Real Estate Agents in Santa Barbara, CA

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Ali Evans with Berkshire Hathaway is excellent and great to work with.

I'd go to open houses and see who you like talking to and pick from there.

https://www.pacificcoastrealtysb.com/agent/joann-pomatto-gomez/ Joann was our buyers agent. She absolutely killed it and handled everything. She was amazing.

kimberly rockwell with the zia group. she’s wonderful & helped us beat out 16 competing offers on a property last summer.

Kathleen Barnato is local and amazing. She helped me find my place.

Tim Johnson at Keller Williams was great. I know a lot of other first time homeowners who have used him as their buyer agent and liked him as well. He's very honest, which I think would help with finding a place in this tough buyers market.

Can Gittler has been great for all our transactions over the years. Even saved our sale, spending from her own pocket when unethical Mike Richardson tried to screw us.

Steve Epstein is awesome. He knows every area of Santa Barbara. I’ve worked with him 3 times now.

try http://web.archive.org/web/*/capgeek.com . Some pages might be missing but hopefully you can get what you need.

Yes I know an awesome agent that lives in Santa Ynez. She is the nicest lady ever and a very good friend. Her name is Kristina Novak. You can google her and the business. Message me if interested. She knows the area from sabra Ynez to LA

I can help you travissellsla@gmail.com

Anthony Vulin is the guy

Lawrence Wilson Damn, too far away. But I'm a fan of hooking up with a bomb ass realtor who's got a bomb ass .

Christopher Spencer Still fill free to pass me her FB Page .

I PMed you with a specific recommendation, but here's some public recommendations as well: Any flyer or newsletter you get from a Realtor with statistics about the local market comes from Gary Woods. For many years, he sent his monthly statistics out by email, but they're now on the web too: http://www.santabarbaraproperties.com/sbrestats/ The most useful numbers from his Charts and Graphs PDF are on pages 4 and 5. I specifically like looking at the Sales Price to Listing Price percentage (SP/LP), and the Sales Price to Original Listing Price (SP/OLD) percentage. This tells you a lot about how tight the market is, and what you can expect a home to sell for based on the price you see. DOM (Days on Market) is also a good data point. The best listing website is direct from the SB Association of Realtors: http://www.sbaor.com/ Redfin is active in SB, and also has a great listing site. Zillow data is okay, but definitely takes a back seat to SBAOR and Redfin. As UCSB faculty, you can and should take advantage of the programs provided by the Coastal Housing Partnership: http://www.coastalhousing.org/ Your employment with a CHP-affiliated company will get you some pretty good discounts on closing costs and the like. As for mortgages, I can give you a reference there as well, as I was happy with our broker, but as faculty, you may be eligible for the UC Mortgage Origination Program, which provides a below-market rate loan for faculty. Info on that and other options are here: http://www.housing.ucsb.edu/faculty-housing As for neighborhoods, a lot of it depends on what you're looking for. The hippest living is in downtown SB. With kids, you'll want to be a good school district. Generally, the higher up a hill you are (either north towards the mountains, or up in Hope Ranch and the Mesa), the more expensive the houses are, both in base cost, and size/quality. There are some gems elsewhere, of course, but that's the general rule. If you want to describe your needs, we can be more specific. Do you have other questions?

Joel Maloney he does real estate and mortgages, 30+ yrs here in SB

Roberta Hewson represented us when we bought our house 5 years ago. She was thorough, honest, and altogether a delight to work with. She's with Village Properties: https://villagesite.com/agents/detail/150

With my current employment I deal with several on a daily basis - my favorite group of the bunch is Mike Richardson Realty.