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Specializing in Downsizing, Retirement & Life Transitions

Some moves aren't about finding a bigger house — they're about right-sizing into the next chapter. Dar Mardan and Vidar Group specialize in guiding homeowners 55 and older through exactly that: downsizing out of a family home that's outgrown its purpose, timing a sale around retirement income and lifestyle, relocating out of state to be near family or into a lower cost-of-living community, and working through the tax and equity questions that come with owning a property for decades.
This isn't a listing conversation. It's an advisory one. Dar's background as a CPA and MBA means clients get a real financial lens on capital gains, stepped-up basis, and reinvestment strategy — not just a plan to sell. Vida adds nearly 15 years of real estate experience, with a sharp eye for the improvements that help a longtime home sell for what it's actually worth. And because these transitions touch more than real estate, Dar works alongside trust and estate-planning attorneys and mortgage brokers who focus on this same 55+ demographic, so clients get one coordinated plan instead of pieces solved in isolation.
It's the same thinking behind Dar's Big D's — Diamond, Diaper, Death, Divorce — the life moments that drive a move. Downsizing and retirement are their own chapter in that story, closely tied to the Death transitions many families already come to Dar for: inheriting a property, settling an estate, or simply recognizing that the home that made sense for one stage of life no longer makes sense for this one.

Our strength as a company comes from the strength of our leadership—an experienced and long-tenured team. With our advice & services we help clients fulfill their real estate needs!

ORANGE COUNTY REAL ESTATE

Buyer’s Market or Seller’s Market?

You Need the Right Strategy to Win in Any Market.

In real estate, there’s always something: rates, prices, inventory, headlines. We cut through the noise, give you our frank opinion, and build a winning strategy for your move.

Dar Mardan
REALTOR® · CPA · MBA
Vida Dashloo
REALTOR® · Design & Remodeling
Dar Mardan, REALTOR, CPA and MBA, Vidar Group Real Estate
Dar Mardan
REALTOR® · CPA · MBA
Vida Dashloo, REALTOR, Vidar Group Real Estate
Vida Dashloo
REALTOR® · Design & Remodeling

The numbers

Taxes, Prop 19, trust and estate sales, step-up in basis. Know what you keep before you decide.

The home

Design and remodeling that make a home sell, and an eye for the right home to buy.

The strategy

A plan built for today’s market, not last year’s headlines.

Vidar Group Real Estate – REAL Broker