We have known Jim & Donna Klinge for over a dozen years, having met them in Carlsbad where our children went to the same school. As long time North County residents, it was a no- brainer for us to have the Klinges be our eyes and ears for San Diego real estate in general and North County in particular. As my military career caused our family to move all over the country and overseas to Asia, Europe and the Pacific, we trusted Jim and Donna to help keep our house in Carlsbad rented with reliable and respectful tenants for over 10 years.
Naturally, when the time came to sell our beloved Carlsbad home to pursue a rural lifestyle in retirement out of California, we could think of no better team to represent us than Jim and Donna. They immediately went to work to update our house built in 2004 to current-day standards and trends — in 2 short months they transformed it into a literal modern-day masterpiece. We trusted their judgement implicitly and followed 100% of their recommended changes. When our house finally came on the market, there was a blizzard of serious interest, we had multiple offers by the third day and it sold in just 5 days after a frenzied bidding war for 20% above our asking price! The investment we made in upgrades recommended by Jim and Donna yielded a 4-fold return, in the process setting a new high water mark for a house sold in our community.
In our view, there are no better real estate professionals in all of San Diego than Jim and Donna Klinge. Buying or selling, you must run and beg Jim and Donna Klinge to represent you! Our family will never forget Jim, Donna, and their whole team at Compass — we are forever grateful to them.
I think big money investors are starting to shift investments into real tangible assets. I think they are a bit worried about owning debts that may not get paid (I’d rather own a trophy Del Mar property than US government debt). High end real estate fits the bill, so do high end collectibles. As long as the big money is looking to store wealth in real assets, high end real estate will do well.
Agreed, plus foreign or domestic buyers from more-expensive towns (SF, LA, NY, etc.) think we are giving away our real estate in San Diego.
It didn’t hurt that the Rose Bowl announcers mentioned the temperature several times at the Rose Bowl yesterday (80+).
“Agreed, plus foreign or domestic buyers from more-expensive towns (SF, LA, NY, etc.) think we are giving away our real estate in San Diego.”
It’s funny you should say that because my friend is trying to sell his “high-end” home in San Elijo. His work colleagues in the SF Bay Area routinely laugh at his plight because they can’t understand why he hasn’t been able to sell a newer house that is listed for under a million.
Its not that the US government will not honour its debt, Its that it WILL honour them with large amounts of dollars it printed extra itself………How easy would it be to pay YOUR debts if you could use hand drawn $100 bills you drew yourself? So yes building costs go up over the long term and so does property strangely enough.
“It’s funny you should say that because my friend is trying to sell his “high-end” home in San Elijo. His work colleagues in the SF Bay Area routinely laugh at his plight because they can’t understand why he hasn’t been able to sell a newer house that is listed for under a million.”
My comment about high end was more directed at $2+ million custom homes in great locations. The real trophy properties. It wasn’t directed at 4000SF track homes. Those homes are still being bought by owner-users with financing (Doctors, Lawyers, Management, etc.). People with high income and some significant wealth but not people with millions in liquid wealth.
Link please.
My comment is subjective but based roughly on this post by you https://www.bubbleinfo.com/2011/12/27/cash-homebuyers-increased/
The category of 500K to 1 million still shows mostly financed properties. Maybe you’ve seen evidence of all cash buyers coming in and buying CV track homes or other similar homes as investments, if so then I’m clearly wrong.
No numbers for Coronado? I would expect those numbers to be higher than Del Mar.
Coronado, 92118 Detached Sales, Avg $/sf:
2010: 137, $714/sf
2011: 150, $671/sf
Thanks Jim !
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9.Coronado, 92118 Detached Sales, Avg $/sf:
2010: 137, $714/sf
2011: 150, $671/sf
@livinincali
I was trying to be snarky. Hence the quotation marks around high-end San Elijo home. Regardless, I was merely agreeing with Jim’s remarks about how home values are perceived by those in SF when looking at SD home prices. According to my unscientific, anectodal evidence our friends that live in the SF Bay Area really do in fact think we are giving our homes away.
@livinincali
but, yes….I understand what you mean now.