From the wsj.com: Six years after the U.S. housing market tumbled into the abyss, demand for brand-new homes is picking up. Sales are on the rise, and prices in many areas are inching higher. The bad news for buyers: The new market environment means less discounting,...
Buyers at this new-home tract in Carlsbad are spending more to secure the premium view lots first, instead of spending less for the inferior locations. But with the views come the power lines:
A reader mentioned the new Pardee tract in Pacific Highlands Ranch near the existing Brightwater and Hampton Lane tracts, which have been selling briskly (at least in the smaller-sized phases they are dripping out). Here is a brief video tour of PHR:
They haven't released many details yet, so we're just guessing about strategy and pricing. It seems that they might be selling some custom-home sites too: Red line is approximate location of power lines. Click on image for close-up:
Thanks to the reader HomeBuyer for the alert: Pardee has changed their website, and is promoting the old Shaw Lorenz tract in Carmel Valley's Del Mar Mesa area as "Alta Del Mar". They are calling it, "The last, and unquestionably, most desirable address in coastal San...
Here's a look at the construction of Tom Tarrant's raised foundation for his South Park Spec House in San Diego - coming November 2012. "We dug the footings with a mini excavator, built the forms with wood, tied in over 4000 feet of rebar and then pumped in 50 yards...
Thanks to SD_Coastal for tippng me to this beauty, a bank-owned unit in the Seahaus condominium in La Jolla's Bird Rock. Barratt American was the developer who has since gone bankrupt, making homeowners pursue other entities to fix the construction defects. Kelly...
From utsandiego.com: Nat Bosa, the Vancouver developer responsible for many of San Diego's downtown condo towers, says his next project will top all those. He's planning a 41-story, 232-unit tower at the southeast corner of Broadway and Pacific Highway. Estimated to...
From the sddt.com. (My in-laws live in Walnut!) WALNUT, Calif. -- Toll Brothers Inc., the largest U.S. luxury homebuilder, is buying half of a Southern California subdivision approved for as many as 2,379 houses as demand for new single-family properties begins to...
From the SDT: Boosted by a major increase in apartment construction, statewide housing starts continued on an upward path during February and March, according to the California Building Industry Association. The statistics are the last building permit data to be...
