For buyers
Finding the right home, on the right terms.
A search built around what you are actually looking for, access to homes that never reach the MLS, and a negotiation grounded in what comparable properties actually sold for.
Buying a significant home on this coastline is rarely a matter of finding the listing. Most of what my clients end up owning was either off-market, pre-market, or on the market and mispriced in a way the listing did not make obvious. The value I add is in the second and third of those, and in knowing which is which.
The process begins with a conversation about how you intend to live: waterfront or ocean, house or residence, which school run and which commute, whether a building's association matters to you and what your tolerance is for a renovation. From there the search is curated rather than automated. You receive the homes that fit and a short note on why, not a feed.
When we find the one, the work is in the offer: the comparable sales that support the number, the terms that make an offer stronger than a higher one, the inspection and association documents read before you are committed rather than after, and a closing that happens on the date it was supposed to.
What representation includes
A curated search, including what is not listed
Access to on-market inventory the day it lists, plus the off-market and pre-market opportunities that circulate among a small number of brokers before they are public. Roughly a third of the significant sales on this coastline never appear on the MLS.
Private showings and honest read-outs
Showings arranged around your schedule, including for homes that are not being shown to the public, and a candid assessment afterwards: the things the listing photographs did not show, what the price implies, and whether to keep walking.
Negotiation grounded in the record
Every offer is built on the comparable sales, the days on market and the seller's position, not on a feeling. The strongest offer is rarely the highest one, and structuring terms is where most of the money is saved or lost.
Due diligence before commitment
Inspection, survey, title, insurance, and for a condominium the association's budget, reserves and minutes, all read with you before the contingency periods expire. A clean closing is a consequence of this stage, not of luck.
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Tell me what you are looking for.
A short conversation about the home you have in mind is the fastest way to find out whether it exists yet.