Lake Forest weekly desk note
Lake Forest saw 25 price cuts, 18 new listings and 25 status changes this week — up from 66 last week, as of October 4, 2026.
Lake ForestCaliforniaWeek of September 28, 2026
The week in Lake Forest
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Lake Forest, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Lake Forest file →The largest reduction on the desk was 5512 Heritage Oak Drive (Live Oak (LO)) — down $100,000, from $3,488,000 to $3,388,000, listed by Pinnacle Real Estate Group.
25 listings changed status: 13 sold, 6 active under contract, 4 pending, 2 back on market. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
18 homes came to market, asking from $174,900 to $3,300,000.
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 Lake Forest street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 21121 Calle De PaseoRegency Real Estate BrokersBack on market▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 25091 Shaver Lake CircleRedfinActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 25614 Mont Pointe 3DKeller Williams RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 24422 Via Del RioPro Realty GroupActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 24261 Ontario LaneeXp Realty of Southern California, IncSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 100 WalworthJC Pacific CorpSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 24142 Minnetonka LanePacific Sotheby's Int'l RealtyPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 11 Silver Spruce CourtHouse 2 Home RealtorsSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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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Desk noteLowest-priced home listed in Lake Forest this week: $250,000 on 24922 Muirlands Blvd #62
The lowest-priced home listed in Lake Forest this week is 24922 Muirlands Blvd #62 at $250,000, 3 bedrooms. This week in Lake Forest: 15 new listings, 22 price cuts, 7 closed sales and 7 homes going under contract. Data as of October 11, 2026.
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