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This week

  • Price cuts3 in South Pasadena
  • New listings3 in South Pasadena
  • Status changes5 in South Pasadena

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South Pasadena this week

What moved, what dropped and what changed hands in South Pasadena, read the way an inspector reads a house.

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Strong Winds, High Fire Risk Expected in Los Angeles

South Pasadenan · 2 days ago

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As of October 19. Listing brokerage shown on each row. A named property carries photography only when it matches the exact feed record.

NeighbourhoodsLiving in South Pasadena →

OaklawnSouth Pasadena's grandest subdivision, laid out starting in 1904 with entrance gate portals, a fence, and the arched Oaklawn Bridge and waiting station — built from Arroyo Seco stone — all designed by architects Charles and Henry Greene, the only bridge the Greene brothers ever built.South Pasadena Historic District (Downtown / Mission Street)Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, the district runs roughly between Mission and El Centro streets and Fairview and Meridian avenues, with Early Commercial and Revival-style buildings spanning three distinct construction periods from 1875 to 1949.Mission West / Route 66 corridorThis stretch of Mission Street carried the original alignment of U.S.Via del Rey / Monterey HillsA hillside tract along Via del Rey, home to Monterey Hills Elementary School, where the city built a two-foot wall across the road in the mid-1970s to control traffic and noise from neighboring El Sereno; the barrier, long seen by some neighbors as exclusionary, was finally removed in July 2024.Arroyo Seco / Flores Adobe areaThe Flores Adobe, built in 1836 and listed on the National Register, sits near the former site of Las Flores Elementary School along the Arroyo Seco, which still holds a few unchannelized stretches with small populations of duck, fish, and frogs just south of Devil's Gate Dam.Fair Oaks Avenue / Arroyo Seco Parkway gatewayThe Arroyo Seco Parkway, California's first freeway and formerly the Pasadena Freeway, has two South Pasadena exits at Fair Oaks Avenue and Orange Grove Avenue — the same Fair Oaks Avenue that carries the Metro A Line's South Pasadena station at Mission Street, in the heart of downtown.

Who is buying in South Pasadena

How local buyers financed recent purchases, alongside the homes whose listing status changed this week.

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ConventionalAn appraiser and an inspector both price condition.
CashNo lender, so condition lands as a discount, not a repair list.
VAThe home has to pass, not just appraise.
FHAThe appraiser flags the same condition items.
OtherTerms decide it more than the loan type does.
Los AngelesPasadenaAlhambraSouth Pasadena
South Pasadena and the markets next to it. Boundaries: US Census Bureau, TIGER/Line.

Closed sales that stated how the buyer paid, as of October 19, 2026. Addresses as of October 19; listing brokerage shown on each row.

Properties worth watching

The homes I’m following in South Pasadena. See the listing, then talk through what it means for your next move.

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Listing snapshots, as of October 19. Property photos are supplied with the listing; brokerage credited on each card.

Where prices moved in South Pasadena

Closed sales by ZIP, the last twelve months against the twelve before. It tells you which side of the city is moving, not what your house is worth.

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91030$1,750,000Median sale price$938Median $/sq ft$1,775,000Median a year ago133Closed salesFlat vs last year

Oct 2025–Oct 2026 against Oct 2024–Oct 2025, as of October 19, 2026.

Auctions & what's moving

No agency publishes one authoritative trustee-sale calendar, so we never print one — here is what actually exists, next to this week's real South Pasadena headlines.

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Auction calendar

  • Los Angeles County Treasurer and Tax Collector — Tax-Defaulted Property AuctionSold through GovEase. Dates and the parcel list come from the county — every source is listed on /auctions/.
  • Trustee salesPrivate aggregators carry the actual lender foreclosures; no central California calendar exists. We watch four of them and bid for you.
  • Came off the market unsoldListings leave without selling every month. Registered members see those addresses.
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What's moving in South Pasadena

  • Strong Winds, High Fire Risk Expected in Los AngelesSouth Pasadenan · 2 days ago
  • South Pasadena Nature Park Volunteer DayColoradoBoulevard.net · 3 days ago
  • Talk & Tasting with Culinary Historian George GearySouth Pasadenan · Oct 9
  • SPUSD to Participate in Great California ShakeOut on Oct. 15South Pasadenan · Oct 9
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