Hat tip to listing agent Ben who is always gracious about me doing videos of his properties for sale! This is a custom home built for an Ecke family member as part of the deal when they sold part of their farm, which was then developed into the Encinitas Ranch golf...
In the confidential remarks, it said that the price was discounted due to 'chimney replacement'.......but a whole $204,000 off? It must have been gold-plated! As the home-selling season closes out, don't be surprised if you see more discounts like this:
This listed for $1,899,000 at the beginning of March, but no takers. They reduced to $1,790,000 after a month and let that ride for two more weeks. After that, they cancelled the listing and re-freshed it at $1,749,000. Two weeks later they found a cash buyer who paid...
Here's a sky shot of the South Carlsbad/Encinitas region in 1967. The La Costa Resort opened in 1965 (in the center of the photo) and another nine holes was added on the north end in 1984....
I'm going to guess that half of the total NSDCC transactions are estate sales - only because nobody else wants to sell. We're going to see a lot more like this one - no real improvements except for a few windows: LP = $1,300,000 and SP = $1,480,000!
We closed escrow yesterday in La Costa Valley! The seller is a bubbleinfo reader so obviously we have analyzed our results carefully over the last month. We felt that we did everything right in preparing what we thought was a superior home in the tract and utilized an...
Let's be realistic, shall we? It's the original roof, three original bathrooms that look like $60k-80k to fix, original furnace (no A/C), only half of the windows were replaced, no solar, no pool, no spa, no backyard improvements at all - the skimpy old BBQ is a...
1276 Meadow Wood Place, Encinitas 5 bedrooms + bonus room, 3 baths, 2,962sf 0.23-acre lot YB: 1990 LP = $1,850,000 Open 12-3pm this weekend! Have you been seeing Encinitas Ranch and La Costa Valley homes selling in the mid-$2 millions and higher, and wish you could...
I'll have a video tour of the house later today - we'll be on the open market tomorrow!
For the buyers who want to live in a master-planned community with good schools, how bleak is it? No one will be surprised to see the newer tracts hunkered down for another decade or longer, so let's look at the older communities - those that are 20-25 years old....
