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Malibu, house by house.

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This week

  • Price cuts18 in Malibu
  • New listings11 in Malibu
  • Status changes11 in Malibu

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Malibu this week

What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Malibu, read the way an inspector reads a house.

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Local news

Bryson Fire in Malibu 61% Contained at 146 Acres; Evacuation Orders Lifted

MyNewsLA - Malibu tag · Today

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As of October 19. Listing brokerage shown on each row. A named property carries photography only when it matches the exact feed record.

NeighbourhoodsLiving in Malibu →

Malibu ColonyOne of the first areas with private homes after May Rindge began leasing lots in the 1920s to Hollywood stars including Anna Q.Point DumeNamed in 1793 by British navigator George Vancouver for Father Francisco Dumetz (the spelling later drifted to 'Dume'); it stayed a sparsely developed equestrian area into the 1960s before ranch-style homes and, later, celebrity estates such as Johnny Carson's 1984 purchase built it into a gated bluff-top community.Broad BeachA historically wide sand beach that has suffered chronic erosion for decades; homeowners formed the Broad Beach Geologic Hazard Abatement District in 2011 to fund and permit ongoing revetment and sand-nourishment work to hold the shoreline.Serra RetreatSite of May Rindge's unfinished 50-room hilltop mansion above Malibu Lagoon, sold to the Franciscan Order in 1942 for $50,000 and converted into a Catholic retreat center; the original building burned in a 1970 wildfire and was rebuilt using surviving Malibu Potteries tile.Carbon BeachSubdivided by May Rindge in the late 1920s as one of Malibu's first residential tracts west of Carbon Canyon; nicknamed 'Billionaire's Beach,' its narrow strip of roughly 70 homes built directly on the sand became the focus of a 25-year public-beach-access fight that the California Coastal Commission resolved against owner David Geffen in 2007.Malibu ParkInland hillside neighborhood across Pacific Coast Highway from Zuma Beach, historically used for cattle grazing and horse property before subdivision into larger residential lots; it lost many homes in the 2018 Woolsey Fire and has been rebuilding since.

Who is buying in Malibu

How local buyers financed recent purchases, alongside the homes whose listing status changed this week.

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ConventionalAn appraiser and an inspector both price condition.
CashNo lender, so condition lands as a discount, not a repair list.
VAThe home has to pass, not just appraise.
FHAThe appraiser flags the same condition items.
OtherTerms decide it more than the loan type does.
TopangaCalabasasAgoura HillsWestlake VillageMalibu
Malibu and the markets next to it. Boundaries: US Census Bureau, TIGER/Line.

Closed sales that stated how the buyer paid, as of October 19, 2026. Addresses as of October 19; listing brokerage shown on each row.

Properties worth watching

The homes I’m following in Malibu. See the listing, then talk through what it means for your next move.

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Listing snapshots, as of October 19. Property photos are supplied with the listing; brokerage credited on each card.

Where prices moved in Malibu

Closed sales by ZIP, the last twelve months against the twelve before. It tells you which side of the city is moving, not what your house is worth.

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90265$3,000,000Median sale price$1189Median $/sq ft$3,320,000Median a year ago208Closed salesDown vs last year

Oct 2025–Oct 2026 against Oct 2024–Oct 2025, as of October 19, 2026.

Auctions & what's moving

No agency publishes one authoritative trustee-sale calendar, so we never print one — here is what actually exists, next to this week's real Malibu headlines.

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Auction calendar

  • Los Angeles County Treasurer and Tax Collector — Tax-Defaulted Property AuctionSold through GovEase. Dates and the parcel list come from the county — every source is listed on /auctions/.
  • Trustee salesPrivate aggregators carry the actual lender foreclosures; no central California calendar exists. We watch four of them and bid for you.
  • Came off the market unsoldListings leave without selling every month. Registered members see those addresses.
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What's moving in Malibu

  • Bryson Fire in Malibu 61% Contained at 146 Acres; Evacuation Orders LiftedMyNewsLA - Malibu tag · Today
  • Bryson Fire Update 10/17 6:45 PM- the fire is 61% contained. Evacuation warnings lifted.City of Malibu · Today
  • Bryson Fire in Malibu 52% Contained; Some Still EvacuatedMyNewsLA - Malibu tag · Yesterday
  • Bryson Fire in Malibu 52% Contained; 1 Firefighter InjuredMyNewsLA - Malibu tag · Yesterday
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