San Diego stands to benefit substantially should it vacate City Hall and make its central downtown real estate available for redevelopment, according to a new report financed by a philanthropic organization with a vested interest in the area’s renaissance. Tuesday, San Diego’s Prebys Foundation and

California consumers started 2026 on an anxious note, with their collective confidence in the economy falling to a five-year low. My trusty spreadsheet’s review of the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index for January showed a 28% decline from December in California’s shopper pysche. It’s a s

Enjoy tributes to legendary musicians, artists and athletes this weekend in San Diego. Concertgoers can experience folk rock at its finest during the multimedia production of The Simon & Garfunkel Story and see Keena’s Echoes of the Queen channel the Tejano stylings of Selena Quintanilla. Art enthus

San Diego’s home market might be slow, but compared to the rest of the U.S., it’s still one of the few markets with price growth. The San Diego metropolitan area’s home price increased 0.32% annually in November, said the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Indices report released Tuesday. The region was No.

Architect of the Capitol workers clear snow outside the U.S. Capitol, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) Workers shovel snow from a sidewalk in downtown Indianapolis, on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Obed Lamy) People walk on a snow-covered street as a winter

Architect of the Capitol workers clear snow outside the U.S. Capitol, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) Workers shovel snow from a sidewalk in downtown Indianapolis, on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Obed Lamy) People walk on a snow-covered street as a winter

February brings half-off museum admission, a theatrical ode to Julia Child, a community festival in Encanto, a Lunar New Year celebration, and more. Here are all the best things to do this month in San Diego: Concerts & Festivals | Theater & Art Exhibits | More Fun Things to Do Concerts & Festivals

A new study says buying a home in San Diego should be more affordable by the end of this year. The forecast from Seattle-based Zillow doesn’t say buying in San Diego will soon be “affordable” by any economic measure — just that it should be better than it is now for new buyers. Affordability is a lo

Why aren’t cash-strapped house hunters flocking to condos, Southern California’s relative housing bargain? My trusty spreadsheet reviewed Attom sales data for the six-county region from November 2025 back to 2005. It found that the recent affordability-linked sales slump has been little different fo

Laurel Canyon is the legendary corner of the Hollywood Hills that is a secluded, woodsy neighborhood retreat for film stars and musicians, writers and dreamers since the 1960s. Quantifying a deeply casual style, Laurel Canyon is ground zero for boho chic and the location of some of L.A.’s most wonde

Investors own roughly one in six of California’s single-family residences. That’s what my trusty spreadsheet found after reviewing a BatchData report that estimates investor ownership of houses and townhomes nationwide. Investors in this study include everything from giant companies controlling thou

By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate ticked higher this week, but remains near its lowest level in more than three years. Related Articles This San Diego investment fund has too much money Under Armour looking into data breach affecting customers’ email addresse

San Diego apartment construction is set to slow in 2026, but it will probably be hard to notice. Across the county, 3,670 apartments are expected to open this year, said real estate tracker CoStar. That’s down from 6,176 in 2025 — the region’s highest in 25 years of data — but still above historical

The 23-year-old Escondido native was trawling YouTube at 13 when he discovered parkour, a sport that evolved from military training in France in the early 1900s—palm-sweat-inducing stuff that involves people jumping off buildings, saving themselves by grabbing a lamppost, or scaling city structures

San Diego County home sales hit their second-lowest point of the year in November as mortgage rates ticked up. Across the county, 1,913 homes sold in November, down 22.4% from the previous month, according to figures released Tuesday by Attom Data Solutions. November is typically a slower month for

The San Diego Community College District is seeking to raze San Diego’s Golden Hall and replace it with a five-story museum and educational building that centers around the district’s growing collection of African art. The redevelopment proposal is expected to be solidified during a formal negotiati

Here’s some modest relief for California house hunters: values were falling in 88% of the state as 2025 ended. To get a local sense of where prices are going, my trusty spreadsheet reviewed home value data from Zillow for 125 of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas, including 16 from California.

So, the guy comes out of the closet, and he’s got both passports and a gun with a silencer…” Matthew Quirk pauses his muttering into his phone to wave at a family passing by him on Bessemer Path in Point Loma. Docked boats float on one side, while palatial homes overlook the trail on the other. Chec

Peruse pictures of vineyard estates in California, and you’ll see Tuscan dwellings of stone, tile-roofed stucco mansions, and wood-sided barnhouses. Christian and Anna Zaleschuk’s hilltop home in Fallbrook, however, crushes those clichés like grapes. The Zaleschuks had lived for several years on a f

Originally built in 1938 for actress and singer Virginia Bruce, a classic blonde film stars of the 1930s, this Pacific Palisades estate is an equally classic version of California’s iconic Colonial Revival style—bringing a nostalgia for a traditional East Coast aesthetic to the West. With exceptiona