We launched our Aviara listing with open houses on the weekend of September 17 & 18. Newer one-story homes built by Davidson might be the most popular homes around - if you can find one for sale. Remarkably, there were two other sales of this floor plan this...
I tell potential home buyers to keep looking because you never know when you will find the right house - which is the most important part of the equation. Most will convince themselves that it will be easier to find the right house if prices came down, and besides,...
The Padres won the game they needed to win last night! There are games on Friday and Saturday night at Petco Park, and you may be wondering if you should attend. The answer is YES, because we never know if we'll get another chance. It's almost like today's housing...
Here's the 7,509sf home on La Jolla Farms that just sold for $18,450,000 cash, which was a whopping 6% below the list price. The market time was 12 days. You can tell in this photo that the backyard was tired, but the rest of the one-story house looked fine. Even...
Sent to me by bulk email, and probably sent to all agents. The HOA fee is $913/month: Explore the ultimate in luxury living with Grand Jefferson’s spectacular penthouse residence, where you can enjoy all the amenities of a sprawling estate home with none of the...
Instead of using the median sales price as a gauge, let's look at the history of the median $/sf to help bring the size of the homes into the equation. Thoughts: I remember 2018 and 2019 being fairly flat and a bit of a struggle. Rates had been in the 3% to 4% range...
Every year, there are new and evolving home design fads that should “scare” you to death. Last year, there were moss-covered accent walls (gasp!), acrylic furniture (shriek!) and Tuscan-style kitchens (yelp!). This year, it’s the “cloffice”—a pandemic-era...
The number of NSDCC detached-home sales in September is up to 133 today, which is pretty good. There are only 138 pendings currently, but 34 sales have already closed in October so there is a decent chance that we'll have 100+ sales this month too! The...
The husband-and-wife national anthem - it's John's birthday today:
We are at the point where the inventory should continue its gradual descent and wind up around 235 active listings at the end of the year (if the percentage drop goes the same way it did last year). Though the Padres will be having an unusual impact on the local...
