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Which Neighborhoods Will Be the Hottest in 2013?

by Tim Ellis | 66 Comments

Most analysts now agree that 2012 was the bottom for the housing market, and 2013 is likely to usher in further gains in both home prices and sales, but not all neighborhoods are created equal. When you buy a home, you want to know that you’ll be moving into a desirable neighborhood.

With more than 600 real estate agents helping our customers buy and sell homes across the country, we decided to go straight to our sources in the trenches to find out which neighborhoods will be the hottest; where trendy appeal and growing buyer interest will drive up home prices more than other nearby areas in the coming year.

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cj

what do mira mesa & highland park offer in terms of resources, amenities?..or even the list in the top 10? is it mainly a very much affordable house price?..
- Zero Skillz
  
  Mira Mesa is a reasonably decent bedroom community/1st time home buyer community. Comparatively Good schools, but IMHO the killer feature is its proximity to the air base. Whether you plan to live in it, or rent it to military or jr. college students, it’s a reasonably safe investment.
  - BB
    
    Also close to UC San Diego!
- http://twitter.com/MJBX101 Matthew Blake
  
  Mira Mesa has good access to freeways so you can commute to downtown and other job centers. Lots of rental properties there. Like Highland Park it definitely has good blocks and iffy blocks so it’s really important to look at the entire vicinity of a house and not just two or three houses down from the one you’re shopping. It’s a good value if your top priority is good schools in a neighborhood with lower cost housing.
  - http://twitter.com/poorhouse101 Dave O
    
    too bad Mira Mesa was all built in the early 80′s and never updated. It’s seriously ugly!!
mike

Highland Park is experiencing gentrification like other Los Angeles neighborhoods like Atwater Village, Silver Lake and Echo park. The neighborhood has two main drags, York Blvd and Figeueroa that have new restaurants , art galleries, vintage clothing shops setting up shop next to bodegas that have been there for generations. This is a prime example of how a neighborhood can change in metropolitan cities like the Mission district in SF or Park Slope in NYC.
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HPF

Highland Park is really the best of LA without all the usual terrible things outsiders associate with Los Angeles. It’s green hills, actually friendly and fashionable people, no attitude, connected to the rest of the city with 2 rail stations, bike friendly, vegan friendly, gay friendly, and architecturally diverse with styles ranging from Victorian to Mid Century Modern. It’s come a long way in the last 10 years from being a gang ridden piece of forgotten LA history to a thriving ever-changing community.
- Jeff
  
  There are still lots of gangs in Highland Park. It’s not worth the risk. I have a few friends that bought houses there and later regretted it.
  - thisone
    
    I wonder if you remember what Echo Park was like 10-15 years ago?
    - Gary
      
      thisone, let’s go back a little further I remember what it was like 25-30 years ago. Remember the Avenues?
  - Gary
    
    Once they took out Drew Street Gang the area is much better. I can remember years ago when you wouldn’t even drive through Highland Park. Given the chance I would live there.
- Gary
  
  HPF, I feel in love with Highland Park after I read about it on Wikipedia.
- http://twitter.com/poorhouse101 Dave O
  
  Vegan friendly and gay friendly? are those positives?
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Droolpillow

Wow, Highland Park #1? I wonder if Mt. Washington falls under that as well. The area is really starting to be really hip I agree. Its too bad inventory is super low right now! The 2 rail stations are awesome too. Can’t wait till the Expo line finally goes through the westside.
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http://www.facebook.com/people/Barbara-Kavanagh-Crowley/810148765 Barbara Kavanagh Crowley

Don’t get all excited yet. Inventories are suddenly very low across the country. Read Dr. Housing Bubble blog on this subject. In Southern CA and elsewhere but more in SoCAL the big banks are manipulating the market before our eyes. Remember those folks who created the last bubble and brought us down. They are holding so many foreclosures to force prices up and then, guess what happens we crash again. I love Mt. Washington but live in Portland OR after watching the growth of of the current bubble. Don’t follow the leader right now. Wait and see. The number of foreign investors and big Hedge Funds are right in there cheering on the rising prices. Just like 200i. As Yogie Berra said – It’s deja view all over again.
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HP Homeowner

HP is very worthy of this distinction. Naysayers will be proven wrong.
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Leeana Anderson

Hey, what about Sacramento, California?
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YuppieScum

The Somerville article is wrong. The Green Line Extension “broke ground” only last month and it’s only on the very first phase of construction, there won’t be any T stops till 2018 if we’re very very lucky.
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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=501979317 Margaret Weigel

Why is Medford (#2 in Boston area) described as a neighborhood? It’s a city of 55,000. Plus, second that earlier poster about the Green Line extension woes.
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K2

What about the Detroit metro-area? We have gorgeous places to live in Michigan. Our metro area population ranks 12th in the country. Thank you.
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http://twitter.com/discophil Phillip Gonzales

what idiots put this piece together “Willow Glen” is a neighborhood in Central San Jose (SIlicon Valley) They call it East Bay/SIlicon Valley??? San Jose is only the 10th largest city in the nation and has the only Urbanized downtown in SIlicon Valley you think it would merit a mention by these ignorant fools.
- http://www.facebook.com/sandy.erickson.50 Sandy Erickson
  
  I have to agree. I live in Willow Glen, and I agree that it’s a very nice district of San Jose, but it IS a district of San Jose. It’s not a separate city. I find it strange that a lot of WG residents like to pretend it’s a separate city when it’s not. It is nice that it made the list, though.
berick

I agree Livermore is one of the “hottest” neighborhoods of the Bay Area. Oh, they didn’t mean temperature.
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Roswell townie

Roswell, Ga is a nice place to live but understand there is NO shopping except for Big Box stores like Kohls, Home Depot, Target, Walmart. And there is no grocery store on Mass transit in the city. Not one. So buy a car and learn to live in it. Obviously this is written by real estate people who don’t live in the city- just read what the City Hall sends out in PR.
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Jason

I moved to Glassell Park in April 2012 and I LOVE IT. This neigborhod is really changing month by month. Lots of young couples and the gays are moving here. I feel safe and I suggest everybody to take advantage of the good house pricing.
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well, this list are all good!
asgonzales

Why everybody is talking about this gang etc. We can to something other that these. I just finished reading ” “Profits In Real Estate Rentals by Evelina Mannarino” and it gave me lots if ideas on how to get started in real estate.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1545062553 Kara Butler

The article is up and coming neighborhoods, not cities. I am from Willow Glen, best place I have lived.
http://www.facebook.com/mauricio.osorio Mauricio Osorio

Completely agree, some blocks in Highland Park lack the pioneers, while others bought 10 years ago and are really nicely doled up. So look around

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