downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/keeping-san-diego-bay-clean-volunteers-needed-this-weekend/189/ This weekend, you can take part in keeping San Diego clean. Hundreds of volunteers will gather at San Diego Bay to participate in one of California’s largest environmental clean up events. Operation Clean Sweep, presented by the San Diego Port Tenants Association in partnership with the Port of San Diego, will take place on Continue…
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downtown-san-diego-real-estate/location-location-location/183/ San Diego County is filled with such diversity. There are over 90 sub communities that make up the Real Estate Residential Market. Each individual sub market performs based on its specific price points and location. I guess it should stop surprising me that performance of high-end product and very average product are continually generalized Continue…
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/how-expensive-are-we-compared-to-other-destination-cities/184/ In an article in Yahoo Finance today, it discusses the cost per square foot of the top ten most expensive cities in the world. Guess who is not in the top ten? San Diego. Coming in at the number 1 spot is London, at a whopping $6,191 per sq ft. A $1.5 Million price Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/live-greenlive-in-cities/181/ In this month’s issue of Wired Magazine, there was a very interesting editorial that I thought I should share. It is titled “Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What it Means to be Green” . In the article, we are challenged to examine our preconceived notions of what we think may or may not Continue…
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/new-downtown-san-diego-childrens-museum/176/ It is great to be parents living In Downtown San Diego! Downtown San Diego Children’s Museum on Memorial Day. It was awesome to see all the kids and families that had come down from all over the county to check it out. Building derby racing cars, painting the VW bug, climbing the climbing walls Continue…
Foodie Blog: The Corner
By Pete in June 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/foodie-blog-the-corner/179/ To take an exerpt from Common’s hit, “the Corner”… “The Corner was our Rock of Gibraltar, our Stonehenge, Our Taj Mahal, our monument, our testimonial to freedom, to peace, to love, down on the Corner”… the only part they left out in there was how awesome the burgers are. Bacon cheeseburger? Mmmmmmmm… the basic Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/fannie-freddie-scrap-declining-market-label/180/ All properties in 92101, previously considered as being geographically located in a declining market since last December by Fannie Mae [1] and Freddie Mac [2], will no longer be stymied with this stigma. What does this mean for you? If you happen to be shopping for a downtown condo, your lender will no longer Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate-market-analysis/builders-looking-to-infill/175/ So with the state of the market comes the downsizing of a lot of developers. Within this comes the fact that a lot of the developers that were here in the past aren’t going to come back when the market corrects again. Today’s paper has an article regarding this. It speaks of how urban Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/housing-crisis-over/177/ The Title of the Wall Street Journal Article is The Housing Crisis is Over. Could this actually be? A well respected national publication is suggesting that there is actually something positive on the horizon for Home Sales in the United States. Well, things are not that easy. I am positive that this topic will Continue…
Attention Entreprenuers
By Pete in May 2008 with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/attention-entreprenuers/170/ I have lived down for a while now, and worked down here even longer. Today was the very first day that i realized something. There isn’t a single place to get a good breakfast burrito in the East Villages Ballpark area. If you have the notion to open a place to eat down here- Continue…
Tour our Office
By Mike in Downtown San Diego Real Estate|Video with 0 Comments
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/tour-our-office/172/ View a brief tour of our office here at 92101 Urban Living, and hear what we’re all about. Keep checking back as we will be posting more videos on properties, downtown neighborhoods and more!
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/old-police-headquarters-conversion/169/ San Diego’s Old Police Headquarters resides at 801 W. Harbor Drive in downtown…right across from Seaport Village. The old Police Headquarters closed in 1987 and has been abandoned and neglected ever since. Slated for sometime this summer, the old police headquarters will be receiving some love and will be transformed into a public market Continue…
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/4th-annual-healing-arts-fesitval/168/ Sunday May 4th at Park Blvd. & President’s Way in Balboa Park will be the 4th Annual Healing Arts Festival. This weekend is gearing up to be another gorgeous SD weekend, and what better way to spend it than in Balboa Park, checking out the latest in Healing Arts, and listening to tons of Continue…
downtown-san-diego-urban-lifestyle/red-bull-airraces-this-weekend/167/ We are heading into yet another beautiful, sunny weekend here in downtown San Diego, and as usual, with no lack of things to do. The Redbull Airraces should not be missed!’The Red Bull Air Race World Series features the worlds best pilots in a motor sports competition based on speed, precision and skill. Using Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/how-many-languages-should-this-be-written-in/143/ I appreciate people saying to me that they are waiting for the market to bottom out. I understand that. But here is something to contemplate. There will be nothing new delivered between now and 2012. It is going to cost $200 per square foot more to build than it did when all this was Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/the-future-of-the-downtown-condominium-market/166/ We know no other condominium projects that will break ground in the next year. As high-rise projects require two years to complete, we do not anticipate the completion of any new high-rise projects until atleast 2011 or possibly 2012. There are two factors that impact the future supply of condominiums downtown: First is the Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/inventory-of-new-condominium-units-for-sale-2008-2001/163/ As noted above, there are only four condominium projects under construction downtown: Vantage Pointe in the East Village and Bayside, Breeza and Sapphire at the Embarcedero. Those projects will be completed in 2009. After that there will be no delivery of new units, recently completed or conversion projects.
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/inventory-of-new-units/156/ Currently, if you were to look at the toatl availability of unsold unit downtown that are in buildings that are either completed or under construction, the total would be 1,696 units. Of that total, 694, or 40% are units in the buildings that are under construction and won’t be delivered untill 2009. Another 176 Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/new-condominium-sales/154/ The downtown new condominium market was highly active in the 2002 through 2006 period when there were several dozen projects offered for sale. In 2007, with most of those projects complete, sales slowed dramatically. To date this year, 62 condominium units have been sold in newly completed buildings and buildings under construction. Part of Continue…
downtown-san-diego-real-estate/foreclosure-activity/152/ Dataquick has released its first quarter 2008 figures for downtown SanDiego. In that period, there were 121 sales, 36 of which, or 29.8%, were foreclosure sales. The foreclosures represent 4/10th of one percent of the downtown inventory. Most of the foreclosures were in the lesser-priced projects, averging $385,000. The foreclosure sales were generally in Continue…