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Gina Carling

Top Agent

David Lyng Real Estate

Santa Cruz, CA

Recent sales

23

Price range

$90K - $2.5M

Typical price

$1,050,000

Active since

N/A

About Gina Carling - Santa Cruz, CA real estate agent

Gina Carling is a top real estate agent in Santa Cruz, CA with David Lyng Real Estate. They work with sellers and buyers and have closed at least 8 transactions over the past 12 months — 23 over the past two years. Gina Carling is experienced with luxury homes.

Agent info

License info

Name
Gina Carling
License
01480003 (CA)

Reviews for Gina Carling

Broker Associate - Top Producer • David Lyng Real Estate • Santa Cruz, CA

5.0 69 reviews on

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5.0
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Review for member: Gina Carling

Listed and sold a home • 2025

Imagine everything you wish for in a realtor and then imagine more! That is Gina. In a few words, she is experienced, communicative, knowledgeable, proactive, friendly, kind, and hard-working. Right from the get go, she impressed my family and me with her broad range of knowledge, keen insights, and flexible attitude to gain an understanding of both what we wished for in our family house sale and how our home would be best fit into the market. To every text, email, or call, she promptly responded with grace, insight, and terrific help. We felt completely supported as she guided us through the process—including a fairly significant bump regarding the deed, not connected to her work, but which she skillfully, cheerfully, reassuringly, and generously guided us through. Whether related to repairs or inspections or staging, she rose to the occasion at every moment to give us clear and comprehensive information to make informed and wise choices to ensure the best sale of our house. We are immensely grateful to have had her help and thrilled with the outcome with the sale. We cannot recommend her highly enough! You will never look back.

5.0
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Review for member: Gina Carling

Listed and sold a home • 2025

Gina did a great job in pointing us in the right direction when it came to everything, Just wanted to do a quick shout out and thank you for everything in closing this chapter in our life.I highly recommend her in either buying or in our case selling, she is very knowledgeable in the area.

5.0
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Helped me buy home • 2025

I highly recommend Gina as a real estate agent. She genuinely cares and provides wonderful support throughout the process. Gina paid attention to what was important to me and led me through making a winning offer to buy a condo in Aptos. I was a first time home buyer and she and her team were efficient and effective, giving me the utmost confidence. Gina is professional and reliable. She has a ton of experience and market knowledge but still has an infectious excitement for what she does. You will be in good hands with Gina Carling!

5.0
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Helped me buy home • 2024

We are thrilled we found Gina as our realtor! Gina’s thoughtful approach helped us get our offer accepted even though we were not the highest offer. Her local connections to the community are invaluable when trying to buy in Santa Cruz County. Gina is easy to work with and generous with her time. If you want to have an edge as a buyer in Santa Cruz, I can’t recommend Gina enough!

5.0
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Review for member: Gina Carling

Helped me buy home • 2024

Gina Carling was honest and very knowledgeable. She helped me with purchase of a lot. With her expertise in the field, should could provide me contacts to check the buildability of the lot and any help in the process.

5.0
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Listed and sold a home • 2023

We interviewed a handful of the top rated Agents and Brokers in the Santa Cruz and Scotts Valley area. It was clear from our first meeting that Gina had the most experience, a deep understanding of the Santa Cruz and Bay Area markets, and was very well connected. She was also very personable.Gina understood strengths and weaknesses of our property and neighborhood, knew the type of buyer to which it would appeal, and developed a pricing and marketing strategy that ultimately resulted in multiple offers at our asking price. This, despite a very challenging market for sellers. We were also particularly impressed with how hard she worked for us. She worked on our schedule fielding offers, producing counter offers, and hosting conference calls late in the evening, early in the morning, and on weekends.We feel very strongly that Gina is the best of the best in Santa Cruz County.

5.0
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Listed and sold a home • Santa Cruz, CA • 2023

Gina is a rock star.I was tempted to leave it at that, but some details are necessary.My property was fully functional but in need of some serious renovation, remodeling, and updating. It was a complex job that was supposed to take two months. It took eight! (Work was completed after escrow closed...) Gina turned into the nitty-gritty inspector and did walkthroughs with the contractor multiple times. It would have driven me absolutely nuts, but Gina kept plugging along and making sure things were done correctly.Finally, we listed and sold in three weeks, at above asking.Look no further. Sign with Gina! 'Nuf said.

5.0
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Helped me buy home • 2016

Gina is well informed. I felt she supported my decisions with honest feedback and gave great insight leading to stress free resolutions. She helped me buy my cabin a few years ago and was responsive when I called recently to talk about selling it this year. However, my plans to move have fallen through so I will not sell yet. If in the future circumstances change she will be the first person I call.

5.0
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Helped me buy and sell homes • 2022

I was lucky to meet and work with Gina. She is a very knowledgeable real estate professional who honestly share the information with her clients. She does more work than is expected and connect her client with excellent resources in taxation field and home design/building. I trust her to sell my properties.

5.0
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Review for member: Gina Carling

Listed and sold a home • 2022

Gina Carling helped us sell our house before it was ever listed and for over asking price! We were very concerned about security and signage and wanted to prevent drive-bys because of the area of our house. Gina offered a lot of solutions and eased our concerns. Thankfully, we never even got that far. Gina is very knowledgeable about the market. She is professional and personable at the same time. She answered all our many questions via text, email, and phone in a timely manner. It was a true pleasure working with Gina Carling. I highly recommend her.

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Gina Carling: Rankings and sales metrics (Santa Cruz, CA)

Recent closed sales

23

  • #113 in Santa Cruz
  • #27,856 statewide in CA

Recent sales volume

$24.79M

  • #181 in Santa Cruz
  • #31,598 statewide in CA

Awards and badges

2025 Top Agent Santa Cruz, CA
Top producer

Recent sales metrics

A breakdown of performance metrics from verified closed transactions over the past two years. The local median shows typical results for agents in this market, so you can compare.

Metric Gina Carling Local median
Sale-to-list (sell sides) 101.0% 99.0%
Days on market (sell sides) 38 60
Sale-to-list (buy sides) 100.0% 99.0%
Days on market (buy sides) 65 59

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Gina Carling: Experience and specialties (all markets)

Client mix

52%

Home sellers

12 sales

48%

Home buyers

11 sales

Typical home sales price

$90K

Low

$1.1M

Typical

$2.5M

High

Count of recent sales by price range

A breakdown of this agent's closed sales over the past two years by price bracket, showing where most of their transactions fall.

Price range Transaction countCount Share of totalShare
≤$200K 1
$200K–$300K 0
$300K–$400K 2
$400K–$500K 1
$500K–$750K 3
$750K–$1M 4
$2M+ 2

Count of recent sales by property type

A breakdown of this agent's closed sales over the past two years by property type, showing their experience with single-family homes, condos, townhouses, and more.

Property type Transaction countCount Share of totalShare
Multi-family homes 0
Townhouses 2
Condos 3
Commercial 0
Land 0
Mobile homes 0
Manufactured homes 2

Count of recent sales by specialty

A breakdown of this agent's closed sales over the past two years by specialty, showing experience with transaction types that require specialized knowledge or serve specific groups.

Specialty Transaction countCount Share of totalShare
Properties with HOA 0
Investor deals 0
Military buyers 0
First-time buyers 0
Senior living community 0
New construction 0

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