Baan Moom looks minimal from the outside, but the main idea is inside. Instead of adding rooms or square footage, the architects changed how the floor works. Designed by Integrated Field, the house stacks all functions into three levels to keep the ground open for garden and pool. That move created

Pacific Beach’s biggest apartment complex got initial approval this week to increase by 138 units. AVA Pacific Beach at 3823 Ingraham St. is the largest apartment building in the beach community with 564 units, and the plan would increase it to 702 apartments. The San Diego City Council unanimously

Has California housing become a buyer’s market with sellers losing control of pricing? My trusty spreadsheet reviewed a relatively new homebuying metric from Redfin that attempts to quantify the marketplace mystery: how many house hunters are looking to buy. Redfin combines the easily calculated sup

San Diego stands to benefit substantially should it vacate City Hall and make its central downtown real estate available for redevelopment, according to a new report financed by a philanthropic organization with a vested interest in the area’s renaissance. Tuesday, San Diego’s Prebys Foundation and

California consumers started 2026 on an anxious note, with their collective confidence in the economy falling to a five-year low. My trusty spreadsheet’s review of the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index for January showed a 28% decline from December in California’s shopper pysche. It’s a s

Enjoy tributes to legendary musicians, artists and athletes this weekend in San Diego. Concertgoers can experience folk rock at its finest during the multimedia production of The Simon & Garfunkel Story and see Keena’s Echoes of the Queen channel the Tejano stylings of Selena Quintanilla. Art enthus

San Diego’s home market might be slow, but compared to the rest of the U.S., it’s still one of the few markets with price growth. The San Diego metropolitan area’s home price increased 0.32% annually in November, said the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Indices report released Tuesday. The region was No.

Designed by Vaccaro Architecture in collaboration with Lisa Furey Interiors, this cottage on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina is shaped by use before appearance. Located within the Haig Point community, the house is one of a small group of coastal cottages designed to handle daily island conditions

Architect of the Capitol workers clear snow outside the U.S. Capitol, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) Workers shovel snow from a sidewalk in downtown Indianapolis, on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Obed Lamy) People walk on a snow-covered street as a winter

Architect of the Capitol workers clear snow outside the U.S. Capitol, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) Workers shovel snow from a sidewalk in downtown Indianapolis, on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Obed Lamy) People walk on a snow-covered street as a winter

February brings half-off museum admission, a theatrical ode to Julia Child, a community festival in Encanto, a Lunar New Year celebration, and more. Here are all the best things to do this month in San Diego: Concerts & Festivals | Theater & Art Exhibits | More Fun Things to Do Concerts & Festivals

A new study says buying a home in San Diego should be more affordable by the end of this year. The forecast from Seattle-based Zillow doesn’t say buying in San Diego will soon be “affordable” by any economic measure — just that it should be better than it is now for new buyers. Affordability is a lo

Why aren’t cash-strapped house hunters flocking to condos, Southern California’s relative housing bargain? My trusty spreadsheet reviewed Attom sales data for the six-county region from November 2025 back to 2005. It found that the recent affordability-linked sales slump has been little different fo

Designed by Wolstenholme Associates, this barn conversion in Bucks County, Pennsylvania reads as a barn before anything else. The exterior keeps its original proportions and massing, using vertical wood siding, a simple gabled roof, and a stone base to anchor the structure to the site. The red-stain

Investors own roughly one in six of California’s single-family residences. That’s what my trusty spreadsheet found after reviewing a BatchData report that estimates investor ownership of houses and townhomes nationwide. Investors in this study include everything from giant companies controlling thou

By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate ticked higher this week, but remains near its lowest level in more than three years. Related Articles This San Diego investment fund has too much money Under Armour looking into data breach affecting customers’ email addresse

San Diego apartment construction is set to slow in 2026, but it will probably be hard to notice. Across the county, 3,670 apartments are expected to open this year, said real estate tracker CoStar. That’s down from 6,176 in 2025 — the region’s highest in 25 years of data — but still above historical

The 23-year-old Escondido native was trawling YouTube at 13 when he discovered parkour, a sport that evolved from military training in France in the early 1900s—palm-sweat-inducing stuff that involves people jumping off buildings, saving themselves by grabbing a lamppost, or scaling city structures

The Church, Woolwich is a careful study in restraint rather than reinvention. Once a community church and later a theatre, the heritage-listed structure has been adapted into a three-level contemporary home without disturbing its public presence. The original brick and sandstone façade remains intac

San Diego County home sales hit their second-lowest point of the year in November as mortgage rates ticked up. Across the county, 1,913 homes sold in November, down 22.4% from the previous month, according to figures released Tuesday by Attom Data Solutions. November is typically a slower month for