Dave Rice

Mar 29, 2024 | sandiegoreader.com | Dave Rice

All good things — and indeed, most mediocre things — must eventually come to an end. With the latter in mind, I think the time has come to say goodbye to our biweekly check-ins on how the obscenely wealthy among us are living. There’s only so much to be said about conspicuous consumption, and so many ways to say it, after all.

Mar 13, 2024 | sandiegoreader.com | Dave Rice

But it does hope to help fill in the gapsWelcome back to Unreal Estate. This week, we’re going try something new. Instead of peeking at the biggest and most expensive house I can find, let’s get cheap and go small — really small. A couple of months ago, I put out a call for readers to share their efforts to create more affordable, sustainable housing in and around San Diego.

Mar 1, 2024 | sandiegoreader.com | Dave Rice

Hello, friends. Welcome to another installment of Hey Look At This Rich Guy’s House (Biweekly)! As a programming note, I do have a few leads on stories that might involve some quirky smaller builds and other sorts of interesting abodes, but alas, none of those are ready to go just yet. So this week, we’re headed up to Del Mar, a town that we haven’t visited in nearly six months, despite its being within the second-priciest ZIP code in San Diego (and 51st most expensive nationwide).

Feb 16, 2024 | sandiegoreader.com | Dave Rice

Your chance to look down on Downtown San DiegoToday, the gentrification of San Diego’s Downtown and the attendant transformation of the city’s skyline is nearly complete. It’s a feat that’s been a long time in the making. The opening of Petco Park in 2004 spurred the construction of dozens of residential high-rises, but the Great Recession and its attendant real estate bust later in the decade stalled many of those projects.

Feb 2, 2024 | sandiegoreader.com | Dave Rice

The spectrum of writing quality in the real estate world, in terms of both quality and density, is, to put it gently, broad. Some agents let the photos in their listings speak mostly for themselves; others will craft a narrative around a handful of selling points and unique features; a few go as far as attempting to shoehorn a sort of novella into the comments section accompanying the bed/bath count and list of amenities. Today we’re going to look at one of the latter creations.