Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Median Home Prices Rise in Encinitas, La Jolla, and OB

This news from the San Diego Union-Tribune:

As median home prices continue to decline, it seems no community is immune to the slumping real estate market. And yet, during the last quarter a few coastal areas were able to eke out a healthy rate of price appreciation reminiscent of the housing boom.


Take Ocean Beach, which experienced a 14.4 percent year-over-year increase in the median price of a resale home during the first quarter of this year. By comparison, resale home prices for the entire county fell 21 percent during the same period, according to statistics released yesterday by DataQuick Information Systems.


In fact, prices declined for all but three of the county's 59 ZIP codes that recorded at least 20 sales between Jan. 1 and March 31 of this year and last.


Bucking the trend were Encinitas, La Jolla and Ocean Beach, which experienced price gains, while in Mission Beach and Pacific Beach, the median price remained relatively unchanged from last year to this.



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