La Mesa weekly desk note
La Mesa saw 18 price cuts, 23 new listings and 25 status changes this week — up from 57 last week, as of October 4, 2026.
La MesaCaliforniaWeek of September 28, 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 4235 Casa De Machado — down $100,001, from $1,300,000 to $1,199,999, listed by Keller Williams La Jolla.
25 listings changed status: 13 sold, 8 pending, 3 back on market, 1 active under contract. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
23 homes came to market, asking from $325,000 to $1,850,000.
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
- 9249 Manor DriveTXR HomesPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 10447 Chevy LaneColdwell Banker RealtyPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 5789 TexCapital Management Realty Inc.Active Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 9515 Bonnie Lynn WayColdwell Banker WestPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 5700 Baltimore Drive 25Coldwell Banker RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 8150 Lemon Avenue 222ROA California IncSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 7351 Purdue AveKeller Williams Realty La MesaSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 9460 Haley LaneLPT Realty, IncBack 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 28, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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