Best Realtor in Palm Springs

Shana Gates is the team lead at Craft & Bauer — an 8-agent team operating under The Real Brokerage Inc. — closing approximately $130 million in transaction volume each year under her leadership. Personally, she has been a licensed California REALTOR® since 2006 (CalDRE #01729222) with more than $75 million in her own career closings. California is a single license, a single market structure, and a single negotiating culture — twenty years of contracts, contingencies, disclosures, and seller-side strategy translates directly into Palm Springs and the rest of the Coachella Valley.

For the past five years her practice has focused entirely on the Coachella Valley, building a specialty in the three things that define this desert market: mid-century modern homes, gated luxury estates, and vacation/second-home purchases. That means working knowledge of the architects who built Palm Springs — Wexler, Krisel, Frey, Cody, Williams, Lapham — and the records that determine value: Class 1 historic site designation, Modernism Week provenance, Mills Act eligibility, original construction documents, and the restoration culture that protects authentic mid-century homes.

Craft & Bauer operates under The Real Brokerage Inc. — the #5 U.S. brokerage by 2025 sales volume per RealTrends, with $75.3 billion in annual transactions, 185,000+ closed deals, and 33,000+ agents across the U.S. and Canada. That platform brings tech-forward transaction systems, integrated title and mortgage services, and a national agent network that broadens buyer reach for every Coachella Valley listing — backed by Shana's team of eight on the ground in the desert.