San Diego Real Estate Outlook 2010
According to Sign On San Diego’s Roger Showley, the Urban Land Institute released its “Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2010” report last week. On the report’s 9-point scale, San Diego’s real estate market is predicted to improve to 5, a whopping one tenth of a point above 2009’s ranking. What does this mean? Not much really, but it does mean that things certainly are not getting worse.
As we all know, San Diego’s residential sector took an enormous hit dropping from a median home price of $517,500 in 2005, to a much more realistic $325,000. An now, with the residential market coming around, so too will other real estate sectors. Showley reports that Jonathan Miller, a consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, who wrote the “Emerging Trends” report said “San Diego is improving because its housing market, having declined earlier than markets in most places, has “stabilized” and is thus setting the stage for nonresidential properties to recover.” “Setting the stage” doesn’t mean nonresidential properties WILL recover in 2010, but I don’t think anyone is going to complain about a stabilizing market that brings with it the hope of once again having flourishing real estate market, even if it is still a ways off.
What else did the reports say?
“For 2010, the market is a pure hold’ meaning investors should retain their properties and not rush to buy or sell.”
“Shopping center owners should ‘hang on for dear life’ as retailers struggle with falling sales and many vacate their premises.”
“Office-building landlords should expect a game of ‘tenant musical chairs’ as lessees seek the best deals.”
“Hotels can’t get any worse but will ‘lead the commercial real estate industry in recovery’ as the economy improves.”
As for San Diego, even a miniscule glint of improvement on the real estate front is a sign of hope. Jonathon Miller adds, “the point is San Diego, unlike some other markets, has taken a tough hit here, but it appears to be stabilizing, and that’s better than other markets around the country.” It’s funny to think that just a few years ago “appreciation” was the word that was being used. Appreciation was expected and relied upon, and taken for granted. And now, with our heads in our hands and hopefully a little wiser, appreciation is a distant memory. Now, the word “Stabilizing” holds a similar connotation that “appreciation” once had.
November 18th, 2009 at 6:57 am
San Diego is one of my favorite places and I like to go there and visit. San Diego Real Estate is one of the best area’s in the world so investing in it is not a painful deal but to get this you have to pay for it. Anyways keep it up.