About
I care about what makes a place worth living in.
I moved across the country to Encinitas for a pretty simple reason: I wanted to live somewhere I actually loved.
The beaches are beautiful, sure. But it's also walkable neighborhoods, local restaurants, people you run into twice in the same week, and mountains and desert close enough for a weekend. The things that make San Diego valuable aren't contained within anybody's property lines.
That's a big part of what drew me to real estate.

Mark Scott
San Diego, California
Residential + Commercial Real Estate
DRE# 01234567

Still paying attention.
—MS
Moonlight Beach, Encinitas, CA
Homes are where community starts.
Before real estate, I studied interior design, entrepreneurship, and marketing at Florida State University. I graduated early, packed a bag, and spent a good amount of time seeing the world.
What stuck with me wasn't that other places looked different. Of course they did. It was how differently they worked.
I've felt completely at home in places where the houses were smaller, streets were tighter, cars were less important, and public space did more of the work. I've also seen incredible buildings that didn't make particularly good places around them.
Travel made me pay attention to the relationship between a home and the life happening around it, not just what it looks like inside.
That curiosity followed me home.
Eventually it became my job. My first real education in property wasn't theoretical. I renovated and managed a six bedroom property near Florida State and saw firsthand how design decisions, costs, and the surrounding neighborhood all shape whether a place actually works for the people living in it.
That's the lens I bring now, helping people buy and sell homes in San Diego. Whether you're picking a neighborhood, weighing what's worth fixing up, or figuring out what a place is really worth, I'm thinking about how it all fits your life, not just the transaction.
A house is a big decision. I want it to feel like a good one.

What I Want to Understand
The property
What's actually here?
The numbers
What is it really worth?
The neighborhood
Why do people want to be here?
The long view
What makes this better—or worse—ten years from now?

Giza, Egypt

Chiang Mai, Thailand

Casablanca, Morocco
A Broader Perspective
I've seen a lot of ways to build a good place. There isn't just one.
Design taught me to notice buildings. Travel taught me to notice how people use them. Real estate taught me to understand the numbers that make them possible.
