Find the home that feels like yours.
4.9
from 1,200+ closed sales
21 days
Median time on market for a Surevo listing. The county median is 54.
102.4%
Average sale price as a share of the final asking price.
38%
Of our sales agreed privately, before any public launch.
$1.9B
In homes sold across Santa Barbara County since 2009.
(02) — Our view
Independent since 2009. Never more than twelve listings at a time.
We take on only a few homes at a time, so every viewing is prepared, every offer is argued and every key is handed over in person.
(03) — Featured listing · No. 14
The Alder House
The Alder House
A 1928 Spanish Colonial on the Riviera, restored room by room, with ocean glimpses from the west terrace.
Price
$4,850,000
Bedrooms
4
Bathrooms
3.5
Interior
3,180 sq ft
Lot
0.42 acres
Built
1928 · 2021
(04) — Services
One advisor, from first viewing to final key.
(05) — Now available
Homes we’d live in ourselves.
(06) — Why Surevo
Small by design. Thorough by habit.
Your advisor
One person, from the first call to the final key.
Elena Marlowe · 16 years · 214 homes sold
48h
A valuation within two days
A written pricing study with comparable sales and a launch plan, free and without obligation.
38%
of our sales were agreed off-market, before a public launch.
Median sale, Q3 2026
Hope Ranch
$6.8M
Montecito
$5.1M
Riviera
$3.4M
Carpinteria
$1.6M
Pre-approved in a day
Through two local lenders we trust, with no obligation to use either.
(07) — The process
Nine weeks, give or take.
Most of our sales close within nine weeks of the first conversation. This is how the time is spent.
Day 1
An hour at your kitchen table
We walk the house with you, hear your timing and set out what the market will, and won’t, pay for.
Weeks 1–3
Small fixes, big returns
Our trades handle repairs, limewash and styling. Photography and film follow within ten days.
Weeks 3–5
Forty buyers, not four thousand
Private previews for qualified buyers first, then a measured public launch with a clear offer date.
Weeks 5–9
Keys, in person
We manage inspections, escrow and every signature, then hand over the keys ourselves.
(08) — In their words
Told by the people who moved in.
4.9
Average rating from 1,200+ closed sales since 2009
“They told us not to buy the first house we loved. The second one had the light, the garden and a price we could defend.”
Sam & Nadia Brooks
Bought on the Riviera, 2025
4% under asking
“Forty-one years in one house. Elena made selling it feel like a careful handover, not a transaction.”
Robert Hale
Sold in Montecito, 2025
104% of asking
“Three offers in nine days, and every one of them came from a private preview.”
Megan Doyle
Sold in Carpinteria, 2026
9 days on market
(09) — Journal
Notes from the market.
Private viewings · seven days a week
Let’s open the right door.
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