Candor First
We'll tell you when a house is wrong for you, when a price is high, and when waiting is the smartest move. Honesty is the whole brand.
About Alta Mar
Born on the sand, raised on trust
We started with a card table, two phones, and a view of the Pacific. Seventeen years later, the view is the same — and so are the values.
Our Story
Seventeen years of sunrise appointments
Marisol Vega founded Alta Mar in 2008 — the worst year in modern real estate — on a simple bet: if you tell people the truth about houses, they'll trust you with the biggest decision of their lives.
The bet paid off. Today we're a team of twelve who have placed more than 640 families along the California coast, almost entirely by referral. We've grown slowly and deliberately, because warmth doesn't scale — people do.
Meet the TeamWhat We Believe
The Alta Mar way
Local to the Bone
Our agents live in the towns they serve. We know which streets get the fog, which bluffs get the wind, and which neighbors throw the best parties.
Clients for Life
94% of our business comes from people we've already served — or their friends. We measure success in decades, not closings.
The Journey
Milestones along the coast
The Card Table Year
Marisol opens Alta Mar in a borrowed office above a Newport Beach surf shop — and closes eleven homes in a collapsing market.
North to Montecito
A record-setting estate sale opens the Santa Barbara market. The team grows to five, all hired from client referrals.
The Billion Mark
Cumulative sales pass $1B. Alta Mar launches its private off-market registry, now the quiet engine of a third of our transactions.
Carmel & Beyond
A new studio in Carmel-by-the-Sea completes the coastal map — Malibu to Monterey County, one team, one standard.
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- Families Placed
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- Agents, All Local
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- Repeat & Referral
The People
Faces you'll actually see
No hand-offs, no "team members you haven't met." These are the people who answer the phone.
Marisol Vega
Founder & Principal
Grant Whitaker
Partner · Malibu
Sofia Nakamura
Partner · Montecito
Theo Bramwell
Partner · Carmel
Come Say Hi
Coffee's on us, the view is free
Drop by any of our three studios, or we'll meet you at the house you're curious about.
