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23 ZIP codes hit new price peaks

San Diego County’s housing market hasn't fully recovered from the recession, but it is getting close. Last year, 23 ZIP codes hit new high median home prices, according to real estate tracker CoreLogic. Countywide median in 2016, $490,000, fell just shy of the $500,000 peak reached in 2005 and 2006.

San Diego County’s housing market hasn’t fully recovered from the recession, but it is getting close. Last year, 23 ZIP codes hit new high median home prices, according to real estate tracker CoreLogic. Countywide median in 2016, $490,000, fell just shy of the $500,000 peak reached in 2005 and 2006.

  (Eduardo Contreras / UT San Diego)

By Phillip Molnar
San Diego Union-Tribune
New peak: $1,104,500 Old peak: $862,000 (2015) Number of homes that sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 136

New peak: $1,104,500

Old peak: $862,000 (2015)

Number of homes that sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 136

  (Eduardo Contreras / UT San Diego)

New peak: $795,000 Old peak: $707,000 (2015) Number of homes that sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 407

New peak: $795,000

Old peak: $707,000 (2015)

Number of homes that sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 407

  (K.C. Alfred / San Diego Union-Tribune)

New peak: $540,000 Old peak: $525,000 (2005) Number of homes that sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 678

New peak: $540,000

Old peak: $525,000 (2005)

Number of homes that sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 678

  (Peggy Peattie / San Diego Union-Tribune)

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College Area

New peak: $435,000

Old peak: $405,000 (2015)

Number of homes that sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 677

  (Nelvin C. Cepeda / U-T San Diego)

Del Mar

New peak: $1,425,000

Old peak: $1,327,000 (2015)

Number of homes that sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 267

  (K.C. Alfred / San Diego Union-Tribune)

El Cajon

New peak: $435,000

Old peak: $415,000 (2015)

Number of homes that sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 596

  (Darren Bradley / Darren Bradley Photography)

Encinitas

New peak: $918,500

Old peak: $840,000 (2015)

Number of homes that sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 748

  (John Gastaldo / San Diego Union-Tribune)

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Escondido S

New peak: $462,500

Old peak: $450,000 (2006)

Number of homes that sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 457

  (David Brooks / San Diego Union-Tribune)

New peak: $579,500 Old peak: $579,000 (2014) Number of homes that sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 552

New peak: $579,500

Old peak: $579,000 (2014)

Number of homes that sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 552

  (Peggy Peattie / San Diego Union-Tribune)

Mira Mesa

New peak: $490,500

Old peak: $470,000 (2006)

Number of homes that sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 757

  (Howard Lipin / U-T San Diego)

Penasquitos

New peak: $660,000

Old peak: $610,000 (2015)

Number of homes that sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 723

  (Charlie Neuman / UT San Diego)

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Rancho Bernardo W

New peak: $800,000

Old peak: $790,000 (2015)

Number of homes that sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 1,242

  (K.C. Alfred / UT San Diego)

Scripps Ranch

New peak: $685,000

Old peak: $670,000 (2015)

Number of homes that sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 609

  (Mike Blake / Reuters)

University City

New peak: $476,000

Old peak: $460,000 (2015)

Number of homes that sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 549

  (K.C. Alfred / UT San Diego)

Warner Springs

New peak: $342,500

Old peak: $312,500 (2015)


Number of homes sold in that ZIP code in 2016: 20

  (John Gastaldo / San Diego Union-Tribune)

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Phillip Molnar

Phillip Molnar covers residential real estate, as well as other business issues for The San Diego Union-Tribune. He is an award-winning New Jersey, California and national reporter. Before coming to the Union-Tribune, he worked for the Monterey Herald, The Express-Times and New Jersey Herald. He lives in Chula Vista.

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