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Real Estate Attorneys in Santa Cruz County, California

Counsel for property: purchases, disputes, title, and land use. In Santa Cruz County, that work runs through the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Cruz. This directory presents real estate records from official State Bar of California data in neutral order.

A Monterey Bay county pairing the university town of Santa Cruz with the Pajaro Valley's agriculture; the main courthouse sits in Santa Cruz, with a Watsonville branch serving the south county. The court of record is the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Cruz · counsel who appear there regularly read the local calendar better than any brochure.

The law also keeps time: three years for trespass or injury to real property; four years on written contracts (§ 337) under Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 338(b). Adverse possession and prescriptive easement claims require five years of qualifying use (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. §§ 321–325). Seller non-disclosure claims sound in fraud: three years from discovery (§ 338(d)). The plaque below carries the citation; the roster that follows carries the rest.

This page is the Santa Cruz County chapter of the registry's statewide record · Real Estate Lawyers in California collects all 58 counties.

The clock & the court

Statute of limitations

Three years for trespass or injury to real property; four years on written contracts (§ 337).

Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 338(b)

Adverse possession and prescriptive easement claims require five years of qualifying use (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. §§ 321–325). Seller non-disclosure claims sound in fraud: three years from discovery (§ 338(d)).

Court of record

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Cruz.

County seat: Santa Cruz

Courthouse at the county seat: Santa Cruz Courthouse, 701 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Help with forms without a lawyer: the court's self-help center (source: The court's official website, read 2026-09-27).

Official court information, locations, and filing rules: www.santacruz.courts.ca.gov

Real Estate · Santa Cruz County roster

95 attorneys on the official State Bar of California roll list real estate among their practice areas with an address of record in Santa Cruz County.

88 of them hold an active licence; the remainder are recorded as inactive and are not currently eligible to practise.

The roster concentrates in Santa Cruz (50), Aptos (15), Soquel (6) and Capitola (5).

2 hold a State Bar Certified Legal Specialist designation, a certification issued by the State Bar's Board of Legal Specialization, and not a rating or a ranking.

For 2, the registry records a language other than English, almost always from a firm website published in that language; that describes the website, not an attorney's own ability.

Admission years on this roster run from 1970 to 2025.

The employers most represented here are Penrose Chun & Gorman LLP (4), Christerson & Christerson LLP (3) and Beck & Mathiesen, LLP (2).

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Real Estate matters in Santa Cruz County

The matters this field covers, as Californians search for them. Each attorney's own profile states which of these they take.

  • purchase and sale disputes
  • seller nondisclosure claims
  • boundary and easement disputes
  • quiet title
  • partition actions
  • HOA disputes
  • commercial leases
  • escrow and title problems
  • eminent domain
  • foreclosure defense

From the answer files

What does a home seller have to disclose in California?Cal. Civ. Code § 1102How much does a real estate attorney cost in California?Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 6148How long does a partition action take in California?Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 872.710

Related counsel in Santa Cruz County

Tenant Rights Lawyers in Santa Cruz CountyCal. Code Civ. Proc. § 1161Construction Attorneys in Santa Cruz CountyCal. Civ. Code § 8412Business Lawyers in Santa Cruz CountyCal. Code Civ. Proc. § 337All practice areas in Santa Cruz CountyCounty record

Real Estate in nearby counties

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Source: Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 338(b) · State Bar of California licensee records · Checked: · Maintained by the California Attorney Registry from official State Bar of California records. Legal information, not legal advice.

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