William A. Silva is the President and Managing Broker of Legacy Real Estate Group, Inc. He is a shareholder and one of the founders of the company.

William A. Silva is a fourth generation Monterey County resident. His great grandfather was one of Carmel's founding artists at the turn of the century and his father attended Carmel High School. Although Mr. Silva grew up in Southern California, he spent much of his childhood at the family home in Carmel.

Mr. Silva has a strong legacy in real estate, development and construction having grown up around the construction and real estate industries his entire life. His father was a real estate broker and general contractor and his mother was a real estate agent and property manager. They founded several successful real estate development and construction companies including, Woodman Development Company, Citizens Realty & Development and Abbott Enterprises.

Mr. Silva attended Duke University in Durham, North Carolina where he received his BA in 1991 with a triple major in Public Policy Studies, Comparative Area Studies and Spanish. He served as a legislative intern for Senator Pete Wilson on Capitol Hill in 1990 and anticipated a career in foreign relations.

However, after college Mr. Silva spent two years framing houses in Arizona where he discovered an affinity for construction and real estate development. In 1994 he moved back Monterey County and began running the day to day operations of Woodman Development Company. In that role, Mr. Silva has been directly involved in the construction and sale of nearly 600 homes and the planning and development of nearly 2,500 more.

Mr. Silva has almost twenty years of experience in construction, project management and real estate development, which also includes commercial development, property management, and asset management. He is personally responsible for the management of numerous separate companies and partnerships. He is currently a shareholder and the President of Woodman Development Company, Inc.

In his capacity with Woodman, Mr. Silva also oversaw the sales of homes in all of Woodman's new home communities. As a licensed real estate broker, he managed the selling agents in those communities. Eventually it was a logical evolution for Mr. Silva to form Legacy Real Estate Group, as a retail real estate brokerage that specializes in the sale of new and re-sale housing.

Finally, Mr. Silva also founded Regency Management Group, Inc. for which he is also a shareholder, the President and the Managing broker. Regency specializes in the management of home owners associations and manages more than 1,200 units in Monterey County.

William A. Silva
Owner / Managing Broker