Santa Monica weekly desk note
Santa Monica saw 16 price cuts, 25 new listings and 17 status changes this week — down from 64 last week, as of September 27, 2026.
Santa MonicaCaliforniaWeek of September 21, 2026
The week in Santa Monica
What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in Santa Monica, read the way an inspector reads a house.
The Santa Monica file →The largest reduction on the desk was 622 24th Street — down $545,000, from $10,495,000 to $9,950,000, listed by Christie's International Real Estate SoCal.
17 listings changed status: 11 sold, 4 active under contract, 2 coming soon. The brokerage on every row below is the listing brokerage on the record, not ours.
25 homes came to market, asking from $650,000 to $12,785,000.
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 Santa Monica street of the kind this week's rows sit on. Illustrative — not a photograph of any address listed below.
This week on the desk
- 852 15th Street 5Redfin CorporationSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2929 16th StreetChristie's International Real Estate SoCalSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 853 21st Street 104Element RE, IncSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2310 Oak StreetDel Rey Urban Brokerage IncSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2909 10th 4ehomesSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 923 17th St 4CompassSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 624 Alta AvenueThe CREM GroupComing Soon▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ VaultWatch
- 2404 Ocean Park BoulevardCreateSold▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ 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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