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La Jolla boards hear hotel plan for Prospect Street
The team that opened the Orli Hotel in a former B&B on Draper Avenue now...

New ‘high-luxury’ mixed-use complex proposed for Pearl Street in La Jolla
The 20,925-square-foot, two-story project would feature five residential units and an ADU, plus a restaurant...

These San Diego luxury homes have been for sale for a year, or longer
San Diego County homes costing $6 million and up are taking an average 633 days...

‘Look out for a slowdown’: San Diego home sales slump despite more listings
In a normal market, more homes listed for sale equal more transactions. That's not happening...

New North Tower at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla set to open June 1
Seven-story structure is second half of $1.1 billion two-tower construction project.

San Diego rents falling in some areas
The most expensive markets have seen rent reductions and less expensive areas, like National City,...

Zillow forecasts San Diego home values to drop for the first time in years
Zillow predicts San Diego County home values will drop 1.1% in a year

San Diego’s unpopular ADU incentive ‘has been exploited’ by developers, needs ‘guardrails,’ planners say
City planners want bigger fixes for San Diego's bonus ADU program than Mayor Todd Gloria...

Shores opposes six-home Cielo Mar plan; next stop: S.D. Planning Commission
The proposal would consolidate three parcels on La Jolla Shores Drive and subdivide them into...

Prolific local architect’s house going on the market with his grandson representing it
The La Jolla Shores home of the late Dale Naegle, who designed the famed 'Mushroom...

San Diego home prices are rising, but will it last?
The county's median home price was $886,500 in February, up 4.1% in a year

La Jolla development reviewers give thumbs down to revised Wrelton Drive home plan
The proposed remodeling of a fire-damaged house still draws local concerns, as does absence of...

Plans for home development on vacant La Jolla lot get S.D. hearing officer’s approval
The proposal calls for a 4,792-square-foot two-story house with an attached garage at the southwest...

San Diego needs more money to enforce vacation rentals so it’s raising licensing fees
Hosts who rent out their entire homes for at least 90 days out of the...

Planned La Jolla food hall draws ‘tons’ of interest from possible tenants, proponent says
The former U.S. Bank building at 7733 Girard Ave. could have up to seven restaurants

San Diego City Council will reconsider key ADU incentive in unexpected shift from pro-housing stance
Council unanimously agreed not only to nix the controversial 'Footnote 7' zoning loophole but...

S.D. council upholds Planning Commission approval of Adelante Townhomes in La Jolla
An appeal of the 13-unit townhouse building with ground-floor retail proposed for Bird Rock had...

San Diego on track for its slowest-ever home sales year
High mortgage rates and prices have led to low home sales in San Diego County

S.D. hearing officer OKs Bird Rock home development, despite fears that it will be a short-term rental
The project would tear down a house on Calumet Avenue and replace it with one...

La Jolla development committee sees revised plans for Wrelton Drive ‘eyesore’
The project for a three-story, 4,800-square-foot house is back following comments from local planners and...

La Jolla planning group s six-house Cielo Mar development
Nearby residents still have concerns about the project, which a local architect calls the largest...

Proposed Shores house raises concerns at review committee hearing
The project calls for a 6,527-square-foot home with a 4,992-square-foot basement

La Jolla planners replacing Shores house with one six times the size
The project also would include six parking spaces and a front-yard pool

San Diego home sales pick up; single-family home price nears $1 million
There were 2,372 San Diego County home sales in October, a 19% jump from September

San Diego, Southern California to see modest rent hikes by 2026, study says
Average rent will rise $133 per month in San Diego County over two years, and...

La Jolla reviewers hear size and view concerns over proposed Country Club-area home
A plan for Encelia Drive would replace a 3,500-square-foot house with an 11,043-square-foot house

San Diego home buyers in a ‘holding pattern’? Home sales plunge
In San Diego County, it was the lowest sales month for a September in records...

Are San Diego’s homes listed too high? One study thinks so
San Diego County homes are taking longer to sell and 34 percent of current listings...

Opulent La Jolla oceanside mansion goes for sale for a record $108M. Can anyone afford it?
The Sand Castle mansion at 1900 Spindrift Drive could smash previous San Diego sale records.

Four La Jolla residential projects to return to permit reviewers
Two proposals in the Country Club area and one each in the Barber Tract and...

‘Every week seems like a different market’: San Diego home price drops, down $20K from peak
There were 2,564 home sales in August, which is up from record lows in January...

Project with 5 mansions approved for La Jolla
The homes will be on the Foxhill Estate, once owned by newspaper family the Copleys

Plans submitted for 5 mansions on Foxhill site in La Jolla
The new development would be on the Foxhill Estate, a storied property.

More homes for sale as San Diego housing market picks up
The number of home listings in San Diego County hit their highest point of the...

La Jolla Shores residential land sells for $35 million
The sale at 8303 La Jolla Shores Drive ties the record for biggest sale in...

The ‘most unaffordable housing market in history’? San Diego No. 2 in nation for rising home prices
S&P Case-Shiller Indices reports San Diego is No.2 in rising home prices

S.D. Planning Commission OKs project to demolish and replace La Casa de los Amigos
Some elements will remain, but the century-old historic house is said to be 'compromised' by...

La Jolla planners hold out hope for redevelopment of Chase Bank property
LJA votes to ask Chase, which bought the building it occupies on Girard Avenue in...

Historical Resources Board designates ‘complicated’ La Jolla Shores house as historic
It is deemed representative of the work of master architects Robert Mosher and Roy Drew,...

Area rental vacancy rates show increase and prices drop, housing survey says
Average rent fell about 7% over a year countywide and about 3% in the city...

What loophole? San Diego’s elected leaders think short-term rental rules are working
Despite complaints that a loophole in current regulations is allowing apartment buildings to be transformed...

UCSD opens new seven-story building just off campus in La Jolla
Photo gallery: The formerly titled La Jolla Innovation Center, now called the 8980 Building, will...

San Diego aims to take private property in La Jolla for Coastal Rail Trail
The city intends to carry out eminent domain to use two parcels on Gilman Drive.

Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines resort sells for $165 million
Purchase by L.A.-based investment firm is San Diego's single biggest hotel deal so far this...

UC San Diego gets OK to build historic 6,000-bed housing village
The school got permission from University of California regents Thursday to build one of the...

Foxhill estate in La Jolla listed for short-term rentals
The mansion that recently was part of La Jolla’s most expensive property sale is available...

UC San Diego poised to super-size dorms to ease chronic housing shortage
Chancellor Pradeep Khosla will ask UC Regents this week to let him spend $2 billion...

San Diego OK’d more new homes in 2023 than any year in decades
Officials say the surge in approved units shows incentives are working, but the city remains...

La Jolla’s Balling Building marks 100 years of retail in The Village
The building on Silverado Street, which also has two apartments on the second floor, has...

La Jolla Shores duplex renovation wins award for historic preservation
The project on El Paseo Grande is honored for preserving the building’s signature features and...

‘Tearing down history’: Duplex development proposed for Cave Street worries local historian
Landmark Committee leader Seonaid McArthur is dismayed by the possible effects on neighborhood character and...

Local group’s redevelopment plan for Chase Bank building in La Jolla is off after Chase buys it
The Girard Avenue property was to have been converted into a commercial-residential project.

La Jolla permit committee approves Bird Rock and Country Club projects
Unlike its previous meeting — when all three proposals that went before the La Jolla...

Bishop’s School still seeking ‘a good match’ for former Jack in the Box site
Location on Pearl Street in La Jolla remains unleased and fenced off, drawing some residents'...

La Jolla Shores review committee s renovation, reconstruction and wall projects
Concern from a neighbor about a planned second story was the only thing that prevented...

$35 million for property including Foxhill estate is biggest-ever La Jolla residential sale
The 32-acre property including the Foxhill estate, formerly owned by developer Doug Manchester, sold for...

La Jolla Shores committee gives OK to two home projects, asks a third to return
Two of the three projects that went before the La Jolla Shores Permit Review Committee...

Proposal for new accessory dwelling unit gets approval from La Jolla reviewers
The La Jolla Development Permit Review Committee gave its approval to a proposal for an...

Legal settlement could end 6% real estate commissions and reduce San Diego home prices
San Diego County homeowners could see a drop in the cost to sell properties after...

Proponents of planned Bird Rock cafe renovation say infrastructure concerns ‘did not fall on deaf ears’
The owners of a Bird Rock restaurant property eyed for renovation as a sidewalk cafe...

Application to redevelop Red Roost and Red Rest property is suspended due to inactivity
Plans to redevelop the historic Red Roost and Red Rest cottages property in La Jolla...

La Jolla Christian Fellowship expansion gets Community Planning Association backing
The role of parking in a plan to expand the La Jolla Christian Fellowship education...

Home of the week: 8794 Dunaway Dr. La Jolla, 92037
3BR | 2BAFantastic opportunity to own in La Jolla Shores. Beautiful single level home with...

Plans for sidewalk cafe in long-vacant Bird Rock restaurant space get mixed response from La Jolla boards
Plans to renovate the exterior of a former Bird Rock cafe with the hope of...

‘That is brutal’: Proposal for Windansea townhouse development meets with criticism from La Jolla committee
“Cookie cutter” was among the adjectives that of the La Jolla Development Permit Review...

La Jolla preservationists ‘fear’ San Diego initiative that may loosen historic-protection rules for buildings
San Diego's historic-protection rules for homes and other buildings, often criticized as playing a role...

La Jolla has two of the five priciest San Diego County home sales of 2023
the caviar. La Jolla had two of San Diego County's five most expensive home...

Carrizo Lots four-home development gets approval from La Jolla DPR Committee on third hearing
Armed with new renderings and plans for stormwater control, the applicant team behind a proposed...

Long-vacant La Jolla lot is eyed for renovation into sidewalk cafe
A long-empty commercial space in Bird Rock may get new life if a planned remodel...

Two La Jolla Shores home projects on large lots get permit reviewers’ OK
Two development projects on large hillside lots got the La Jolla Shores Permit Review Committee's...

Water worries continue to bog down Carrizo Lots project in La Jolla’s Country Club area
Despite plans to focus on the details of the houses, discussion of water issues associated...

Multiple meetings are planned to review ‘huge’ Country Club-area home-build project in La Jolla
A four-home project planned for the Country Club area went before the La Jolla Development...

San Diego OKs sweeping package of new incentives to build housing
The city of San Diego took an aggressive step toward addressing the local housing shortage...

Local agent Patty Cohen is honored by La Jolla Real Estate Brokers Association
La Jolla agent Patty Cohen of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties was recently presented with...

La Jolla planners look to close debate over Coast Walk with vote of for home project
Looking to conclude the matter for the time being, the La Jolla Community Planning Association...

More La Jolla businesses are facing rent increases, spelling big trouble for some
While new businesses continue to open across La Jolla, others are struggling with rent issues,...

San Diego housing production must triple if the city is to meet its state-mandated goal, new report says
San Diego is falling far short of its goals for production of new housing, despite...

Rejected San Diego housing package will return to City Council in December with changes
A controversial package of housing measures rejected by the San Diego City Council last week...

Home of the Week – 5383 Chelsea St #204, La Jolla
Open House Sat 1-4 PM2 BD | 2 BA | 1,385 SF | $1,665,000HEART OF...

Ex-San Diegan has a tailor-made homecoming in Windansea
Sometimes the old adage “You can’t go home again” is simply untrue. At least it...

Home of the Week, 5383 Chelsea St #204, La Jolla
JUST LISTED!Open House Sat 1-4 PM2 BD | 2 BA | 1,385 SF | $1,665,000HEART...

Package of housing incentives faces revisions after S.D. council rejects it amid debate over low-income homes
A wide-ranging package of housing incentives faces likely revisions after the San Diego City Council...

Bird Rock council decides not to take a position on Adelante Townhomes project
The year-long local debate on a controversial, revised plan to build a 13-unit townhome building...

La Jolla planners Coast Walk home project with an unconventional condition
The La Jolla Community Planning Association took an unusual route in approving a home project...

La Jolla home of famed late oceanographer Walter Munk to be listed on San Diego historic
More than two years after the La Jolla home of famed late oceanographer Walter Munk...

La Jolla committee s home remodel on Coast Walk after continued discussion of property lines
Looking to wrap up a conversation that started the week before, the La Jolla Development...

Home of the Week, 1796 Soledad, La Jolla
6 BD | 9 BA | 7,770 sqftThe epitome of La Jolla luxury! This meticulously...

Defining public right of way on Coast Walk draws debate
An argument over property lines and who can do what and where broke out during...

Redevelopment plan for Chase Bank property gets approval from La Jolla PDO Committee
A plan to redevelop the property where Chase Bank sits in La Jolla's Village cleared...

Bird Rock home project gets Community Planning Association approval despite privacy concerns over decks
Despite lingering concerns about the roof deck and decks planned for the second floor next...

Debate about structure spacing is revived as La Jolla planners OK Muirlands-area home development
A sporadic issue that comes up during some project reviews was revisited during the La...

Bird Rock council still stuck on Adelante Townhomes decision
After another nearly two-hour hearing on the proposed Adelante Townhomes project, the Bird Rock Community...

Home of the Week, 5550 La Jolla Hermosa, La Jolla
5 BD | 4.5 BA | 2,959 Sq.Ft.This modern coastal craftsman offers a harmonious blend...

Home of the Week – 5727 Baja Mar, La Jolla
5 Beds | 7.5 Baths | 9,176 SF | $14,300,000Newly remodeled and expanded, this custom...

With retail added, Adelante Townhomes proposal goes back to Bird Rock council, with no decision
The developer's reversal of a controversial decision to exclude ground-floor retail in the proposed Adelante...

Home of the Week – 1720 Torrey Pines Rd, La Jolla
3+ BD/3 BA | 3,125 SF | 0.91 Acre LotUnparalleled ocean views from La Jolla...

Home of the Week, 1937 Paseo Dorado, La Jolla
3 BD | 4 BA | 2,793 SF | 6,800 SF Lot• Amazing location next...

Home of the Week, 6729 Avenida Andorra, La Jolla
4 BD | 2.5 BA | 2,665 SF$3,600,000Spectacular single-level, mid-century modern home in Muirlands West...

Home of the Week, 5383 Chelsea St #302, La Jolla
Open House Sat & Sun 12pm - 3pm2 BD | 2 BA | 1,342 SF...

Rental of the Week, 520 Marine St, La Jolla
3 BD | 3 BALa Jolla Village Rental, Steps to the Beach, Surfing, Schools, Shops...