Holden at Coldwell Banker Platinum Properties

09/10/2026

09/10/2026

Selling a home in Irvine right now isn't what it was last year — but the thread hasn't changed.

Orange County inventory is at its 2026 high and price cuts are everywhere. Yet the $1M–$2M band, where College Park and The Colony trade, is still moving at a median around 38 days. Priced right, prepped right, close to full price. I've closed escrow in 12.

It's never the market. It's the pricing and the prep.

DM 'SELL' and I'll show you exactly what to do before you list.

Questions? call me
Holden Bowersock · (714) 458-7246
Coldwell Banker Platinum Properties · CA DRE #01258940

Would you rather price at the comp and draw a crowd, or start high and adjust?

09/08/2026

Here’s to the people whose hard work moves our communities forward. This Labor Day, we hope you find time to slow down, gather with the people you love and enjoy the place you call home.

09/02/2026

Selling a home in Irvine looks simple until the transaction gets complicated — and that's exactly where the work shows.

3852 Uris Ct in College Park wasn't a straightforward file. Multiple moving parts, multiple parties, and a timeline that needed managing daily. It closed at $1,325,000 with Pete and his family on the seller side.

Here's what Pete singled out, and it wasn't the price: the plan, the response time, and the negotiating through the ups and downs. In his words — "if you are looking for a hard worker that can sell your home fast, he is the one to turn to."

That's the part most sellers don't shop for. Everyone compares commission and list price. Almost nobody asks how an agent handles the deal when it goes sideways at day 22 — because that's the version of the transaction that decides whether you close at all.

So when you're interviewing agents in College Park or The Colony, ask a harder question: what happens when this falls apart, and who's calling me back?

DM "SELL" for a real pricing conversation on your College Park home — comps, range, and my actual opinion.

Holden Bowersock
Coldwell Banker Platinum Properties
(714) 458-7246
CA DRE #01258940

Sellers — what's the one part of the process you'd want handled for you first: pricing or prep?

09/01/2026

09/01/2026

Selling a home in College Park, Irvine: listed at $1,589,000, closed at $1,815,000. That's $226,000 over ask on Pecan Street.

Both sides of this one ran through my office — seller and buyer, disclosed and consented in writing.

Two things made the number:

Pricing to the College Park comps, not to a wish. The pocket between Pecan St and the 7.5-acre park moves differently than the newer Irvine tracts, and pricing it off Woodbury or Portola Springs data would have missed by six figures in the wrong direction.

Presentation before it hit the market. Photos, prep, and sequence were locked before day one, because in this price band the first weekend sets the ceiling.

What that means if you own in College Park or The Colony: the offer above list isn't luck. It's what happens when the launch is tight and the pricing is anchored to your actual street, not a city-wide average.

Jerri and Chris sold. Steve bought. Both left five stars — their words are in the slides.

DM "SELL" and I'll pull the College Park comps for your specific block.

If you were listing on Pecan St today, would you price under market to build competition or price at value and hold?

Holden Bowersock
(714) 458-7246
Coldwell Banker Platinum Properties
CA DRE #01258940

08/29/2026

Selling a home in Irvine under $1.4M: 3852 Uris Ct just closed at $1,325,000 — sellers represented.

3 bed, 3 bath, 1,929 sq ft on a cul-de-sac. That pencils out to roughly $687 a square foot.

Here's the context that matters. College Park and The Colony have been trading in the $1.3M–$1.5M band all year, which means anything landing under $1.4M with real square footage behind it isn't competing with its own price tier — it's pulling buyers who got outbid at $1.5M and want the space back.

Court lots do work here too. Less through-traffic, wider usable frontage, and buyers feel it the second they pull up.

If you're within $100K of the next band up, price placement decides your buyer pool before the first showing does.

DM "SELL" for what your Irvine home lands at in today's band.

Holden Bowersock | (714) 458-7246
CA DRE #01258940 | Coldwell Banker Platinum Properties

Would you take 1,929 sq ft on a cul-de-sac, or more square footage on a through-street?

08/27/2026

Selling a home in Irvine: 3371 Pecan listed at $1,589,000 — closed at $1,815,000.

That's $226,000 over list in College Park, with Holden representing the sellers and the buyers.

Pecan Ave sits in a pocket that's been trading in the $1.3M–$1.5M range. This one didn't get there by listing high. It got there by pricing to create competition, then holding the line once offers started stacking.

In College Park, list price is a strategy, not a guess.

DM "SELL" for what your College Park home would actually list at today.

Holden Bowersock | (714) 458-7246
CA DRE #01258940 | Coldwell Banker Platinum Properties

Would you have listed at $1,589,000 — or come out higher from day one?

08/26/2026

I'm always humbled by the kindness of my clients. Thank you.

08/25/2026

College Park Irvine homes at $1.5M are still moving — this cul-de-sac 4-bedroom went into escrow in 22 days.

14501 Larch Ave · 4 bed / 3 bath · 1,897 sq ft · listed at $1,499,000.

Two things carried it. The solar is fully paid — both the electric system and the water heating — no lease, no loan to assume. In Irvine resale, most solar comes with a payment attached, so that's a real number off a buyer's monthly cost, not a bullet point.

The other is position: quiet cul-de-sac, steps from College Park's 7.5-acre park, inside the College Park Elementary → Venado → Irvine High boundary. Remodeled kitchen, both baths redone, all four bedrooms up.

The read: at this price point in College Park, buyers are paying for what they don't have to fix or finance after closing.

DM "SELL" for what your College Park home would list at today.

(714) 458-7246 · CA DRE #01258940 · Coldwell Banker Platinum Properties

Would you take paid-off solar or an extra 300 sq ft?