Bri Steel

Bri Steel is one of the top Realtors in Santa Cruz County. Consistently managing more than 30 million dollars of coastal real estate transactions a year, Bri is a proven expert. Bri has lovingly grown her company Live Love Santa Cruz into the area's favorite privately owned brokerage.
In 2019, Santa Cruz Good Times recognized Bri as the community’s “Best Real Estate Agent” and awarded her brokerage Live Love Santa Cruz the title of “Best Real Estate Agency”. Bri prides herself on her honest and constructive approach to the real estate business, as well as going the extra mile and working diligently for her clients. She brings creativity, confidence, and enthusiasm to each project.
Bri’s specialty is making her listings shine. With a bachelor's degree in marketing and a degree in sales from the nation’s top sales school, she meticulously creates her own property websites, produces her own listing videos, compiles her virtual tours, and adds personal touches as if she were listing her own property for sale. Her staging preparations, expert videography, photography, dynamic internet displays, and network of buyers, sellers, agents, and tradespeople are simply the best in the business.
As a professional athlete in a past career, she was crowned the World Wakesurf Championships 7 years in a row. She brings the same level of intensity and focus to her real estate career and when it comes to writing offers and representing buyers in multiple offer situations, Bri knows how to win. Bri prides herself on her diligence, negotiation skills, and persistence. If there is one thing she has learned about coastal Californian real estate, it is that an offer must stand out as the strongest, not just in price but in terms, if it’s going to win. Bri has the experience and the techniques required to make every offer shine.
Intimately related to representing clients, Bri’s huge passion is construction and design. She has personally bought, built, and remodeled multiple projects in Santa Cruz and Monterey County. She has completed everything from ground-up construction, ADU projects and conversions, and beautiful rehabs of distressed and abandoned properties. Bri has experience designing her own plans, running her own crew of craftsmen, and shepherding projects through the regulatory agencies of the city and the county. She has developed a keen eye for estimating job costs and prides herself in producing creative solutions in almost any construction situation. She loves to share her ideas, contacts, and networks of tradesmen with her clients.
On a personal note, Bri is a Pleasure Point homeowner, private pilot, animal lover, and an avid outdoorswoman and ex-professional extreme sports athlete in the sports of wake surfing and kiteboarding. Her passions revolve around being in nature - surfing, trail running, and hiking. She is married to a local orthopedic surgeon, surfer, spearfisherman, and home builder. They have two young children who are the lights of their lives with which they love to adventure travel with.
Bri has lovingly grown her company into the area's favorite privately owned brokerage. Live Love Santa Cruz brings a fresh and innovative approach to real estate in the Santa Cruz area. We are a "boutique" real estate company. We fulfill all aspects of the real estate experience completely in-house. Our complimentary services include 3D virtual home tours, aerial drone cinematography, architectural photography, custom property web pages, and social media advertising. For those seeking a little something extra we also offer home design and professional staging. In addition to providing custom virtual home tours to out-of-town buyers, we always go the extra mile to help our clients find special on and off-market properties.