San Diego Magazine Names Next Hot Neighborhoods

Coming up, do you live in one of San Diego's next hot neighborhoods. Stay tuned and we will find out. At 12:24 PM and you're listening to K PBS midday edition. K PBS is supported by porn lower well watch increases. Reminding you that horn blower watches in partnership with the San Diego natural history Museum. This is K PBS midday edition and I am Maureen Cavanaugh. You probably can name some of San Diego County's trendy neighborhoods. There is Northpark, uptown, east village, north County beach cities, Clairemont -- wait a minute. Clairemont? Yes indeed Clairemont along with 10 other locations in the county our names as the next hot neighborhoods in the current issue of San Diego magazine. Joined me to talk about which neighborhoods made the cut and why is Erin Meanley Glenny editor of San Diego magazine. Erin, welcome to the program. Thank you. I have already made the residence of Clairemont angry so help me out here. Tell us what Clairemont is one of the next hot neighborhoods? First of all it's very central and it's more affordable than LaToya and it's still very Far West. A lot of the houses are being flip and you cannot believe the new prices that these homes are going for. It's incredible. It really was one of San Diego's first original master-planned communities. It's a nicely laid out place -- the shopping center just got a 14 -- the shopping center just got a $14 million makeover. I really feel it's up-and-coming. I spent a lot of time in Clairemont recently and this is the next place. What do you mean by a hot neighborhood? Is. Where people want to live or they can afford to live? That's the thing, you kind of have to get them before it's too hot. That's kind of -- it's a tricky spot. You can get lucky but we are kind of saying -- some of these neighborhoods you know about a maybe you have rolled her eyes about 430 years. But if you look again, my dad was really surprised we were looking at real estate there and he grew up in La Jolla and he was -- you have to look again. Things are changing by the day. What are the kinds of potential you are looking for in these next hot neighborhoods? The biggest thing were looking for is inventory. If you can't get a place to live, it's not even worth considering if there are no houses or apartments work for example, Bakersfield, maybe that has always been super cool but right now there are six new apartments and condo complexes going up on fourth, fifth and sixth avenues. That means that other people can possibly have a chance at being in this really cool hip. We're looking at housing but we are also -- how are the schools? How are the people? Places like Talmage everyone is very friendly and they are passionate about it. We're looking at either things to do and places to eat. Is there diversity. Also can you live there. You have Barrio Logan, Oak Park, you have a neighborhood that I think a lot of people may never have heard of called train 10. Can you tell us where that is and why it's hot. I'm super excited about it. I walked around this and it's really just six blocks east of technically the upper east village so it's east of Gatling and kind of very east of the east village. It's right below city College. It's basically -- obviously there is a community there already but not many people living there. There are always where houses that are being dished giving this reused mixed-use development where they will become art retail, part brewery and there is this huge plan for a couple of tall units perhaps with they called market rate apartments and some creative business commercial office space. They are trying to attack the millennial's and the creative class. People like Apple or -- the renderings of these buildings, they are tall but they are thin so the light can pass through there's not going to be all these dark canyons. It's going to be this awesome place of creative people, the East Village Green is going to be put in. That's going to be the biggest park downtown. Right now what they're doing is rather than -- having pop-up art galleries and puppet theater, La Jolla Playhouse is well and they did L Henry there. It was on a random open lot and they got the locals to -- have maybe never seen the play before to come to this thing. They are trying to start with the people and start with art and see what people like and what people want. Eventually have this sort of creative hub. Erin, with you here? Is a listing like this make a difference? Do real estate agents use it as a marketing tool? This is one of the next hot neighborhoods. I don't know. That's a good question. I don't think it can influence price, I'm starting to hear what bullies the appraisers are. They don't really take much into consideration other than the other comps in the neighborhood. I wish that we could influence -- oh -- a lot is changing of the this past January and I do find a lot of these cash only offers and they are flipping offers -- houses and those are the people that are winning right now. It's very much a sellers market. It's tough. We tried to infuse a lot of hope. For example on the El Cajon Boulevard core door, -- core door several neighborhoods. Basically, they had only seen 500 new units in the last decade. -- New residences and they are now going to build 800 new apartments over the next two years. That's a huge difference. I want to tell everybody that they can read all about the pics for the next hot neighborhoods in the March edition of San Diego magazine. We mentioned some of them but you might want to check in our see if yours is there. We also have a map of the neighborhoods on our website@KPBS.org. I have been speaking with the magazine's editor Erin. Thank you so much. Thank you. It was a pleasure.