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La Mesa & San Diego Real Estate Market
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San Diego County Housing Market Report: January 2026
San Diego County Housing Market Report: January 2026 San Diego County opened January 2026 with a familiar pattern: prices held up, sales softened, and inventory tightened. Countywide, closed sales fell 16.1% year-over-year, while the median sales price rose 2.3% to $905,000. New listings also pulled
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Affordable Restaurant Meals in San Diego Are Fading
Affordable Restaurant Meals in San Diego Are Fading Affordable restaurant meals in San Diego are getting harder to find—and it’s not just your imagination at the register. A new report from KPBS breaks down why dining out in San Diego County has become a “special occasion” line item for a lot of hou
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San Diego Tax Measures 2026: What La Mesa, El Cajon, Del Cerro, and College Area Homeowners Should Know
San Diego Tax Measures 2026: What La Mesa, El Cajon, Del Cerro, and College Area Homeowners Should Know San Diego’s “fee fatigue” is turning into a real political headwind as new tax measures line up for 2026, including a countywide half-cent sales tax that supporters say could raise about $360 mill
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Portable Mortgages Explained: How They’d Work in San Diego
Portable Mortgages Explained: How They’d Work in San Diego Portable mortgages are being talked about more for one reason: rate lock-in. Millions of homeowners are sitting on low-rate mortgages and don’t want to trade them for today’s higher rates just to move. FHFA research has tied this “lock-in ef
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