See Current Real Estate Listings of San Diego Homes for Sale.

More than you ever wanted to know

Airzona and Hawaii do not observe daylight savings time.

Although not punctual in the modern sense, ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than modern DST does, often dividing daylight into twelve hours regardless of day length, so that each daylight hour was longer during summer.[12] For example, Roman water clocks had different scales for different months of the year: at Rome’s latitude the third hour from sunrise, hora tertia, started by modern standards at 09:02 solar time and lasted 44 minutes at the winter solstice, but at the summer solstice it started at 06:58 and lasted 75 minutes.[13] After ancient times, equal-length civil hours eventually supplanted unequal, so civil time no longer varies by season. Unequal hours are still used in a few traditional settings, such as some Mount Athos monasteries[14] and all Jewish ceremonies.[15]

Benjamin Franklin satirically suggested firing cannons at sunrise to wake ParisiansDuring his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, author of the proverb, “Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”, anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight.[16] This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise.[17] Franklin did not propose DST; like ancient Rome, 18th-century Europe did not keep precise schedules. However, this soon changed as rail and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin’s day.[18]

G.V. Hudson invented modern DST, proposing it first in 1895.Modern DST was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson, whose shift-work job gave him leisure time to collect insects, and made him aware of the value of after-hours daylight.[2] In 1895 he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing a two-hour daylight-saving shift,[19] and after considerable interest was expressed in Christchurch, New Zealand he followed up in an 1898 paper.[20] Many publications incorrectly credit DST’s invention to the prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett,[21] who independently conceived DST in 1905 during a pre-breakfast ride, when he observed with dismay how many Londoners slept through a large part of a summer day.[22] An avid golfer, he also disliked cutting short his round at dusk.[23] His solution was to advance the clock during the summer months, a proposal he published two years later.[24] The proposal was taken up by the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Pearce, who introduced the first Daylight Saving Bill to the House of Commons on 12 February 1908.[25] A select committee was set up to examine the issue, but Pearce’s bill did not become law, and several other bills failed in the following years. Willett lobbied for the proposal in the UK until his death in 1915.

Starting on 30 April 1916, Germany and its World War I allies were the first to use DST (ger.: Sommerzeit) as a way to conserve coal during wartime. Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year and the United States adopted it in 1918. Since then, the world has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals.

Now is a good time to buy San Diego Real Estate

Anytime is a good time to buy San Diego North County homes. Contact Gary Harmon, your top North County Realtor, to see homes today. Gary services all of the San Diego North County real estate areas including Carlsbad homes, Oceanside homes for sale, Encinitas homes, Vista, San Marcos, and Escondido real estate.

The median Encinitas homes value in June 2011 is $609,900. The median value for San Diego North County homes for the same period is $388,700.  The National median home value is only $175,100.  Encinitas home appreciation has decreased by -2.4% with San Diego County homes being about the same. Nationally, homes have gone down in the same period by -3.2%. See the chart below for a ten year average of median Encinitas homes values and how they stack up against the City, County and the Nation. There is also a chart of Encinitas homes appreciation for the same ten year period.

If you would like to see Encinitas homes for sale and take advantage of this great San Diego North County real estate market, contact Gary Harmon, your Real Living Lifestyles Real Estate agent.

Showing properties 1 - 25 of 175. See more city of Encinitas real estate.
(all data current as of 2/5/2012)

1. $749,000 : 1117 VIA MONTECITO, Encinitas
   
   4 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

   Home size: 2,767 sq ft

   Lot size: 7,840 sq ft

   Year built: 1986

   Parking spots: 6

   Days on market: 2

   Walk Score®: 60
2. $665,000 : 1168 Kava Ct, Encinitas
   
   3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

   Home size: 1,995 sq ft

   Year built: 2006

   Parking spots: 4

   Days on market: 3

   Walk Score®: 45
3. $1,750,000 : 1220 Rancho Encinitas Dr, Encinitas
   
   5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

   Home size: 5,162 sq ft

   Lot size: 1.01 ac

   Year built: 1987

   Parking spots: 5

   Days on market: 3

   Walk Score®: 17
4. $1,165,000 : 1529 Halia Ct, Encinitas
   
   4 beds, 4 full baths

   Home size: 3,372 sq ft

   Lot size: 12,576 sq ft

   Year built: 2012

   Days on market: 3
5. $549,000 : 1125 EVERGREEN Dr, Encinitas
   
   3 beds, 2 full baths

   Home size: 1,442 sq ft

   Lot size: 9,100 sq ft

   Year built: 1956

   Days on market: 5

   Walk Score®: 55
6. $1,399,000 : 1060 California St, Encinitas
   
   6 beds, 5 full, 1 part baths

   Home size: 5,526 sq ft

   Year built: 1987

   Parking spots: 13

   Days on market: 5

   Walk Score®: 23
7. $1,195,000 : 371 W I St, Encinitas
   
   2 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

   Home size: 1,771 sq ft

   Year built: 1978

   Parking spots: 1

   Days on market: 5

   Walk Score®: 83
8. $1,085,000 : 385 W I St, Encinitas
   
   2 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

   Home size: 1,578 sq ft

   Year built: 1978

   Parking spots: 1

   Days on market: 5

   Walk Score®: 83
9. $599,000 : 345 Rancho Santa Fe Rd, Encinitas
   
   3 beds, 3 full baths

   Home size: 1,925 sq ft

   Year built: 2000

   Parking spots: 5

   Days on market: 5

   Walk Score®: 38
10. $454,000 : 1680 N Coast Highway 101 10, Encinitas
    
    2 beds, 2 full baths

    Home size: 1,026 sq ft

    Year built: 1986

    Parking spots: 3

    Days on market: 6

    Walk Score®: 46
11. $479,000 : 1463 Flair Encinitas Dr, Encinitas
    
    3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

    Home size: 1,720 sq ft

    Year built: 1981

    Parking spots: 2

    Days on market: 6

    Walk Score®: 68
12. $795,000 : 363 Ocean View Ave, Encinitas
    
    2 beds, 2 full baths

    Home size: 1,536 sq ft

    Lot size: 17,424 sq ft

    Year built: 1948

    Parking spots: 2

    Days on market: 7

    Walk Score®: 63
13. $1,195,000 : 507 Hidden Ridge Ct, Encinitas
    
    4 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

    Home size: 3,967 sq ft

    Year built: 2000

    Parking spots: 10

    Days on market: 7

    Walk Score®: 51
14. $738,000 : 721 LA QUEBRADA, Encinitas
    
    5 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

    Home size: 3,715 sq ft

    Lot size: 21,780 sq ft

    Year built: 1973

    Parking spots: 14

    Days on market: 9

    Walk Score®: 20
15. $1,375,000 : 1333 Rainbow Ridge Ln, Encinitas
    
    3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

    Home size: 2,320 sq ft

    Lot size: 38,332 sq ft

    Year built: 1947

    Parking spots: 10

    Days on market: 10

    Walk Score®: 15
16. $459,000 : 205 Gloxina St, Encinitas
    
    2 beds, 1 full bath

    Home size: 827 sq ft

    Lot size: 4,500 sq ft

    Year built: 1971

    Parking spots: 2

    Days on market: 11

    Walk Score®: 46
17. $801,000 : 1618 BUTTERCUP Rd, Encinitas
    
    4 beds, 3 full baths

    Home size: 2,299 sq ft

    Year built: 1984

    Days on market: 13

    Walk Score®: 63
18. $1,049,900 : 693 Calypso Pl, Encinitas
    
    3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

    Home size: 2,649 sq ft

    Year built: 2012

    Days on market: 15
19. $519,000 : 1203 Cambria Wy, Encinitas
    
    3 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

    Home size: 1,386 sq ft

    Year built: 1999

    Days on market: 15

    Walk Score®: 77
20. $539,000 : 3191 Via De Caballo St, Encinitas
    
    2 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

    Home size: 1,898 sq ft

    Year built: 1976

    Days on market: 16

    Walk Score®: 11
21. $1,425,888 : 1414 Lauren Ct, Encinitas
    
    4 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

    Home size: 4,262 sq ft

    Lot size: 20,648 sq ft

    Year built: 2002

    Days on market: 17

    Walk Score®: 25
22. $2,300,000 : 3331 Wildflower Valley Dr, Encinitas
    
    4 beds, 4 full, 2 part baths

    Home size: 6,830 sq ft

    Year built: 2002

    Parking spots: 14

    Days on market: 18

    Walk Score®: 11
23. $1,350,000 : MLS # 120003511 in Encinitas
    
    5 beds, 4 full, 1 part baths

    Home size: 4,142 sq ft

    Lot size: 15,006 sq ft

    Year built: 2001

    Days on market: 18

    Walk Score®: 45
24. $535,000 : 2061 Coolngreen Ln, Encinitas
    
    2 beds, 2 full, 1 part baths

    Home size: 1,603 sq ft

    Lot size: 4,356 sq ft

    Year built: 1985

    Parking spots: 4

    Days on market: 19

    Walk Score®: 38
25. $950,000 : 1426 Arbor Ct, Encinitas
    
    5 beds, 3 full, 1 part baths

    Home size: 3,511 sq ft

    Year built: 1998

    Days on market: 19

    Walk Score®: 31

Listing information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Read full disclaimer.

See other Encinitas Ocean View homes.  See Encinitas Ocean View homes video.

Listing of the Day – 138 Neptune Avenue, Encinitas, CA 92024

Remarks: Great family beach house close to Moonlight Beach and in perfect condition. Single level in residence with 2 car garage below. Home is set well back from and very high above the street so it is very quiet and private inside. Extra large lot allows for adding square footage if your client is so inclined, but a great value as is.
 

View all photos of this Encinitas Ocean View Home Home.

Get a your personal tour of Encinitas homes for sale, contact Gary Harmon, your Encinitas Realor.  Learn more about Neptune Avenue Ocean View Homes.

 Above Encinitas home listing of the day was provided by Gary Harmon – DRE #01007062.
Information courtesy of Prudential California Realty is subject to verification and is not guaranteed.

Gary Harmon is a proud member of the Hadley Home Team.

According to a National Association of Realtors survey of buyers and sellers, first-time homebuyers accounted for half of all home sales from July 2009 through June 2010.  That’s the highest share of first-time-buyer purchases in the history of the survey.  This large number of first-time home buyers was due to the generous incentives offered by both Federal and State Governments.  The survey dates back to 1981.

The typical first-time buyer was 30 years old (compared to a median 49 years old for repeat buyers and 39 years old  for all buyers) and planned to stay in their home for a median of 10 years. Repeat buyers planned to stay for 15 years. Typical sellers had remained in their previous home for eight years.

87% of home buyers started on the Internet

Almost half (48 percent) of buyers found their agent through a referral from a friend, relative, or neighbor; the next highest percentage, 10 percent, used a website.  According to the National Association of Realtors, over 87% of home buyers started their seach for a home on the Internet.

The most valuable website feature for San Diego North County buyers was the presence of photos: 85 percent said they found photos “very useful.” Detailed property information was very useful for 83 percent and virtual tours were very useful for 61 percent.  That is why this blog, www.GaryHarmon.com and my main website, www.HomeInfoSanDiego.com, offer a plethora of great photos.

On the main website you can search by using the main search buttons: Foreclosure Search, MLS Search, Over 55 Homes, Ocean Hills C C, Ocean View Homes, La Costa Homes, and Contact Gary.  If you want know more about the San Diego North County real estate communities you can go to the community buttons of: Oceanside, Carlsbad, Escondido, Vista, San Marcos, or Encinitas.  Your search possibilities only start with the main search buttons.  There are over 200 pages of custom, relevant, San Diego North County homes real estate content available on “HomeInfoSanDiego.com.”  Many communities, such as “Ocean Hills Country Club Homes,” have their own websites within the main website.

Enjoy this San Diego North County real estate resource, and for personal attention, contact Gary Harmon, a top North County real estate agent.

See Current Real Estate Listings of  San Diego Homes for Sale.

Just a friendly reminder to set your clocks back one hour this Sunday morning at 2:00 am, November 7, 2010.  This is the end of daylight savings time for us here in San Diego North County.  Back to standard time.  Remember the old rule of Spring forward and Fall back.  If you would like to know a little history (or a lot of history) about the time change, read on below the photo. 

More than you ever wanted to know

Although not punctual in the modern sense, ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than modern DST does, often dividing daylight into twelve hours regardless of day length, so that each daylight hour was longer during summer.[12] For example, Roman water clocks had different scales for different months of the year: at Rome’s latitude the third hour from sunrise, hora tertia, started by modern standards at 09:02 solar time and lasted 44 minutes at the winter solstice, but at the summer solstice it started at 06:58 and lasted 75 minutes.[13] After ancient times, equal-length civil hours eventually supplanted unequal, so civil time no longer varies by season. Unequal hours are still used in a few traditional settings, such as some Mount Athos monasteries[14] and all Jewish ceremonies.[15]

 
Benjamin Franklin satirically suggested firing cannons at sunrise to wake ParisiansDuring his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, author of the proverb, “Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”, anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight.[16] This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise.[17] Franklin did not propose DST; like ancient Rome, 18th-century Europe did not keep precise schedules. However, this soon changed as rail and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin’s day.[18]

 
G.V. Hudson invented modern DST, proposing it first in 1895.Modern DST was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson, whose shift-work job gave him leisure time to collect insects, and made him aware of the value of after-hours daylight.[2] In 1895 he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing a two-hour daylight-saving shift,[19] and after considerable interest was expressed in Christchurch, New Zealand he followed up in an 1898 paper.[20] Many publications incorrectly credit DST’s invention to the prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett,[21] who independently conceived DST in 1905 during a pre-breakfast ride, when he observed with dismay how many Londoners slept through a large part of a summer day.[22] An avid golfer, he also disliked cutting short his round at dusk.[23] His solution was to advance the clock during the summer months, a proposal he published two years later.[24] The proposal was taken up by the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Pearce, who introduced the first Daylight Saving Bill to the House of Commons on 12 February 1908.[25] A select committee was set up to examine the issue, but Pearce’s bill did not become law, and several other bills failed in the following years. Willett lobbied for the proposal in the UK until his death in 1915.

Starting on 30 April 1916, Germany and its World War I allies were the first to use DST (ger.: Sommerzeit) as a way to conserve coal during wartime. Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year and the United States adopted it in 1918. Since then, the world has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals.

Now is a good time to buy San Diego Real Estate

Anytime is a good time to buy San Diego North County homes.  Contact Gary Harmon, your top North County Realtor, to see homes today.  Gary services all of the San Diego North County real estate areas including Carlsbad homes, Oceanside homes for sale, Encinitas homes, Vista, San Marcos, and Escondido real estate.

Moonlight Beach Ammenities

At the bottom of a gently sloping hill, right below some special Encinitas ocean view homes, is the spectacular Moonlight Beach and all it has to offer.  It is located near the foot of Encinitas Boulevard, at the west end of “B” Street and 4th. Its sandy beach is great for volleyball.  Facilities there include picnic tables, fire pits,benches, recreational equipment rentals, a snack bar, showers, rest rooms and volleyball courts.  The parking lot for Moonlight Beach sits high above the beach on the bluff.  In addition to parking, it is used for popular car shows such as the annual gathering of Woodies.

Moonlight Beach Concession Stand

One of the changes you will soon see is the Moonlight Beach concession stand will get a total makeover.  Since June and Treggon Owens took over the Moonlight Beach Concession Stand last year good things have been happening.    Treggon said, “We worked with the city to replace everything from the sewer to ceiling fans,” he said. “We bought all new restaurant equipment. We wanted a clean start. I didn’t want to worry about equipment that might break.”  The concession stand is also getting a new menu featuring great items form some of the finest food purveyors in the area: Foster Farms corn dogs, Sadie Rose Artisan Breads, Garden State Bagels,  Block and Barrel Specialty Cheese,  and Tillamook Cheese.  You can get more information on the menu or view the full menu by visiting, www. moonlightsnack.com.  For the kids, snow cones have been added.  The Moonlight Beach Concesson Stand is open a minimum of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day of the year.

Enjoy your next visit to Moonlight Beach with the family, and to see Encinitas Ocean View homes, contact Gary Harmon.  Gary also specializes in Oceanside ocean view estates, and Carlsbad oceanfront homes.  For a little audio fun turn up the sounds and enjoy my Encinitas Beaches slideshow.

This Week in Encinitas Real Estate

The median list price of  Encinitas homes  for sale is $1,060,000.  There are 237 Encinitas homes on the market and they have been there for an average market time of 132 days.  As measured by the Market Action Index, demand is increasing as the days on the market trend downward.  Both these are postive trends for the Encinitas housing market.

Encinitas Homes Supply and Demand

The Encinitas housing market has settled in at a relative stasis in Encinitas inventory and sales conditions.  It’s a buyer’s market  that has seen prices trend down.  Expect that consistent up trends in demand will be required before the price of Encinitas homes for sale prices trend up significantly. 

These Encinitas homes for sale and market conditions & statistics are brought to you by Altos Research and Pickford Escrow, one of  Gary Harmon’s winning team members.  For more information on Encinitas homes for sale, contact Gary Harmon, your Encinitas Realtor.

g

- Central air conditioners
- Clothes washers
- Dishwashers
- Freezers
- Furnaces
- Refrigerators
- Water heaters

To encourage San Diego North County customers to buy energy efficient products, ENERGY STAR partners occasionally sponsor special offers, such as sales tax exemptions or credits, or rebates on qualified products.  Here is a list of different products you might consider swapping out for ENERGY STAR products in order to earn a rebate in your specific region (Check with SDG&E to see what qualifies for  Encinitas homes.):

Another option for Encinitas Homes is to install your own Solar Panels.  For more information on how to save money when buying Encinitas homes, contact Gary Harmon, your top Encinitas Realtor.

Kitchens are King

Are you thinking about selling your Encinitas home? In this competitive San Diego North County real estate market, it’s more important than ever to set your Encinitas home apart from the competition. Encinitas home owners that stage their homes usually sell their homes faster and for more money than non-staged homes. First impressions are critical when selling Encinitas real estate. Staging highlights a home’s positive features and minimizes negatives, while neutralizing the property so that it appeals to the widest range of prospective Encinitas home buyers. Staging can range from a simple consultation with sellers to coordinating a project that includes color analysis, editing, furniture arrangement and accessorizing. If you are interested in staging your Encinitas home to sell fast, contact Gary Harmon, your Encinitas Realtor. We work with professional staging companies that will insure you home always looks its very best.