Whether we are discussing San Diego Real Estate or any other, the "end" of any real estate investment is the disposition of property, typically via sale, independent of rolling it over via a 1031-Exchange. I can't tell you how frustrating it has been convincing people that the "great buy" of a h
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01/20/2009
San Diego Real Estate price per square foot can often be a better measure of what is going on in the market because it normalizes home prices and eliminates the "but they're building bigger / smaller homes now." Of course, a bubble is a bubble no matter how large or small the homes are. In the c
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01/15/2009
San Diego Real Estate bedroom / bathroom configuration is a good indicator of how large a home you will be buying. Or conversely, if you know how large a home you need, you can estimate what sort of a bedroom / bathroom configuration you should expect to be looking for. The error bar shown repr
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01/15/2009
San Diego Real Estate is loaded with great homes. After all, we are America's Finest City. But, we wanted to go find some absolutely stellar deals. Here is a short list of properties we like (and why). BTW, these are not our listings. All photos linked to below come from the specific listing agen
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01/14/2009
The San Diego Real Estate Housing Market is actually a heck of a lot better than you might think. Despite all the commentators telling us that this time is worse than last time, the average days on market (DOM) for a property is actually quite reasonable, as can be seen in the following chart. It
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01/13/2009
San Diego Foreclosure and REO sales have spurred the market over the last six months of 2008. Although the sales are not quite up to average, we can clearly see huge gains in the number of home sales in 2008 compared with 2007. The number of sales of detached homes increased 16.1%. While recogn
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01/13/2009
At San Diego's Finest Real Estate, we track the market beyond the raw generalities you hear in the media. There are significant differences both in market area as well as in the configuration (e.g., 3br/2ba, 1200 sf) of a home. The following chart shows the 2007 and 2008 sales of existing attach
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01/13/2009
Real Estate / Housing is ultimately just a commodity like any other and perforce follows the basic laws of supply and demand. The following chart shows the momentum scores for San Diego Real Estate, both single family detached (SFD) and single-family attached (SFA), since April 1996. The essenc
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01/12/2009
