By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes remained sluggish in August, even as a late-summer slide in mortgage rates brought home loan borrowing costs to a 10-month low. Existing home sales slipped 0.2% last month from July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4 mi

Fall in San Diego means crisp evenings, festive décor, and of course, pumpkin patches. Whether you’re looking for a full farm experience with hayrides and corn mazes or just a quick spot to pick the perfect pumpkin and snap a few photos, San Diego County has plenty of options for families. Here are

Fall is here and the smell of beer is in the air. While flights to Munich are a bit pricey and will set you back 12 hours, San Diego’s Oktoberfest celebrations offer a much cheaper alternative—minus the jetlag. If you needed an excuse to drink beer, listen to live music, and dig your lederhosen and

Fall has officially arrived and while some may be mourning the end of summer, the city is ensuring you have plenty of ways to get out and about and enjoy the new season. The menu for this weekend includes a pair of eco-friendly festivals at the second annual Wasted event and the inaugural San Diego

Roughly 1-in-5 California households have housing expenses gobbling up more than half of their incomes. My trusty spreadsheet identified numerous affordability challenges by analyzing 2024 Census Bureau housing data for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. These latest figures detail swings i

A mansion in the Coronado Cays went for $24.1 million at a Hong Kong auction last week after years of struggling to find a buyer. The newly built mansion at 3 The Point went on sale in November 2023 for $43 million, but had its priced reduced to $37.5 million a year later. The sellers then turned to

By ALEX VEIGA, Associated Press Two of the nation’s biggest real estate services companies are combining in a deal that will bring Century 21, Compass and several other major brokerage brands under the same umbrella. New York-based Compass has agreed to acquire rival Anywhere Real Estate in an all-s

San Diego leaders are promoting a new way to help solve the local housing crisis: apartment complexes fully constructed inside factories and then transported to a city neighborhood for quick installation. Such apartments can rent for less than units in new apartment complexes constructed traditional

How divided are America’s feelings about California? Ponder a curious poll of 1,000 American adults conducted for Clever Real Estate, which asked about various traits of the 50 states. My trusty spreadsheet’s review of this popularity contest dug into the nation’s love-hate relationship with the Gol

One way Californians cope with pricey housing is by squeezing more than the typical number of people into their living spaces. My trusty spreadsheet identified this affordability twist by analyzing 2024 Census Bureau housing details for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. These latest figure

David Lynch was a surpassingly brilliant individual, a film and television director/producer who would irrevocably change what we see on our screens. From the 1977 Eraserhead to the 1986 Blue Velvet and beyond, Lynch challenged the concept of the banal and of lives swept aside by horror. His work wi

San Diego is the epicenter of surfing in the mainland United States, it’s in our DNA. The greats of surfboard design—Skip Frye, Rusty Preisendorfer, Gary Linden and Justin Ternes—got their start in the city. The fish and the egg surfboard shapes were first pioneered in San Diego waters and are large

San Diego’s home market was as quiet as ever during the dog days of summer. The median home price was $900,000 in July in San Diego County, according to Attom Data Solutions, which combines sales of single-family homes, townhouses and condos. The median has been unchanged for five months and flat an

Here is yet another way to look at the financial challenges of California homeownership: Recurring costs eat up more than half of household income for roughly 1 in 6 owners statewide. My trusty spreadsheet identified this affordability challenge by analyzing 2024 Census Bureau housing data for the 5

We don’t spend enough time discussing the financial burden renters face, such as housing expenses eating up more than half of the incomes of roughly 1-in-4 California tenants. My trusty spreadsheet identified this affordability challenge by analyzing 2024 Census Bureau housing data for the 50 states

“Sometimes people say, ‘Hey, I saw your pot on Etsy for $1,000,’ and I probably sold it for about $100. But I would make pots even if I couldn’t sell them. I’d give them away if I had to. At 15, I managed to sneak into the Marine Corps. I was six-foot-one-and-a-half and weighed 200 pounds. They didn

Here’s a smidgen of good news for California house hunters: Mild discounting is underway. My trusty spreadsheet peeked at a Zillow report tracking total home values for the year ending in June and the pandemic era — February 2020 through June 2025. Zillow totaled all of its price estimates for every

Listen to our Ultimate California Mixtape below featuring each artist Some of the most famous musicians on the planet got their start in California—the Eagles, the Grateful Dead, Cher, Snoop Dogg, and Fergie, to name a modest handful. But before they were topping charts and selling out stadiums, the

Joseph Eichler—the Bay Area poultry-and-egg merchant who saw an opportunity to build Modernist homes for returning GI’s after WWII after living in a rented Frank Lloyd Wright home—would go on to  become one of California’s most influential and prolific developers. His firm built over 11,000 homes th

San Diego renters are no strangers to high prices, but a new Serra Mesa complex might cause sticker shock. AMLI Aero has an average rent of $4,014 a month for a one-bedroom unit, said real estate tracker CoStar, $5,049 for a two-bedroom, and $6,136 for three bedrooms. Its first residents move in Fri