Malibu weekly desk note
Malibu saw 17 price cuts, 15 new listings and 11 status changes this week — up from 42 last week, as of October 4, 2026.
MalibuCaliforniaWeek of September 28, 2026
The week in Malibu
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Malibu, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Malibu file →The largest reduction on the desk was 23351 Malibu Colony Road 108a — down $2,500,000, from $9,495,000 to $6,995,000, listed by Compass.
11 listings changed status: 7 sold, 2 pending, 2 active under contract. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
15 homes came to market, asking from $275,000 to $23,000,000.
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 Malibu street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 24928 Malibu RoadColdwell Banker RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 5660 Busch DriveVista Sotheby’s International RealtyPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 6208 Tapia Drive APinnacle Estate PropertiesSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 26939 Sea Vista DriveSotheby's International RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 11861 Ellice Street DThe ONE Luxury PropertiesActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 6277 Sea Star DriveCompassSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 29260 Sea Lion PlaceColdwell Banker RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 3140 Sumac Ridge RoadCompassSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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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