Palm Desert weekly desk note
Palm Desert saw 25 price cuts, 25 new listings and 25 status changes this week — about the same as last week, as of October 4, 2026.
Palm DesertCaliforniaWeek of September 28, 2026
The week in Palm Desert
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Palm Desert, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Palm Desert file →The largest reduction on the desk was 48674 Vista Viejo Drive — down $100,000, from $1,595,000 to $1,495,000, listed by Desert Sotheby's International Realty.
25 listings changed status: 9 sold, 7 active under contract, 5 pending, 4 coming soon. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
25 homes came to market, asking from $146,900 to $2,100,000.
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 Palm Desert street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 47053 Marrakesh DriveDesert Sotheby's International RealtyComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 77696 Woodhaven Drive NEquity UnionComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 78721 Hampshire AvenueEpique RealtyActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 371 Gran ViaWindermere Real EstatePending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 171 Bouquet Canyon DriveDesert Sands RealtyPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 39580 Regency WayColdwell Banker RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 14 Ponderosa CircleCarter & CompanySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 43376 CookSync Brokerage, IncActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 noteBiggest Palm Desert price cut this week: $54,000 on 47260 Rose Sage Court
The asking price on 47260 Rose Sage Court dropped from $1,149,000 to $1,095,000. This week in Palm Desert: 72 new listings, 43 price cuts, 19 closed sales and 30 homes going under contract. Data as of October 11, 2026.
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