Ventura · Santa Barbara · San Luis Obispo
Commercial, residential, and business sales — with loans, insurance, and construction management handled in-house. A team built on top ENR-ranked general contractors and major publicly traded companies — now working the coast it calls home.
Services
Most owners juggle a broker, a lender, an insurance agent, and a contractor who've never spoken to each other. Here, it's one number — (305) 990-2753 — and the full Haymakers bench behind it.
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California's hardest market runs through this coast. Free coverage reviews for commercial property and Montecito-area estates — placed through specialist partners before the lender asks.
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Bridge, construction, and permanent debt — taken to market and brought back as real term sheets, side by side. Maturity coming? The earlier we start, the more options you have.
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Buy-side, sell-side, leasing, sale-leasebacks, NNN, and 1031 exchanges — every asset class, Paso to Port Hueneme, with a builder's diligence on every building.
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Montecito estates, coastal homes, ranches, and income property — with the insurance answer and the construction inspection built in. Quiet sales a specialty.
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Sell the business, not just the building. Valuation, quiet marketing under NDA, and deal structure — often paired with the real estate underneath it.
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Owner's representation from entitlement to punch list — ground-up, TI, and repositioning, by a builder trained on hospitals with top ENR-ranked general contractors.
Protect your project →SCROLL — YOU'RE DRIVING
The drive — 122 miles of US-101
Three counties, one team
STOP 01 — MI 000
Cal Poly country — where Steve earned his engineering degree. Wine-country hospitality, Highway 101 retail, student housing, and the north-county industrial yards.
STOP 02 — MI 095
State Street retail, Goleta tech flex, Montecito estates, and ranchland that trades quietly between families. Relationship-first and insurance-hard — we solve both.
STOP 03 — MI 122
The workhorse corridor: Oxnard industrial and cold storage, the 101 office-and-flex corridor, farmland, and multifamily that never sits empty.
Deeper — Santa Barbara County's South Coast
The five towns along the South Coast are the heart of the market — trophy estates, boutique commercial, and homes that trade on relationships. This is home turf.
South Coast HOME
Estates, ranches, and the hardest insurance market in California. Steve lives here — the neighbor who can actually solve the coverage problem.
Market guide →South Coast
State Street retail, mixed-use, downtown office, and the Riviera's estate homes — the commercial and residential core of the county.
Market guide →South Coast
Small, coveted, and tightly held — boutique commercial on Lillie Avenue and ocean-view homes that rarely reach the open market.
Market guide →South Coast
The county's economic engine — tech and aerospace flex, R&D, industrial, and the workforce housing that supports it.
Market guide →South Coast
Beachside commercial, greenhouse and ag land in transition, and a residential market with room to move — the county's value play.
Market guide →Deeper — San Luis Obispo County's South County
The south-county coastline is where hospitality, second homes, and Highway 101 commercial converge — the market that never really cools.
County seat
Downtown retail and office, the Cal Poly student-housing engine, and Highway 101 commercial. The county's deepest, most liquid market — and the one Steve knows best.
Market guide →Coast
Coastal hospitality — hotels, short-term-rental portfolios, and oceanfront homes — plus the high-visibility 101 retail that feeds off the tourism corridor.
Market guide →Coast
A small, tightly held resort market — beachfront, golf, and Avila Valley land that rarely reaches the open market. Relationships close these deals, not listings.
Market guide →Deeper — Ventura County, coast to Conejo
The industrial-and-ag coast around Oxnard and Ventura, and the corporate, high-end Conejo Valley to the east — we work the full spread.
Coast
Downtown Main Street and harbor mixed-use, midtown revitalization, and beachside residential — the county's walkable coastal core.
Market guide →Coast · industrial
The workhorse: port-adjacent industrial, cold storage and logistics, agricultural land, and multifamily that never sits empty. Volume lives here.
Market guide →Waterfront
Beachfront and Channel Islands Harbor / Mandalay Bay waterfront homes — a distinct, premium residential pocket inside the county's industrial base.
Market guide →Central county
Industrial and flex around the airport and 101 business parks, the Premium Outlets, and Spanish Hills estates — one of the county's most active owner-user markets.
Market guide →Conejo Valley
Corporate-HQ office (biotech and beyond), regional retail, and master-planned residential — the Conejo Valley's commercial anchor.
Market guide →Conejo Valley
Upscale commercial campuses and lake-community residential straddling the county line — corporate tenants and high-end homes in one market.
Market guide →Conejo Valley TROPHY
Ultra-luxury gated estates, championship golf, and one of the county's most exclusive enclaves — trophy residential that trades on discretion.
Market guide →The record
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Steve Bermudez — CEO, Haymakers
"Most brokers have never stood on a slab they were responsible for. I started my career pouring them."
A Cal Poly civil engineering degree, then senior roles with top ENR-ranked general contractors — building hospitals and critical infrastructure. Then Principal of Global Real Estate at a major publicly traded company, running three million square feet across 28 countries. Since then: over $2 billion in projects, transactions, and financings, and three straight years as a #1 producing agent by volume.
Steve lives in Montecito and works all three counties with the full Haymakers bench behind him — president to associate, capital markets to brokerage — so origination never waits on execution. The coast isn't a market. It's home.
And it doesn't stop at the state line: Steve holds Florida real estate, NMLS mortgage, and insurance licenses — Haymakers works both coasts with the same one-call model.
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A building, a home, a business, a loan, a policy, or a build that needs an owner's rep — one call covers all of it. Response within one business day.
Prefer to talk? Call or text (305) 990-2753 or email team@haymakersre.com
