La Mesa weekly desk note
La Mesa saw 10 price cuts, 22 new listings and 25 status changes this week — down from 59 last week, as of September 27, 2026.
La MesaCaliforniaWeek of September 21, 2026
The week in La Mesa
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in La Mesa, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The La Mesa file →The largest reduction on the desk was 4554 Date Avenue — down $500,000, from $2,500,000 to $2,000,000, listed by William Scheibner, Broker.
25 listings changed status: 13 pending, 9 sold, 3 back on market. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
22 homes came to market, asking from $400,000 to $1,785,000.
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 La 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
- 10549 QueenAllison James Estates & HomesSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 8434 Kappa StreetUnited Real Estate San DiegoPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 4132 Palm Tree CourtJerome SmithPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 5720 Amarillo AvenueRedfinPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 3866 Murray Hill RdTranquility Real Estate ServicesSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 3892 Bass StBerkshire Hathaway HomeServicePending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 5911 Lake Murray BoulevardReal BrokerPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 9807 Ogram DriveBest Homes TeamPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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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