Politics | County to crack down on corporate homebuyers and landlords amid record prices By Emily Alvarenga July 16, 2024 at 6:34 p.m. The supervisors aim to target big investors they say have worsened housing affordability, and possibly...
Real Estate | Do I have any constitutional rights in HOA disciplinary hearings? By Kelly G. Richardson July 16, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. The “due process” for HOA hearings does not come from the constitution because HOA boards...
Education | UC San Diego poised to super-size dorms to ease chronic housing shortage By Gary Robbins July 15, 2024 at 9:19 a.m. Chancellor Pradeep Khosla will ask UC Regents this week to let him spend $2 billion...
Southern California inflation has cooled, but is it enough? By Jon Lansner July 13, 2024 at 4:03 p.m. The local cost of all goods and services rose 3.5% in the past year after...
Real Estate | Is 600 B St. the first of many downtown office buildings to default? By Phillip Molnar July 12, 2024 at 5:01 a.m. The owner of the 24-story office tower at 600 B Street is on the brink...
To find California’s biggest rent hikes, see who’s hiring By Jon Lansner July 11, 2024 at 11:15 a.m. Counties with employment gains averaged 3.8% rent increases vs. 3.1% where jobs fell.
Business | ‘The Real World: San Diego’ house in Point Loma slated for demolition By Jennifer Van Grove July 10, 2024 at 6:49 p.m. The as-seen-on-TV building overlooking America's Cup Harbor is expected to be razed as part of...
Real Estate | Is this change to parking rules OK under the Fair Housing Act? By Kelly G. Richardson July 9, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. If someone qualifies under the Fair Housing laws as “disabled” and needs access to parking...
Business | Californians rank 5th-best in US at bill paying By Jon Lansner July 8, 2024 at 9:06 a.m. Between 2014 and 2023, an average 1.71% of California's combined debts were 90 days or...
California rents, per square foot, rank 5th-highest in US By Jon Lansner July 10, 2024 at 9:38 a.m. California rents equal $2.96 per square foot – 55% above the $1.91 charged nationally.
SUBSCRIBER ONLY Business | Downtown San Diego’s 600 B Street office tower in foreclosure By Jennifer Van Grove July 4, 2024 at 7:08 p.m. Building owner on the brink of losing the 24-story high-rise as the lender seeks to...
SUBSCRIBER ONLY Real Estate | The price of a San Diego home crosses $1 million for the first time By Phillip Molnar July 4, 2024 at 1:27 p.m. San Diego County's median price for a resale single-family home hit a milestone in May
Real Estate | Does overvaluation of homes make homeownership a risky move? By Phillip Molnar July 3, 2024 at 2:46 p.m. Financial models from the Fed and others have homes overvalued from 25 percent to nearly...
SUBSCRIBER ONLY Business | Lease agreement paves way for long-awaited revival of Mira Mesa Epicentre By Jennifer Van Grove July 2, 2024 at 6:11 p.m. City leaders OK'd a real estate deal that will allow the county to remodel and...
Real Estate | New security deposit cap is in effect. What that means for San Diego renters. By Roxana Popescu July 7, 2024 at 3:23 p.m. State law limits security deposits to one month's rent.
Real Estate | Called to a disciplinary hearing at your HOA? Here’s what to do By Kelly G. Richardson July 2, 2024 at 5:01 a.m. The HOA disciplinary hearing notice must specify the violated governing document provision. Read it. Are...
Business | Sorrento Mesa life science project lands big pharma tenant By Jennifer Van Grove July 1, 2024 at 9:23 a.m. An unnamed pharmaceutical company will anchor Alexandria's newly constructed building at 10075 Barnes Canyon Road.
Business | 10% of California credit card debt is late, 12th-highest delinquency rate in US By Jon Lansner June 28, 2024 at 3:23 p.m. Golden State credit card balances equal to $4,450 per resident, 11th-highest among the states.
Economy | Is the San Diego Trolley sustainable without a crackdown on fare evasion? By Phillip Molnar June 27, 2024 at 5:52 p.m. The proposed trolley crackdown would eliminate the ability to just pay the fare owed and...
SUBSCRIBER ONLY Business | A new hotel rising soon in San Diego’s Mission Valley By Lori Weisberg June 27, 2024 at 3:02 p.m. The new Element hotel, the first of its kind in San Diego County, will open...
SUBSCRIBER ONLY Real Estate | San Diego built more housing last year than it did in any of the past 17 years By Phillip Molnar June 28, 2024 at 4:12 p.m. 11,673 building permits pulled across San Diego County last year, a 21 percent increase from...
SUBSCRIBER ONLY Business | Vote on Midway Rising’s sports arena project expected early next year By Jennifer Van Grove June 25, 2024 at 3:22 p.m. The city and the development team had been marching toward consideration of a development deal...
SUBSCRIBER ONLY Real Estate | San Diego has fastest rising home prices in the U.S. for 6 months By Phillip Molnar June 25, 2024 at 2:03 p.m. Case-Shiller Indices reported San Diego home prices were up 10.3 percent in a year, the...
Real Estate | Why can’t we speak at our HOA meeting? By Kelly G. Richardson June 25, 2024 at 5:01 a.m. Members have the right to speak in open forum, a valuable part of board meetings...
Homeownership suffers in California, US as prices outstrip incomes By Jon Lansner June 24, 2024 at 3:01 p.m. Last year’s California homeownership rate was equal to a 40-year average. And the US rate was...
Should downtown’s brand new life science office building change strategy? By Phillip Molnar June 20, 2024 at 10:47 a.m. IQHQ bet big on getting life science companies downtown. The project looks nearly complete but...
Business | San Diego rent is down, but maybe not in your area. Check our list By Phillip Molnar June 22, 2024 at 3:59 p.m. America's Finest City is the 8th most expensive metro in the U.S., down from seventh...
Business | California home-price gains may ‘cool’ in next 12 months By Jonathan Lansner June 16, 2024 at 12:08 p.m. Price appreciation is projected to slow in 36 states
Business | 14 things all HOA attorneys should know By Kelly G. Richardson June 16, 2024 at 11:15 a.m. The paramount obligation of the HOA attorney is to provide ethical and competent advice for...
Real Estate | San Diego County home sales plummet to historic low By Jon Lansner June 17, 2024 at 2:23 p.m. 59,146 residences were sold in 24 months ended in April 2024, the No. 1 slowest...
Business | 13 things HOA service providers should know By Kelly G. Richardson June 16, 2024 at 10:34 a.m. The client is the HOA corporation, not the president or any individual director.
Business | Mira Mesa shopping center anchored by Home Depot sells for $99M By Jennifer Van Grove June 7, 2024 at 12:33 a.m. A Los Angeles-based real estate firm that has spent the past 15 years focused on...
Business | Construction on $55M Mira Mesa Community Park project will start this summer By Jennifer Van Grove June 5, 2024 at 12:19 a.m. The long-awaited overhaul of Mira Mesa Community Park will begin this summer, promising to deliver...
Business | Are San Diego or Inland Empire the riskiest housing markets in Southern California? By Jonathan Lansner June 2, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. Southern California home prices may seem insanely high, but two yardsticks of their underlying values...
Business | 17 things HOA managers should know By Kelly G. Richardson June 16, 2024 at 10:37 a.m. HOAs don’t work well without competent and trustworthy managers
Business | Is a new San Diego neighborhood group positive for the Uptown area? By Phillip Molnar May 31, 2024 at 12:01 p.m. The San Diego City Council voted last week to replace its existing neighborhood group in...
Business | San Diego home price hits another record high. Will it ever stop? By Phillip Molnar May 31, 2024 at 1:18 a.m. San Diego County's median home price growth showed no signs of abating in April as...
Business | ‘Higher-income buyers are still very active’ as San Diego leads U.S. in home price gains for 4th month By Phillip Molnar May 28, 2024 at 9:38 p.m. San Diego had the fastest rising home prices in the nation for a fourth month...
Business | Chula Vista’s latest home project has homes starting at $550K. It’s also close to a landfill. By Phillip Molnar May 27, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. Chula Vista's latest residential development, which has some of the lowest prices for new homes...
Business | The high-flying Dow Jones stock index: Good or bad for California? By Jonathan Lansner May 26, 2024 at 1:15 p.m. The stock market’s venerable yardstick, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, recently made history — crossing...
Business | 18 things all HOA members should know By Kelly G. Richardson June 16, 2024 at 10:39 a.m. One in a series of columns on boards, homeowners, managers, vendors and HOA lawyers. HOA...
Business | San Diego’s life science industry has a new challenge: Too much space By Natallie Rocha June 16, 2024 at 11:11 a.m. San Diego's labs and life science offices hit record vacancy this year.
Business | Fashion Valley mall to replace JCPenney with 850 apartments By Jennifer Van Grove June 16, 2024 at 11:16 a.m. Simon Property Group plans to redo the west end of the mall with 850 luxury...
Business | Did San Diego City Council make the right call increasing developer fees? By Phillip Molnar May 23, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. The San Diego City Council recently voted to raise developer fees to cover additional city...
Business | San Diego council members agree to move forward with affordable housing plans on former luxury hotel site By Lori Weisberg May 23, 2024 at 12:46 a.m. San Diego's elected leaders agreed Wednesday that the city should move toward securing a formal...
Business | San Diego will sublet space in Mission Valley as part of plan to vacate downtown operations building By Jennifer Van Grove June 4, 2024 at 5:37 p.m. Eager to exit its failing downtown operations building, the city of San Diego has agreed...
Business | 13 things all HOA directors should know By Kelly G. Richardson May 18, 2024 at 12:01 p.m. This is the first of five installments that will address boards, homeowners, managers, vendors and...
Business | Plan to build hundreds of low-income housing units on former Ritz-Carlton site in downtown San Diego reaches critical milestone By Lori Weisberg June 10, 2024 at 10:15 a.m. An ambitious plan by a local affordable housing developer to build more than 400 low-income...
News | Jason Hughes, broker in 101 Ash St. deal, wins bid to stop his license from being revoked By Jeff McDonald May 17, 2024 at 2:20 a.m. A Superior Court judge has blocked the California Department of Real Estate from revoking the...
Things to do | Why so many people have stopped buying vacation rental homes in San Diego By Phillip Molnar May 15, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. Interest rates and home prices are so high in San Diego that even vacation rental...
Business | Where in California have wages trailed rent hikes the most? By Jonathan Lansner May 12, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. The pain: Rent hikes outpaced pay raises in 44 of 50 big U.S. metropolitan areas...
Business | Did HOA board go through the correct process to change rules? By Kelly G. Richardson May 11, 2024 at 12:01 p.m. Q: If the board decides to change any rules shouldn't those rule changes be placed...
Business | Construction paused on mega Riverwalk project in Mission Valley By Jennifer Van Grove May 11, 2024 at 8:02 p.m. The cacophony of construction activity at the sprawling Riverwalk project site that follows Friars Road...
Business | Report: 80 percent of low-income San Diegans spending more than half their income on rent By Phillip Molnar May 10, 2024 at 2:09 a.m. The vast majority of low-income renters in San Diego County are spending more than half...
Business | An entire California town is for sale – again. This time for $6.6M By Phillip Molnar May 9, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. Nearly all of Campo has been for sale since 2019 — without a buyer in...
Business | Amenity-heavy $74M University Heights apartment complex opens By Phillip Molnar May 7, 2024 at 12:39 a.m. University Height's new luxury apartment complex, The Nash, is at the crossroads of three popular...
Business | Is it our HOA manager or is it us? By Kelly G. Richardson May 4, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. Many associations struggle with a poor manager relationship, resulting in frustration for both sides. However,...
Business | Are higher mortgage rates enough to slow San Diego home price growth? By Phillip Molnar May 3, 2024 at 12:53 p.m. Mortgage rates hit their highest point this year, 7.52 percent for a 30-year, fixed rate...
Business | Biggest ever La Jolla home sale: $35 million for Doug Manchester property By Phillip Molnar May 2, 2024 at 9:16 p.m. A property formerly owned by hotel developer Doug Manchester sold for $35 million this week...
Sports | County will also evaluate subsidy for Midway Rising’s sports arena project By Jennifer Van Grove May 2, 2024 at 12:34 a.m. San Diego County will consider subsidizing the Midway Rising project in order to make possible...
Business | ‘Home prices continue to defy expectations’: San Diego leads U.S. in gains for 3rd month By Phillip Molnar May 1, 2024 at 6:16 p.m. San Diego had the fastest rising home prices in the nation for a third month....
Business | What does each HOA officer – president, vice president, secretary, treasurer – do? By Kelly G. Richardson April 30, 2024 at 12:31 p.m. Q. I am a sitting board member for our HOA and we are coming up...
Business | ‘People are tired of waiting’: San Diego home price hits all-time high even as mortgage rates rise By Phillip Molnar April 30, 2024 at 6:11 a.m. San Diego County's median home price hit a record high of $865,000 — despite rising...
Business | 8 California real estate battles worth watching By Jonathan Lansner April 28, 2024 at 1:01 p.m. It’s playoff season for basketball and hockey with sports fans glued to the big matchups.But...
Sports | It’s official: San Diego’s sports arena is historic By Jennifer Van Grove April 27, 2024 at 6:42 p.m. San Diego International Sports Arena, the imposing concrete venue in the Midway District and the...
Business | San Diego AI startup and Atlas Van Lines team up to make moving less painful By Roxana Popescu April 26, 2024 at 6:38 p.m. Moving can be such a pain. A San Diego AI startup company just announced a...
Business | Big price tag: Construction starts on $98M affordable housing complex in City Heights By Phillip Molnar April 24, 2024 at 9:42 p.m. Construction started Wednesday on one of San Diego's most expensive subsidized housing developments in its...
News | Would-be homeless shelter landlord borrowed millions against proposed 35-year deal, county records show By Jeff McDonald April 21, 2024 at 12:01 p.m. On the same day investor Douglas Hamm paid more than $13 million for the abandoned...
Business | Understanding HOA election rules and candidate statements By Kelly G. Richardson April 20, 2024 at 12:01 p.m. Q: Our HOA ballot package for the board election included three candidate statements that endorsed...
Sports | San Diego’s 58-year-old sports arena is historically significant. Can it still be demolished? By Jennifer Van Grove April 20, 2024 at 6:53 a.m. Built in 1966, the San Diego International Sports Arena slated to be razed in a...
Business | Westfield UTC is expanding with a new wing of luxury shops and destination restaurants By Jennifer Van Grove April 18, 2024 at 12:31 p.m. Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has started construction on an all-new wing of luxury shops and destination eateries designed...
Business | HOA Homefront: Ins and outs of electing HOA directors by ‘acclamation’ By Kelly G. Richardson April 16, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. Q: I came across an article in which you answered a question about election by...
Business | Homebuying revival? What Southern California’s one month of record sales, price jumps means By Jonathan Lansner April 14, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. Has Southern California’s housing market awoken from its lengthy slumber?My trusty spreadsheet, peeking at February’s...
Business | San Diego cuts ties with developer proposing to convert 101 Ash St. tower into a residential building By Jennifer Van Grove April 12, 2024 at 11:20 p.m. San Diego has formally cut ties with the real estate developer proposing to convert the...
Business | San Diego rent prices are hardly moving. Here’s where you might find a deal By Phillip Molnar April 12, 2024 at 10:20 p.m. San Diego rent growth skyrocketed during the pandemic but now appears to have come back...
Business | Retail developers weren’t interested in this San Marcos vacant lot, so here come new apartments By Phillip Molnar April 9, 2024 at 11:27 p.m. San Marcos recently approved a new 119-unit apartment complex on a piece of land that...
Business | Why it’s hard to get volunteers for your HOA board By Kelly G. Richardson April 9, 2024 at 11:31 a.m. Filling open HOA board seats is a vexing and discouraging problem for some associations. However,...
Business | Benefactor steps in to help San Diego entice developers to remake downtown’s Civic Center By Jennifer Van Grove April 2, 2024 at 12:30 p.m. A prominent philanthropic organization has cut a $303,000 check to hire an outside consultant to...
Business | More incorrect statements about ‘toxic mold’ By Kelly G. Richardson April 2, 2024 at 12:01 p.m. Misleading and self-serving statements by the “toxic mold” industry continue to grab attention. This second...
Business | San Diego median home price hits $825K. Will the increases continue? By Phillip Molnar April 5, 2024 at 9:05 p.m. San Diego County home sales have picked up after a dismal few months. There were...
Business | Will people continue to move away from San Diego County? By Phillip Molnar March 29, 2024 at 11:50 a.m. Nearly 31,000 more people left San Diego County than moved here between July of 2022...
Business | New 278-unit luxury apartment complex planned for Chula Vista By Phillip Molnar March 28, 2024 at 7:18 p.m. A 278-unit apartment complex is coming to Chula Vista's Millenia neighborhood, a dense area with...
Business | All Peoples Church sues San Diego over blocked church project By Jennifer Van Grove March 27, 2024 at 8:27 p.m. All Peoples Church is appealing to a higher power the San Diego City Council's decision...
Business | ‘Simply too few homes available’: San Diego home prices rising fastest in nation for 2nd month By Phillip Molnar March 27, 2024 at 12:35 a.m. San Diego recorded the biggest jump in home prices in the nation for a second...
Business | San Diego plans to spend millions to relocate staff from City Operations Building to nicer office space By Jennifer Van Grove March 27, 2024 at 12:25 a.m. The city of San Diego is close to inking two separate lease agreements that will...
Business | Don’t let misleading statements about ‘toxic mold’ send you into a panic By Kelly G. Richardson March 26, 2024 at 12:01 p.m. In 2000, a new panic swept the country — “toxic mold.” Twenty-four years of lawsuits...
News | Young renters get leg up over homeowners in power struggle to become neighborhood voice for Hillcrest By David Garrick March 26, 2024 at 12:05 a.m. SAN DIEGO — A group of mostly young renters is one step closer to ousting a group...
News | A year after civil and criminal settlements, 101 Ash St. continues to haunt San Diego By Jeff McDonald March 24, 2024 at 12:01 p.m. One year has passed since a head-spinning week of political decision-making all but shuttered the...
Business | Downtown 40-story apartment project changes course, will become condos By Phillip Molnar March 20, 2024 at 9:53 p.m. SAN DIEGO — An apartment complex being built in downtown San Diego is changing course nearly two...
Business | Pfizer inks large deal for lab space at new Torrey View campus in San Diego By Jennifer Van Grove March 20, 2024 at 8:59 p.m. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has inked a deal to house its growing oncology business in a...
Business | Are HOA managers legally required to attend board meetings? By Kelly G. Richardson March 19, 2024 at 12:01 p.m. Q: Is it legal for the board of a community to host a meeting without...
Business | How much downtown office space does the city of San Diego really need? By Jennifer Van Grove March 19, 2024 at 10:12 p.m. The city of San Diego can go grow its downtown employee headcount and also considerably...
Business | Why California home sales tumble as car purchases rise By Jonathan Lansner March 17, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. Buzz: Just 258,000 California houses sold last year — the lowest sales count since the...
Business | Major settlement could end 6% real estate commissions and reduce San Diego prices By Phillip Molnar March 18, 2024 at 4:41 p.m. San Diego homeowners could see a drop in the cost to sell properties after a...
Business | Tens of thousands of residents moved out of San Diego County last year – almost double the number a year earlier By Lori Weisberg March 14, 2024 at 10:01 p.m. Against the backdrop of soaring housing costs in the last year, tens of thousands of...
Sports | San Diego will consider major subsidy for Midway Rising’s sports arena project By Jennifer Van Grove March 12, 2024 at 9:13 p.m. The city of San Diego is open to offering the Midway Rising development team substantial...
Business | Is my HOA supposed to notify us in advance about fee increases? By Kelly G. Richardson March 18, 2024 at 8:05 p.m. Q: My question is whether it is legal to raise one's HOA fees without a...
Business | Is San Diego at risk for a big downturn in housing? By Phillip Molnar March 12, 2024 at 8:04 p.m. San Diego County has very little chance of a big housing downturn but also isn't...
Local News | From housing to health care, San Diego women get a primer on their rights By Lori Weisberg March 9, 2024 at 11:56 p.m. Whether it's a sudden notice from your landlord that you're about to be evicted or...
Business | Private pier in San Diego’s posh La Playa enclave will get public access stairway By Jennifer Van Grove March 8, 2024 at 9:15 p.m. The private pier overlooking Kellogg Beach and connected to two upland mansions in San Diego's...