I’ve been saying this for a couple of weeks! La Jolla’s Real Estate Market is starting to heat up! This weekend I was showing homes in La Jolla, and at every home I showed there were number of buyers viewing it too. As La Jolla Realtor I can feel that our market is starting to change! Buyers are realizing that if La Jolla home values are not at their bottom they are pretty close to it, they don’t want to miss their chances of buying a new La Jolla home!
As you can see, the Market Action Index shows this week the median price of a La Jolla is $1,449,000. The average days a La Jolla home is on the market is going down! Its now 175 days! There are currently only 245 properties on the market! This means homes that are priced right are selling, some even had multiple offers!
The La Jolla properties have been on the market for an average 175 days! While half of the listings have come newly on the market in the past 98 days or so.
If you are thinking of buying a La Jolla don’t wait much longer! You don’t want to look back in a year from now and say “I wished I bought my home in the Spring of 2012!”
Feel free to call me 619-980-2738 or email me at Michelle@viewsoflajolla.com to learn more about La Jolla’s real estate market or for a free Comparable Market Analysis (CMA) of the value of your home. I’m here to help!
Sunday April 22, 2012
Balboa Park 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
EarthFair in Balboa Park is the largest free annual environmental fair in the world. Each year, the EarthFair draws around 70,000 visitors. There are more than 400 volunteers, over 350 exhibitors, special theme areas, a Food Pavilion, a special Kids’ Activity Area, three entertainment venues, the Children’s Earth Parade, the eARTh Gallery art show, and the Cleaner Car Concourse. To find more Earth Day activities visit their website.
April 13-15
One of my favorite exhibits in San Diego is Art Alive at The San Diego Museum of Art! The San Diego Museum of Art invites floral designers into the galleries to interpret some of the greatest art in San Diego’s collection. Masterpieces from world-renowned artists such as El Greco, Degas, Monet, and Renior can be seen side by side their floral doubles
The Museum celebrates these four floral-filled days with a host of special events. Art Alive kicks off on Thursday evening on April 12 with an Opening Celebration featuring a sneak peek at the flowers and tastes from several of San Diego’s top restaurants. Friday night, the Museum and guests radiate at Flowers After Hours, an enhanced evening experience. As the DJ spins, guests will dance the night away, sip on captivating cocktails, taste tantalizing treats and participate in art-making activities. Saturday and Sunday, experience a garden of projects for children and families to enjoy together at the Garden of Activities. Activities will include creating flower arrangements from art materials, reading nature-inspired stories in the children’s reading area, building a paper garden on the walls, and participating in a Museum-wide, flower-related search and find activity.
Art Alive has been a San Diego tradition for the past 30 years! It’s the Museum’s signature fundraiser, providing critical support for the permanent collection.
As a La Jolla homeowner there are always two dreaded dates on a the Calendar! The fist installment is due on December 10th, and the second installment is due on April 10th! Why? Those are the dates that property taxes are due!
If you are La Jolla home buyer can you feel it? La Jolla’s Real Estate market is starting to get stronger! Home Buyers are beginning to find, the homes that they are bidding on have multiple offers! For those of us who are Realtors, La Jolla’s market feels dramatically different than last year’s.
The Market Action Index shows that La Jolla’s median home price has risen to $1,495,000 and the number of properties on the market has dropped to 249. (Less homes for buyers to choose from)
As you can see on the Action Index chart the Median Price is increasing!
If you’re a Buyer, interest rates will undoubtedly start rising and the fees associated with them will definitely go UP! So if you are STILL waiting for La Jolla’s home values to go down further, unfortunately you might have already missed the mark. Last year’s Buyers capitalized on what could have been the bottom and next year’s Buyers will likely wonder why they didn’t purchase in 2012
If you are thinking of buying or selling your home, or want to FREE Comparable Market Analysis (CMA) feel free give me a call 619-980-2738! I would love to help!
If you are a frequent reader of my blog then you know I love to garden. To celebrate Spring, San Diego offers a variety of fabulous garden shows. Where you can stroll through wonderful garden paths and admire beautifully manicured gardens, full of amazing colors and beauty. From now until the end of May, dozens of private gardens will open their gates to appreciative visitors as part of 19 unique garden tours listed below. (via San Digeo Union Tribune) Many of the garden tours are also fundraisers to wonderful causes in our community. Tickets are available online or at area businesses listed on the sponsoring organizations’ websites.
Here are the list of Spring Garden Tours for 2012!
Sunday
14th Annual Borrego Garden Tour
Art abounds in the six tour gardens in Borrego Springs. One 4-acre oasis with a stream and seven waterfalls surrounds a Drew Hubble-designed straw-bale home. Another landscape is prowled by sculptor Ricardo Breceda’s metal dinosaurs.
Tickets: $18
Details: abdnha.org
March 31
San Diego Horticultural Society “Garden Tour for the Senses”
Nine diverse landscapes in Mount Helix/La Mesa range from a Rosarian-tended garden with 600 rosebushes, an edibles garden that supplies the owner’s two restaurants and a Ryan Prange-designed contemporary garden around an award-winning midcentury home. Last stop is Perennial Adventure display garden and nursery.
Tickets: $25 ($20 in advance for SDHS and La Mesa Beautiful members)
Details: sdhortsoc.org
April 13
24th Annual Lake Hodges Native Plant Club Spring Garden Tour
Three of the five water-wise tour gardens replaced thirsty lawns. Located in Poway and Rancho Bernardo, all showcase succulents, California natives and other Mediterranean-climate plants. Refreshments, plant sale and garden-product vendors.
Tickets: $15
Details: LHNPC.org
April 15
10th Annual California Native Plant Garden Tour
Tour goers are guided past 15 front-yard gardens in the historic Seaside neighborhood of downtown Oceanside. Along the 1½-mile route, native plant experts will answer questions and refreshments will be sold.
Tickets: Free
Details: ocna.info
April 19
Bernardo Gardeners Garden Tour
A garden reborn from the ashes of the 2007 wildfire is one of five tour gardens spread across four Rancho Bernardo neighborhoods. An organic vegetable garden and a bird and butterfly garden also are featured. Free refreshments and a color bowl sale.
Tickets: $15
Details: bernardogardeners.org
April 21
Encinitas Garden Festival & Tour
Twenty-plus tour gardens in Leucadia range from a bird lover’s native plant refuge to an oasis of rare tropical plants and artists’ hideaways filled with sculptures, including a collection of cows. Garden marketplace, food vendors and free talks.
Tickets: Adults $21, children $7 in advance; adults $25, children $10 on event day
Details: encinitasgardenfestival.org
April 21-22
“A Floral Olympiad” — The 87th Annual Coronado Flower Show
A festive tent in Spreckels Park is home to floral displays, information booths, a beer garden and entertainment. Maps are available there for drive-by visits to winning front-yard gardens around the village.
Tickets: $5
Details: coronadoflowershow.org
April 28
17th Annual Friends of East County Arts Garden Tour
Dick Streeper, rose columnist for this newspaper for many years, opens his garden for this tour. A putting green, boccie court, outdoor chess set, ponds and other garden amenities fill the other five tour stops located around East County. Craft vendors and refreshments.
Tickets: $15 in advance; $18 on event day
Details: friendsofecarts.org
11th Annual Point Loma Garden Walk
Eight large gardens and a couple of the homes they surround will open for touring in the bay-view La Playa area of Point Loma. Included are two Michael Buckner garden designs, a Tuscan villa with a vineyard and a historic home with an art-embellished succulent garden. New this year is the Dana Diamond escorted tour with transportation and lunch. Garden Boutique and plant sale.
Tickets: $25
Details: pointlomagardenwalk.com
Ramona Garden Club Spring Sale and Garden Tour
A parklike landscape with panoramic vistas, a cactus and succulent garden and a 250-bush rose garden are among the seven stops around rural Ramona on this self-guided tour. Plant sale, vendors and opportunity drawing at the Ramona Library.
Tickets: $20
Details: ramonagardenclub.com
April 28-29
“Go Wild!” — San Diego Native Garden Tour
Twenty-five native plant gardens across the county are featured on this inaugural two-day tour. Included are stops at home and public gardens as well as landscape restorations. Talks, plant sale and marketplace, chance drawing for a garden design.
Tickets: $20
Details: cnpssd.org/tour
May 4-6
“Water-wise and Butterflies” — 15th Annual Sage & Songbirds Festival and Garden Tour
A three-day tour of six bird- and butterfly-friendly gardens in Alpine plus a raptor rehabilitation facility is part of this festival; it includes a free butterfly release, a habitat plant sale, information booths and vendors at Viejas Outlets Showcourt May 5-6.
Tickets: $15 in advance; $20 after April 1
Details: chirp.org
May 5
“Rambling Through the Ranch” Garden Tour
Trolleys transport visitors to five Rancho Santa Fe gardens and return for a lunch, garden marketplace and entertainment. Tour stops include a Tuscan estate with wine-producing vineyard, a ranch-style adobe landscaped with natives and succulents and a Mediterranean view home’s lush hillside garden and orchard.
Tickets: $45 ($30 for garden club members)
Details: rsfgardenclub.org
16th Annual Clairemont Town Council Garden Tour
In addition to 15 gardens in the Clairemont neighborhood, this tour includes an afternoon-long reception with talks by gardening experts on energy efficiency, “green” gardening and other topics. Refreshments.
Tickets: $12 in advance; $15 on event day
Details: clairemontonline.com
May 12
Mission Hills Garden Walk
More than a dozen gardens around bungalows and historic estates in the heart of Mission Hills highlight this pre-Mother’s Day tour. Three stops showcase urban farming. Marketplace and wine tasting at Mission Hills Nursery.
Tickets: $25 in advance; $30 day of event; children under 12, free
Details: missionhillsgardenclub.org
17th Annual Country Garden Tour of Fallbrook
The home garden of sculptor Jim Helms, the ornamental and edible garden of a permaculture practitioner, and a stylized cactus garden are among the seven stops on this tour. The event begins at Palomares House on Stagecoach Lane, where refreshments will be served and garden items and art will be sold.
Tickets: $20 in advance; $27 on event day
Details: aauwfallbrookca.org
May 19
“Rosecroft Revisited: Historic Gardens of Point Loma” — San Diego Floral Association Historic Garden Tour
Rosecroft, the Italian Renaissance home of Floral Association founder Alfred D. Robinson built 100 years ago, is the centerpiece of this tour that includes five other historic gardens in Point Loma. Marketplace.
Tickets: $20 in advance; $25 on event day
Details: sdfloral.org
14th Annual Secret Garden Tour of La Jolla
Destination gardens are not announced until tour day, but past tours have visited both charming cottage gardens and sprawling seaside estates. Special Platinum Tour includes transportation and brunch. Musical entertainment and tabletop displays.
Tickets: $50 ($40 for La Jolla Historical Society members)
Details: lajollahistory.org
Sixth Annual Loma Portal Home & Garden Tour
Xeriscape gardens, outdoor entertaining spaces and renovated historic homes and landscapes will be part of this eight-to-10-garden tour in the Loma Portal area of Point Loma. Craft fair and opportunity drawing at Loma Portal Elementary School.
Tickets: $20
Details: lomaportalelementary.com
(Via Mary James is a San Diego freelance garden writer).
