The ADU Arbitrage: How Adding a Backyard Unit Adds $300k+ in Baseline Valuation to Costa Mesa Dirt
In response to a suffocating housing shortage, the State of California recently handed real estate investors the most lucrative legislative gift of the decade: a sweeping mandate that fundamentally stripped local municipalities of their ability to block Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs). Almost overnight, the baseline valuation of Southern California dirt was radically altered. Single-family zoning…