The ugly side of San Diego’s condominium downturn is on display along Fifth Avenue.
The bones of what was supposed to be Atmosphere, nearly 80 “luxury live/work units for a life well-designed,” sit open to public view. Naked steel rods and yawning holes are in the earth. The wood and chain-link fence around the site [...]

The crop of condominiums has increased as the once-soaring housing market tries to find a soft place to land. But bargains are few — for now.
THE shift in the real estate market has raised that age-old question: If prices crash, will condos slip and fall before single-family homes, and will they stay in the gutter [...]