People are clamoring for more on the La Costa Town Square: Arterro is the name of the Davidson tract. From their website: Located off Rancho Santa Fe Road just east of La Costa Avenue, Arterro is a 22-acre residential element of La Costa Town Square, a planned...
Hat tip to ocrenter who sent this in from Bloomberg - a prototype new home that generates its own energy that they think they can sell for around $250,000: The youtube remarks are somewhat critical of the idea - you still have to purchase the natural gas to run the...
Congratulations to Tom for selling his new-build in South Park! http://tomtarrant.com/modern-bungalow-sold-765000/ His timing was great - it closed for $765,000, which is probably $100,000 more than it would have been last year. Watch the house get built from scratch...
This is the full tour of the ADM 6,235 sf Plan 4 model home, without all the people around. The staff recognizes that this is the Big Kahuna, the pinnacle of many careers to bring this tract to market. Those selling it will never have another opportunity like this,...
Amir and Mojgan Moghadam spent $1.4 million on their new home in Irvine, Calif. But to make it absolutely perfect, they spent a further $550,000 on builder upgrades—including $28,200 for a conservatory, $2,600 for a Sub-Zero ice maker and $495 for five exterior...
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,...
My new listing in Vista! An active, income-producing ranch now, bringing in around $100,000 per year, with huge potential. Subdivide the lower half into 19 homesites (developers are offering to pay $5 million over time to do it for you), harvest the 10,000 palm trees...
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...
Hat tip to Susie for sending this in from abcnews.com: The new Southampton, N.Y., home of Eric and Margaret Friedberg was almost half completed when they decided to tear it down and start over because the garage was in the wrong spot. "It's an expensive construction...
