San Diego Real Estate Blog by Alexandra Budanov

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Legendary rock guitarist Dave Mustaine is selling his English Garden Style Estate in San Diego County for $5,375,000

Hello Hello San Diego,

I got some news for you, my friends. Legendary lead singer of " Megadeth" and original lead guitarist for the American heavy metal band "Metallica" , David Scott " Dave" Mustaine is selling his English Garden Style Estate in Fallbrook. The main house is more than 5300 Sq.Ft. with very tasteful interior design. The Estate was built by Barry Smith in 1990 with 10 fireplaces, Jefferson doors, and extensive crown molding. 5 very spacious bedrooms with 7 bathrooms.

One of the best features of this house is luxury recording studio with SSL AWS900+SE hybrid console and producer boarding room.

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"Califronia Garden" magazine owner's Estate is for sale for $7.6 million

My Dear Friends!

Can't wait to share this mention with you! Did you know that if you own historical property in San Diego, you taxes usually reduced by 70 %? It’s a lot!!! However, some people are still selling their historical properties. This 9 bedrooms 12 bathrooms Estate is more than a century old. The Rosecroff Estate was built by Emmor Brooke Weaver in 1912 in Point Loma and was visited by a lot of celebrities such as Jonas Salk, Dr Seuss, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. Actually, the place was used by Ronald Reagan to announce his candidacy to be Governor of California. Also, Theodor Seuss Gaisel used the property to celebrate his birthday in 1984.

Robinsons Family purchased this property in 1903 and developed the fields into gardens of roses .The property was named “Rosecroft” in recognition of the owner’s wife Scottish Highland ancestry. The husband, Alfred Robinson, was the first president and editor of magazine “ California Garden” . Eventually, Robinsons focused on begonias and developed more than 100 new varieties of this flower in the garden of their Estate.

After the property was sold to new owner in 1942, it was open to the public as Rosecroft Begonia Garden till 1960. In 2003, the Estate was added to the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service. This is one of few properties in San Diego with the history behind.

16,000 Sq.Ft

2.5 acres

9 beds/12 baths

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Alexandra Budanov

Real Estate Consultant
Ranch and Village Homes
16915 Avenida De Acasias,
Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067
P.: 858.500.2339
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Saturday, February 6, 2016

RETHINK DOWNTOWN - whats coming to San Diego soon?

My Dear Friends,

As you may noticed, there are a lot of constructions going on in Downtown San Diego. I attended the Presentation Session yesterday about new Bosa building that is coming to E Street. “ Pacific Gate” is going to be gorgeous 217 units 41 stories building. It is very similar to NY Style buildings with chief concierge, luxury car fleet, fitness center, steam room, sauna, 24 hours doorman, security, heated pool and hot tub, guest suit, and luxury car fleet. The inspiration for this amazing building is taken from Vancuver . Architect of this amazing project is Kohn Pederson Fox- the prominent New York firm granted their first San Diego commission here.

A little bit about future design of the tower. Seems like the designers tried really hard to switch a little bit from NY style towers. The long axis of the oval was set on a diagonal alignment to increase water-facing views, and the floor plans were adopted into two “ nested” arcs, creating dramatically sharp “prows” and room for balconies at either end. The architects use metaphor of seashells and ocean waves when explaining this design. As you can see from the picture, gate lobby shows how the fout nature –derived themes of “three, sea, sun and earth” have informed their choice of natural materials and detail design there.

HOA are going to be around $1300/ month.

Their pre- sale started already for one, two and three bedroom condos with 1,280-2,608 Sq. Ft. Future buyers will have the option to buy several units and combine them in one.

The prices for those condos are $1.4 million for two bedrooms and $2.9 million for three bedrooms.

I love how Bosa Group is trying to reshape San Deigo skyline and it is very exciting that a lot of new buildings are coming to Downtown!

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Monday, January 4, 2016

Any house can be transformed to dollhouse with new 3D Matterport Camera!

My Dear Friends,

I wanted to share with you what we use for our new listings in San Diego now! Have you ever heard about 3D Photography and Matterport 3D Camera? Well, this is the camera that makes your house look like dollhouse or the house from the popular game Sims (that I used to play when I was a teenager). You can walk through the house or condo as you are there. You can take a look at the ceiling, at the kitchen counter and see every single detail of the property. This new technology is sooooo cool and easy to use!

That’s how it works:

This is the camera that rotates on its tripod for 60-80 seconds.

Then, you would need to put the camera to different place as you walk into the property:

The process will take 1-1.5 hours to complete the house depends on square footage. Now, it is designed for indoor use only. And I am very excited to use it and play with it on my listings! Here are two examples that we have done recently. First is the gorgeous townhouse on La Costa Golf Course and second is cozy townhouse in 4S Ranch! Enjoy!

Spacious Townhouse on La Costa Golf Course in Carlsbad!

Ravenna, 4S Ranch Townhome!

Remember, if you need to sell or buy a house or condo in any area of San Diego County, please contact me for free consultation 858-500-2339!

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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Co-founder of Qualcomm is selling his $60 million estate in Rancho Santa Fe

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All of us, San Diegians, are aware of the existence of Qualcomm, the global corporation with headquaters in San Diego. Co-founder of this huge company, Andrew Viterbi, has listed his 26,000 square feet house in Rancho Santa Fe for $60 million. Andrew Viterbi is a developer of Viterbi Algorithm, that is commonly used in satellite and wireless technology. The previous owner, Gene Klein ( owner of San Diego Charges) built his estate on 33 prestigious acres in 80's and Mr. Viterbi bought the estate in 2000. After that, the architect Guy Dreiler and his team spent 7 years to complete this hilltop house.

Landscape was done by Theresa Clark; she combined technology, natural beauty and art in her work. There are two beautiful gardens on the property with plants from South America, South Africa and Australia and.....1500 lemon trees! Since Andrew is in technology field, the garden design include LED lightening system and the owner installed solar panels. According to the owner, the electricity bill is very low.

Guy Dreiler is a designer of some furniture pieces in the house that are not included in the price.

The features of the house include elevator, tennis court, 8 car garage, steam shower, basketball court, 6 bedroom and 7 bathrooms, 2 bedroom guest house. The owner sells it because the house is empty and he is the only one who lives in it since his wife passed away in February. Please see pictures of this estate below:) Enjoy!

Remember, if you need to sell or buy a house or condo in any area of San Diego County, please contact me for free consultation 858-500-2339 )

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