Montebello weekly desk note
Montebello saw 9 price cuts, 4 new listings and 9 status changes this week — down from 42 last week, as of October 4, 2026.
MontebelloCaliforniaWeek of September 28, 2026
The week in Montebello
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Montebello, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Montebello file →The largest reduction on the desk was 123 S 5th — down $124,999, from $699,999 to $575,000, listed by PureMotive Realty Inc..
9 listings changed status: 5 sold, 1 coming soon, 1 back on market, 1 active under contract. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
4 homes came to market, asking from $648,000 to $1,345,000.
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 Montebello street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 1545 Snowberry PlaceKeller Williams RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1663 FirvaleCOMPASSComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1741 Neil Armstrong Street 113Century 21 AllstarsBack on market▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 121 Beach StreetPowerClose RealtyActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 888 Poppy CourtSoCal Premier PropertiesSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1854 Rainbow TerraceExcellence RE Real EstateSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 809 MaloneRedfin CorporationPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 3101 Via San DelarroRE/MAX 2000 REALTYSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 Montebello this week: $448,000 on 1663 Firvale
The lowest-priced home listed in Montebello this week is 1663 Firvale at $448,000, 2 bedrooms. This week in Montebello: 9 new listings, 7 price cuts, 4 closed sales and 10 homes going under contract. Data as of October 11, 2026.
NeighbourhoodDowntown Montebello / Whittier Boulevard
The commercial spine paved by the Montebello–El Carmel Improvement Association between 1907 and 1912, whose early projects also planted street trees and established the city's first high school ahead of the 1920 incorporation.
NeighbourhoodEast Montebello
Built over the center of old Rancho La Merced, home to the 1844 Juan Matias Sanchez Adobe — the city's oldest standing structure — now preserved inside Sanchez Adobe Park.
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