Month: March 2010
High Schools Leveling?
We've been talking about how the quality of schools are critical to the homebuying equation. Here are the local public high schools, sorted by their totals of four scores from www.greatschools.net: School Name GS Rating '08 API '09 API Parents Rating (# out of 5)...
Leucadia Price Check
Hymettus is one of the more prominent streets in Leucadia, but there haven't been any sales there since summer. So two older sales on Hymettus are included, the first closed in July, 2009, and the second was January, 2009: I hesitated with the first story, but it...
More CV Peak vs. Now
A few more recent sales around Carmel Valley, and how they compared to model-match sales at peak:
State Tax on Short Sales
From the U-T: San Diegans who have lost their homes through foreclosure or short-sales thought they had emerged from the dark times and could start rebuilding their lives. Then the state tax man came calling. With less than six weeks before taxes are due, an estimated...
SD Biomed
Hat tip to Steve for sending this biomed/VC article along: How has San Diego’s biomedical industry, arguably the region’s key economic sector, been weathering the downturn, and what’s its outlook for the future? According to a recent report by PricewaterhouseCoopers...
Derby Hill Wrap
Here's a tour of Derby Hill, the Pardee tract of big bombers south of the 56 freeway. In the MLS remarks of the only model listed, it said that the furniture did not convey. The house across the street (towards the end of video) that's mentioned as pending, listed for...
Carmel Valley Peak vs. 2010
What is the difference between peak pricing and today? Many considered that 2006 was the peak of the market in 92130, here is a youtube tour of a few recent sales, and how they compared to previous comps: Hat tip to Rob who sent this in: SAN DIEGO — The safest place...
More Taxpayer Blues ($7.8M)
A fraud follow-up by Kelly at the Voice of San Diego: All of the 81 condos from the Sommerset Villas, Sommerset Woods and Westlake Ranch complexes involved in the scam have been repossessed. Twenty-four have yet to find new buyers. But the other 57 have resold for...
Commercial Report
From an article in the sddt: The commercial mortgage-backed securities market is making a comeback, and capital appears to be slowly returning, but construction financing may be elusive for a very long time. These were a few of the conclusions reached by Mark Gibson,...
