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Past president and co-president of the Kiwanis Club of Davis, with a history of local volunteering and organizing.
People · Home · Numbers · Davis
A home here is more than a floor plan. It is the bike route, the greenbelt, the Wednesday market, the campus connection, the arts, the neighbors—and the numbers that make the decision work.
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
Meet the places, people, and everyday details that make Davis feel like home.
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181 local and regional places
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
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.
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
Past president and co-president of the Kiwanis Club of Davis, with a history of local volunteering and organizing.
Support for Davis Musical Theatre Company and hands-on work helping launch the Friends of Watermelon Music effort.
Biking to meetings and downtown, noticing nature, and understanding how distinct neighborhoods connect to the life around them.
How Iben helps
Local knowledge matters most when it becomes useful: a better question, a clearer comparison, or a calmer next step.
Compare neighborhoods, daily routes, property condition, price, and the tradeoffs that do not fit neatly into a listing search.
Prepare the home, position it honestly, communicate clearly, and keep the process moving without manufactured urgency.
Separate a useful market signal from a dramatic headline and focus on the geography, timing, and decision that actually apply.
The Davis Home Note
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.
Place, reporting period, property type, and the difference between asking prices and completed sales: read the context before applying a number to your move.
Read Iben’s guide →
Greenbelts, crossings, shade, schools, campus, groceries, and downtown connections can matter as much as another room.
Explore Davis bike connections ↗
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 →
The Davis Farmers Market is food, ritual, local agriculture, and the weekly conversations that make a town feel connected.
Visit the market ↗
The 640-acre Putah Creek Riparian Reserve connects wildlife habitat, restoration, recreation, research, and daily Davis life.
Explore the reserve ↗
A gentle reminder to slow down, give wildlife room, and remember Downtown Tom—the famously territorial turkey who became a local legend.
Read the Downtown Tom story ↗From Iben’s conversations
Solar paperwork, home projects, preparing to move, buyer representation, and the people and traditions that make Davis home.
A note worth opening
Have a question about a move, a home project, or life around Davis? Tell Iben what you would like to explore.
In their own words
4 five-star Google reviews from clients and professional peers.
“…transparent, honest, and realistic…”
“…a great deal of personal attention…”
“…extremely detail oriented and very time conscious…”
“…patiently encouraging and guiding…”
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.
People. Home. Numbers.
A thoughtful approach to the place you call homeStart with a conversation
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
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.
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Iben Wilson · CalDRE #02002472
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