Who We Are

Legacy Real Estate Group, Inc. is a local family owned business born into the family of companies surrounding Woodman Development Company.  Although a stand alone company, Legacy's principals are also the principals of Woodman with more than 50 years experience in real estate, property management, development, construction, and asset management.  William A. Silva is the President and Managing Broker for Legacy.  His mother, Marilyn Silva, is an owner and one of the founders of Woodman Development.

William A. Silva

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.

Marilyn J. Silva

Marilyn J. Silva is a shareholder and one of the founders of Regency Management Group, Inc.

Marilyn J. Silva was born and raised in Oklahoma before moving to Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California and pursue a career in medicine. She became a medical technologist and practiced for many years prior to meeting and marrying William H. Silva a real estate developer in Los Angeles. That redirected her interests into real estate.

Subsequently, she received her real estate license and together they developed and managed numerous projects throughout Southern California. Eventually their business grew to include offices and/or projects throughout Los Angeles and in Salinas, Monterey, Sacramento, Gilroy, Modesto, Napa and Scottsdale, AZ. Those enterprises also comprised a network of companies including Citizens Realty & Development, WHS Development, United Mortgage, Abbott Enterprises and Woodman Development Company, Inc.

As a co-founder and current shareholder of Woodman Development Company, Inc. she became significantly involved in the development of real estate on the central coast of California. Woodman's primary developments are in Monterey County where its current offices are located. While her primary residence remains in Los Angeles, Mrs. Silva has been a homeowner in Carmel for over thirty years.

Mrs. Silva has more than 40 years of experience in the real estate industry. She has a specialization in property management focusing on large multifamily projects through her personal company, Abbott Enterprises, Inc. For more than 20 years she managed a 280-unit apartment complex in Salinas that was originally built by Woodman Development. She recently completed the development of a 200-unit apartment complex in Kihei, Maui, which she currently manages.