El Cajon weekly desk note
El Cajon saw 25 price cuts, 24 new listings and 25 status changes this week, as of September 11, 2026.
El CajonCaliforniaWeek of September 7, 2026
The week in El Cajon
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in El Cajon, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The El Cajon file →The largest reduction on the desk was 14215 Pecan Park Ln. 1 — down $70,000, from $520,000 to $450,000, listed by Mission Realty Group.
25 listings changed status: 12 pending, 9 sold, 4 back on market. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
24 homes came to market, asking from $135,000 to $3,700,000.
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 El Cajon street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 1163 Marline AvenueReal BrokerPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1460 E LexingtonLPT Realty, IncPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1825 Donahue Dr.The Legacy Real Estate Co.Sold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 800 N Mollison Avenue 51The Avenue Home CollectivePending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 196 W Park Ave 1Coldwell Banker WestPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 12020 Calle De Medio 178CompassSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1045 Peach Avenue 28Allison James Estates & HomesPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 950 SpinelRedfin CorporationBack on market▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 7, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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