San Diego has one of the largest concentrations of military personnel and veterans in the country — Naval Base San Diego, NAS North Island, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, and Camp Pendleton just up the coast all mean a steady flow of active-duty families and veterans buying homes here every year.

If you've started house hunting in San Diego recently, you've probably already felt it: you find a home you love, you go to write an offer, and you find out you're one of six, ten, sometimes more. It's frustrating, and I won't pretend otherwise. But there are real, specific things that actually move

I'm going to do something a little unusual for a real estate blog: talk honestly about people leaving San Diego, instead of just selling you on staying. Here's the truth, as a REALTOR® who makes a living helping people buy and sell homes here, it would be easy to only ever talk about why San Diego i