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Real Estate Lawyers in San Diego County, California
Searching for a real estate attorney in San Diego County? Counsel for property: purchases, disputes, title, and land use. This page indexes the county's real estate coverage from the State Bar of California's official roll, with identity-verification markers where available.
California's second-most-populous county; its superior court hears matters at the downtown Central Courthouse and regional centers in Vista, El Cajon, and Chula Vista. The court of record is the Superior Court of California, County of San Diego · 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 San Diego County chapter of the registry's statewide record · Real Estate Attorneys in California collects all 58 counties.
The clock & the court
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)).
Superior Court of California, County of San Diego.
County seat: San Diego
Official court information, locations, and filing rules: www.sdcourt.ca.gov
Real Estate · San Diego County roster
1,693 attorneys on the official State Bar of California roll list real estate among their practice areas with an address of record in San Diego County.
1,620 of them hold an active licence; the remainder are recorded as inactive and are not currently eligible to practise.
The roster concentrates in San Diego (1,132), Carlsbad (126), La Jolla (83) and Rancho Santa Fe (43).
17 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.
64 are recorded as taking client work in a language other than English.
Admission years on this roster run from 1956 to 2026.
The employers most represented here are Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP (14), Allen Matkins (13) and Epsten, APC (11).
The full San Diego County roster · 1,620 attorneys with an active license and a real estate practice area: is listed by surname in the 8 sections below.
Real Estate matters in San Diego 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
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Real Estate questions, cited
What must a home seller disclose in California?
Sellers of residential property (1–4 units) must deliver a Transfer Disclosure Statement describing known material facts and defects (Cal. Civ. Code § 1102 et seq.), plus a Natural Hazard Disclosure Statement (Civ. Code § 1103) covering flood, fire, and seismic zones. Deliberately concealing known material defects supports fraud claims running three years from discovery (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 338(d)).
How does adverse possession work in California?
A claimant must show five years of actual, open, hostile, and continuous possession under claim of right or color of title, and payment of all property taxes on the parcel during those five years (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. §§ 321–325). The tax-payment requirement defeats most casual encroachment claims; boundary disputes more often proceed as prescriptive easement or agreed-boundary theories.
Can I force the sale of a jointly owned property in California?
Generally yes, through a partition action: a co-owner is ordinarily entitled to partition as of right (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 872.710). For inherited homes, the Partition of Real Property Act (Code Civ. Proc. § 874.311 et seq.) adds appraisal and buyout rights that let family co-owners purchase the interest of the co-owner seeking sale before a forced sale occurs.
What is a quiet title action?
A lawsuit under Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 760.010 et seq. asking the superior court to determine all adverse claims to a property and settle title in the rightful owner. It is the standard vehicle for clearing clouded title (stale deeds of trust, forged conveyances, easement disputes, or competing inheritance claims), and judgment binds all parties named and served.
Is a handshake deal for land enforceable in California?
Usually not. The statute of frauds requires contracts for the sale of real property, or leases longer than one year, to be in writing and signed (Cal. Civ. Code § 1624(a)(3)). Narrow exceptions exist for part performance and estoppel, but they are litigated uphill, real property deals belong on paper.
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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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