3 Roots Single Family Homes for Sale November 2

Home types explained

Traditional single-family: you own the house and the land it sits on (your own lot). This is how most people picture a single-family home.

Detached condo: the house stands on its own, with no shared walls, but the land around it is owned in common through the homeowners association. You own your home plus a share of the common area, and the HOA usually maintains more of the grounds. Day to day it lives like a single-family home; the difference shows up in the title, HOA rules, insurance and financing. The City of San Diego’s master plan for 3 Roots designates Aero’s area for detached condos, while Brio, Alta and Lotus are traditional single-family neighborhoods.

Why you may see “single-family” on a detached condo: builders often market detached condos as single-family homes, and many are listed in the MLS and on sites like Zillow and Redfin as “Single Family Residence.” Four of the five Aero homes in this report, for example, are listed that way; 11014 Solstice Way is listed as a condominium. The label describes the house itself, a stand-alone home with no shared walls. It does not tell you how the land is owned, which is why I label each neighborhood’s ownership type.