Rancho Santa Margarita weekly desk note
Rancho Santa Margarita saw 14 price cuts, 11 new listings and 25 status changes this week — up from 49 last week, as of September 27, 2026.
Rancho Santa MargaritaCaliforniaWeek of September 21, 2026
The week in Rancho Santa Margarita
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Rancho Santa Margarita, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Rancho Santa Margarita file →The largest reduction on the desk was 5 Sagewood (California Ridge (CALR)) — down $100,000, from $1,299,999 to $1,199,999, listed by BHHS Ranch & Coast Real Estate.
25 listings changed status: 11 sold, 7 active under contract, 5 pending, 2 coming soon. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
11 homes came to market, asking from $419,999 to $2,050,000.
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 Rancho Santa Margarita street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 14 Via EntradaRE/MAX CHAMPIONSActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 21241 HillgateRE/MAX ConnectionsComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 149 EncantadoThe DeBlis Group, IncActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 140 Via ContentoStarFire Real Estate Corp.Active Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 58 Mira MesaFord Realty GroupComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 18 Las PiedrasKeller Williams OC Luxury RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 18 MarinoRe/Max Real Estate GroupPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 4 ReataRe/Max Real Estate GroupSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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 21, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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