[researcher9]

sdrealtor & yogamom,
Yes both areas are beautiful and are sought after for different reasons … after a point it becomes highly subjective to what buyer prefers. I still remember when we first started checking out all 4 zipcodes of Carlsbad and driving every weekend to checkout open houses. I think it was the Resort like feel of Avaiar that sdrealtor is talking about … it got “sold” to us without any realtor marketing it.
About the premium of 92011 vs 92009 or parts of 92009 … we are actually splitting the hairs. We can keep on drilling down from ‘parts-of-92009’ to ‘streets-of-parts-of-92009’ and so on.

[researcher9]

sdrealtor & yogamom,
Yes both areas are beautiful and are sought after for different reasons … after a point it becomes highly subjective to what buyer prefers. I still remember when we first started checking out all 4 zipcodes of Carlsbad and driving every weekend to checkout open houses. I think it was the Resort like feel of Avaiar that sdrealtor is talking about … it got “sold” to us without any realtor marketing it.
About the premium of 92011 vs 92009 or parts of 92009 … we are actually splitting the hairs. We can keep on drilling down from ‘parts-of-92009’ to ‘streets-of-parts-of-92009’ and so on.

[researcher9]

sdrealtor & yogamom,
Yes both areas are beautiful and are sought after for different reasons … after a point it becomes highly subjective to what buyer prefers. I still remember when we first started checking out all 4 zipcodes of Carlsbad and driving every weekend to checkout open houses. I think it was the Resort like feel of Avaiar that sdrealtor is talking about … it got “sold” to us without any realtor marketing it.
About the premium of 92011 vs 92009 or parts of 92009 … we are actually splitting the hairs. We can keep on drilling down from ‘parts-of-92009’ to ‘streets-of-parts-of-92009’ and so on.

[researcher9]

sdrealtor & yogamom,
Yes both areas are beautiful and are sought after for different reasons … after a point it becomes highly subjective to what buyer prefers. I still remember when we first started checking out all 4 zipcodes of Carlsbad and driving every weekend to checkout open houses. I think it was the Resort like feel of Avaiar that sdrealtor is talking about … it got “sold” to us without any realtor marketing it.
About the premium of 92011 vs 92009 or parts of 92009 … we are actually splitting the hairs. We can keep on drilling down from ‘parts-of-92009’ to ‘streets-of-parts-of-92009’ and so on.

[researcher9]

sdrealtor & yogamom,
Yes both areas are beautiful and are sought after for different reasons … after a point it becomes highly subjective to what buyer prefers. I still remember when we first started checking out all 4 zipcodes of Carlsbad and driving every weekend to checkout open houses. I think it was the Resort like feel of Avaiar that sdrealtor is talking about … it got “sold” to us without any realtor marketing it.
About the premium of 92011 vs 92009 or parts of 92009 … we are actually splitting the hairs. We can keep on drilling down from ‘parts-of-92009’ to ‘streets-of-parts-of-92009’ and so on.

[researcher9]

Hobie,
Yes we did see that … the person appears to be moving away as the house is for sale. House is also getting forclosed on. Should we still be concerned?

sdrealtor,
We did check on West of Aviara … and yes you are correct, one has to compromise on lot size, house orientation (West facing Backyard vs East facing), incoming incline/bank and many other factors. Lot size and Back/side yard is important for us … In Bay Collection, most of “under a Million” houses have no privacy …. With no backyard they appear to be looking into each other. Anything decent (Heron Circle) comes with a huge premium over a Million.
Top 3 streets in Mariner’s POints are better … again anything westerly facing is atleast a Million there. We checked a few in Saltaire and Seabright … liked the one on Turnstone on Cul-De-Sec but could not afford it for asking price of $925k.
IMHO 92009 has a very diverse real estate compared to 92011. 92009 is very big and there is a still a lot that can be built in there. From the investment angle it may never command the premium of 92011 (almost all built-up by now) … and then there is Beach and Freeway Proximity angle too. For anything between $800k and a Miilion, Aviara and nearby Black Rail hoods appear to be safest bet in entire Carlsbad.
Another thing I noticed about 92009 … in today’s market with current school system boundries, more I go Inland from El-Camino Real … more I see value in buying in San Elijo Hills (aka Baja Carlsbad).

[researcher9]

Hobie,
Yes we did see that … the person appears to be moving away as the house is for sale. House is also getting forclosed on. Should we still be concerned?

sdrealtor,
We did check on West of Aviara … and yes you are correct, one has to compromise on lot size, house orientation (West facing Backyard vs East facing), incoming incline/bank and many other factors. Lot size and Back/side yard is important for us … In Bay Collection, most of “under a Million” houses have no privacy …. With no backyard they appear to be looking into each other. Anything decent (Heron Circle) comes with a huge premium over a Million.
Top 3 streets in Mariner’s POints are better … again anything westerly facing is atleast a Million there. We checked a few in Saltaire and Seabright … liked the one on Turnstone on Cul-De-Sec but could not afford it for asking price of $925k.
IMHO 92009 has a very diverse real estate compared to 92011. 92009 is very big and there is a still a lot that can be built in there. From the investment angle it may never command the premium of 92011 (almost all built-up by now) … and then there is Beach and Freeway Proximity angle too. For anything between $800k and a Miilion, Aviara and nearby Black Rail hoods appear to be safest bet in entire Carlsbad.
Another thing I noticed about 92009 … in today’s market with current school system boundries, more I go Inland from El-Camino Real … more I see value in buying in San Elijo Hills (aka Baja Carlsbad).

[researcher9]

Hobie,
Yes we did see that … the person appears to be moving away as the house is for sale. House is also getting forclosed on. Should we still be concerned?

sdrealtor,
We did check on West of Aviara … and yes you are correct, one has to compromise on lot size, house orientation (West facing Backyard vs East facing), incoming incline/bank and many other factors. Lot size and Back/side yard is important for us … In Bay Collection, most of “under a Million” houses have no privacy …. With no backyard they appear to be looking into each other. Anything decent (Heron Circle) comes with a huge premium over a Million.
Top 3 streets in Mariner’s POints are better … again anything westerly facing is atleast a Million there. We checked a few in Saltaire and Seabright … liked the one on Turnstone on Cul-De-Sec but could not afford it for asking price of $925k.
IMHO 92009 has a very diverse real estate compared to 92011. 92009 is very big and there is a still a lot that can be built in there. From the investment angle it may never command the premium of 92011 (almost all built-up by now) … and then there is Beach and Freeway Proximity angle too. For anything between $800k and a Miilion, Aviara and nearby Black Rail hoods appear to be safest bet in entire Carlsbad.
Another thing I noticed about 92009 … in today’s market with current school system boundries, more I go Inland from El-Camino Real … more I see value in buying in San Elijo Hills (aka Baja Carlsbad).

[researcher9]

Hobie,
Yes we did see that … the person appears to be moving away as the house is for sale. House is also getting forclosed on. Should we still be concerned?

sdrealtor,
We did check on West of Aviara … and yes you are correct, one has to compromise on lot size, house orientation (West facing Backyard vs East facing), incoming incline/bank and many other factors. Lot size and Back/side yard is important for us … In Bay Collection, most of “under a Million” houses have no privacy …. With no backyard they appear to be looking into each other. Anything decent (Heron Circle) comes with a huge premium over a Million.
Top 3 streets in Mariner’s POints are better … again anything westerly facing is atleast a Million there. We checked a few in Saltaire and Seabright … liked the one on Turnstone on Cul-De-Sec but could not afford it for asking price of $925k.
IMHO 92009 has a very diverse real estate compared to 92011. 92009 is very big and there is a still a lot that can be built in there. From the investment angle it may never command the premium of 92011 (almost all built-up by now) … and then there is Beach and Freeway Proximity angle too. For anything between $800k and a Miilion, Aviara and nearby Black Rail hoods appear to be safest bet in entire Carlsbad.
Another thing I noticed about 92009 … in today’s market with current school system boundries, more I go Inland from El-Camino Real … more I see value in buying in San Elijo Hills (aka Baja Carlsbad).

[researcher9]

Hobie,
Yes we did see that … the person appears to be moving away as the house is for sale. House is also getting forclosed on. Should we still be concerned?

sdrealtor,
We did check on West of Aviara … and yes you are correct, one has to compromise on lot size, house orientation (West facing Backyard vs East facing), incoming incline/bank and many other factors. Lot size and Back/side yard is important for us … In Bay Collection, most of “under a Million” houses have no privacy …. With no backyard they appear to be looking into each other. Anything decent (Heron Circle) comes with a huge premium over a Million.
Top 3 streets in Mariner’s POints are better … again anything westerly facing is atleast a Million there. We checked a few in Saltaire and Seabright … liked the one on Turnstone on Cul-De-Sec but could not afford it for asking price of $925k.
IMHO 92009 has a very diverse real estate compared to 92011. 92009 is very big and there is a still a lot that can be built in there. From the investment angle it may never command the premium of 92011 (almost all built-up by now) … and then there is Beach and Freeway Proximity angle too. For anything between $800k and a Miilion, Aviara and nearby Black Rail hoods appear to be safest bet in entire Carlsbad.
Another thing I noticed about 92009 … in today’s market with current school system boundries, more I go Inland from El-Camino Real … more I see value in buying in San Elijo Hills (aka Baja Carlsbad).

[researcher9]

sdrealtor,
sorry about the wrong link .. here is the second property that we are looking at …

http://www.redfin.com/CA/Carlsbad/1607-Corte-Orchidia-92011/home/6477369

Same neighbourhood … but comes with some Privacy issues …
I can see your point about being a “sterile” neighbourhood … I agree with that for the most part … but then again most of the Aviara and Neo-Aviara hoods have this “feature by Design” … its actually worst in Aviara-Proper with all the HOA regulations, that strongly discourage any activity-on-the-streets.
About the high tension wires, you are correct … but again hard to esacpe those in Aviara … actually one of the main reasons we like the first property is because Power Lines are quite far behind to be of any concerns … Ocean view and Pool appear to be complimentary at that price point.
Based on selling activity in 92011 for the past 5 years … anything with a decent ocean view (without power lines) with a decent size yard is close to a Million or may be more … anything less than a Million with decent Ocean View either does not meet the stated criteria or has some other major Handicap (e.g. 1405 Ocean Crest, 6674 Thrasher, 1597 Corte Orchidia and many others).
That being said, I would like to know which areas in 92011 Aviara are you sugggesting to be more family/community friendly? My eduacted-guess would be anything outside Greater Aviara in 92011 (e.g. Shorepoint, Morning Ridge). Let me know.

[researcher9]

sdrealtor,
sorry about the wrong link .. here is the second property that we are looking at …

http://www.redfin.com/CA/Carlsbad/1607-Corte-Orchidia-92011/home/6477369

Same neighbourhood … but comes with some Privacy issues …
I can see your point about being a “sterile” neighbourhood … I agree with that for the most part … but then again most of the Aviara and Neo-Aviara hoods have this “feature by Design” … its actually worst in Aviara-Proper with all the HOA regulations, that strongly discourage any activity-on-the-streets.
About the high tension wires, you are correct … but again hard to esacpe those in Aviara … actually one of the main reasons we like the first property is because Power Lines are quite far behind to be of any concerns … Ocean view and Pool appear to be complimentary at that price point.
Based on selling activity in 92011 for the past 5 years … anything with a decent ocean view (without power lines) with a decent size yard is close to a Million or may be more … anything less than a Million with decent Ocean View either does not meet the stated criteria or has some other major Handicap (e.g. 1405 Ocean Crest, 6674 Thrasher, 1597 Corte Orchidia and many others).
That being said, I would like to know which areas in 92011 Aviara are you sugggesting to be more family/community friendly? My eduacted-guess would be anything outside Greater Aviara in 92011 (e.g. Shorepoint, Morning Ridge). Let me know.

[researcher9]

sdrealtor,
sorry about the wrong link .. here is the second property that we are looking at …

http://www.redfin.com/CA/Carlsbad/1607-Corte-Orchidia-92011/home/6477369

Same neighbourhood … but comes with some Privacy issues …
I can see your point about being a “sterile” neighbourhood … I agree with that for the most part … but then again most of the Aviara and Neo-Aviara hoods have this “feature by Design” … its actually worst in Aviara-Proper with all the HOA regulations, that strongly discourage any activity-on-the-streets.
About the high tension wires, you are correct … but again hard to esacpe those in Aviara … actually one of the main reasons we like the first property is because Power Lines are quite far behind to be of any concerns … Ocean view and Pool appear to be complimentary at that price point.
Based on selling activity in 92011 for the past 5 years … anything with a decent ocean view (without power lines) with a decent size yard is close to a Million or may be more … anything less than a Million with decent Ocean View either does not meet the stated criteria or has some other major Handicap (e.g. 1405 Ocean Crest, 6674 Thrasher, 1597 Corte Orchidia and many others).
That being said, I would like to know which areas in 92011 Aviara are you sugggesting to be more family/community friendly? My eduacted-guess would be anything outside Greater Aviara in 92011 (e.g. Shorepoint, Morning Ridge). Let me know.

[researcher9]

sdrealtor,
sorry about the wrong link .. here is the second property that we are looking at …

http://www.redfin.com/CA/Carlsbad/1607-Corte-Orchidia-92011/home/6477369

Same neighbourhood … but comes with some Privacy issues …
I can see your point about being a “sterile” neighbourhood … I agree with that for the most part … but then again most of the Aviara and Neo-Aviara hoods have this “feature by Design” … its actually worst in Aviara-Proper with all the HOA regulations, that strongly discourage any activity-on-the-streets.
About the high tension wires, you are correct … but again hard to esacpe those in Aviara … actually one of the main reasons we like the first property is because Power Lines are quite far behind to be of any concerns … Ocean view and Pool appear to be complimentary at that price point.
Based on selling activity in 92011 for the past 5 years … anything with a decent ocean view (without power lines) with a decent size yard is close to a Million or may be more … anything less than a Million with decent Ocean View either does not meet the stated criteria or has some other major Handicap (e.g. 1405 Ocean Crest, 6674 Thrasher, 1597 Corte Orchidia and many others).
That being said, I would like to know which areas in 92011 Aviara are you sugggesting to be more family/community friendly? My eduacted-guess would be anything outside Greater Aviara in 92011 (e.g. Shorepoint, Morning Ridge). Let me know.

[researcher9]

sdrealtor,
sorry about the wrong link .. here is the second property that we are looking at …

http://www.redfin.com/CA/Carlsbad/1607-Corte-Orchidia-92011/home/6477369

Same neighbourhood … but comes with some Privacy issues …
I can see your point about being a “sterile” neighbourhood … I agree with that for the most part … but then again most of the Aviara and Neo-Aviara hoods have this “feature by Design” … its actually worst in Aviara-Proper with all the HOA regulations, that strongly discourage any activity-on-the-streets.
About the high tension wires, you are correct … but again hard to esacpe those in Aviara … actually one of the main reasons we like the first property is because Power Lines are quite far behind to be of any concerns … Ocean view and Pool appear to be complimentary at that price point.
Based on selling activity in 92011 for the past 5 years … anything with a decent ocean view (without power lines) with a decent size yard is close to a Million or may be more … anything less than a Million with decent Ocean View either does not meet the stated criteria or has some other major Handicap (e.g. 1405 Ocean Crest, 6674 Thrasher, 1597 Corte Orchidia and many others).
That being said, I would like to know which areas in 92011 Aviara are you sugggesting to be more family/community friendly? My eduacted-guess would be anything outside Greater Aviara in 92011 (e.g. Shorepoint, Morning Ridge). Let me know.

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