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Meet Gretchen "Gia"

Gretchen "Gia"

Gretchen "Gia" Bach

Realtor®, Founder

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Anchored by her deep roots in the local community, Gretchen balances her intuitive sense of people and place with her passion for sustainability and design to nourish her flourishing real estate practice. A committed partner and fierce advocate, she never loses focus on the bottom line: helping clients create long-term stability and wealth through real estate.
 
Gretchen provides every client with collaborative, concierge-style care as she guides them through life’s most exciting endeavors. Whether her clients are buying, selling, or investing, they benefit from her hyperlocal knowledge of Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. She has a talent for helping buyers find the perfect home with the right amenities and a track record of consistently getting clients’ offers accepted in multiple-offer situations.
 
As a listing agent, Gretchen’s in-depth marketing strategy and artistic eye for space, staging, and design draw potential buyers, ensuring that her sellers maximize profit in minimal time. Investors benefit from her decades’ worth of personal real estate experience, which has given Gretchen shrewd insight into investment opportunities.
 
With a dynamic background that encompasses Santa Cruz’s surfing, business, and educational spheres, Gretchen has cultivated a strong, diverse network. Her reliable partners, talented vendors, and dedicated clientele trust her keen judgment and years of asset management expertise.
 
Gretchen resides on the Santa Cruz coast with her three adult daughters and a steady flow of guests and visitors coming and going. Her doors are always open to clients and friends. Beyond real estate, she is an avid surfer and serves on the board of The Santa Cruz Education Foundation. Gretchen is a passionate ocean advocate, an active member of the international surfing community, and a supporter of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Foundation.
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WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

Gretchen is the best person to walk you through purchasing a home. She is an expert! She was available to answer every single question I had and she was so caring and reassuring as she guided me through my first home purchase.

— Dani H.

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

Gretchen is a Realtor® with so much experience in Santa Cruz that is seems she literally knows everyone. She has the networks that can help you bring a team together for purchase inspections and setting your remodeling vision. We bought from a seller in foreclosure and at points were getting erratic replies from the seller. Gretchen and her team managed a tough sale to get the job done when 96% of Realt...

— Jeanette H.

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

Gretchen helped us buy a rental property in Santa Cruz a little over a year ago. She guided us expertly through the process, and was a very tough negotiator on our behalf. But it gets better! When the home was ours, and we needed help getting it rented, she connected us with a rental management company and kept an eye on things as we negotiated finding good tenants. When a moratorium on short term rental...

— Silvia G.-K.

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CoastWoods Real Estate

(831) 234-1233

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3912 Portola Drive #7

Santa Cruz, CA 95062