Lowest-priced home listed in Rancho Santa Margarita this week: $680,000 on 241 Pasto Rico
The lowest-priced home listed in Rancho Santa Margarita this week is 241 Pasto Rico at $680,000, 2 bedrooms. This week in Rancho Santa Margarita: 9 new listings, 13 price cuts, 7 closed sales and 14 homes going under contract. Data as of October 19, 2026.
Rancho Santa MargaritaCaliforniaWeek of October 19, 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 42 La Sordina — down $75,000, from $1,325,000 to $1,250,000, listed by Circa Properties, Inc..
23 listings changed status: 9 active under contract, 7 sold, 5 pending, 1 coming soon. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
9 homes came to market, asking from $680,000 to $3,295,000.
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
- 16 Calle LarspurRealty One Group WestSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 229 Pasto RicoRedfinActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2 Santa InezReal BrokerActive Under Contract▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 27 Las CrucesColdwell Banker RealtyPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 20752 RaintreeCENTURY 21 AffiliatedPending▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 140 Via ContentoStarFire Real Estate Corp.Sold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 33 LazuriteColdwell Banker RealtySold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 30 San BonifacioColdwell Banker RealtyActive 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 19, 2026. Listing brokerage shown on each row; the buyer's name stays behind the Vault.
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Desk noteRancho Santa Margarita: 14 homes went under contract this week, up from 6
14 homes in Rancho Santa Margarita went under contract this week, against 6 the week before. This week in Rancho Santa Margarita: 10 new listings, 14 price cuts, 7 closed sales and 14 homes going under contract. Data as of October 18, 2026.
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