Junior Seau’s home on market again for $3.19 million

The Oceanside home of former San Diego Chargers linebacker Junior Seau is back on the market, this time for $3.19 million.

Seau died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the home in 2012. He was a beloved hometown icon, known for his philanthropy and often seen around town surfing or playing the ukulele in his driveway.

The outside of the oceanfront home became a memorial with hundreds of friends, family and fans gathering there to mourn after his death.

Seau bought the house at 604 S The Strand for $3.2 million in 2005, based on public records. It went on the market for nearly $2.3 million after his death, but then sold for $1.97 million in roughly a month. It re-sold in May 2015 for $2.3 million.

Listing agent Danny Davis, of Danny Davis Real Estate, said the previous owner had been using the home as a vacation rental and residence while he was in San Diego County. But, Davis said he recently got a new home so he decided to sell the Seau house.

It went back on the market in March for $3.5 million but has reduced in price twice.

“It’s a gorgeous house right on The Strand,” Davis said. “It has beautiful ocean views.”

The roughly 3,000-square-foot home is still listed on the website of Beachside Realty as a vacation rental. Neither the rental listing or the for sale listing mention it was Seau’s house.

Davis said putting what happened at the house in the listing would either make it famous or infamous.

“That’s not really part of the house. It’s part of the history of the house,” he said.

The house has three bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, ocean views, a game and media room, direct access to a beach, three-car garage and is being sold fully furnished.

The median price for a resale home in The Strand ZIP code in May was $530,000, said data tracker CoreLogic. The closest recent sale in December —a three bedroom, three bathroom house with ocean views on South Pacific Street — went for $2 million, said public records.

Seau played 13 seasons for the Chargers starting in 1990. He later went on to play for the Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots.

His death later became synonymous with CTE or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease associated with athletes who have suffered head trauma.

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Junior Seau was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday night.

Scientists who analyzed his brain tissue found he had the disease in 2013. Some of the symptoms are thought to include difficulties with thinking, physical problems, emotions and other behaviors, said the Mayo Clinic.

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