Oceanfront homes
What the water actually costs to own: bluff insurance, what the Coastal Commission will permit, and the fifteen waterfront closings behind the advice.
Read the guidePrivate counsel · Written from La Jolla
The answers we usually give in person.
Thirteen guides, written out of $750M+ in closings between Coronado and the north county line. No registration, no listings wall, no one following up because you scrolled. Read all of it. Call when you have a question the page does not answer.
$750M+
career sales
15
waterfront closings
$47M
record La Jolla sale represented
Top 1,000
WSJ RealTrends teams 2020–2025
Buying by lifestyle
Six ways people buy this coast
Ocean-view homes
Which views the lot below you protects, and which ones leave with a neighbor's remodel.
Read the guideGated communities
What the gate buys in Rancho Santa Fe, Del Mar and La Jolla, and what the dues quietly do not cover.
Read the guideSingle-story homes
The scarcest floor plan on this coast, and the streets where a one-level house still comes to market.
Read the guideCondos
Buying in La Jolla, Del Mar or Pacific Beach without inheriting the building's reserves, litigation or next assessment.
Read the guideHomes with an ADU
What a permitted ADU adds to a coastal property, and what an unpermitted one costs at appraisal.
Read the guideSelling through a life change
When the house has to sell on someone else's calendar
Probate sales
An inherited house on this coast: the court's clock, the family's pace, and the as-is question.
Read the guideSelling in a divorce
Two clients, one house, one private process. Neutral counsel and a calendar both names have seen.
Read the guideDownsizing
From the family house to the ocean-view residence, in the order that keeps you from holding both.
Read the guideInvestors selling
A coastal exit: the condition this buyer pool pays for, and the work it will not pay for.
Read the guideSecond homes & relocation
Buying the coast before you live on it
Military PCS to San Diego
Orders to San Diego, answered in the order the questions actually arrive: financing, timing, the gate you report to, and the neighborhoods that serve it.
Read the guideVacation homes
What a second address costs to hold for twelve months when you occupy it for two.
Read the guideSecond homes
Del Mar, Coronado or La Jolla when this coast is your second life, not a week in July.
Read the guideLiving in San Diego on YouTube
The houses, unedited, and what this coast costs after the truck leaves.
Full walkthroughs from La Jolla to Camp Pendleton, filmed the way we film for a buyer who cannot be here: the neighbor's second story, the pitch of the driveway, the road noise with the windows open.
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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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