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A second home in Del Mar, Coronado or La Jolla.
Del Mar, Coronado or La Jolla when this coast is your second life, not a week in July.
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$750M+
career sales
15
waterfront closings
$47M
record La Jolla sale represented
Top 1,000
WSJ RealTrends teams 2020–2025
How is a second home different from a vacation house here?
You are here often enough for the ordinary things to matter. The airport run, the market you shop, the drive at five, the doctor. A vacation house only has to be beautiful in July.
So we tour differently. Parking, groceries, traffic, and whether the house still works on a Tuesday in February.
How do we choose among Del Mar, Coronado and La Jolla?
By how you arrive and how you leave. The days you fly, the downtown or the gate you use, and whether you want a residence someone else maintains or a house that is yours to run.
Those three answers usually eliminate two of the three towns before we look at anything.
What do we miss if we only tour in July?
Everything that makes this a second life rather than a holiday. Summer traffic, summer light and summer neighbors are a different product from the same street in January.
Tour in the season you intend to live in. If that is not possible, we will film it for you in that season before you commit.
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What a second address costs to hold for twelve months when you occupy it for two.
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Counsel from the desk behind $750M+ of this coastline
Fifteen waterfront closings. The buyer's side of the $47M La Jolla record at 6026 Camino De La Costa. The rest of it is on the channel, in full, with nothing cut.
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