Happy New Year!
It is the time of year that we are quickly ramping up with listings coming on the market for 2026. It is also when we are asked for our predictions about the market and "what time is best" to go on the market if planning to sell or buy real estate.
We plan to cover a lot here in this update:
• Compass finalized the acquisiton of Anywhere
• The Bambace Peterson 2025 Annual Market Report
• Monterey Peninsula Sales Volumes and recap of the year
• Bambace Peterson Team sales across markets
Thank you for your continued support.
In October 2012, Compass launched with a bold idea from Robert Reffkin and Ori Allon: give real estate professionals world-class technology, support, and scale. We saw this shift happening and spotted an opportunity to be at the forfront of an emerging company. In 2018 we were excited and honored to launch the Monterey Peninsula of Compass and at the time commented in our newsletter and blog, “The company is stacked with the best people and the best company culture that we have ever seen…. we look forward keeping you engaged with the company as together we shape the future of real estate.”
Finalized on Friday, January 9, 2026, Compass + Anywhere now connects the industry’s most respected brands through shared innovation that is another big step forward in real estate.
Now Compass International Holdings, the company’s brands include Coldwell Banker, Sotheby’s International Realty, Christie’s International Real Estate, Compass, Corcoran, @properties, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, CENTURY 21 and ERA brands.
This is similar to the like of other major Multinational Holding Companies: Kering its family of brands include Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, Creed, Maui Jim, and Alexander McQueen. LVMH is another Luxury Brands Multinational Holding Company that houses brands like Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Loro Piana, Fendi, Givenchy. Capri Holdings houses Michael Kors, Jimmy Choo and Versace. And Volkswagen Group that owns Bentley, Lamborghini, Porsche, Audi, Ducati.
We are excited to part of a visionary company that has turned into a global company with over 20 brands, in 120 markets across the world with over 5,000 staff and 340,000 agents.
And our commitment to focusing on your local real estate and community experts remains the same. But as part of the largest real estate company and network, we are more connected than ever to help you with your real estate guidance, advice and connections across the world.
Real Estate Market Update
2026 Market Report with 20 Years of Data
Each community and city has unique micro markets. Pricing varies greatly from one neighborhood to another and encompasses many small areas, with diverse values for the close proximity to one another.
To give you a more accurate understanding of value of the micro-areas, we have broken each down into separate groups to best reflect their specific values and activity.
Carmel West: 93921 zip code areas in addition includes Carmel Woods, Carmel Point and Hatton Fields
Carmel East: Carmel Hill, Mission Fields, High Meadows, Jacks Peak and Rio Vista
Carmel Highlands: Neighborhoods South of Rio Road to south end of Yankee Point
Pebble Beach: Each of the five MLS regions represented
Pacific Grove: Nine MLS areas grouped into five segments
Monterey: Fifteen MLS areas grouped into five segments
Carmel Valley: Eleven MLS areas grouped into four segments
Golf Communities: Four golf communities and areas with lots
Highway 68 Corridor: Four different MLS areas represented
Monterey Peninsula Sales Volumes
Growing inventory, similar demand leads to relatively flat sales
In 2025, the local and regional real estate markets started the year seeing strong buyer demand, but had the wind taken out of its sails by the political/economic uncertainty that soared in early spring.
Then, in mid-late summer, stock markets rebounded to hit new highs, and interest rates began a sustained decline, initiating a shift in the psychology of buyers and sellers that is still developing. Still, national consumer confidence readings showed a significant split between the outlooks of more and less affluent households, and that affected market segments in different ways.
Generally speaking across the country and in our local markets: more expensive markets, powered by increasing demand from affluent buyers seeing substantial increases in household wealth from stock market gains, performed better than more affordable markets, which tended to be more impacted by concerns regarding inflation, affordability and employment.
Overall, as measured by a range of standard indicators, the 2025 real estate market was very similar to 2024, and the median house sales prices across our markets were relatively unchanged.
Bambace Peterson Team 2025
44 transaction sides to help clients. Where our sales are.
We were fortunate to have the opportunity to work with great families with their real estate needs across the Monterey Peninsula. In the spirit of maximizing our strengths, we also collaborated on 5 of these with other agents to best meet our clients needs.
Collaboration is a big trend for us continuing forward. In fact, it has resulted in our biggest listing ever that we will be announcing in the coming weeks.
