Biggest Pasadena price cut this week: $100,000 on 3860 Valley Lights Drive
The asking price on 3860 Valley Lights Drive dropped from $1,799,000 to $1,699,000. This week in Pasadena: 38 new listings, 26 price cuts, 18 closed sales and 33 homes going under contract. Data as of October 18, 2026.
PasadenaCaliforniaWeek of October 12, 2026
The week in Pasadena
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Pasadena, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Pasadena file →The largest reduction on the desk was 3860 Valley Lights Drive — down $100,000, from $1,799,000 to $1,699,000, listed by Berkshire Hathaway HomeService.
25 listings changed status: 11 active under contract, 7 pending, 6 sold, 1 coming soon. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
25 homes came to market, asking from $440,000 to $9,998,000.
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 Pasadena street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 1088 S Marengo 8Latitude 33 Real EstatePending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 420 S Madison #109 AvenueColdwell Banker RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1247 E TopekaKailani RealtyPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2428 E Del Mar Unit 206Real Brokerage Technologies, IncComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 1986 GarfiasBerta BaghjajianSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 300 N CarmeloJohn Mussen, BrokerSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 432 S Oak Knoll Avenue 4Wetrust RealtyActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 328 W Green St. 201RE/MAX Premier PropertiesActive 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 October 12, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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