Agents Complete Year’s Highest-Priced Residential Sale in Downtown S.D.
In case there aren’t enough obvious reasons why people might be interested in moving to San Diego, two new Web sites are offering information about San Diego to people looking to move to a new city.
Windsor, Colo.-based FindYourSpot.com has added San Diego to its list of Top Spots, a group of desirable U.S. cities. The Web site is an online relocation resource, which provides customized moving recommendations to movers based on answers to a questionnaire.
The company reported San Diego almost didn’t make the cut because of rising housing prices. However, because of weather and a relaxed atmosphere, among other attractions, San Diego was added to the Top Spots list.
A report on San Diego is available on the Web site, highlighting amenities such as a diverse economy, wide range of health care resources, and various cultural resources. Free job listings are also provided.
Also, Citysearch, a division of Los Angeles-based Ticketmaster, and Lawrenceville, Ga.-based Network Communications Inc. have come together to create LivingChoices.com.
Citysearch provides online city guides for 128 cities worldwide and NCI produces real estate publications, such as “The Real Estate Book” and “Apartment Finder Blue Book.” The two companies have combined their resources to provide preferred real estate information about homes for sale, luxury properties and apartments, as well as proximity searches, enhanced listings and advertiser profiles online.
Through the Web site, visitors can print property brochures, access a mortgage estimator and use mapping tools. The LivingChoices.com logo will be printed on all of NCI’s publications, which are distributed in 500 markets.
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Company News:
Dale Bowen and Ann LeBaron, agents with La Jolla-based The Willis Allen Co., recently completed the highest-priced residential sale in Downtown San Diego for 2001. The duo sold a full-floor, 4,000-square-foot penthouse in the Harbor Club Towers for $3.7 million. The buyer’s name was not disclosed, but he was already a part-time resident of the building.
Energy Savers:
On Aug. 24, Shea Homes of San Diego was recognized for its high-performance homes constructed with energy-saving features such as solar roof panels and solar water heaters. Woody Clark II, special assistant to Gov. Gray Davis, spoke about the governor’s plan for increasing renewable energy in California, pointing to Shea’s homes in Scripps Highlands as a benchmark.
A discussion about energy efficiency followed Clark’s remarks, with a panel that included representatives of Shea and its partners in the high performance homes, local and federal energy officials and Clark. The group also toured some of the homes.
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Still Going At 15:
The Eastlake Co. of Chula Vista is celebrating the 15th anniversary of the groundbreaking at its 3,200-acre master-planned development in Chula Vista, south of Interstate 8 and east of Interstate 805.
Eastlake now has more than 13,000 residents, four schools, a library and performing arts center, nine parks and an 18-hole golf course.
Two more neighborhoods are planned. Construction in the community is expected to be finished in 2010 with 8,900 homes.
Cleaning Up:
San Diego-based Business Real Estate Brokerage Co./NAI reported a 4 percent increase in revenue from sales and leasing activity in the first half of 2001, compared to the first half of 2000. A 10 percent increase in sales and leasing was recorded in the first half of the year over the same period in 2000. Westcore Industrial Properties has moved its headquarters in San Diego to 4660 La Jolla Village Drive, Suite 650, San Diego, 92122. The company’s new phone number is (858) 625-4100 and fax number is (858) 678-0060. Chicago Title has expanded its department of real estate processing services and its new communities group in San Diego to respond to increased demand for those services.
The expansion of the real estate processing services department is an effort to provide additional staff to help clients with changes in regulations, procedures and forms associated with filing the public report required of homebuilders and community developers by the California Department of Real Estate.
The new communities group expansion will offer more help for homebuilders in the escrow closing process.
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Events:
Mark J. Riedy, the Ernest W. Hahn Professor of real estate finance and director of the Real Estate Institute at the University of San Diego, will brief the San Diego chapter of the Institute of Real Estate Management on the energy impact on real estate locally and statewide. The meeting will begin with registration at 11:30 a.m. followed by the lunch program at noon on Sept. 13 at the Quality Resort, 875 Hotel Circle in San Diego. Call (619) 209-2997 to register.
The San Diego chapters of CCIM Commercial Real Estate Network and the San Diego County Apartment Association will present Apartment Perspective 2002, a look at apartment investment in the next year. The event will begin with registration at 7:30 a.m. on Sept. 11 at the Marriott Mission Valley on Rio San Diego Drive. For more information or to register for the breakfast meeting call (619) 234-2243.
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