Notes from the work.
Welcome to the journal
I have been showing houses in San Diego long enough to remember when North Park was quiet on a Tuesday afternoon. This page is where I write some of that down. You will find neighborhood notes, plain talk about the market, and the occasional opinion that does not fit into a text message. Real estate […]
Mission Hills and the light
Mission Hills sits on a ridge that turns gold in the late afternoon. The homes people compete hardest for are the ones whose main rooms face west, because that light is the one thing you cannot add later with a remodel. Square footage is a number on a listing sheet. The way a living room […]
East Village after Petco
The brick and bowstring buildings around the ballpark were a curiosity in 2015, a leasing frontier in 2019, and stabilized creative office by 2023. The cycle in East Village runs shorter than most people expect, which is both the risk and the opportunity. What I am watching now is the ground floor retail along J […]