Patti Brainard

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Team Brainard at Compass did a phenomenal job guiding us through the sale of our condo in Cambridge. From pricing the property to connecting us with critical resources like a stager and a painter/handyman to working with the property management to obtain necessary info for the listing and for buyers, Patti provided the expertise needed to make a quick sale at our desired price. We cannot recommend Patti Brainard enough.

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Alex is simply the best. We recommend her to everyone we know who is navigating the greater Boston real estate market. She helped us buy a dream condo in Cambridge in 2016, bringing her savviness and years of experience to find us a beautiful place at a price we could afford. We stayed in touch, and this year she sold our condo and helped us buy a home in the burbs in what has become an incredibly crazy housing market. She and her team at Compass made the selling process seamless. She suggested practical improvements that we could make with minimal time and effort to increase our condos value. These extra touches spruced up our place and, we believe, led to us receiving multiple competitive offers within the first week and a great sale price.Alex is an expert buyers agent. Thanks to her, we were able to quickly find and buy a house within our budget that had all the important criteria we wanted. She helped us strategize our offers on homes by bringing all of her skills and tools to bear for us: a data-driven approach of looking at comparables, her deep knowledge of the market, her attention to detail, and her keen intuition in the midst of a rapidly changing market landscape. Throughout the entire process, Alex worked tirelessly with us, from walk-throughs to pre-inspections to many phone conversations. When it came time to make offers, Alex's skill as an expert negotiator shined, and she was able to extract valuable information from the sellers' agents that allowed us to make far more competitive offers, ultimately beating out more than a dozen other offers on the house we purchased. Working with Alex and her contacts made the closing process smooth and easy, both for our condo sale and home purchase. On top of everything else, she recommended a lender who was able to offer us a mortgage interest rate almost a whole point lower than what we could find on our own. We are so pleased with how the whole process went from soup to nuts. Alex is a superstar agent, and we cant recommend her highly enough.

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I called Patti Brainard when my daughter and I decided to sell our twoA familyA in Somerville because she was so knowledgeable two years earlier when she did a valuation for us.It was not my first real estate deal, but it was my daughter's. And the market and processes changed a lot over our 16 years in Somerville. Patti answered all our questions in understandable detail, adding more details if we asked. Decades in the Cambridge area urban market has made Patti's knowledge deep, broad, and sharply up to date.We were not sure about using Compass Concierge vendors for cosmetic work and staging, thinking we could find it cheaper, do it ourselves, or just not do it. But we decided to trust Patti and were so glad we did. Her advice about work, staging, timing, and pricing got us a far higherA selling price than we expected.A Patti's team members, Ricky and Victoria, were great. Ricky went above and beyond in person, and Victoria always responded immediately to emails.Most of us do very few real estate deals, usually many years apart. If you are at such a crossroad, you can't do better than Team Patti Brainard.

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Patti helped me buy my home 17 years ago. We were young and clueless and she was incredibly knowledgeable and patient! She's always kept in touch and helped with advice on home value and renovations. During covid lockdown I needed a home appraisal and Patti did a video call walkthrough (as she already knew the house well) and gave an incredibly detailed valuation for free. I would hire her again and recommend her and her team without reservation.

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Patti Brainard, Riki Everest and the Brainard group were very professional and efficient in helping us (my husband and I) acquire a new home in Cambridge, MA. We were moving from New Mexico with very little time to visit the house we wanted in person.Their entire walk through process was extremely helpful to us. Ricki had patience with teaching us how to use Zoom for the first time which created a good experience for us with the online virtual tour of the new house. He and Patti were honest about the good and the not-so good aspects of the house (e.g., the basement needed cleaning and new lighting) which we appreciated! Any additional questions we had were immediately answered by Patti and her team. Patti explained everything step by step.We would gladly recommend Patti Brainard and her group to anyone who needed help in buying a home. They are honest, reliable and professional.C. Bowen