Wilcox Estates Moved!

I am so excited to announce I have moved my Real Estate business to Canter! If you know anyone thats looking to buy, sell, or invest in real estate now is the best time. Rates are low and prices are competitive. At Canter I have a great team of Lenders, Lawers, Wealth Management Team, and Development Team who are ready to help with any project big or small.

About Canter: 

Canter Companies is a full-service investment firm headquartered in San Diego, California. Offering comprehensive services, Canter can easily oversee the entire lifecycle of a project through acquisition, funding, development and sales. Our proprietary research and analytical processes help us identify potential opportunities and exploit market inefficiencies. Because of our well-honed ability to pinpoint unrealized opportunities, Canter has a proven track record of success throughout various market cycles. We also have affiliates and advisors in the Central Valley and Bay Area to service our growing clientele. Our relationships with our partners and affiliates allow us to entertain other unique investment opportunities outside the real estate industry.

Why Canter: 

Canter Brokerage is known for offering the most innovative marketing strategies to attract potential buyers. We believe there are many elements to a successful marketing program and take pride in our implementation of traditional tactics with an innovative approach. A customized blend of these elements combined with your property’s features and a suggested price range delivers signi cant results. Our network and reach extends throughout the San Diego community, the region of Southern California, and around the globe. We are constantly working to gain access to more qualified, motivated buyers and bring them to your home. Our primary goal is to sell your home.

We are always searching for new ways to draw attention to your home making it more appealing to buyers, ensuring you have the best results. We want your home to be seen by as many audiences as possible. Print and digital advertising allows us to leave a lasting impression of how special your home is. Our adverting campaigns are strategically designed to attract qualified buyers. The Canter Brokerage marketing department includes graphic designers and copywriters who create advertisements with impact. We have the ability to advertise your home in several print publications, which may include local and regional, daily and weekly newspapers, real estate and lifestyle publications, and periodicals. Cory Wilcox

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The Cheapest And Most Expensive San Diego Neighborhoods for Rent

San Diego rent prices continued to steadily increase across multiple bedroom types this September. The city maintained its place as the 11th most expensive market in the US to rent, inching ever closer to 10th place Seattle. One bedroom median rents jumped 2% to $1,540 alone last month, and are now up 7.7% in the past trailing year, while two bedrooms were also up 2.4% to $2,100.

Such increases have put San Diego ahead of Portland, Denver, and Philadelphia in our latest October National Rent Report, which details rent trends across the 50 largest cities in the United States.

Looking at the map above, the most expensive San Diego areas to rent this fall include Coronado ($2,600), East Village ($2,170), and Little Italy ($2,040). More affordable finds in the $900-$1,200 range can be seen in areas such as Oak Park, Burlingame, and El Cerrito.

If you’re interested in seeing how San Diego stacks up to the rest of the United States, view our National Rent Report for October, which analyzes over 1 million active listings available in the prior month.

To keep up to date with rent changes across the country, like or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest. In the market for a new place? Search over 2,350 San Diego apartments on Zumper.

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San Diego Is the New HOT Spot for A-List Celebrities!

        Who knew San Diego had so many A-List Celebrities?

Scott Eastwood

Here is Scott Eastwood cruising down PCH enjoying his Encinitas, Ca life style. Encinitas is small beach town that is known for it fitness, health eating, and beach life style. Encinitas is not only home to A-List Celebrities but is also home to the famous Self-Realization Fellowship. Scott Eastwood calls encinitas home for "It's a really healthy, active lifestyle," the 29-year-old told KUSI of why he chose Encinitas. "...The people in North County are just amazing — good people." 

Shannon

Shannon, mother to Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner, is a tall, slender woman in her “mid-70s” who leads a quiet life in the sleepy beach town of La Jolla, just north of San Diego. She’s recognized occasionally on the street as the grandmother to the Kardashians and has appeared a few times on the family’s E! reality-TV show, Keeping Up With the Kardashians. She has been snapped alongside granddaughter Kim on several shopping trips.

But Shannon stays largely out of the limelight. When she greets me at her cozy store, Shannon & Co., the day before the Fourth of July, she looks elegant in a pair of high-waisted red pants and a Gucci belt, Ralph Lauren sneakers, a white T-shirt, and a blue-and-white-striped sweater—in theme, of course. There are no assistants or paparazzi, no publicists, and no fans. “Kids tear the place apart!” she says of her usual clientele.

A small mom-and-pop store she founded in 1980, Shannon & Co. is filled with light that streams through two big windows edged with Spanish tiles. Inside, circular racks are packed tightly with kids’ clothes, for boys as old as 7 and girls as old as 14. There is a miniature baseball jacket, pink pajamas printed with palm trees, “nana blankets” hand-knit by a friend, and a tiny fireman’s costume. The carpet, business cards, and notepads are all leopard print—a “family signature” since 1985, she says—and a large picture of Kim Kardashian at age 7 hangs on the wall.

Bill Gates

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has purchased weight-loss icon Jenny Craig’s 229-acre thoroughbred training center in Rancho Santa Fe, which he plans to turn into a grand prix circuit for hunters and jumpers.

Gates, whose teenage daughter jumps horses competitively, paid $18 million for the facility in a deal that closed Sept. 12. It’s one of the highest prices secured for a property this year in San Diego County, where Gates also owns a home in the Del Mar Country Club. A spokeswoman for the Gates family confirmed the deal to buy the ranch Wednesday in a statement to U-T San Diego.

“The family has enjoyed visiting the San Diego area with friends and family for many years and has purchased the Rancho Paseana property in Rancho Santa Fe, California,” she said.

Craig closed the facility in May 2013 for financial reasons amid upheaval in the horse racing industry nationwide. At the time, Inglewood’s Hollywood Park was approaching its fall season, and talk was that some of the races would be shifted to Del Mar after it closed. They ultimately were, and Del Mar hosts its second opening day this year on Nov. 7. Before it shut down, Craig’s horse ranch was being used as training grounds for top quality thoroughbreds, but mostly was known as a “layup” facility for horses to enjoy downtime and rehab from injuries.

Craig had been trying to sell the property called long before it closed. In 2010, she put it on the market for nearly $30 million. The price tag was reduced to almost $25 million before it was pulled off the Multiple Listing Service entirely in fall 2012. The property was not listed when it actually sold, said listing agent Catherine Barry, of Barry Estates in Rancho Santa Fe.

Craig, who declined to name the buyer, said she has many happy memories of her time at the ranch but that it was expensive to maintain. She said it was time to put it behind her as she is on to a new chapter in her life.

“I was happy that the buyer is someone who can afford to turn it into the showplace it was meant to be,” she said. “It will be kept as a horse barn so the neighbors will be thrilled ... the person who bought it will make it like it can and should be.”

The property includes a white fenced, three-quarter-mile dirt training track, four 30-stall barns and rehab equipment for injured horses. Barry said the parcel also features two apartments with a French motif. She said Craig received offers that involved building a golf course or a hotel on the property, but she wanted to keep it for its original purpose: for horses.

“At one point she was thinking maybe she should look at potentially doing some subdivision ... but her dream was always to sell it to someone else to keep it for horses,” said Barry, who also declined to name the buyer.

Forbes reports that Gates, whose net worth of $81 billion makes him America’s richest man, has spent money on horses before. A few years ago, Gates leased a home in Palm Beach, Fla. for $600,000 so his daughter Jennifer could be near Wellington’s Equestrian Festival, according to Forbes. Further, the Daily Mail reports that around that time Gates leased four elite jumping horses for $50,000 to $75,000 each for his daughter to train.

Carl Hilliard, a former Del Mar City Councilman whose horses have competed at Del Mar, said it was a loss to the equestrian field when Craig closed the facility some years ago.

“There are a number of training facilities and they range from very good to not so good, and this was one of those that was very good,” said Hilliard, whose thoroughbred Johnny Eves won the 2007 Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita. “There’s a lot of hunter-jumper facilities in Rancho Santa Fe, so this is sort of a center for it.”

Hilliard said his preference is for the facility to be used for thoroughbred training, but that would require a lot of work, such as enlarging the stables.

Once known as Rancho del Rayo, the property originally belonged to former San Diego Chargers owner Gene Klein, who built it in 1985. The Craigs bought the facility in 1995 for $6 million, public records show.

The $18 million sale price is among the highest secured in the county in 2014. A home at 420 Avenida Primavera in Del Mar sold for $22.9 million in June. Last year, the most expensive home sold in the county was at 1936 Ocean Front in Del Mar, which sold for $18.75 million.

Cory Wilcox, a San Diego Realtor with Keller Williams, said unique properties like Craig’s ranch command a higher price.

“Estates like that, are very hard to put a price on,” she said. “The fact that it will not be developed is a win for the community.”

Craig also recently listed her home at 2936 Ocean Front in Del Mar, for $39.5 million. That home is still on the market.

La Jolla Farms

La Jolla Farms: Where Billionaires Meet Surfers

In San Diego's La Jolla Farms, owners like Ron Burkle and former litigator Bill Lerach share a coastline with college kids and sports enthusiasts

When Bill Lerach's wife wanted to move from north San Diego's spacious Rancho Santa Fe area to the posh but relatively cramped La Jolla, he worried they couldn't find the land to accommodate his gardening habit—Mr. Lerach's primary occupation since he was released from prison, three years ago. 

BILLIONAIRE'S BLUFF

The home of investor Ron Burkle sits on a bluff overlooking La Jolla Farms. 

They found a solution in 2005 in La Jolla Farms, a small but open area perched on an ocean-side bluff that overlooks a nude beach and the Pacific Ocean. Mr. Lerach's $26 million, Italian-style home sits on six heavily gardened acres that end at a seaside cliff. 

"La Jolla Farms became a perfect compromise," says Mr. Lerach, the securities litigator who, after a long career trying corporate-fraud cases, was disbarred after serving time for a felony conviction on charges of obstruction of justice. 

The Farms, among the most expensive areas in San Diego, is an enclave within an enclave of greater La Jolla. It isn't as well-known as the seaside La Jolla Village, and the roughly 100 homes there, while boasting some of the best views on earth, don't have any beachfront. What they do have is land: The lots range from around 1 to 7 acres. And as Mr. Lerach notes, there are some advantages to not having beachfront. "Nobody can get up from below," he says. 

On a recent morning Mr. Lerach greeted guests in a sweatshirt and boat shoes. His hands were flecked with his own dry blood (from a gardening injury) and he had a pair of plastic garden ties in his back pocket. He said the Farms area, with its mild climate and plentiful sun, is a gardener's dream. He does most of his work on the property's ocean-facing side. He and his wife tend to a crowded jungle that includes California native plants, berries and herbs, and a rowed vegetable garden with cabbage, tomatoes and eggplant.

With the area's miles of beaches and water come views of whales, dolphins and surfers. It's a perfect place to search for the "green flash," an elusive burst of light that rises over the ocean at sunset. Paragliders regularly fly over the property on their descent to the beach below. 

Some people gripe, Mr. Lerach says, "but I find it entertaining."

La Jolla Farms sits a few miles from downtown La Jolla, up a winding hill. In contrast to the collection of boutiques and restaurants in the village, the Farms is adjacent to a small city of dorms, labs and office buildings that belong to the University of California, San Diego, and affiliated research institutions. La Jolla Village has a Ralph Lauren store. La Jolla Farms has a Ralphs supermarket in a nearby shopping center. 

The result is that the Farms, though it has its share of visitors, has a less touristy, more residential feel than La Jolla proper. The lots, developed mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, are a mixed bag architecturally, ranging from modern contemporary to Spanish colonial. The area has almost no architectural guidelines or constraints, so people build whatever they want, says Cory Wilcox, a real-estate agent with Keller Williams. 

The fact that the area isn't well-known outside of San Diego may be contributing to a lag in prices. Homes in the Farms area have been selling for roughly $845 per square foot, through there is some variation depending on the view and acreage. That is down from around $1,500 per square foot in the real-estate heyday from 2004 to 2007, according to Mr. Dickinson. 

San Diego hasn't attracted many foreign investors, he says, because the area doesn't have the global reputation of say, Los Angeles, about two hours to the north. Also, the city's small downtown airport has a relative handful of international flights. 

"In a way, we're on sale," says Mr. Dickinson. "We're missing out on that customer." 

The Farms has all the marks of a wealthy neighborhood: gated homes, dense shrubbery and a private security force that roams the circle in green-and-white cars. But unlike most wealthy neighborhoods, the area also plays host to an eclectic band of outside traffic. The university is a few hundred yards away, and students amble through the Farms daily on a windy path leading to a vantage point called "the cliffs," where they watch sunsets.

Surfers also make frequent stops. When the waves are good, they use La Jolla Farms Road as a de facto parking lot on their way to the beach. And while residents get keys that allow them to drive down an access road to the water, it's an open secret that the best-networked surfers have secured keys of their own. 

Alex Zha, a freshman at the university, takes study breaks there. "It's a pretty big change of scenery" from the campus, Mr. Zha says, who walks to the Farms about once a month to chill out and take in the view. 

Mr. Zha's view from the cliffs one recent afternoon included not just waves but a sprawling Mediterranean-style home belonging to Ron Burkle, the Los Angeles investor and billionaire who now spends most of his time in London. The home, surrounded by palm trees and panoramic views of the ocean, is used mostly for entertaining, a spokesman for Mr. Burkle says. The investor paid $16 million for the property when the house was still unfinished but has since had offers for more than $60 million, the spokesman adds. 

Other Farms residents include Ted Waitt, founder of Gateway Inc., and Roger Tsien, a Nobel laureate and UCSD chemistry professor. 

Mr. Lerach's home is full of African art and statutes he has collected, along with pots and pots of plants that have helpful placards to identify them. The home is a popular stop on local garden tours.

He says he and his wife host charity events, including for "Just in Time," an organization that helps children transition from foster care to the real world. He also estimates he has hosted a dozen weddings on the property. 

Touring the home, Mr. Lerach doled out trivia about World War II and blueberries. The house contains remnants of his legal career, such as a caricature of a bald man's head on a platter—a vanquished legal opponent. 

Mr. Lerach was sentenced in 2008 to two years in prison and paid an $8 million penalty after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice in connection with alleged kickbacks paid by his former law firm to clients. He says he served about 16 months. He was later disbarred by the state of California. 

"I'm completely satisfied in the life I now live, and I'm proud of the work we did," he says. 

The home also has reminders of Mr. Lerach's native Pittsburgh, including a sooty fountain from his hometown left by a previous owner. Just beyond the gated driveway is an aviary with African and South American birds. He has two toucans, named Badass and Badasser, and mynah birds he is teaching to speak Pittsburgh slang. Right now, they're working on "yinz."