I was reading an article about how people are buying weird pieces of land and then building odd-sized houses on them. For example, one guy bought a .05 acre piece of land that was only 20 feet wide but 100 feet long. Then he built a narrow two-story house on that land.
That got me wondering if I could find any odd size piece of land in La Jolla, CA on which I could build a house like that or plant a tiny house because I love to surf and don't need a huge house. But I'm also not a multi-millionaire yet and can't afford a normal house in La Jolla because the average home price there is $2.3M.
So, I jumped on PRYCD to see if anything is available but I got this error message (I first tried using zip codes but that didn't work either):
Next, I used one of my other saved searches and switched out the previous county for "La Jolla, California" and got 118,668 results. I know that the search adds a 5-mile radius around the city but that number seems really high, especially because I had the max price set at $100K. Maybe I'm wrong, but I just can't imagine there are 118K pieces of vacant land within 5-miles of La Jolla.
Here's my search parameters:
Can there really be 118K results within 5 miles?
Next, I changed it to a 1-mile radius of La Jolla, CA -- which is area code 92037 -- and got 3074 results.
Finally, when I downloaded the file and opened it, the results are for Julian, CA 92036 and it says the price per acre is $980K. One, I wanted La Jolla and Julian is about 50 miles away. Two, I just can't imagine an acre of land in Julian costs $980K.
Here's a video of what I'm talking about:
Hi Ed,
Thank you for reaching out! For your first issue, this is simply an error during search. The best approach for this is to refresh the page and try the search again. If that doesn't work, you may have to reduce the search volume (i.e search fewer locations). I apologize for the inconvenience on this issue.
For searching around the city, here are a couple of videos that may help explain what's happening:
Essentially, searching a city in that search bar is actually drawing a 5 mile radius around that city, and pulling in all of the properties in the counties that touch that radius. That is the key difference in this search methodology.
Please let me know if this helps!