Marin & the Sonoma Coast — representing since 2007
38.1041° N / 122.8785° W
I sellseventy miles70 miof coastline.
Nora Calloway represents architecturally significant property between Muir Beach and the Mendocino line. Twelve houses a year, chosen carefully.
- Currently
- 4 listings live
2 coming this spring - Median time to offer
- 18 days
104% of asking - Orientation
- West-facing
Pacific frontage
A house on this coastis bought twice —once for the view,once for the water.
Anyone can show you the deck at golden hour. My job starts with the well log, the septic permit, the coastal development boundary and the fog line — the things that decide whether a beautiful house is also a good one.
Four houses,all of them westof the ridge.
Full portfolio (218 closed)↗Fog Line
Stinson Beach · 37.9007° N 122.6442° W
Cantilevered over the bluff by Marion Vale in 1974, taken back to the studs last year. The fog arrives below the deck, not on it.
$12,750,000
Ridgeline
Bolinas · 37.9086° N 122.6864° W
Six acres, one neighbour, and a spring that has never gone dry in forty years of records.
$8,450,000
Estero House
Point Reyes Station · 38.0687° N 122.8058° W
Twenty-two acres running down to the estuary, with grazing rights and a barn that three separate architects have offered to convert.
$4,975,000
Cypress Bar
Sea Ranch · 38.7096° N 123.4557° W
An original 1968 commons house, unpainted, unrestored, and all the better for it. Meadow frontage with no build rights in front of it — ever.
$6,200,000
Eight townson one road.
Twelve houses, one road in, and a beach that empties at four o'clock.
I grew up onthe wrong sideof this ridge.
My family farmed above Tomales for three generations, which is a long way of saying I knew this coast for twenty years before I ever sold a square foot of it.
I work alone, by referral, on roughly a dozen houses a year. That means I answer my own phone, I attend every inspection, and I will tell you plainly when a property is wrong for you — even when it is the one I am listing. Nineteen years in, that has cost me a handful of commissions and earned me almost every client I have.
Years on this coast
Closed volume
Avg. sale to list
Median days to offer
Two differentproblems.
Selling here is about timing and preparation. Buying is about patience and access. Pick the one you are facing.
Step 01
Walk the land
Before photographs, before price. Wells, septic, easements, drainage and any open permits — found by me, not by the buyer's inspector.
Weeks 1–2
Step 02
Prepare
Targeted work only. I front the cost of staging, repair and photography, and recover it at close — never before.
Weeks 2–6
Step 03
Price and place
One number, defended with comparables you can read yourself. Quiet outreach to my buyer list runs a week ahead of the market.
Week 7
Step 04
Close
Offers reviewed together, terms weighed beyond the headline number. Median time to accepted offer on my listings is 18 days.
Weeks 8–13
Step 01
Narrow the map
Fog, wind, road access and cell coverage vary enormously across eight miles. We drive the coast before we look at a single house.
Day one
Step 02
See it early
Roughly a third of what sells here never reaches a public portal. You hear about those from me first.
Ongoing
Step 03
Diligence
Water rights, fire insurance availability, coastal permit history and slope stability. Rural land fails in ways suburban land does not.
10–21 days
Step 04
Write it well
On this coast the strongest offer is rarely the highest. Sellers here care who gets the house — and I usually know them.
30–45 days
“She talked us out of the first house we loved. Six months later the slope below it failed and the owners spent four hundred thousand on retaining. We bought the second house she showed us.”
“Three agents told us what we wanted to hear about the price. Nora told us what the last four comparable sales actually closed at, then got us more than all of them.”
“We were in Singapore for the whole escrow. She walked the property on video every week, met the inspectors herself, and handed us the keys in person. Nothing slipped.”
The register,unedited.
Every sale from the last twelve months, including the one that went under asking.
| Property | Area | Closed | List | Sold | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calle del Sierra | Stinson Beach | Jun 2026 | $9,200,000 | $9,850,000 | 11 |
| Redwood Spur | Bolinas | Apr 2026 | $5,400,000 | $5,610,000 | 16 |
| Bay House | Inverness | Feb 2026 | $3,850,000 | $3,850,000 | 24 |
| Tomales Ranch | Tomales | Nov 2025 | $7,100,000 | $7,000,000 | 42 |
| Gull Point | Sea Ranch | Sep 2025 | $2,975,000 | $3,180,000 | 8 |
Figures shown as reported to the MLS. Orange denotes a close above asking.
What I tell peoplebefore they offer.
All notes↗
What the fog line does to value
Two houses, four hundred metres apart, thirty per cent apart in price. The difference is a ridge and about ninety vertical feet.
Diligence — 7 min — May 2026
Wells, septic and the true cost of rural land
The four reports I want in hand before anyone writes an offer.
Insurance — 6 min — Mar 2026
Can you still insure a house out here?
Yes — but the answer now changes street by street. Here is how to check first.
Buying — 8 min — Jan 2026
Why the highest offer keeps losing
On a coast this small, reputation is part of the price.
What isyour houseactually worth?
A written valuation, walked in person, with the comparables attached. No obligation and no automated estimate.
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