{"id":23,"date":"2026-09-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/zanarealestate-com\/2026\/09\/26\/san-diego-empty-homes-tax-fails-if-you-think-its-expensive-to-hire-a-professional-wait-till-you-hire-an-amateur\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T12:00:00","slug":"san-diego-empty-homes-tax-fails-if-you-think-its-expensive-to-hire-a-professional-wait-till-you-hire-an-amateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/26\/san-diego-empty-homes-tax-fails-if-you-think-its-expensive-to-hire-a-professional-wait-till-you-hire-an-amateur\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego: Empty Homes Tax Fails | If You Think It&#8217;s Expensive To Hire A Professional; Wait Till You Hire An Amateur!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/zana-l-cooper-410790\/wealth-tax-update-remotion-videos-52d2\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>On June 2, 2026, San Diego voters rejected an annual Empty Homes Tax on non-primary residences left vacant for &gt;182 days in a calendar year.<br \/>\nHad it passed, qualifying residences would have faced an $8K charge in the first year and a $10K charge in later years.<br \/>\nThe proposal also targeted empty residences owned by corporate entities, adding annual surcharges ranging from $4K to $5K on those homes if approved.<br \/>\nEven though it failed, the measure stood out for proposing a non-primary-home tax with a simplified implementation structure in San Diego locally.<br \/>\nThe failed San Diego proposal may still be watched as a blueprint for similar empty-home tax measures elsewhere, despite voters declining it recently.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 2, 2026, San Diego voters rejected an annual Empty Homes Tax on non-primary residences left vacant for &gt;182 days in a calendar year. Had it passed, qualifying residences would have faced an $8K charge in the first year and a $10K charge in later years. The proposal also targeted empty residences owned by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanarealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}