Many years ago, we purchased a home in Carlsbad, using a realtor that was recommended to us - Jim Klinge. Fast forward to 2025, we recently had the privilege of selling 2 homes in Carlsbad, CA and didn't hesitate to reach out to Jim and Donna Klinge of Klinge Realty Group to guide us through the sales. The transactions were very different, each with its own unique situation, opportunities and challenges. From start to finish, Donna and Jim helped navigate the pre-sale preparation, the listing, showing of the house, buyer negotiations, the final close and all of the paperwork and decisions in between. What stands out with both transactions is the professionalism of Jim and Donna (and their team), wonderful communication (timely, relevant, concise), their deep understanding of market dynamics (setting realistic expectations), their access to top-notch contractors, and last, their ability to guide us across the finish line successfully. We wouldn't hesitate to use Jim and Donna in the future and highly recommend them for anyone looking to buy or sell a property in North San Diego County.
As much as I hate to say this, I’m not seeing that prices are flat from last year in my admittedly small, satistically invalid sample of homes I’m looking at. I haven’t crunched any numbers, but I’d say prices are up something like 5% in general. It depends on the exact neighborhood, zip code, etc. I’m also only looking at houses around $700k. Possibly I’m being fooled by looking at the lowest of the low that sold a year ago. Like I said, I haven’t crunched numbers but it sure seems like there’s been a little price appreciation.
Now list prices, in some cases, are way up. Generally those prooperties are sitting, though a couple of properties have sold at prices that I don’t think would have worked a year ago.
I like this method, it is the human factor Case-Shiller repeat sales index.
Which for all SFRs sold in my OC town, has been CS=172+/-8 for the past 24 months.
ie no change