Income & multifamily
From residential homes and investment properties to multifamily buildings and raw land, Phillip provides full-service real estate guidance, helping clients evaluate opportunities, understand value, and make confident decisions.
About Phillip
Real Estate for Real People Keeping it real.
- Role
- Real Estate Advisor · Coastal & Investment Properties
- Focus
- Strategic, honest guidance for everyday buyers, sellers, and investors
- Experience
- 23 years
- License
- DRE #01393884
- Languages
- English
- Office
- Carmel Valley, San Diego
Helping buyers, sellers, and investors make smarter real estate decisions through honest advice, local expertise, proven strategy and hard work.
With over 23 years of real estate experience, Phillip Drew helps buyers, sellers, and investors navigate the San Diego real estate market with confidence. His approach is simple: provide honest advice, clear communication, and a strategy tailored to each client’s unique goals.
Phillip believes real estate is about more than buying and selling property. It’s about understanding opportunities, making informed decisions, and creating long-term value. Whether helping a client purchase a home, sell a property, or evaluate an investment, he provides the insight, preparation, and hands-on support needed to move forward with confidence.
Phillip also specializes in investment real estate, helping clients evaluate opportunities ranging from income-producing properties to multifamily investments and short-term rental opportunities. His hands-on approach extends beyond the transaction, coordinating everything from preparing a property for market, tenant transitions, and property improvements to maintenance, cleaning, and ongoing management needs. Known for his honest advice, Phillip is the advisor who will help you pursue the right opportunity, and tell you when a deal doesn’t make sense.
“Real estate for real people: honest advice, smart strategy, and keeping it real every step of the way.”
Specialty
Specialties
What Phillip does best.
1031 exchanges
Timeline management and replacement-property search, coordinated with your CPA and qualified intermediary.
Vacation rental strategy
Revenue projections, permitting checks and full-service management setup for short-term rentals that perform.
ADU & value-add
Lot analysis, ADU feasibility and renovation scopes that raise rents and long-term value.
Where Phillip works
Know the street, not just the zip.
The neighborhoods Phillip knows block by block. Choose one to see what living, buying and selling there looks like right now.
Small multifamily
North Park
Craftsman duplexes and walkable streets with strong long-term rental demand and steady appreciation.
$1.0MMedian home price
15Avg. days on market
Vacation rentals
Mission Beach
San Diego’s classic beach rental market, with permits and seasonality that make the numbers worth checking twice.
$2.1MMedian home price
27Avg. days on market
Emerging coastal
Oceanside
A revitalized downtown and pier district with strong short-term demand and room to grow.
$1.1MMedian home price
21Avg. days on market
ADU potential
Encinitas
Larger lots and coastal demand make Encinitas a favorite for ADUs and premium long-term rentals.
$2.0MMedian home price
20Avg. days on market
Cash-flow plays
Escondido
More attainable prices and larger parcels, where the numbers often pencil better for buy-and-hold investors.
$850KMedian home price
18Avg. days on market
Working with Phillip
From first look to final keys.
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Step 01
Goals & numbers
We define your return targets, timeline, financing and appetite for risk.
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Step 02
Underwrite the market
Every candidate property is modeled: rents, costs, taxes and exit.
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Step 03
Acquire with leverage
Offers structured on the numbers, with inspections focused on capital costs.
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Step 04
Operate & optimize
Management setup, rent strategy and annual reviews to grow the portfolio.
Contact Phillip
Let’s talk about your next move.
LicenseDRE #01393884
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