Goleta · Santa Barbara · Montecito · Carpinteria
Caitlin Hensel is a Partner at Hayes Commercial Group who has closed hundreds of commercial deals across the South Coast. She guides investors, owners, and businesses through office, retail, industrial, R&D, medical, hospitality, land, and multifamily deals from Goleta to Carpinteria.
Meet Caitlin
Caitlin Hensel is a Partner at Hayes Commercial Group whose work spans investment sales, acquisitions, and landlord and tenant representation across every commercial asset type, with an emphasis on value-add deals and repositioning. In January 2024 she became the first female Partner in Hayes Commercial Group's history.
A UC Santa Barbara graduate and central member of the Hayes team since 2008, Caitlin pairs deep local market knowledge with genuine strategic insight for corporate and family-run clients alike.
Why Caitlin
The South Coast is a small, relationship-driven market where the right advisor knows the block, the owner, and the comparable before it hits the open market. Caitlin pairs that local fluency with the analytical depth of a full-service brokerage, so buyers, sellers, landlords, and tenants make decisions backed by real market data.
Services
Full-service commercial brokerage across office, retail, industrial, R&D, medical, hospitality, land, and multifamily.
Selling an income property takes more than listing it. Caitlin positions, prices, and markets each asset to the right pool of buyers to achieve a clean sale at the strongest price the market supports.
For sellers & owners →Whether you're an investor, an owner-user, a 1031 exchange buyer, or placing equity into a venture, she sources and secures the right asset, including off-market opportunities across the South Coast.
For buyers & investors →Owners throughout Santa Barbara, Goleta, Montecito and Carpinteria rely on her market awareness and marketing to minimize vacancy and maximize income across properties.
For property owners →From a first storefront to a 25,000 SF R&D campus, tenants lean on her through every step of the search to secure the right space on the most favorable terms.
For businesses & tenants →Market intelligence
A snapshot of Caitlin's active inventory and where deals are happening across the South Coast, from Goleta to Carpinteria.
Active listings
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Browse Caitlin's active listings across the Santa Barbara South Coast, office, retail, R&D, and industrial space for sale and lease, from Goleta to Carpinteria.
From Goleta to Carpinteria
Caitlin works the full South Coast, from Goleta's R&D corridor to downtown Santa Barbara retail to the Carpinteria industrial market. Local knowledge, block by block.
Where she works
Most of the South Coast's commercial activity happens in one compact stretch of coastline. Caitlin works all of it, across office, retail, industrial, R&D, medical, hospitality, land, and multifamily.
The South Coast's engine for office, R&D, manufacturing and lab space near the airport and UCSB.
The county's marquee address and its most well known submarket. State Street retail, Class A and professional office, medical, and landmark buildings.
An affluent coastal enclave just east of Santa Barbara, where boutique retail, restaurants, and services cluster along Coast Village Road and the Upper Village.
A laid back coastal pocket of industrial, R&D, and neighborhood retail, from the Cindy Lane business park to Linden Avenue near the beach.
The dense, high-foot-traffic community beside UC Santa Barbara, where retail, restaurant, and mixed-use space along Embarcadero del Norte and Pardall Road serves one of California's most concentrated populations.
A small seaside community between Montecito and Carpinteria, where boutique retail, design and antique showrooms, cafes, and small office space line Lillie Avenue just off Highway 101.
Caitlin's primary practice covers these six South Coast markets, from Goleta to Carpinteria; she also takes on select assignments across the broader Central Coast through Hayes Commercial Group.
Selling, buying, or leasing on the South Coast, start with a clear read on value and where the market is headed. Caitlin will walk you through it, with no obligation.
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