- July 27, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
A home for sale on a large lot in the Del Mar village area during the pandemic. Photo by Chris Jennewein
Like residents in most other U.S. cities, we San Diegans found ourselves stuck pretty much at home when COVID-19 forced us to shelter in place starting in March 2020.
But apparently, we were more fortunate than most during the lengthy lockdown.
We had loads of room to rumble, according to a just-released report prepared by StorageCafe, a market research firm or the self-storage industry.
That report says San Diego is 12th on a list of U.S. cities with the largest residential lot sizes.
The report, “The America Backyard in the Last 100 Years: Lot Sizes in San Diego Get Bigger while Seattle Shrinks,” notes the median lot size for San Diego is now 6,500 square feet plus — six times larger than lots in Philadelphia.
By the way, the report says San Diego now has a median home size of 1,500-plus square feet.
The study found that lot…
