California’s homebuying collapse is far different than the nation’s sales dip. My trusty spreadsheet looked for clues in 21 years of sales stats from Attom, tracking closed deals for houses and condos, existing and newly constructed. The deep reluctance of house hunters to buy in 2023 and 2025 was c

An effort to protect a social media marvel and architectural oddity on La Jolla’s Black’s Beach is underway. Whether the cleaning and maintenance serves as a long-term deterrent to vandals and other trespassers remains to be seen. The “Mushroom House,” so nicknamed for its shape, is also known as “B

Banding Community Together: Three Nonprofits, Three Bands, One Night of Unity and Hope March 3 OUR Arts Foundation, Community Resource Center, and Just in Time for Foster Youth are joining forces to raise money to support the transformative work they’re doing in North County. Banding Community Toget

By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate slipped this week below 6% for the first time since late 2022, good news for home shoppers as the spring home-buying season gets rolling. Related Articles SDG&E turned in a much lower profit last year, but still made $563 mil

It’s fairly remarkable that, for all the economic challenges that California life can produce – plus a rocky economy in 2025 – Golden Staters still pay bills better than their fellow Americans. That includes Texans and Floridians. One way to track consumer financial stress is eyeballing the New York

A proposed ballot measure that would impose a hefty tax of as much as $15,000 a year on thousands of empty second homes in San Diego cleared a major hurdle Wednesday when elected leaders agreed to advance it to the full City Council next week. The council’s Rules Committee voted unanimously to move

Enjoy a stroll through the Carlsbad Flower Fields, rock out at a Nine Inch Nails concert, watch the San Diego Opera’s newest production, Carmen, 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 Photo Credit: A

The city of San Diego took a small but consequential step this week to help make possible a long-envisioned bridge in Mission Valley, southwest of the Snapdragon Stadium site, that will offer a rare north-south connection across the San Diego River. Tuesday, San Diego City Councilmembers voted 6-0 t

San Diegans can take advantage of this weekend’s mid-70s forecast by spending time outdoors, attending new plays and exploring cultural events. Admire the beauty of mother nature during the five-day San Diego Bird Festival and the seasonal opening of The Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch. Watch new pr

San Diego closed out last year as part of the shrinking club of U.S. cities with home price growth. The San Diego metropolitan area’s home price increased 0.79% annually in December, according to the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Indices report released Tuesday. That puts it at No.7 in the 19-city index

Delayed by more than a year, downtown San Diego’s long-awaited East Village Green park, which has been under construction since the summer of 2022, will now cost $83.9 million to complete and is slated to open in August. San Diego’s Economic Development & Intergovernmental Relations Committee gave t

“Music, art, and dance are the weapon of the future,” says DJ and cultural leader Makeda “Dread” Cheatom. She would know, having witnessed their power firsthand as a collaborator of some of the most legendary stars in reggae music—and as the founder of San Diego’s Bob Marley Day and the World Beat C

A wedding is a lot like falling in love and opening a spreadsheet at the same time. It plays out like a Hollywood rom-com, with laughter between kisses, lace samples pinned to vision boards, and a refrigerator overflowing with red velvet and jasmine-infused buttercream cake tastings. Then the invoic

San Diego Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera is reviving his proposal to levy a hefty tax on the owners of empty second homes, but in a major reversal, has abandoned his original plan to tax short-term rentals as well. His revised proposal, which calls for an annual levy of $8,000 that would later escala

On the day before their wedding, Alejandro “Jano” Galindo and Dr. Maria Jose “MJ” Galindo weren’t juggling timelines or hustling through the chaos of seating-chart tweaks and last-minute changes. They were rolling out their mats—yoga for him, Pilates for her. “When we sat down to plan, we didn’t sta

Craig Ellwood [1922-1992] remains one of L.A.’s most charismatic and influential Modernist designers. He was not just an architect, but led a prototypical design/build firm with a team of in-house architects that helped bring his visions to reality. Their firm was at the forefront of Post-war Modern

Strewn among the rolling hills of northern Escondido are granite boulders so huge they look like something from Jurassic Park. Snuggled among them, a new home is so closely connected with nature that it brings one massive rock inside as a major design element—and that’s only one example of how this

San Diego County home sales closed out last year at one of its lowest levels ever as elevated home prices and other factors kept buyers and sellers on the sidelines. The county recorded 27,117 home sales in 2025, according to data released this week by Attom Data Solutions. That’s up slightly from 2

By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate slipped this week to its lowest level in more than three years, but remains around 6% in the same narrow range it has been in this year. Related Articles San Diego beach is named No. 1 in the U.S. by Tripadvisor LPL Financial

The reimagining of Chula Vista’s shoreline continues as the Port of San Diego prepares to introduce new public amenities designed to enhance the waterfront expanse opposite the glistening Gaylord resort. Tuesday, the Board of Port Commissioners for the San Diego Unified Port District took the steps