John Bell (DRE #01336646) covers Coronado Island's three submarkets — Village, Shores, and Cays — from the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties office at 101 Orange Avenue, where he has practiced since relocating from La Jolla in 2011. His 1031 tax-deferred exchange expertise and short-sale negotiation background position him for complex transactions where capital-gains strategy intersects with Coronado's high price points, and he coordinates tax-year planning for clients through island CPAs including Watkins Rodney R CPA. Before real estate, he worked in software testing for Qualcomm and Intuit and in offshore oil-well drilling in the North Sea and seismic exploration in Alaska, bringing technical and analytical rigor to broker price opinions and comparable-market analyses. Pre-listing cosmetic work for Village and Shores properties often begins with interior and exterior painting, and island-based crews at Coronado Painting Pros handle the prep-and-finish scopes that Berkshire Hathaway's home-staging protocols recommend before photography and MLS entry. Specialties include luxury waterfront listings in Coronado Cays with private boat-dock access, Coronado Shores tower units requiring HOA reserve-study analysis, and Village properties within the Hotel Del Coronado tourism corridor along Orange Avenue in 92118.