I think we will experience a very similar trend in 2025. A hot market and prices for the first four months, and mellow-down-easy for the rest of the year. And April was already slowing. The first quarter of 2025 will be prime selling season! Plan accordingly!...
Sales and Price Check
NSDCC Pricing by Quartile
Rob Dawg suggested that we look at the quartile pricing again. The list pricing (above) has been very comparable to last year, but those are the unsolds. Below are the quartiles for the NSDCC monthly sales: Pricing measured by quartiles is still above last year, and...
Zillow Price Changes
San Diego's YoY gain of 9.4% is third highest behind San Jose and Hartford, and our +55.4% since March, 2020 is #1 among the higher-end markets!
Will Home Prices Drop?
Here are four tepid responses to the question on whether home prices will drop this summer: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/will-home-prices-finally-drop-this-summer-heres-what-experts-say/ The lame last paragraph sums it up: The bottom line The real estate market seems...

NSDCC June Sales
It's the last business day of June, and while there will be a few more sales added to this total, there will be at least 10% fewer closings than last month: The median pricing is higher this month, but I don't think that means home prices in general are rising. It's...
Local Trends
None of the pricing metrics are great but at least they demonstrate the trends over time. These graphs above are showing the latest data, including last month, and it's all fairly positive....for now. With the extra inventory, buyers aren't going to pay crazy money...
Under A Million
Here's a snapshot of how fast the local market has changed. It went from a relatively-modest suburban area where 3/4s of the houses sold for less than a million dollars in 2003......to a very affluent market! NSDCC Detached-Homes Annual Sales True, the inflation rate...
NSDCC April Sales and Pricing, Preliminary
This sales count is tremendous - and there will still be some late-reporters: The median sales price is back to being higher than the median list price, and it is 10% higher than it was last April - wow!
Carmel Valley, SE Carlsbad, and Encinitas Pricing
The interactive graphs updated with April stats for the three middle-of-the-road zip codes in San Diego County's north coastal region. While there was some slumping after rates started rising in May, 2022, pricing has mostly recovered since: Move your cursor over the...
April Results So Far
There may be a lot of turbulence around real estate these days, but sales keep happening! The pricing metrics are up 5%-6% since last April, and we're not done yet with sales this month. Helped by Easter being on March 31st this year, the final count of closings for...