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 2563 ColumbiaeXp Realty of California, Inc.Active Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 520 CaleighReal BrokerSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1651 Iowa Street CBalboa RealtyPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 3045 CoolidgeSeven Gables Real EstateActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 193 Virginia PlaceArbor Real EstateSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 603 N San Michel Drive CSeven Gables Real EstateActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1644 Aliso AvenueCompassSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2209 Elden AvenueArbor Real EstatePending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 21, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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