Del Mar property management. Best Nest manages coastal homes and condos in Del Mar. Intentionally small and owner-operated, flat $99 monthly plus 4.9% of collected rent, no fee while vacant. Current comps for 92014: two-bedrooms at a median of about $4,500, three-bedroom homes at about $6,750.
The Del Mar rental market right now
2-Bedroom
$4,500
Modest counts, honest samples
3-Bedroom
$6,750
Typical range $5,350–$8,750
Our current comp data · Rents reviewed quarterly
Del Mar is a small luxury market where the sample sizes are honest about themselves: two-bedroom comps at $4,500 and three-bedroom homes at a median of about $6,750 on modest counts, with bluff and beach product pricing individually above any table. The school draw, Del Mar Union feeding into Torrey Pines High, holds tenancies to academic calendars, and the racetrack summer bends demand every year.
What Del Mar property management involves
Del Mar’s own short-term rental rules, recently approved through the Coastal Commission, cap permits at low counts and effectively end the non-hosted investor STR, which makes the long-term and furnished mid-term lease the compliant strategy for nearly every owner. The stock is beach cottages, bluff homes, and a thin layer of older condos, held by owners for whom the property is a serious asset; management here is low-volume and high-attention by design, which is how we run everything.
What owners here ask
What does a Del Mar home rent for?
Current comps: three-bedroom median about $6,750, band $5,350 to $8,750, with bluff and beachfront pricing individually.
Can I still run a short-term rental in Del Mar?
The new rules cap permits tightly and require hosting models for what remains. For most owners the durable play is a long-term or furnished mid-term lease.
Does the racetrack season matter for a long-term rental?
Indirectly: it compresses summer housing supply and firms pricing on anything available. Lease timing can use that.
What does a 3 bedroom house rent for in Del Mar?
As of July 2026, the median asking rent for a 3 bedroom house in Del Mar is $6,100, with the middle half of the market between $5,267 and $9,525, based on 12 months of comps. Condition and layout decide where a specific home lands in that range. See the full neighborhood table.
Is a single family rental in Del Mar subject to California’s rent cap?
Usually not. An individually owned single family home or condo is exempt from the state rent cap, currently 8.2 percent for San Diego County, but only when the lease includes the exemption notice required by Civil Code Section 1947.12. Without that written notice, the cap applies. Details in our guide to the single family exemption.
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Best Nest is intentionally small and owner-operated Del Mar property management, licensed and local. See our flat-fee pricing, or review the California rental housing laws.