House Sale Statistics April 2015
San Diego Houses The San Diego real estate market continued on an upward price trend in April 2015. The average price of houses rose six percent from a year earlier, to $659,477 for the average San Diego house. Median prices run lower, as more lower-priced homes tend to sell in any given month. San Diego […]
Houses In San Diego Set Trend
This was a big day in the news for San Diego real estate. Standard & Poor’s Case-Schiller Home Price Index was released today for April 2010. The index, which measures resale values of single-family houses, shows sale prices of houses in San Diego rose 11.7 percent between April 2009 and April 2010. Only San Francisco, […]
San Diego Homes Sale Prices Up
The San Diego real estate market has greatly improved in 2010. San Diego homes sale prices are up double-digits from year ago levels, led by resale houses and condos. Surveys of home builders and consumers are showing a return to confidence. The San Diego economy is again proving its resilience. According to DataQuick, the median […]
San Diego Houses Selling Fast
It’s hard for many prospective buyers of San Diego homes to believe this, but this really isn’t a traditional “buyer’s market” in many parts of San Diego. This is particularly true for “entry-level homes.” In America’s Finest City the entry level starts at around $350,000 and goes up to about $600,000. And buying a house […]
San Diego Real Estate Prices Part1
Rancho Penasquitos I cringe when I read the newspaper or hear a report on the TV or radio that gives a median home price or average house price for San Diego County. This is a large and diverse area. San Diego home sales differ between neighborhoods almost as much as the San Diego terrains and […]
San Diego Home Prices Up Again
The San Diego Association of Realtors released the May 2009 home sales statistics on June 11. These numbers have been anxiously awaited by San Diego real estate professionals. And for some reason the SDAR delayed posting the numbers on their website until June 11, but backdated the post to June 5. It seems like the […]
San Diego Real Estate Investing 101
When it comes to real estate, sometimes it’s easy to become fixated on the details of the current news. It doesn’t help that news reports are often carry exaggerated headlines that are created to sell more papers and more advertisements. We forget that news reports are generally reactive rather than proactive. It’s very easy to […]
Upbeat San Diego Real Estate News
Continuing on a positive note, news of a decline in the number of San Diego home mortgage defaults came as a surprise to many of the more downbeat observers of the San Diego real estate market. In April 2009 the number of home mortgage defaults in San Diego County dropped 12 percent from the March […]
Trust Home Foreclosure Reports?
It’s hard to make good decisions about the San Diego real estate market without good information to work from. Nationally, newspapers are recently reporting that an end to the market downturn could be near. For example, the pending home sales index maintained by the National Association of Realtors rose 3.2% in March. The numbers of […]