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

The San Diego Community College District is seeking to raze San Diego’s Golden Hall and replace it with a five-story museum and educational building that centers around the district’s growing collection of African art. The redevelopment proposal is expected to be solidified during a formal negotiati

Here’s some modest relief for California house hunters: values were falling in 88% of the state as 2025 ended. To get a local sense of where prices are going, my trusty spreadsheet reviewed home value data from Zillow for 125 of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas, including 16 from California.

At first, this Yountville house looked like many others from the 1970s. Ivy covered the beige brick exterior, the roofline sat low, and the interiors felt turned inward. Inside, flat ceilings and small openings limited light and made the rooms feel compressed, even though the site itself was generou

Hillend Station House sits within a working farm near Wanaka, designed to frame the surrounding alpine landscape rather than compete with it. The home takes cues from traditional farm buildings, breaking the program into a series of connected gabled volumes that follow the land. This approach keeps

This Montana barndominium shows how barn decor works best when structure leads the design. The exterior keeps a classic barn silhouette, but the scale, materials, and proportions shift it into modern mountain territory. Whitewashed siding, a metal roof, and exposed framing give the house a clean pre

So, the guy comes out of the closet, and he’s got both passports and a gun with a silencer…” Matthew Quirk pauses his muttering into his phone to wave at a family passing by him on Bessemer Path in Point Loma. Docked boats float on one side, while palatial homes overlook the trail on the other. Chec

Peruse pictures of vineyard estates in California, and you’ll see Tuscan dwellings of stone, tile-roofed stucco mansions, and wood-sided barnhouses. Christian and Anna Zaleschuk’s hilltop home in Fallbrook, however, crushes those clichés like grapes. The Zaleschuks had lived for several years on a f

Even the least expensive parts of California have become unaffordable for homebuyers. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed homebuying affordability data from Attom, which tracks the typical house hunter’s financial challenges dating to 2005 in 36 California counties. By comparing home values, mortgage rat

The future of Grossmont Center is taking shaping as the mall’s owner embarks on a multiphased redevelopment plan designed to refashion the sprawling 64-year-old outdoor center into a central gathering hub for the La Mesa community. Last week, Maryland-based Federal Realty Investment Trust started it

By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate is now down to its lowest level in more than three years. Related Articles How I’d split California, economically speaking Hold on: Another increase to your SDG&E bill is coming An app’s blunt life check adds another layer to

California has a surprising number of what Zillow calls “hot” markets. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed the real estate giant’s 2026 “hotness” scorecard, which used a host of real estate and economic metrics to identify where the most upside potential lies in 49 major U.S. housing markets. Curiously,