Born in New York, and raised in Pebble Beach from a young age, the 17-Mile Drive was her playground growing up. A graduate of Robert Louis Stevenson High School in Pebble Beach and Southern Methodist University in Texas, Dana spent time living and traveling in many metropolitan areas before she decided to return home to "the good life," the Monterey Peninsula.
A dominant market leader, Dana is a true trailblazer, always looking for opportunities to "break the mold" and rise above the status quo. Entering the real estate world in 2006, she has been a Top-producing individual agent year after year, ranking in the top 10 REALTOR® on the Monterey Peninsula. In 2018 Compass asked Dana to assist with founding the Carmel-by-the-Sea/Pebble Beach office. Dana teamed with her brother-in-law, Mark Peterson, also a top producing agent, to take on this endeavor becoming founding agents for Compass on the Monterey Peninsula. Following her launch with Compass, Dana formally joined forces with Mark founding The Bambace Peterson Team.
They have been a successful team, closing $133M in sales in 2020 and $182M in 2021, ranking in #4 out of all agents on the Monterey Peninsula.
Dana is known for seamlessly guiding her clients through both the home buying and selling processes, making every transaction a smooth and positive experience. Dana is passionate about helping people find the quality of life they seek through her skillful guidance in the real estate process. Deftly integrating technology into her real-estate process, always keeps her clients up to speed on every aspect of their transactions. She believes and invests in traditional and digital media advertising, social media presence, and creative marketing outreach. Her unparalleled market knowledge, combined with her reputation for discretion and negotiating skills have made her one of the most respected names in luxury real estate today.
Dana proudly works in Carmel-by-the-Sea, serving all the coveted areas that comprise it, as well as Pebble Beach, Carmel Highlands, Carmel Valley, Monterey, Pacific Grove, and the golf communities of Monterra, Pasadera, Tehama and Santa Lucia Preserve.
She and her husband live in Carmel, grateful to be raising their children in the same beautiful community that their parents chose to raise them.
As my family charted the course to locate a new home conducive to our emerging needs, we were ready for a fresh perspective on real estate. Our past experiences with Realtors® in Pebble Beach were positive in many regards howev...
Dana was fabulous. In every way. She is truly a consummate professional. It’s scary how much she gets done and how quickly. Responsive, knowledgeable, friendly, delightful. I could go on and on. We found the best possible agent...
Dana is an exceptional real estate agent and we consider ourselves fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with her. Dana is as smart, savvy, hard-working, and tireless as she is kind, compassionate, and a pleasure to wor...
We recently worked with Dana to buy our new home in Pebble Beach. Dana and her team did a fantastic job of educating us on the market and ran a very efficient and effective buying process. Dana and her team showed us over 30 ho...
We couldn’t thank Dana and her team more for their assistance with our home purchase within The Santa Lucia Preserve. We have friends who are excellent Realtors® but decided to go with someone with keen local knowledge and feel...
Dana is exceptionally well organized, responsive, personable, and tireless. Dana is an expert real estate agent who goes above and beyond to help her clients. She helped us both purchase and sell a home in Carmel. It was a plea...
My husband and I were referred to Dana & Mark as a team who were experts in the Carmel area. Since our primary home is outside the Monterey Peninsula we found their knowledge of the area to be invaluable. We learned so much inf...
After spending most of my adult years in Southern California, I decided to return back to the Monterey Peninsula where I grew up. I asked Dana and Mark to be my agents, as they were my friends from my High School days. I had gr...
We worked with another company for a year without success. Then we heard about Compass from a friend from Carmel who said you guys had a different approach that specialized in digital marketing. As a marketeer myself I was intr...
We worked with Dana Bambace on both our purchase and sale. She has it all—energy, focus, and above all else she puts her clients first. Dana looked at countless properties with us over the course of almost a year, with incredib...
We worked with Dana to sell our family home in Carmel Valley in the Covid and fire chaos of the summer of 2020. Not only did Dana price our home right on target for the market, without trying to undercut for a quick sale, she a...
Dana and Mark are an amazing team and working with them was a pleasure. They are high energy, creative, and highly skilled. Moreover, they were thoughtful and fun to work with. I recommend them highly to anybody selling (as we ...
We highly recommend Dana Bambace. She is extremely knowledgeable, smart and professional. Having grown up in the area, she knows all the in and outs of Carmel’s tricky codes and regulations. But what really sets her apart is he...
We love working with people and we are honored to be trusted with important life and financial decisions. We understand that buying or selling a property is not just a transaction; it's a significant milestone in our clients' lives. That's why we prioritize building strong relationships and providing personalized experiences.