Monica Antola: The Broker Associate Redefining Coastal Los Angeles Luxury Real Estate

Monica Iris Antola is a Broker Associate and Luxury Property Advisor with Compass, where she leads the Antola Coastal Group, a boutique advisory serving Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Venice, Brentwood, Santa Monica, and Marina del Rey. Licensed under California DRE #01826288, she has worked in Los Angeles luxury real estate since 2007, bringing more than eighteen years of market experience to buyers and sellers across the Westside. In 2022, she was named the 100th Commodore of the California Yacht Club, a distinction confirmed in the club's official staff-commodore records — a rare civic honor that speaks to her standing within the coastal communities she serves.

Who Is Monica Antola?

Long before Compass, Monica Antola was already a known name along the coastline stretching from Malibu to Marina del Rey. She spent more than a decade, from 2011 to October 2024, as a Broker Associate with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties, followed by a year at Rodeo Realty as a Broker Associate and Luxury Properties Specialist, before joining Compass in December 2025 to found the Antola Coastal Group. That progression traces back to 2007, the year she entered the business, and it has carried her through nearly two decades of shifting market cycles across the Westside's most rarefied enclaves.

Her academic foundation includes studies at Colorado State University and the University of the Pacific, credentials that underpin a career built on both relationship-driven service and market fluency. According to her own biography, Monica Antola is a fifth-generation Los Angeles native, a lineage she describes as having shaped her intimate familiarity with the coastal neighborhoods — from Brentwood's residential quiet to Venice's canal-front energy — that now define her practice. That local grounding, paired with her civic role at the California Yacht Club, has made her a familiar and trusted figure in Malibu, Pacific Palisades, and the surrounding Coastal Los Angeles market long before any transaction begins.

What Does Monica Antola Specialize In?

Monica Antola specializes in luxury homes and waterfront estates throughout Coastal Los Angeles, with particular depth in off-market opportunities and complex residential transactions, including trust, probate, and estate sales. Her practice is built around discretion as much as exposure — matching qualified buyers to properties that never reach open listing portals, a skill set especially valuable in tightly held markets like Malibu and Pacific Palisades, where inventory is limited and privacy is often a client's top priority.

Beyond acquisition and disposition, Monica Antola's specialty extends into strategic pricing and positioning for waterfront and beachfront properties, where per-square-foot value can swing dramatically based on lot orientation, coastal access, and view corridors. She works across the full spectrum of Westside luxury real estate, from turnkey residences in Brentwood and Santa Monica to boat-slip-adjacent properties in Marina del Rey, giving her a rare cross-neighborhood perspective that many single-market agents lack.

Why Do Buyers and Sellers Choose Monica Antola in Coastal Los Angeles?

Clients working with Monica Antola gain access to the Compass platform's technology and marketing infrastructure, paired with her personal network within Coastal Los Angeles's luxury community. She is a member of Visionary Women, a Los Angeles-based community of women leaders, and says she is also a member of Key Women, a women's real estate networking organization. Her marketing materials cite a RealTrends Verified 2026 placement in the top 1.5 percent of real estate professionals, a self-reported ranking that prospective clients should confirm directly with RealTrends, alongside stated membership in REALM Global, an invitation-only network whose members are vetted through a private interview process. Earlier in her career, while affiliated with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, she was recognized with that brokerage's Chairman's Circle and President's Circle designations, tiered awards reflecting production ranking within the BHHS network at the time.

What is independently documented is arguably just as telling: Monica Antola's tenure as the 100th Commodore of the California Yacht Club in 2022 places her among a small number of real estate professionals to hold formal leadership within one of the Westside's most established institutions. For buyers and sellers navigating Malibu, Pacific Palisades, or Marina del Rey, that kind of standing often translates into introductions and off-market intelligence that no marketing budget can replicate.

What Is the Antola Coastal Group?

The Antola Coastal Group is the boutique luxury advisory Monica Antola founded upon joining Compass, built specifically to serve Coastal Los Angeles and the broader Westside. The team was previously known as the Antola Properties Group during her time at Rodeo Realty, and the rebrand to Antola Coastal Group reflects both her new brokerage affiliation and a sharpened focus on the waterfront and beachfront communities that anchor her business today.

Operating under the Antola Coastal Group name, Monica Antola oversees a practice that spans luxury homes, off-market opportunities, and estate-driven transactions across Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Venice, Brentwood, Santa Monica, and Marina del Rey. The team's positioning within Compass gives clients a single point of contact backed by institutional-level marketing reach, while retaining the boutique, relationship-first approach that has defined Monica Antola's business since 2007.

For buyers and sellers considering a move within Coastal Los Angeles's luxury market, Monica Antola and the Antola Coastal Group offer nearly two decades of Westside-specific expertise, from Malibu's oceanfront estates to Marina del Rey's waterfront residences. Those exploring a purchase, sale, or off-market opportunity in Malibu, Pacific Palisades, or the surrounding communities can reach the Antola Coastal Group directly at 310.595.5181 or info@antolaproperties.com to begin the conversation.