San Diego County was on track for its lowest-ever home sale year as mortgage rates and prices stayed high to end the year.Through November, CoreLogic data shows 25,998 home sales. At that sales pace and with interest rates near 7% at the end of December, 2024 could take the crown for slowest year fr

Filled with theoretical promise, the mostly finished Campus at Horton is a hollow shell of what should be, by now, an employment hub and public attraction demonstrating downtown San Diego’s greatest strengths.More than six years after buying the iconic real estate, developer Stockdale Capital Partne

The images of the fires in Los Angeles stopped some Harmony Grove residents cold.Debbie O’Neill knows the stress of evacuating as fire bears down. A decade ago, she and her husband fled after they saw the flames from the Cocos fire crest a nearby hill and hurtle down toward their Harmony Grove home.

As the one-year anniversary of historic San Diego flooding nears, the county Assessor’s Office is reminding property owners affected by it to file for property tax relief ahead of the upcoming deadline on Wednesday.Flood victims who had at least $10,000 in damage to their home or commercial property

No shade on a coffee date (I’ve gone on many great ones!), but you could do that anywhere. When living in a place people select as their proposal destination, the pressure’s on to pick a Valentine’s Day destination that will make you and your sweetie feel like all those twitterpated critters in Bamb

I’m not sure I remember the last time I woke up feeling refreshed. I’m told there are those whose eyes open each morning and they don’t feel tired or groggy or like they just ran a marathon hours earlier. My insomnia began sometime after college and, over the years, has gone from being an annoying o

“I started playing golf when I was 16,” David Moon says. “I’m married to the game, and I love this brand.”His affection for Honma Golf is understandable. Clubs from the BERES line, with smooth metals dyed silver, gold, and red, look more like pieces of jewelry than they do sporting goods. It’s Moon’

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La Jolla was a jewel in the luxury buyer’s eye in 2024.Two La Jolla sales — both for $35 million — were tied for the biggest home sales of the year. Other than those sales, it was a slower year for luxury housing, which mirrored a down sales year for the whole market. The region’s biggest-ever home

Spin Nightclub has been a cornerstone of San Diego’s nightlife scene for 18 years. It’s where genres collide, communities thrive, and music pounds through the early hours. But now, under the ownership of nightlife industry vets Brandon Colt and Brandon Garva, who bought the club last August, it’s en

Quiet for much of last year, particularly amid speculation about the prospects of its mega projects, San Diego-based life science real estate developer IQHQ appears to be taking a different tack in 2025.The firm announced last week that it raised $900 million in capital in 2024 from existing equity

“The banks deemed this home uninhabitable while we were trying to secure a loan [in 2018],” says renowned Southern California designer Raili Clasen. “It was vacant and decrepit for years, but the house’s bones were amazing.”Modest for the secluded and high-dollar neighborhood of Rancho Santa Fe, the

This is the second in a four-part series. See the first piece here and check back next week for updates on SDM staff writer Danielle Allaire’s month-long sobriety quest.People touch your life for brief moments, with varying degrees of intensity—and sometimes the short-lived ones hit the hardest. Str

How will the California economy handle the Los Angeles wildfires’ early repair estimates running between $50 billion to $150 billion?Well, much of those rebuilding funds will be from insurance. Other payments will be covered by various governments and their assistance programs. There will be charity

For nearly 17 years, Jeff Javier, his wife Jina, and their two children have been at the heart of Father Joe’s Villages, San Diego’s largest homeless services provider, as dedicated volunteers. As the organization celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2025, its story embodies the compassion and commitm

If walls could talk, the ones at 2812 Kettner Boulevard could tell some gnarly tales. “I have pictures from Casbah owner [Tim Mays] with Kurt Cobain singing in that space; Alanis Morissette sang in that space,” explains Robert Richter.That space was the original location of San Diego’s iconic indie-

On a makeshift platform stage, San Diego rock band Silver Bullet stands poised before a packed crowd of 400 in a steamy backyard. Eager whispers ripple through the air—someone mentions that the leather-vested guitarist broke the stage at the band’s last show. Suddenly, a roar of instruments cuts thr

When Kerry Marsh turned 70 last July, his wife Corinne threw a party at their oceanview home in Del Mar. The laidback festivities made full use of its friendly, open spaces. While a favorite musician performed Willie Nelson’s “Always on my Mind,” the couple’s three grown children and a smattering of

There is a quiet bustling at the northern end of Balboa Park as a multi-year project nears its grand reveal. Groundskeepers, lighting techs, and botanists line the walkways as workers scale ladders to bring state-of-the-art lighting to a building that used to fall dark by dusk. A light mist travels

The worst wildfire in Los Angeles County’s history is still raging after three days of destruction. Nearly 30,000 acres have burned across Palisades, Eaton, and Hurst, reducing 2,000 structures–businesses, homes, schools–to rubble. Currently, 130,000 residents are under evacuation order and at least