Nathalie Dave is a real estate advisor with Compass, representing buyers and sellers across the South Bay (Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, Torrance, El Segundo, and the Palos Verdes Peninsula).
Her practice is built for first-generation wealth. The founder after the exit. The physician or engineer whose equity finally became real. The artist after the year that changed everything. The family inheriting a beach-city home their parents bought decades ago — worth millions now, with decisions attached their parents never had to make.
Old money inherits its playbook: the family agent, the estate attorney, the quiet knowledge of how property is held and passed on. Nathalie’s clients are writing the first chapter of theirs, and her job is to hand them the manual. The home first then everything behind it: how title should be held, what an exchange or a trust purchase means in plain language, and which CPA, estate attorney, and lender belong in the room.
She holds a master’s degree in finance and the CIPS designation so those conversations are handled — not so her clients need to have them.
The home is the reason. The structure, the work.
She also represents creative professionals whose income arrives in irregular royalty-weighted increments that conventional underwriting misreads as instability.
And she works with clients in second-act transitions: divorce, widowhood, the move to a smaller home after decades in a larger one. California is a community property state, which makes the marital home a legal question as much as a financial one; those transactions are handled with discretion as a default, not on request.
Texas and California move on different cycles and tax residents on different logic. The dual licensure (she is licensed in both California and Texas) means one advisor handles both ends of a cross-state transaction rather than two who have never spoken.
She publishes quarterly market analysis for both markets. Her view of the luxury segment is that it tracks equity markets and liquidity events rather than mortgage rates, a rhythm the headline rate coverage consistently misses
Fluent in English, French, and Spanish, Nathalie is based in Los Angeles and serves clients throughout Greater Los Angeles and South Bay.
Beyond real estate, Nathalie's life is deeply rooted in the music world, she is married to acclaimed, Multi Grammy-winning drummer and producer Chris Dave, and previously pursued her own career as a singer. For her clients in music, film, and the creative industries, this isn't a talking point; it's fluency. She understands how artists live, work, and move, and what "home" needs to mean for a career that rarely keeps regular hours.
