Any deals on coastal condos?

[sdrealtor]

CV is a great getaway if you would like to live a place that could be located in major metro in the US except it happens to be close to the beach. No personality whatsoever and as sterile as sterile gets.

Go North to Solana Beach, Cardiff and Encinitas and you are actually in Classic Southern California Beach towns with real unique vibes.

[austinkid]

Thanks for the great info. I’ll add CV to my searches since it definitely sounds like it has potential. Ideally, I’d like something in one of the coastal beach towns, but I’ll take what works for my budget.

I guess, my ideal buying locations would be in this order:

La Jolla (probably won’t get cheap enough for me)
Del Mar
Encinitas
Solano Beach
Carlsbad

Any thoughts on the condos/townhomes next to the Del Mar racetrack or the stuff in UTC? UTC seems to be a lot of condo conversions which I’d like to avoid.

I’m not going to get serious about buying out there until this winter, but I want to start keeping my eyes open.

[austinkid]

Thanks for the great info. I’ll add CV to my searches since it definitely sounds like it has potential. Ideally, I’d like something in one of the coastal beach towns, but I’ll take what works for my budget.

I guess, my ideal buying locations would be in this order:

La Jolla (probably won’t get cheap enough for me)
Del Mar
Encinitas
Solano Beach
Carlsbad

Any thoughts on the condos/townhomes next to the Del Mar racetrack or the stuff in UTC? UTC seems to be a lot of condo conversions which I’d like to avoid.

I’m not going to get serious about buying out there until this winter, but I want to start keeping my eyes open.

[austinkid]

Thanks for the great info. I’ll add CV to my searches since it definitely sounds like it has potential. Ideally, I’d like something in one of the coastal beach towns, but I’ll take what works for my budget.

I guess, my ideal buying locations would be in this order:

La Jolla (probably won’t get cheap enough for me)
Del Mar
Encinitas
Solano Beach
Carlsbad

Any thoughts on the condos/townhomes next to the Del Mar racetrack or the stuff in UTC? UTC seems to be a lot of condo conversions which I’d like to avoid.

I’m not going to get serious about buying out there until this winter, but I want to start keeping my eyes open.

[austinkid]

Thanks for the great info. I’ll add CV to my searches since it definitely sounds like it has potential. Ideally, I’d like something in one of the coastal beach towns, but I’ll take what works for my budget.

I guess, my ideal buying locations would be in this order:

La Jolla (probably won’t get cheap enough for me)
Del Mar
Encinitas
Solano Beach
Carlsbad

Any thoughts on the condos/townhomes next to the Del Mar racetrack or the stuff in UTC? UTC seems to be a lot of condo conversions which I’d like to avoid.

I’m not going to get serious about buying out there until this winter, but I want to start keeping my eyes open.

[austinkid]

Thanks for the great info. I’ll add CV to my searches since it definitely sounds like it has potential. Ideally, I’d like something in one of the coastal beach towns, but I’ll take what works for my budget.

I guess, my ideal buying locations would be in this order:

La Jolla (probably won’t get cheap enough for me)
Del Mar
Encinitas
Solano Beach
Carlsbad

Any thoughts on the condos/townhomes next to the Del Mar racetrack or the stuff in UTC? UTC seems to be a lot of condo conversions which I’d like to avoid.

I’m not going to get serious about buying out there until this winter, but I want to start keeping my eyes open.

[profhoff]

Traffic on Via de la Valle is really awful, so personally, I wouldn’t want a condo across from the track.

I don’t think of UTC as coastal, and it seems more cookie cutter than CV will ever be.

CV *is* very homogeneous, but I disagree that it could be anywhere. It’s very SoCal homogeneous, in that shiny upscale kind of way, and you can make your condo feel coastal, so I think it’s a good compromise.

Leucadia is the quintessential SoCal beach town, but in the price point we’re talking about, you’re not going to find anything satisfactory. Same for Encinitas.

Carlsbad (92011) has some condos in the low $400s, even with ocean views(!), but they are really old. The laundry rooms are in separate buildings, the ceilings need to be scraped, there is probably lead in paint and maybe even asbestos in the ceilings. (My idea of a weekend getaway is NOT living in some decrepit building where I have to feed quarters to a machine next to garage – ick.)

And the Carlsbad neighborhoods are really mixed and pretty rundown if you’re just east of the 5 where all the condos are. West of the 5, forget about it (i.e. some nice stuff, but it’s not going to be $400k.)

Obviously, it’s all about your preferences and what makes you happy. My preferences are for something nice and pretty and close to services and the beach. But everybody’s different!

[profhoff]

Traffic on Via de la Valle is really awful, so personally, I wouldn’t want a condo across from the track.

I don’t think of UTC as coastal, and it seems more cookie cutter than CV will ever be.

CV *is* very homogeneous, but I disagree that it could be anywhere. It’s very SoCal homogeneous, in that shiny upscale kind of way, and you can make your condo feel coastal, so I think it’s a good compromise.

Leucadia is the quintessential SoCal beach town, but in the price point we’re talking about, you’re not going to find anything satisfactory. Same for Encinitas.

Carlsbad (92011) has some condos in the low $400s, even with ocean views(!), but they are really old. The laundry rooms are in separate buildings, the ceilings need to be scraped, there is probably lead in paint and maybe even asbestos in the ceilings. (My idea of a weekend getaway is NOT living in some decrepit building where I have to feed quarters to a machine next to garage – ick.)

And the Carlsbad neighborhoods are really mixed and pretty rundown if you’re just east of the 5 where all the condos are. West of the 5, forget about it (i.e. some nice stuff, but it’s not going to be $400k.)

Obviously, it’s all about your preferences and what makes you happy. My preferences are for something nice and pretty and close to services and the beach. But everybody’s different!

[profhoff]

Traffic on Via de la Valle is really awful, so personally, I wouldn’t want a condo across from the track.

I don’t think of UTC as coastal, and it seems more cookie cutter than CV will ever be.

CV *is* very homogeneous, but I disagree that it could be anywhere. It’s very SoCal homogeneous, in that shiny upscale kind of way, and you can make your condo feel coastal, so I think it’s a good compromise.

Leucadia is the quintessential SoCal beach town, but in the price point we’re talking about, you’re not going to find anything satisfactory. Same for Encinitas.

Carlsbad (92011) has some condos in the low $400s, even with ocean views(!), but they are really old. The laundry rooms are in separate buildings, the ceilings need to be scraped, there is probably lead in paint and maybe even asbestos in the ceilings. (My idea of a weekend getaway is NOT living in some decrepit building where I have to feed quarters to a machine next to garage – ick.)

And the Carlsbad neighborhoods are really mixed and pretty rundown if you’re just east of the 5 where all the condos are. West of the 5, forget about it (i.e. some nice stuff, but it’s not going to be $400k.)

Obviously, it’s all about your preferences and what makes you happy. My preferences are for something nice and pretty and close to services and the beach. But everybody’s different!

[profhoff]

Traffic on Via de la Valle is really awful, so personally, I wouldn’t want a condo across from the track.

I don’t think of UTC as coastal, and it seems more cookie cutter than CV will ever be.

CV *is* very homogeneous, but I disagree that it could be anywhere. It’s very SoCal homogeneous, in that shiny upscale kind of way, and you can make your condo feel coastal, so I think it’s a good compromise.

Leucadia is the quintessential SoCal beach town, but in the price point we’re talking about, you’re not going to find anything satisfactory. Same for Encinitas.

Carlsbad (92011) has some condos in the low $400s, even with ocean views(!), but they are really old. The laundry rooms are in separate buildings, the ceilings need to be scraped, there is probably lead in paint and maybe even asbestos in the ceilings. (My idea of a weekend getaway is NOT living in some decrepit building where I have to feed quarters to a machine next to garage – ick.)

And the Carlsbad neighborhoods are really mixed and pretty rundown if you’re just east of the 5 where all the condos are. West of the 5, forget about it (i.e. some nice stuff, but it’s not going to be $400k.)

Obviously, it’s all about your preferences and what makes you happy. My preferences are for something nice and pretty and close to services and the beach. But everybody’s different!

[profhoff]

Traffic on Via de la Valle is really awful, so personally, I wouldn’t want a condo across from the track.

I don’t think of UTC as coastal, and it seems more cookie cutter than CV will ever be.

CV *is* very homogeneous, but I disagree that it could be anywhere. It’s very SoCal homogeneous, in that shiny upscale kind of way, and you can make your condo feel coastal, so I think it’s a good compromise.

Leucadia is the quintessential SoCal beach town, but in the price point we’re talking about, you’re not going to find anything satisfactory. Same for Encinitas.

Carlsbad (92011) has some condos in the low $400s, even with ocean views(!), but they are really old. The laundry rooms are in separate buildings, the ceilings need to be scraped, there is probably lead in paint and maybe even asbestos in the ceilings. (My idea of a weekend getaway is NOT living in some decrepit building where I have to feed quarters to a machine next to garage – ick.)

And the Carlsbad neighborhoods are really mixed and pretty rundown if you’re just east of the 5 where all the condos are. West of the 5, forget about it (i.e. some nice stuff, but it’s not going to be $400k.)

Obviously, it’s all about your preferences and what makes you happy. My preferences are for something nice and pretty and close to services and the beach. But everybody’s different!

[SD Realtor]

austinkid –

I would suggest perhaps that you maybe spend some time here in town renting for a few months before making a decision on where to buy. The communities are really quite different. The UTC condo country is not anywhere close to a coastal life although technically it is only a few miles away. Conversely Carmel Valley is quite nice but again, it is not a coastal life style. The original condo brought up in this thread is off of Carmel Valley Road, but it is in a location at the far far far west tip of Carmel Valley and I didn’t check but may be Del Mar by zip. The fact that you are not familiar with areas like this would alert me to caution you that getting a sense of the county coastline is a good idea before committing a few hundred thousand to the purchase of a condo.

[SD Realtor]

austinkid –

I would suggest perhaps that you maybe spend some time here in town renting for a few months before making a decision on where to buy. The communities are really quite different. The UTC condo country is not anywhere close to a coastal life although technically it is only a few miles away. Conversely Carmel Valley is quite nice but again, it is not a coastal life style. The original condo brought up in this thread is off of Carmel Valley Road, but it is in a location at the far far far west tip of Carmel Valley and I didn’t check but may be Del Mar by zip. The fact that you are not familiar with areas like this would alert me to caution you that getting a sense of the county coastline is a good idea before committing a few hundred thousand to the purchase of a condo.

[SD Realtor]

austinkid –

I would suggest perhaps that you maybe spend some time here in town renting for a few months before making a decision on where to buy. The communities are really quite different. The UTC condo country is not anywhere close to a coastal life although technically it is only a few miles away. Conversely Carmel Valley is quite nice but again, it is not a coastal life style. The original condo brought up in this thread is off of Carmel Valley Road, but it is in a location at the far far far west tip of Carmel Valley and I didn’t check but may be Del Mar by zip. The fact that you are not familiar with areas like this would alert me to caution you that getting a sense of the county coastline is a good idea before committing a few hundred thousand to the purchase of a condo.

[SD Realtor]

austinkid –

I would suggest perhaps that you maybe spend some time here in town renting for a few months before making a decision on where to buy. The communities are really quite different. The UTC condo country is not anywhere close to a coastal life although technically it is only a few miles away. Conversely Carmel Valley is quite nice but again, it is not a coastal life style. The original condo brought up in this thread is off of Carmel Valley Road, but it is in a location at the far far far west tip of Carmel Valley and I didn’t check but may be Del Mar by zip. The fact that you are not familiar with areas like this would alert me to caution you that getting a sense of the county coastline is a good idea before committing a few hundred thousand to the purchase of a condo.

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