Top Real Estate Agent Choices in Newport Beach, California

Don Abrams is broker and owner of Abrams Coastal Properties, an independent brokerage on Marine Avenue on Balboa Island. He has held a California broker license since 1998, and his firm says he has sold more than half of the homes on Balboa Island since that year. Before real estate, he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney and the CEO of a national retail company. The firm also has a team that handles Balboa Island vacation rentals and yearly leases.

Corey Anthony is a Luxury Property Specialist with Coldwell Banker Realty, working from the firm's Newport Center Drive office, and leads the Corey Anthony Group. She has been licensed in California since 2019, and RealTrends Verified shows $40.67 million in sales volume across 6 transaction sides in 2025. A longtime resident of Harbor View Homes, also known as the Port Streets, she publishes a weekly Port Streets market update and has listed homes on Port Cardiff Place and Port Charles Place.

Kim Bibb is an agent with Pacific Sotheby's International Realty in Newport Beach and has been licensed in California since 1996. RealTrends Verified shows $172.65 million in sales volume across 36 transaction sides in 2025. She was one of the founding equity partners of Villa Real Estate, according to the Orange County Business Journal. In February 2026, she represented the buyer of 1909 E. Bay Avenue, a bayfront home on Peninsula Point that sold for $14.4 million.

Angela Caliger is an agent with Surterre Properties, whose office is on Newport Center Drive. She has been licensed since 2015, and RealTrends Verified shows $74.32 million in sales volume across 30 transaction sides in 2025. Surterre reports that she represented the buyer of 433 Harbor Island Drive for $17 million and the seller of 323 Morning Star Lane in Dover Shores for $15.05 million. She also works with Newport Beach owners buying second homes in the Coachella Valley.

Tim Carr leads the Tim Carr Group at Pacific Sotheby's International Realty and has been licensed in California since 1989. RealTrends Verified shows the team with $198.78 million in sales volume across 60.5 transaction sides in 2025. He spent ten years as a co-founder and partner of Villa Real Estate and was earlier a principal at Strada Properties. He has lived on the Dover Shores waterfront for most of his life, and the group also offers leasing and property management.

Paul Daftarian is co-founder and managing director of the Daftarian Group, which works with Luxe Real Estate, and has been licensed in California since 2002. The Orange County Business Journal's 2025 OC500 named him and colleague Michael Balliet on the $42 million sale of 1 Pelican Crest Drive in Newport Coast, which it called the county's most expensive on-market sale that year, and a $37 million sale at 9 Pelican Crest Drive. In July 2026, he listed 87 Linda Isle at close to $70 million.

Jon and Nicole Dishon are partners at Arbor Real Estate, a Newport Beach brokerage, and work together as a husband and wife team. Jon, a Newport Beach native and UCLA graduate, founded earlier local brokerages and reports more than $1 billion in career sales. Nicole was raised in Newport Beach, has nearly two decades in local real estate and brings a background in interior design. They live in Dover Shores, where Jon grew up, and the neighborhood is a particular focus of their practice.

Jon Flagg is principal of Flagg Real Estate Group at Pacific Sotheby's International Realty, based on Newport Center Drive, and has been licensed in California since 2001. His group focuses on Lido Isle and the Newport Beach waterfront, and he works with his son, Kyle Flagg. He was a founding equity partner of Villa Real Estate, according to the Orange County Business Journal. Current listings include 3322 Via Lido at $13,995,000, and the group reports more than $1.25 billion in sales.

Tara Foster-Shapiro, who markets herself as Tara Shapiro, is a Luxury Property Specialist with Coldwell Banker Realty at its Newport Center Drive office. She has been licensed since 2010, and RealTrends Verified shows $171.33 million in sales volume across 22 transaction sides in 2025. Her practice centers on oceanfront and bayfront homes in coastal Newport Beach and on the Balboa Peninsula. She lives in Newport Beach and supports the Community Foundation of Balboa Peninsula Point and Hoag Hospital's cancer programs.

Ryan Gunderson is an agent with Arbor Real Estate who began his real estate career in 2009 and has lived on Balboa Island since 2008. Balboa Island is his team's primary focus, and RealTrends Verified shows $166.61 million in sales volume across 30 transaction sides in 2025. He served on the Board of Directors of the Balboa Island Improvement Association for more than six years and worked on the island's underground utility project. He and his team also work throughout Orange County.

Carter Kaufman leads the Carter Kaufman Group at Compass and has been licensed since 2016. RealTrends Verified shows the team with $124.15 million in sales volume across 34 transaction sides in 2025, and his Compass profile reports more than $650 million in personal sales. Past Newport Beach sales on that profile include 809 Via Lido Soud for $11.25 million and 107 Via Lido Soud for $10.3 million, plus homes on Santa Barbara Drive and Kings Road. He has a particular interest in historic homes.

Tara McNabb is a Compass agent with the Private Client Group OC, working from the Compass office in Newport Beach. Licensed since 2010, she focuses on waterfront property, including the Balboa Peninsula, Balboa Island, Lido Isle and Newport Coast. Her Compass profile reports more than $293 million in total sales across 69 transactions in 2024 and 2025, with more than $115 million of that in waterfront homes and a highest sale of $17.65 million. She owned a business in Seattle before real estate.

Julie Pierzak, licensed as Julianne Pierzak, is a Luxury Property Specialist with Coldwell Banker Realty at its Newport Center Drive office. She has been licensed in California since 2019 and came to real estate after more than 20 years in pharmaceutical marketing. She lives in the Port Streets with her husband and three children, and client reviews on her site describe Port Streets purchases and sales. Her current listings include 541 Hazel in Corona del Mar and 25 Bridgeport in Newport Coast.

Tim Smith founded the Tim Smith Real Estate Group, a Coldwell Banker Realty team based at 840 Newport Center Drive, and has been licensed in California since 2002. RealTrends Verified shows the team with $697.26 million in sales volume across 162.3 transaction sides in 2025. His Coldwell Banker profile reports more than $7 billion in career sales and lists his focus areas as Newport Beach, Corona del Mar, Newport Coast, Laguna Beach and Dana Point. He also runs a boat that collects trash from Newport Harbor.

Brian Sperry leads the Brian Sperry Real Estate Group, a Newport Beach team that rejoined Compass from Coldwell Banker in 2025, according to HousingWire. He started out building high-end speculative homes and has been active in residential sales since 2016. In August 2024, he sold the 3.5-acre Newport Beach estate of Buck Johns for $23 million. Past sales on his Compass profile include 2600 Mesa Drive for $22.85 million and 86 Linda Isle for $20 million.

John Stanaland joined The Agency's Corona del Mar office with his team in January 2026, after his group moved to Douglas Elliman's Newport Beach office in 2023. He holds a California broker license first issued in 1997, and The Agency reports close to $5 billion in career sales. Born and raised in Laguna Beach, he comes from a family with Orange County real estate roots going back to 1919. Douglas Elliman reported that his team closed more than $300 million in sales in 2022.