Jim Martin
Real Estate Agent
- Licensed In California
- (BRE# 01245738)
In just the last five years he has sold over a quarter million acres of land and over ½ billion dollars in sales.
Jim Martin has been immersed in the great outdoors from the earliest of age accompanying his father on land and timber scouting trips through California and beyond. The value of what constituted a “Good Ranch” and what it took to make an otherwise marginal one better was instilled in Jim very early on. Family conversation centered around land acquisition and managing the same to make it profitable and learning when was the time to sell and move on to the next project. Furthering this knowledge was the time spent in the hills on the family’s Ranch where a passion for ranching, hunting, and all things related took root.
Jim graduated in 1991 fromthe University of Colorado, Boulder. After tramping and working about the world including exploring the deepest of Sub-Sahara Africa, over-landing it back to California from South America and working on farms in New Zealand, establishing a hunting and fishing company in the south of Chile, teaching English in Asia, he went on to work for Multi-Use Management (MUM)- first on a ranch in eastern Montana and then later on Santa Rosa Island. He garnered an extensive knowledge of many aspects of wildlife management and modern ranching practice during this period. Seeing, however, that the opportunities for a profitable career in ranching and wildlife management was limited he enrolled at the University of San Francisco School of Law wherein he received his JD and was admitted to the California Bar. Shortly thereafter, he joined the prominent British Hong Kong law firm of Johnson, Stokes and Master (Mayer Brown JSM) wherein he focused on infrastructural development, commercial property development and mergers and acquisitions in Southeast Asia. Tiring of law, Jim made a dramatic career change and served at the highest level within US intelligence community. Along the line, there were many more tangents on the world stage that developed his character but none that supplanted the influence of his roots.
Although Jim prospered in the practice of law and his other pursuits, there was an ever-present yearning to return to his passion. In 1999 he realized his dream and acquired the 2200 acre M3 Ranch above the Anderson Valley in the coastal mountain range of Mendocino County, California. Since then he has systematically went about developing the infrastructure of the M3 Ranch, i.e. water, road network, private wildlife management plans (PLMs), stream protection, sound forest practices etc. while at the same time maintaining its functionality as a working cattle and hunting operation. Besides his own ranch, Jim is personally vested in numerous land acquisition and development projects ranging from ranch and vineyards to heavy industrial to commercial properties in various parts of the western USA.
In 2005 he married Mairobi from Caracas, Venezuela who he had met in Buenos Aires on one of his many property scouting trips to the region. The family lives and works between the M3 Ranch as well as in Carmel, though still travel the world for pleasure and work.
Jim’s zeal for ranching and rural property development and his both real and sophisticated experience in the same has led him to the realization that he should enlist his experience in other’s quest to find their requisite ranch property. Jim first acquired his broker’s license in 1998, but it was not until 2013 that he joined California Outdoor Properties. Since then he has proven to be California Outdoor Properties’ top producer statewide and nationally recognized by Landleader as one of their best agents.
Jim’s Listings
- Active
- Sonoma County
- $6500000
- 250 ± Acres
- Vineyards
Starting at the foothills of the northwestern end of Dry Creek Valley and rising up to almost 1000 feet sits the celebrated 250-acre Merlo Vineyard. Commanding unprecedented views over the entire Dry Creek Valley out to Mt. Saint Helena to the west and Lake Sonoma and Pritchett Peaks to the east, and Lago di Merlo in the near distance to the south. The approach to Merlo Vineyard is through Dry Creek Road and skirting Lake Sonoma to ascend Stewarts Point Road. Arriving at the entrance, one is met with a monumental stone entrance and iron gate. Passing through the gate, you meander down a gravel road with pines and oaks framing the journey.
- Active
- Mendocino County
- $12500000
- 3750 ± Acres
- Timber Tracts
Redwood 1’s 3,750 acres, located in the coastal mountain range between Mendocino’s Anderson Valley and the coastal town of Elk, presents the rare opportunity to invest in a substantial, productive and sustainable native tree farm. Forest assets of this caliber are few and far between and are usually traded quietly amongst the conglomerates that dominate California’s redwood and fir market.