All the way to Fashion Valley
Mission Valley road infilling
Bob Lampert 10:30 a.m., Nov. 13
Unreal estate
San Diego priciest pads up for sale.
Marine Lair
Oceanfront hideout is home to “SD’s 29-year-old wunderkind”
Occupying a prime oceanfront plot in La Jolla’s esteemed Barber Tract is a mansion the owner has dubbed “Marine Lair,” a home the listing promises is “built entirely different than any other home in San ...
Bankers Hill Mansion exemplifies both Roaring Twenties exuberance and refined European design
Explore the neo-classical symmetry and grandeur of Andrea Palladio’s 16th-century architecture
From its perch atop Bankers Hill, the mansion at 435 West Thorn Street sits as an example of both Roaring Twenties exuberance and refined European design. “This one of a kind 1926 Italian Palladian home ...
La Jolla luxury high rise
With a view “encompassing the La Jolla hills, the village, and the famous cove”
Let’s have a peek at “the only luxury high rise in the village of La Jolla,” 939 Coast. Eponymously named for its oceanfront location along Coast Boulevard, the building is currently comprised of 153 units ...
Mission Hills' premier entertaining house during the Roaring 20s
Home received an “outstanding house front” award from the American Institute of Architects’ San Diego chapter
Mission Hills' premier entertaining house during the Roaring 20’s
One of the first mansions in Rancho Santa Fe Covenant
“Old California meets modern luxury!”
“Old California meets modern luxury!” So reads the tagline for the estate home at 16161 Puerta Del Sol, one of the first mansions constructed in what would become the coveted Rancho Santa Fe Covenant, now ...
A dusting of snow at Ahvsan Ranch
A 376-acre “private oasis nestled high atop Palomar Mountain"
Shots of a sun-drenched pool deck are essentially a requisite box to check when developing marketing materials for a San Diego-area mansion, but how many elite local homesteads can be accurately portrayed with a dusting ...
La Jolla’s oldest structures
The neighborhood is named for Phillip Barber, a wealthy New York heir
This week we look at “a unique opportunity to own a collection of three meticulously restored, award-winning historic homes” in La Jolla’s Barber Tract, adjacent to Windansea Beach. Home to some of La Jolla’s oldest ...
A home built by city-designated master builders
The Quayle brothers also built part of Balboa Park
The historic mansion at 2440 C Street in Golden Hill was not built to cater to San Diego’s latest crop of nouveau riche. Remote-controlled, gated driveways? Nope, but a custom wrought iron gate still leads ...
Views from every room (and deck)
The California Dream as seen from Del Mar
The estate home at 110 15th Street in Del Mar is described as a “one-of-a-kind compound,” its one-third acre lot nestled into a hillside just across the street from the waterfront Seagrove Park. A “modern ...
Luscious living high up in a downtown penthouse
Selling the view at Sapphire Tower
This week we visit the top floor of Sapphire Tower at 1262 Kettner Boulevard, San Diego’s 17th-tallest skyscraper at 32 stories and a height of 380 feet above street level, where penthouse suite 3802 occupies ...
Concepto's Essencia: essentially ill-conceived?
Doesn't anybody want to enjoy this piece of evolutionary, organic architecture?
Nestled into the side of Mt. Soledad about a half-mile from the coast in what listing materials describe as “the Hollywood Hills of La Jolla” sits the residence dubbed “Essencia.” With six bedrooms and seven ...
Oceanfront fraud
Ten years old but never been occupied
How about an opportunity to own a nearly-new oceanfront estate in south La Jolla for less than half the original asking price? The home at 5490 Calumet Avenue sits just two doors north of Calumet ...
C.W. Kim's Sundial House
Local architect's home is his "finest and most personal work of art."
From its perch on Mount Soledad above La Jolla Country Club, the Sundial House, as the estate at 7191 Encelia Drive is monikered, enjoys “brilliant design and panoramic views” of the San Diego coastline. The ...
Coveted in the Covenant
Six beds, 10 baths for $21 million in Rancho Santa Fe
This week we visit Buena Vista Farms, an estate set “on a raised plot of land” comprising more than 15 acres of coveted land within the Rancho Santa Fe Covenant. The property at 6025 El ...
