Service
Past president and co-president of the Kiwanis Club of Davis, with a history of local volunteering and organizing.
Davis real estate, clearly explained
Clear guidance for your Davis move
Local perspective, careful details, and a calm next step—whether you’re buying, selling, or simply weighing a move.
Davis since 1984A life here, not a territory
DRE #02002472California real-estate agent
LPT Realty, Inc.Buyer + seller guidance
Iben Wilson
Local perspective
Calm guidance
Calm guidance
Meet Iben
Practical, generous, deeply Davis
Iben first fell for Davis as a child visiting from Denmark. She returned at seventeen and has called Davis home since 1984.
Before real estate, she spent twenty years at UC Davis as a financial analyst. That background still shapes her work: pay attention, explain the tradeoffs, stay responsive, and keep complicated decisions moving without unnecessary pressure.
Her Davis life reaches well beyond real estate. She has served as president of the Kiwanis Club of Davis, helped launch the Friends of Watermelon Music nonprofit effort, supported local theatre, and developed the Davis habit of getting around by bicycle.
Davis is not a backdrop
Life around the house matters
Meet the places, people, and everyday details that make Davis feel like home.
Choose a photograph for a closer look and a local guide. Photo credits are listed below.
181 local and regional places
Explore Davis and beyond
Filter food, parks, wildlife, bike culture, arts, schools, neighborhoods, farms, wine, honey, and regional day trips on one interactive map.
Wild Davis, close to home
A pond with a Davis story
Northstar Park’s wildlife pond is named for former mayor Julie Partansky—an artist, musician, and environmental advocate remembered for projects including Davis’s dark-sky ordinance and the famous toad tunnel.
A pond can have a practical job—and become a wildlife haven.
The City’s history of West Davis describes how Aspen’s retention basin was transformed into wetland habitat for migrating birds, with viewing areas and a bikeway alongside it. It is one example of daily infrastructure becoming part of the life around a home—not a flood-risk assessment for any individual property.
Read the City’s Aspen and Village Homes history ↗
“Home sweet bicycling home”
Community is part of the work
Davis knowledge, built by showing up
Arts + nonprofits
Support for Davis Musical Theatre Company and hands-on work helping launch the Friends of Watermelon Music effort.
Daily Davis
Biking to meetings and downtown, noticing nature, and understanding how distinct neighborhoods connect to the life around them.
How Iben helps
Clear help for your next move
Local knowledge matters most when it becomes useful: a better question, a clearer comparison, or a calmer next step.
Buying thoughtfully
Compare neighborhoods, daily routes, property condition, price, and the tradeoffs that do not fit neatly into a listing search.
Selling with care
Prepare the home, position it honestly, communicate clearly, and keep the process moving without manufactured urgency.
Reading the numbers
Separate a useful market signal from a dramatic headline and focus on the geography, timing, and decision that actually apply.
Iben’s Davis Home Note
Useful context for home decisions
A growing library of Davis life, practical guidance, and market context—written to be useful in an inbox, a social feed, or a real conversation.
Davis rents remain relatively stable in 2026
The latest UC Davis apartment survey found average market-rate rents down 1.8% from the prior fall and a 3.5% blended vacancy rate—more breathing room than during the market’s tightest years.
Read Julia Ann Easley’s article ↗
What a route can tell you about home
Greenbelts, crossings, shade, schools, campus, groceries, and downtown connections can matter as much as another room.
Explore Davis bike connections ↗
Care before drama
Small, steady maintenance makes a home easier to live in now—and easier to prepare if a move becomes real later.
Ask Iben where to start →From Iben’s conversations
Useful reads for home and Davis
Solar paperwork, home projects, preparing to move, buyer representation, and the people and traditions that make Davis home.
New to Davis? · Local home help · Wild Davis discoveries · Iben’s community story
In their own words
Care people remember
4 five-star Google reviews from clients and professional peers.
“…transparent, honest, and realistic…”
Home purchase
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“…a great deal of personal attention…”
First home in Davis
Google review ↗
“…extremely detail oriented and very time conscious…”
Transaction coordination · professional peer
Google review ↗
“…patiently encouraging and guiding…”
Home sale
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Anaïs Franceschetti recommends Iben on Facebook: “Iben is very responsive and very helpful.” Read the recommendation ↗
Selected excerpts from verified five-star reviews on Iben’s Google listing, checked 2026-09-07. Facebook recommendations use a recommend / do not recommend format and are shown separately. Read the original sources for the full accounts.
Start with a conversation
What are you weighing?
Bring the question, the possibility, or the decision that feels tangled. From Davis to the wider Yolo County community, Iben will help you find the useful next step.
A useful first step
Let’s talk about your next move.
Buying, selling, relocating, or just starting to think? Share a little about what is on your mind and how you would like to be contacted.
- Tell Iben what you’re considering.A short note is enough to start.
- Choose email or phone.Leave the contact details that work best for you.
- Arrange a conversation.This is an inquiry, not a booked appointment.
Explore the area while you think →
Iben Wilson · CalDRE #02002472
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