When “CBS This Morning” co-host Norah O’Donnell asked the chief executive of Zillow recently about the accuracy of the website’s automated property value estimates — known as Zestimates — she touched on one of the most sensitive perception gaps in American real estate. Zillow is the most popular online real estate information site, with 73…
DetailsMark your calendars now, because one of golf’s biggest events of the year, the Farmers Insurance Open, returns to San Diego in 2015. San Diego’s leg of the annual PGA TOUR will take place February 5-8, 2015, at the iconic Torrey Pines Golf Course. 2015 Golf Tournament Schedule of Events Wednesday, February 4 (Preview Day)…
DetailsThe overall U.S. housing market still is struggling to hit its stride, but the remodeling market meanwhile has fully regained its mojo, according to a report released Thursday by the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies. Kermit Baker, director of the center’s remodeling futures program, forecasts that spending in the U.S. remodeling market will…
DetailsThe Carmel Valley Community Planning Board reviewed two Pacific Highlands Ranch housing developments at its Jan. 22 meeting: Rancho Milagro, 10 single-family homes planned for Carmel Valley Road just past the Village at Pacific Highlands Ranch, and Laterra, a 69-home development on Village Center Loop Road. Both projects are being developed by Latitude 33. Rancho…
DetailsRancho Valencia, for the first time, has been named No. 1 hotel in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. More than two years after getting a $30 million makeover, the Rancho Valencia Resort & Spa has catapulted to No. 1 in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of top hotels in the…
DetailsToday we share a Cielo estate with a spectacular incentive and and indoor/outdoor Villa in Santaluz with guest casita and 1,000 wine room. Offered by the fabulous Elaine Gallagher of Pacific Sotheby’s International Realty. 8195 Doug Hill, Santaluz Gorgeous Indoor/Outdoor Tuscan Villa with panoramic ocean, golf course and mountain views at the end of a…
DetailsAs we get ready turn the calendar to a new year, it’s a good time not only look back at how the housing market did in 2014, but to use that information to try and predict what is in store for 2015. And while real estate can never offer assurances, here are 5 trends that…
DetailsTwenty design professionals give their highly opinionated takes on what’s trending, and what’s ending, in 2015 Mixed Metals In London, designer Kelly Hoppen says mixing warm metals, such as copper and rose gold, with cool ones like silver is particularly hot right now. Los Angeles designer Jamie Bush agreed, saying he is no longer…
DetailsWhat a weird year it’s been in housing. On the ultra-luxury side, 2014 brought with it several new records. Two nine-figure sales each shattered the previously-held record for America’s most expensive home sale before mid-year. By the end of 2014, a whopping 16 sales had closed at the $50 million price point or higher–a heretofore unheard of volume at this price…
DetailsHappy New Year. Should old interest rates be forgot, let us remind you how low jumbos could go: 4.03% for a 30-year, fixed-rate jumbo in December and 2.81% for a five-year, adjustable rate jumbo in October. But expect more uncertainty in the coming year. Last month, the Federal Reserve hinted at raising interest rates in…
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