Del Mar real estate sales for single family homes took a major hit from '04 to '05 with a 35.5% drop in sales. A spin doctor would take that information and run to her local media source to try to get an article published because that's sensational news! However, if you look at the same year but a different statistic, you would see that the average and median single family home sales price in Del Mar enjoyed a 13.3% and 17.2% increase respectively over the same period of time.

Del Mar is arguably in the "north county" area of the county of San Diego. By that definition North County includes all of San Diego County north of La Jolla.

The Del Mar Fairgrounds puts Del Mar on the world map. Although it lays 107 miles south of Hollywood it carries the legacy of tinsel town; it was built in 1937 by Bing Crosby, sponsored by Paramount Studios, and was built on Jimmy Durante Blvd. Speaking of tinsel, drive through the Holiday of Lights at the year's end to get an idea of how the Fairgrounds keep Del Mar alive all year long.