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The vacation residence: twelve months of cost, two of use.
What a second address costs to hold for twelve months when you occupy it for two.
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$750M+
career sales
15
waterfront closings
$47M
record La Jolla sale represented
Top 1,000
WSJ RealTrends teams 2020–2025
What does the house cost for twelve months if you use it for two?
Insurance, taxes, association dues, utilities that run whether or not anyone is home, landscaping, and someone reliable holding a key. The mortgage is the part everyone models and the smallest part of the surprise.
We put the full annual figure in front of you before you tour, because the honest comparison is that number against sixty nights in a very good hotel.
How do we choose a street for part-year use?
Lock and leave first. A house that can be closed in September and opened in June without becoming a project. Then parking, then whether the association permits any rental at all. [VERIFY HOA rental rules.]
Streets that are wonderful in July are not all the same street in February. Some of the best blocks on this coast go very quiet, and that should be a choice you made rather than one you discovered.
Del Mar, Coronado or La Jolla for a few weeks a year?
Different drive from the airport, different association culture, different off-season. Coronado is a bridge and an island rhythm. Del Mar is a season. La Jolla is a village that runs all year.
We choose from the weeks you will actually be here. Tell us the months and the answer usually narrows to one town before we open a single listing.
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Del Mar, Coronado or La Jolla when this coast is your second life, not a week in July.
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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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