California Real Estate Blog
New County Measures to Fast-track Home Building
The county is adding pre-approved building plans, tiny homes on wheels and accelerated permit review to spur new home construction amid a housing and homelessness crisis. These new county rules to expedite housing construction will provide guaranteed timelines for permit review, offer pre-approved home plans and relax other regulations, marking a long-awaited effort to streamline homebuilding amid [...]
San Diego Approves Strict New Renter Protections
The San Diego City Council approved a new set of tenant protection laws aimed at giving renters more rights when facing no-fault evictions. Tenant rights advocates and landlords attended the council meeting at City Hall. Tenant advocates argued the proposed law didn’t go far enough, while many Mom-and-pop landlords complained it is too much regulation. The City [...]
San Diego Home Prices are on the Rise again
San Diego County’s median home price rose 5.3 percent in March — reversing nine months of declines — to $790,000, according to CoreLogic data. The region’s median, the point at which half the homes sold for more and half for less, is still down 1.3 percent annually.Rising mortgage rates had softened the red-hot market in recent months. Yet [...]
Renters’ Rights Would Go Up Under City’s Plan
San Diego released a new renter protection package that will make it harder for landlords to evict tenants and will give new rights to renters. The City Council is expected to review the legislation, and if approved, it would surpass the state’s Tenant Protection Act of 2019, known as AB 1482, with stricter regulations in some areas. [...]
San Diego Annual Home Price Gains Wiped Out
San Diego County’s median home price was $750,000 in February, according to CoreLogic data, down 2.6 percent from the same time last year. It’s the first time in more than three years that the annual price went down. It also marked the ninth month in a row of price declines. Rising borrowing costs have slowly eaten away at [...]
San Diego County Built Fewer Homes Last Year
San Diego County built fewer homes in 2022 than it did the previous year despite a major political push for more housing. There were 9,642 homes built last year, said data from the Construction Industry Board, compared to 10,163 in 2021. The vast majority — 6,171 — were multi-family, mainly apartments, as well as some townhouses and [...]
San Diego Home Sales fall to Lowest Level in 35 Years
January is typically a slow month for home sales in San Diego — but this January was unusually slow. There were 1,682 home sales in January, CoreLogic reported, which was the lowest recorded in data going back to 1988. Unlike other times when the real estate market shifted — like the Great Recession — people aren’t losing their [...]
New San Diego Homes – Harder to Find and More Expensive
The number of people putting their old homes for sale in San Diego County has slowed dramatically — but don’t expect many options for newly built homes either.There are fewer new single-family homes hitting the market in 2023 than perhaps since the Great Recession.Developers state that less than 1,000 new single-family homes will be built in 2023. Guesses [...]
San Diego’s Median Home Price ends Year almost $100K off its Peak
San Diego County’s median home price ended the year down nearly $100,000 from its peak. The median home price was $756,000 in December, CoreLogic reported Thursday. That’s down from the record-high $850,000 reached in May. The median includes all single-family homes, townhouses, condos and is a mix of new and resale homes. There were 2,119 home sales [...]
New California Housing Law has not Encouraged Building
Once seen as a possible death knell for single-family-home neighborhoods in California, a new law meant to create more duplexes has instead done little to encourage construction in some of the largest cities in the state, according to a new report. Senate Bill 9 was introduced two years ago as a way to help solve California’s severe housing [...]
San Diego Home Price Drops for the 6th Month
San Diego County’s home price has dropped for the sixth month and is close to erasing all yearly price gains. The median home price was $765,000 in November. It is down 10 percent from the all-time high of $850,000 in May as elevated interest rates have slowed the market. Sales — there were 2,288 in November — [...]
Almost Half of San Diego Homes have had a Price Reduction
The median home price in San Diego County has now dropped five months in a row to $775,000 — a reduction of $75,000 since since May. That means for-sale homes are sitting longer and, in the last two months, 42 percent have had their price reduced at least once. Sometimes, the price reductions can be substantial: Nearly [...]