El Cajon weekly desk note
El Cajon saw 25 price cuts, 25 new listings and 25 status changes this week — up from 70 last week, as of October 4, 2026.
El CajonCaliforniaWeek of September 28, 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 195 N 2nd Street — down $504,000, from $1,999,000 to $1,495,000, listed by Maher Commercial Realty.
25 listings changed status: 11 sold, 8 pending, 3 back on market, 2 coming soon. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
25 homes came to market, asking from $215,000 to $1,998,800.
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
- 225 North LaneSerhant California IncActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1120 Pepper Drive 73AARESold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1482 Horsemill RoadCompassSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 3051 Camino De Las PiedrasColdwell Banker WestPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 150 Chambers 2Palisade Realty IncPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1120 Pepper Dr SPC 141eXp Realty of California, Inc.Back on market▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 454 Goulburn CtBerkshire Hathaway HomeServicePending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2214 Nielsen StColdwell Banker RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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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