Tag archives: Hayes Commercial Group

Many features that make the Santa Barbara area a great place to live – the alluring coastline, mountainous backdrop, excellent colleges, and small-town scale – also contribute to its relatively stable commercial real estate market, providing steady tourism, a well-educated employee base, and constraints on new development. However, our relatively secluded enclave is not immune […]

We all want a thriving, vibrant State Street, but we don’t have one. I first wrote about the decline of State Street in 2017. As I look back to those articles not much has changed.  State Street isn’t actually dead, but it has been dying for years. I know that some folks deny this, but […]

In August, the Old Firehouse building at 1486 East Valley Road in Montecito was purchased by an unnamed investor with ties to the Santa Barbara area. The property was listed for $16 million, and closed for $13,000,000. Francois DeJohn, Kristopher Roth, and Caitlin McCahill Hensel of Hayes Commercial Group represented all parties in the transaction.  The 6,357 square-foot […]