About Tara
Laguna Beach native Tara Hotchkis has been a top-producing real estate agent in Southern California since 2003, with sales of more than half a billion dollars in residential real estate.
Tara Hotchkis is the Senior Estates Director at COMPASS in Beverly Hills and Founder of the Luxury Homes + Spaces Team. In 2017, Hotchkis represented Major League Baseball Player, Ichiro Suzuki in the sale of his Downtown Los Angeles Art's District Penthouse Loft, setting a new price per square foot. Tara represents celebrity and high-profile individual and corporate clients throughout Los Angeles.
In addition to real estate, Tara is passionate about contemporary art and design, supporting several Los Angeles-based non-profit organizations. Tara serves as an Ambassador for the Los Angeles Public Library Foundation's Young Literati and is a member of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art's (MOCA) Director's Forum. Tara is a member of SAG-AFTRA, having appeared in numerous television shows and commercials. In 2013, Tara combined her passion for art and architecture and co-hosted "The Kuhnert Chronicles" for Ovation Television Network.
Tara is a contributing writer and member of Forbes Real Estate Council, has been featured in Angeleno Magazine's 2017 and 2018 Los Angeles Power Players Issue, has been a featured real estate expert on CurbedLA, is a former NCAA Division I tennis player, a Graduate of REALTOR® Institute, a graduate of Sotheby's Institute of Art, a member of the Urban Land Institute, holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of California, Irvine, and is an MBA candidate at Pepperdine University's Graziadio Business School in Malibu, CA.