$10M+

Windsor Sales 2024 and 2025

70+

Transactions

$85M+

Total Sales

 No.2

Team in Windsor

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ZILLOW PREMIER AGENTS

SELLING IN WINDSOR

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What Sellers Need to Know About the Windsor Market in 2026.

Windsor is one of the strongest seller's markets in Sonoma County right now — and most people do not realise it. While Healdsburg has been softening and Santa Rosa has been sluggish, Windsor has been quietly moving. Inventory is tight, days on market are running at 39 days, and in the spring of 2026 we saw homes close at 103% of list price. That is not a fluke. It is a market with more qualified buyers than available homes. 

The buyers choosing Windsor in 2026 are a specific group: families who have done the research on Windsor Unified and want in, Bay Area commuters who have run the numbers on the SMART train, and buyers who looked seriously at Healdsburg and decided the value equation in Windsor made more sense. These are motivated, informed buyers — and they are not waiting around. 

Jonathan Bruington has family roots in Windsor and has been selling here for years. David Hargreaves covers both markets actively and understands exactly how Windsor sits in the buyer's mind relative to Healdsburg and Santa Rosa. We live and work in this market. When we tell you what your home is worth and how to position it, we are telling you from the inside. 

THE MARKET · MAY 2026 

Windsor Is One of the Strongest Seller's Markets in the County.

Windsor and Healdsburg are 10 minutes apart. Right now they are telling very different stories — and Windsor's is the one sellers want to be in. Inventory is tight, buyers are qualified, and homes priced correctly are generating competition.

 In March 2026, the average Windsor home closed at 103% of its list price. There are simply not enough homes for the buyers looking — which means a well-priced, well-presented Windsor property should not sit.

WHY US

What Makes the Difference When You Sell.

 

WHAT WE'VE SOLD

Recent Windsor Sales Across Every Price Point.

DUE DILIGENCE

Simple Process. No Surprises.

The vacation rental permit process in Sonoma County is not difficult — if the property is eligible. The problem is that eligibility is not something you can see on a listing or verify on Zillow. We run seven checks on every property before recommending it to a client. Here is where most buyers come unstuck.


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Zoning & Permit Eligibility

The first set of checks is about the land itself. Does the zoning designation allow vacation rental use? Is the property inside city limits, where almost every city now prohibits new permits? Is it in a cap zone — an area where vacation rentals are capped at 5% of total properties — that has already hit its limit? Is it in an exclusion zone? These are deal-breakers that do not show up anywhere in a standard listing. We check all of them before you make an offer.


Property Type & Documentation

A JADU — a Junior Accessory Dwelling Unit attached to the main home — disqualifies the entire property from vacation rental use. Two homes on one lot that are technically zoned as a duplex are ineligible regardless of how they look. And a missing septic permit, which seems like a minor administrative issue, can delay your permit application by three months or trigger costly required findings. None of these are visible from the street.


Our Private Database — Every Eligible Property

We analyse every new listing that comes to market in Sonoma County and run all seven checks before adding it to our private site. Clients on our list receive a weekly email every Friday with the best currently eligible properties — with income projections, occupancy rate estimates, and average daily rate data. You are not browsing a general MLS. You are seeing a curated list of properties that have already cleared every hurdle.

Looking For A Vacation Rental?

Only 28 properties across the greater Healdsburg area came up for sale last year that a new owner could legally vacation rent — roughly one every two weeks. We run a private site where we list every property for sale that's eligible for a new owner to vacation rent, so you see them the moment they hit the market.
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Inside the City Limits

Residential properties are not eligible to get a permit. However there are a small handful of properties that have mixed use zoning that are eligible. When one appears within walking distance of the Plaza, you have to be ready to move within days.

The Unincorporated Corridors 

Outside the city, the county manages density through cap zones — Fitch Mountain, Westside Road, Dry Creek, and Norton Road among them. Every zone around Healdsburg is at or above its cap, so eligible homes are rare and a permit transfers only with county approval.

Boutique Inns and B&Bs

For buyers operating at scale, an existing inn or bed and breakfast carries commercial zoning and sits outside the residential cap entirely. It's owner-operator hospitality rather than a passive rental — and the cap-zone problem disappears.

Confirm Before You Offer

Listing remarks are a starting point, not a guarantee. Permits are property-specific and confirmable through Permit Sonoma, and we verify eligibility on every home we track before you ever write an offer.

READY WHEN YOU ARE

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