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If you can live with a smaller house and desire a premium setting in Carmel Valley, check this:

I investigate every house thoroughly, and every once in while there’s a head-scratcher.  Here’s a puzzling stucco stain that we didn’t solve completely, but compiled enough evidence that my buyers went ahead and closed escrow anyway. You may not get all the answers when homebuying!

Here is the house:

http://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Marcos/1241-White-Sands-Dr-92078/home/6311087

Converting from foreclosures to short sales is enabling the banks and servicers to draw out the recovery process.  In the meantime, the free-rent program will help to stimulate the economy?

This video is really just a sidebar to ProfHoff’s four-year journey to find the right home at a decent price.  More on her story later. The other Water’s End listing mentioned had lowered their price to $875,900, but cancelled a week later:

With the large tracts of land mostly built out, and the smaller in-fill projects being the only feasible options closer to town, this looks like the future of San Diego homebuilding – catering to wealthy (and typically older) folks with features like smaller yards and first-floor master suites:

Are the Crosby/Santaluz fees bugging you, and you want a more-reasonable one-story house?

Here’s the other end of what buyers are experiencing these days.

A flipper in La Costa Valley (who just paid $575,100 at the trustee sale) thinks you won’t mind this:

The Plan Three in Arista, a neighborhood of 43 homes being built in the gated golf course community of The Crosby.  All three models have the option of having the master suite on the ground floor, as well as additional flexibility – the Plan Three can be 5 br/5 ba plus bonus room: