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CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® Awards REALTOR® Dawn Dyer the Champions of Home Impact Award!
(August 18, 2025) - Dawn Dyer is honored to receive the top award from the California Association of Realtors® (C.A.R.) for its 2025 Champions of H
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® Awards REALTOR® Dawn Dyer the Champions of Home Impact Award!
(August 18, 2025) - Dawn Dyer is honored to receive the top award from the California Association of Realtors® (C.A.R.) for its 2025 Champions of Home Impact Awards.
These awards recognize REALTORS® in California who have made a significant impact on their communities through volunteer efforts. Dawn was honored for her work as Founding Mother of Housing Trust Fund Ventura County, which has provided over $48 M in funding that helped create over 1,800 homes for approximately 5,000 very-low-income, low-income and middle-income employees, transitional age foster youth, veterans, seniors, farm workers and those who are unhoused.
“Dawn’s remarkable compassion and dedication to funding affordable housing have profoundly impacted her community,” said C.A.R. President Heather Ozur. Through her advocacy and leadership, Dyer has helped to make Ventura County a better, more equitable place to live.
February 18, 2015
Using our January 2015 Rental Market Analysis, the Ventura County Star reported that apartment dwellers in Ventura County saw rent hikes in 2014 that topped nationwide increases. Read the full article here.
October 25, 2014
Dawn Dyer was interviewed as an expert on the dwindling affordable housing market. Rents grew at th
February 18, 2015
Using our January 2015 Rental Market Analysis, the Ventura County Star reported that apartment dwellers in Ventura County saw rent hikes in 2014 that topped nationwide increases. Read the full article here.
October 25, 2014
Dawn Dyer was interviewed as an expert on the dwindling affordable housing market. Rents grew at the highest rate on record during the first six months in most market areas of the county, according to a study provided by our firm to the Ventura County Star. Read the entire article here.
September 16, 2014
Selected as one of seven Top Women Business Leaders in California, Dawn Dyer shared her philosophies of success with Forbes Magazine. The County Star profiled her achievement. Read the complete article here.
February 7, 2013
Twice a year, Dyer Sheehan Group, Inc. conducts a survey of Ventura County apartment complexes to track changes in rents for the purpose of analyzing the health of the market, primarily for investors. Read the complete article here.
Moorpark Acorn - November 14, 2014
Ventura County has become one of the most expensive places to rent an apartment in the United States, according to a federal report on housing. Read this vital article as published in the Moorpark Acorn and why our Dyer Sheehan report for the UC Santa Barbara 2014 Economic Forecast Project is so importa
Moorpark Acorn - November 14, 2014
Ventura County has become one of the most expensive places to rent an apartment in the United States, according to a federal report on housing. Read this vital article as published in the Moorpark Acorn and why our Dyer Sheehan report for the UC Santa Barbara 2014 Economic Forecast Project is so important in helping city governments, employers and developers work with trending data for rental housing. Read the complete article here.
September 4, 2014
The cost of renting an apartment in the county surged between January and July due to increased demand and a low number of vacancies, according to a recently released survey by Dyer Sheehan Group. Read the complete article here.
March 20, 2014
Read why finding an apartment in Moorpark is no easy task. Interviewed in the story, Dawn Dyer explains the low vacancy rates of 2.99%, which is significantly lower than the average throughout Ventura County. Read the full story here.
June 16, 2014
Recently named to the South Coast’s “Who’s Who in Commercial Real Estate,” 30-year real estate industry veteran Dawn Dyer caught the attention of the publishers of “California Women Business Leaders,” a section that appears periodically in the California regional issue of Forbes. The article profiled both Dyer and the real e
June 16, 2014
Recently named to the South Coast’s “Who’s Who in Commercial Real Estate,” 30-year real estate industry veteran Dawn Dyer caught the attention of the publishers of “California Women Business Leaders,” a section that appears periodically in the California regional issue of Forbes. The article profiled both Dyer and the real estate consulting and brokerage firm she co-founded in 1997, Ventura-based Dyer Sheehan Group, Inc. Read the complete article here.
Dawn Dyer
2018 Woman Business Owner of the Year!
Dawn Dyer was honored and chosen as the National Association of Women Business Owners' 2018 Woman Business Owner of the Year by NAWBO Ventura County and NAWBO - CALIFORNIA. Dawn was also one of three finalists for the 2018 NAWBO National Woman Business Owner of the Year Award.
Highlight on Local Rental Housing Trends
Dawn Dyer was featured on KEYT-3 Santa Barbara as an industry and apartment expert. The news segment focused on the rental housing market in Santa Barbara's South Coast communities. Dawn explains a recent survey and analysis project conducted by Dyer Sheehan Group, rising trends, the shortage of a
Highlight on Local Rental Housing Trends
Dawn Dyer was featured on KEYT-3 Santa Barbara as an industry and apartment expert. The news segment focused on the rental housing market in Santa Barbara's South Coast communities. Dawn explains a recent survey and analysis project conducted by Dyer Sheehan Group, rising trends, the shortage of apartments, higher rents and the need to build additional housing to meet current and future demands.
September 4, 2014
Dawn Dyer and Paul Sheehan negotiated a $37.5 million land deal that constituted an entire city block in Los Angeles. Read the complete article here.
October 3, 2014
Additional coverage of the $37.5 million sale on the cover of Westside Today featuring a comprehensive interview with Paul and Dawn. Read the complete article here.
August 18, 2014
As a California beach town, Ventura offers vacation nest hunters the ideal weather, beautiful beaches, and great surf you expect from a southern California seaside locale without the attitude. And while real estate prices aren’t cheap, they are still considerably less than their glamorous neighbors Santa Barbara and Malib
August 18, 2014
As a California beach town, Ventura offers vacation nest hunters the ideal weather, beautiful beaches, and great surf you expect from a southern California seaside locale without the attitude. And while real estate prices aren’t cheap, they are still considerably less than their glamorous neighbors Santa Barbara and Malibu, making Ventura (and Pacific Pointe Condominiums!) one
April, 2015
Widely known as the "apartment expert" of Ventura County, Dawn Dyer published an article discussing the January 2015 multi-family investment market summary and forecast produced by Dyer Sheehan Group in the April 2015 edition of Apartment Age, a publication of the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles.
May 7, 2015
SB Independent's coverage of the UCSB Economic Forecast Project's Annual Summit and an overview of predictions and trends for Santa Barbara's economy and rental housing market. Story features comments by Dawn Dyer in regards to a 2014 comprehensive 2014 housing analysis conducted by Dyer Sheehan Group.
September 18, 2014
As an a
May 7, 2015
SB Independent's coverage of the UCSB Economic Forecast Project's Annual Summit and an overview of predictions and trends for Santa Barbara's economy and rental housing market. Story features comments by Dawn Dyer in regards to a 2014 comprehensive 2014 housing analysis conducted by Dyer Sheehan Group.
September 18, 2014
As an apartment and multi-family residences, the Santa Barbara Independent tapped Dawn Dyer to reflect on the current housing trends in Santa Barbara County and the high price of renting in paradise. Read the complete article here.
July 3, 2014
Dawn Dyer contributed to this timely article that discusses Santa Barbara's economic recovery woes about how residents are being forced into extreme competition to secure rental housing. Read the complete article here.
February 25 , 2015
It was a record year of closed transactions at Dyer Sheehan Group! Transactions involving the sale of land, multi-family and NNN-leased investment properties totaled just over $71 million in sales price value,with most of the assets located in prime Southern California coastal communities.Two of the largest transaction
February 25 , 2015
It was a record year of closed transactions at Dyer Sheehan Group! Transactions involving the sale of land, multi-family and NNN-leased investment properties totaled just over $71 million in sales price value,with most of the assets located in prime Southern California coastal communities.Two of the largest transactions involved properties in West Los Angeles totaling $63 million. Dyer and Sheehan represented the buyer of an entire city block on Santa Monica Boulevard.
Read the full story here.
February 20, 2015
Dyer Sheehan's January 2015 Rental Market Survey and analysis is featured as the expert source as published in the Pacific Coast Business Times as "Ventura rents rise to record as Millennials delay buying homes." How will housing market trends react with less vacancies and higher rents experienced throughout the county?
February 20, 2015
Dyer Sheehan's January 2015 Rental Market Survey and analysis is featured as the expert source as published in the Pacific Coast Business Times as "Ventura rents rise to record as Millennials delay buying homes." How will housing market trends react with less vacancies and higher rents experienced throughout the county?
To purchase the full rent report, follow the tab on our website for Apartment Market Surveys. To read the full story by real estate reporter Elijah Brumback.