San Diego real estate blog - Peter Toner

April 2005 Median Home Prices for selected towns in San Diego County: Carlsbad, Chula Vista, El Cajon, Encinitas, Escondido, Fallbrook, Imperial Beach, La Jolla, La Mesa, Lakeside, Lemon Grove, National City, Oceanside, Poway, Ramona, San Diego, San Marcos, Santee, Solana Beach, Spring Valley and Vista.
The price statistics are derived from all types of home sales [...]

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Why the supply of California homes for sale will likely remain difficult:
Proposition 13 - was passed by nearly two-thirds of California’s voters on June 6th, 1978. Property tax rates could not now exceed 1 percent of the property’s market value and valuations couldn’t grow by more than 2% per annum unless the property was sold. [...]

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Wednesday, August 17 - Sunday, August 21, 2005 | 9:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
The 2005 Festival of Sail brings the waterfront to life with a dockside festival with fun for the whole family featuring more than a dozen tall ships from around the world.
The festival will stretch along the North Embarcadero from Ash [...]

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Back in 1997, five agencies (CCDC, The City of San Diego, The County of San Diego, The San Diego Unified Port District and the United States Navy) came together to come up with a plan for the redevelopment of San Diego’s bay front.
In 2003, the Joint Powers Authority planned with designers Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut [...]

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Termite swarmers are the future breeders of a termite colony. Their function is to disperse, find mates and start new colonies, but they are themselves harmless and rarely cause damage. Worker termites are the evil destructive members of the colony that do cause the damage to homes. The presence of termite swarmers is generally a [...]

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The pending home sales index is a tool that the National Association of Realtors uses to track existing properties that are currently in escrow, counting houses and condo’s.
Compared to March 2004 overall pending home sales are up 1.7% but down 0.3% from February this year.
In the Northeast: dropped to 4.1% [...]

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Environmental Protection Agency rates air quality improvements: San Diego made the top 10, in the country’s ” most improved air quality index” report, published by the Pacific Research and American Enterprise Institute’s.
There are 94 metropolitan areas with a population of more than 500,000 that have been monitored over a 12 year period the areas [...]

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The California Housing finance Agency has created a more friendly 1st time buyer loan. 35 year fixed rate mortgage offering interest only payments for the first 5 years that will save hundreds of dollars a month in mortgage payments. The maximum income for a single or couple borrowing is $92,160 or income for 3 [...]

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