• Lender takes back Campus at Horton property in downtown San Diego

    Lender takes back Campus at Horton property in downtown San Diego,Jennifer Van Grove

    Seven years after buying the once iconic Horton Plaza mall in the heart of downtown, developer Stockdale Capital Partners has lost control of the property that it refashioned into a mixed-use office campus called the Campus at Horton. On Monday, the unfinished campus property went back to Stockdale’

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  • What to Know About the Multibillion-Dollar Midway Rising Project

    What to Know About the Multibillion-Dollar Midway Rising Project,Cole Novak

    When the filmmaker Cameron Crowe needed a stadium to look like it was from the 1970s for his 2000 movie Almost Famous, he turned to his hometown. He filmed the scene in which protagonist William Miller meets the rock band Stillwater for the first time at Sports Arena Stadium (now called Pechanga Ar

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  • Remember the ’90s! 2008 wasn’t California’s only housing crash

    Remember the ’90s! 2008 wasn’t California’s only housing crash,Jonathan Lansner

    “This isn’t 2008!” It’s a common refrain from real estate gurus when talking about the fragility of California’s housing market. Well, housing and economic conditions today may not be exactly like 2008 – shorthand for the financial disaster that popped that decade’s real estate bubble, creating the

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  • Just 15% of Californians can afford a home vs. 34% nationally

    Just 15% of Californians can afford a home vs. 34% nationally,Jonathan Lansner

    Shrinking affordability isn’t just a California problem. That’s what you see from my trusty spreadsheet’s comparison of the California Association of Realtors’ affordability report for the second quarter of 2025 vs. the numbers from the same period in 2022. Yes, the required income to buy California

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  • SD Besties: 10 Stories of Locals Meeting Their Forever Friends

    SD Besties: 10 Stories of Locals Meeting Their Forever Friends,Cole Novak

    Finding forever friends can be a lot like dating—if not harder, since there are few platonic equivalents for “I think you’re a hottie; can I take you out sometime?” You’re looking for a person who just gets you, who makes you feel safe to be yourself. Someone you can laugh and dream and travel and

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  • Irvine Company adding hundreds of apartments to University City office campus

    Irvine Company adding hundreds of apartments to University City office campus,Jennifer Van Grove

    Southern California real estate giant Irvine Company plans to raze two, 1980s-era office buildings to make room for hundreds of apartments and turn its University City office campus opposite a major mall into a mini neighborhood. The company announced last month that it will redo the western portion

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  • Sports Illustrated Debuts First-Ever Women’s Games in San Diego

    Sports Illustrated Debuts First-Ever Women’s Games in San Diego,Cole Novak

    Women’s sports are having a moment across the nation. Indiana Fever point guard Caitlin Clark and Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese are dominating the WNBA, the US women’s Olympic gymnastics team earned 10 medals at last year’s Paris Games, and American swimmer Katie Ledecky continues to smash record

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  • At Women-Focused RAGEher, Anger Is What It’s All About

    At Women-Focused RAGEher, Anger Is What It’s All About,Cole Novak

    I’m on all fours in a dark room, throat tight, body heaving, panting like an animal. My hair sticks to my sweat-soaked face, covering my eyes. All around me, like a scene from some ancient pagan ritual, women howl, curse, bawl, their bodies shaking in feral agitation. This is RAGEher, and we’re onl

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  • Average rate on a 30-year mortgage drops to lowest level since October

    Average rate on a 30-year mortgage drops to lowest level since October,Associated Press

    By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer MCLEAN, Va. (AP) — The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage fell this week to its lowest level in nearly 10 months, giving prospective homebuyers a sorely needed boost in purchasing power that could help inject life into a stagnant housing market. Related Article

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  • Antsy about California housing? The worry isn’t foreclosures

    Antsy about California housing? The worry isn’t foreclosures,Jonathan Lansner

    Perhaps the best news for California’s ailing housing market is that mortgage problems remain below historical norms. That’s what my trusty spreadsheet review found in bill-payment data for consumers from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The research is based on a sample of individuals with cre

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  • Special Activations at the Del Mar Wine + Food Fest’s Grand Tasting Event

    Special Activations at the Del Mar Wine + Food Fest’s Grand Tasting Event,Nicolle Monico

    Slip into the moment: You’re strolling through Surf Sports Park in the fall outfit you’ve been dying to wear, maybe even snagging some handmade jewelry with rare natural gemstones from Timka Jewelry while sipping locally made hard kombucha and snacking on Michelin-starred must-try meals from San Di

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  • Homeowners turn to cash-out refinancing to take advantage of big gains in home equity

    Homeowners turn to cash-out refinancing to take advantage of big gains in home equity,Associated Press

    By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer Homeowners are cashing in on years of home equity gains, even as mortgage rates remain elevated. The trend sent cash-out home refinancing activity to a nearly three-year high in the April-June quarter, according to data from home loan data tracker ICE Mortgage Techn

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  • $3.9B Midway Rising project could yield $178M in new local spending each year

    $3.9B Midway Rising project could yield $178M in new local spending each year,Jennifer Van Grove

    The Midway Rising project anticipated to replace San Diego’s sports arena site could uplift the region’s local economy with a yearly boost equivalent to that of Comic-Con, according to a newly released economic impact report. Wednesday, the team behind the project released the analysis, which was pr

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  • 15 Things to Do in San Diego This Weekend: August 14–17

    15 Things to Do in San Diego This Weekend: August 14–17,Cole Novak

    This weekend’s slate of events includes enchanting concerts, championship sports tournaments, and lots and lots of lemons. Live music fans can catch the mesmerizing spectacle of Auraforms (Friday), the culinary-minded concerto of Tasting Notes (Thursday), and the spellbinding sounds of Cynthia Eriv

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  • Home Tour: Inside an Architect’s Dream Home in Del Mar

    Home Tour: Inside an Architect’s Dream Home in Del Mar,Cole Novak

    When the sky catches fire with oranges, yellows, and deep purples, there’s no better place to end your day than the deck behind Dean and Monica Meredith’s Del Mar home. As the sun dips into the sea, with a green flash if you’re lucky, you can cast your gaze from the Del Mar Fairgrounds to the edge

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  • Coronado Cays mansion to be auctioned off in Hong Kong

    Coronado Cays mansion to be auctioned off in Hong Kong,Phillip Molnar

    A mansion in the Coronado Cays that has yet to find a buyer after nearly two years will be part of an auction in Hong Kong. The newly built mansion at 3 The Point had previously made The San Diego Union-Tribune’s list of luxury homes sitting on the market the longest. It went on sale in November 202

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  • San Diego County properties now valued at record $806 billion

    San Diego County properties now valued at record $806 billion,Phillip Molnar

    The value of land in San Diego County continues to tick up, despite economic and real estate pressures. San Diego County’s assessed value of all taxable property — including residential, commercial and industrial land — is now $806 billion, the Assessor’s Office recently said. That is an increase of

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  • How to Feed a Panda: Inside the Zoo’s Bamboo Buffet

    How to Feed a Panda: Inside the Zoo’s Bamboo Buffet,Cole Novak

    Xin Bao, the San Diego Zoo’s four-year-old female panda bear, is tearing at bamboo culms, the hollow stalks that make up the plant, swallowing and going back for more while the splintered detritus collects on her fuzzy belly. In the enclosure next door, Yun Chuan, the five-year-old male, lies in re

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  • First look: Little Italy’s newest apartment complex nears completion

    First look: Little Italy’s newest apartment complex nears completion,Phillip Molnar

    Little Italy’s newest apartment complex in two years already has less expensive rent than its neighbors, but apartments are smaller and farther from the action. The Ancora building’s 120 studios, which average 479 square feet, are around $2,700 a month, said real estate tracker CoStar, about $100 le

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  • Free Rady Shell Concerts Feel Like a Hack—But It’s By Design

    Free Rady Shell Concerts Feel Like a Hack—But It’s By Design,Cole Novak

    “Yessss, I’m a Ludacris fan,” crows 41-year-old downtown resident Kay Thomas, breaking into dance moves to punctuate her point, her cassette-tape earrings swinging. She’s answering the question I ask everyone I meet milling around the perimeter of the Embarcadero’s Rady Shell at Jacobs Park in t

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