From http://www.blueskyhomes.net/ Pricing for turnkey, site-engineered, custom, high-performance Blue Sky Homes ranges from $220 to $320 per square foot. Your actual price will be based upon a number of factors, including location, size of the house, site...
Hat tip to RE for sending this along, from the U-T: The 211-acre western half of Carlsbad's Robertson Ranch has been sold for more than $30 million to Los Angeles developer Shapell Homes in a sign of a revival of home building in San Diego County. Shapell plans to...
Hat tip to Kingside for sending this along, after seeing the video on the 6-day construction of a Chinese office building - from the WSJ, dated June, 2009: A nearly finished, newly constructed building in Shanghai toppled over, killing one worker. As can be seen in...
Hat tip to Alan for providing this:
Walt wanted my take on the former KB Home tract in southeast Carlsbad (see below). The last three minutes are free-wheeling about the market in general:
Could this catch on? Cattani Architects have designed the recently completed Cité A Docks student housing project, located in Le Havre, France. It consists of 100 apartments made out of old shipping containers: To ensure maximum heat and sound insulation, the walls...
I'm imagining that the cheapest unit will have to be an apartment-style, 2br/2ba and about 850sf in the back of the complex where you'll get trucks rumbling below, and the trains behind you? For around the mid-$300,000s? I think there will be takers at that price...
From the U-T: Barratt American, headed by Michael D. “Mick” Pattinson, filed for bankruptcy in 2008 when it lost its $125 million line of credit for numerous housing projects, including some in San Diego County. Pattinson and his partners have restarted the Carlsbad...
Is this a sign of an unusual lag in demand (next step down?), or is this the new era of home sales? These builders have two things going for them; their $-per-sf is cheaper than almost all of the nearby newer-tract-home resales, AND you can buy one today. Yet there...
There are two reasons this tract has done so well: 1. Angela is a great salesperson. 2. The uncertainty with resales. At least here you can walk in and buy a house today. I tried to help some people buy a house off the foreclosure list who got pretty frustrated. The...
