Sheila and Pat are fantastic to work with. They are kind, quick to respond and resolve issues…read morewithout hesitation. It was a joy and a pleasure working with them and I would highly suggest them to anyone!

Sheila and John are extremely knowledgeable, candid, responsive, and transparent throughout and…read moreafter the rental process. I cannot sing enough praises about them. They truly hustled and worked extremely hard during the covid rental process. There are many real estate agents that one can choose in the Boston area, but they are truly a gem. I highly recommend them!

I'm writing this review with a huge amount of happiness -- I can easily give a perfect review for…read moreLisa Doherty-Santana at Griffin Properties. If you're buying, here's what to expect: - Lisa will sit down with you and conduct a friendly interview on what you want to buy. - Lisa will recommend fantastic experts as part of your buying team: home insurance, lawyers, and mortgage lenders. The only recommendation we did not use was the home inspector due to scheduling and our own prior use. EVERY recommendation Lisa gives is a "tried and true" team member. They are all excellent. We used Jeff Nelson from Bank of America, Jeff Shargel's law office, and Matt Davison for the homeowner's insurance. All were excellent. - Lisa will email you listings of what you want, schedule showings, and give you open house notifications too. We saw a ton of properties in many towns -- Lisa does a lot of legwork. She even picked us up at the train station once when our car broke down. She goes ABOVE AND BEYOND! - Lisa is organized, fights for you, and is always your advocate. She asks questions you didn't even think of asking. - Lisa is super friendly, confident, smart, and a FANTASTIC negotiator. Even at our final home walkthrough, she found a minor item needing repair, got us monetary protection in the 11th hour (at closing!), and worked with the lawyers. She does this all with panache and friendliness. - Lisa is honest and tells you what you need to hear. She delivers bad news with such friendly skill and diplomacy, that you can't help but move forward with a better feeling instead of a negative one. She is such an excellent advocate. I highly, highly recommend her. She has a great communication style. Go to Lisa! We were in such good hands with many life changes happening all at once -- Lisa was there every step of the way. Happy house hunting! :)

My fiance and I were first time home buyers this spring 2009. We tried it on our own for a while…read moreand realized it was a pretty complicated thing to take on, so we took our chances with the small independent real estate office down my street and I asked for Lisa based on her glowing reviews. Long story short: she was everything and more! She took us all over the city and surrounding towns to search for the perfect home. Every weekend she updated us with open houses, checked in with us often and when we did attend showings together, she knew just what to ask the seller's agent. She remembered what we both specifically looked for in a home and went out of her way to find that. She was always available and responsive to calls or emails. Lisa is not only a wonderful person, full of energy and so friendly, she is extremely adept at negotiating with sellers agents and hooking us up to excellent lenders and attorney. We felt she was really looking out for us every step of the way, and count her as a friend! It was a memorable and positive experience buying our first home at Griffin, and we have been telling all friends and family about our experience, and hope this entry will help you feel confident about working with them too! We are also planning on coming back to Lisa when we eventually sell and buy our next home. 5 stars all the way!

Marie was referred to our family by a long time family friend who knew we were preparing to sell…read moreour home. I will always be grateful for that referral. I interviewed a few brokers, each one providing an appraisal and market analysis, and I commissioned another from an independent appraiser. All analyses set the same price. After interviews it was clear Marie would be the best choice. After considering the improvements made to the home, securing her preferred staging partner, and having us do a little bit of paint touch up, she priced the property a bit aggressively in hopes of creating a bidding war. She did. Two days following the open house, we had ten offers all over asking. The top two bidders were given an opportunity to enhance their offers. They did. We sold for 12% over the initial estimates, with no contingencies. From our first meeting with Marie to the last signatures of the closing, Marie was a partner to our family and as vested in the successful preparation, marketing, and finalization of the sale as were we. The sale or purchase of a home is an emotional experience. Marie combines all the training, expertise, experience, and cool professionalism of a powerhouse broker, with the openness, candor, kindness and support of a dear friend. This is a rare and valuable skill set providing her clients with the advantage of having the best of both worlds; a driven and successful professional able to make a real connection with sellers and buyers. I wholeheartedly recommend Marie, and will definitely use her again.

We've worked with Marie on two transactions: buying our home and selling a condo. If working with…read moreher a second time doesn't speak loudly enough, we've also referred her to several friends who have had worked with her. Why is she amazing? She has very deep knowledge of Newton and the areas she works in: local trends in the market, developers who are active, neighborhood differences. She's been quite patient with us when taking our time to decide what would work. She's very honest and plainspoken when she feels what's being asked isn't realistic. She's hyper organized and makes juggling the million steps and laws look easy. She's hyper connected to all the people you need... need a stager? Need an inspector to look things over? need a plumber urgently for a gas leak? She knows everyone and they take her call. But everyone who's been there knows what you really need sometimes is a pit bull, and Marie gets things done.

My wife and I purchased a home this past August in North Reading with the help of Debbie Miller. As…read morefirst time home buyers, it was very helpful to have a realtor as patient and informative as Deb. We always felt much more comfortable viewing a home with her by our side. We were also very appreciative of how she made herself available to us at any time if we had questions or needed to fill out paperwork. It was great working with Deb and we strongly recommend her to others. Oh and her website was the best we found for tracking real estate activity. It was nice being able to get daily email notifications on the towns we were considering.

Debbie is excellent! My husband and I were very picky at deciding a house; she was patient with us…read moreas we figured out what our needs were for a new home. She is very professional, trustworthy, informative and we enjoyed spending time with her. She helped us through the buying process and gave great advice for selling our condo, even though we sold to someone we knew she made herself available to us if we needed her. I highly recommend working with Debbie!

Lisa has been our trusted agent for our first home, our investment property and the sale of our…read morehome. She has been fantastic throughout our journey. Her attention to detail and communication has proven vital for our deals. Her professionalism and wealth of knowledge helped us through our first home and subsequent investment properties. I recommend her highly to anybody looking for a real estate investment.

My family has worked with Lisa several times to sell and buy homes. You get a custom, attentive,…read moreindividualized service from Zemack Real Estate. Lisa worked tirelessly to understand our needs and help us get the sale we were looking for and the house that could be our home. I cannot recommend them highly enough. I would call Lisa and Aby with any real estate needs - even just to run an idea by them.

Caroline recently helped my husband and I purchase our first home. We began the process back in…read moreMarch with a Redfin agent. We found a home we liked pretty quickly and decided to put in offer in. The process was less than desirable as we didn't have a sense from the agent if we were making a good decision or if our offer was going to be enough to get the house. We did not win the offer and decided to consider hiring a traditional real estate agent. That's when we found Caroline on Yelp. Our initial phone call was over an hour and it felt so natural. She got to know us, and told us about herself and the market. She had a good sense of what we were looking for in our range and assured us our house was out there. Caroline spent the next three months looking at houses with us every weekend, communicating with us by email/phone/text, and keeping us positive in the stressful process. While she has other clients she is working with, she always made us feel like we were her only clients. She would provide us with houses hitting the market within moments of them becoming available (often the same ones we were emailing her!) and insight into the neighborhoods and homes. She gave her honest opinion on the home itself and pricing to help us make an educated decision. She helped us maintain a positive outlook when the market seemed to be out of our favor. We came close to putting an offer on a few houses, but after hearing her insights decided to pass, which was ultimately the right decision. When we found our home, Caroline was honest about things that would need to be done, but also made us feel confident putting in an offer. She made the process easy to understand by reviewing our documents with us, coordinating with a mortgage lender, and negotiating on our behalf. She helped us select a trustworthy inspector and has recommended local businesses to do work on our home when the time comes. She is a one stop shop for all your home buying/renovating needs! Caroline has been in the business for over 30 years and grew up in this area so she knows it very well. She is the ideal agent for first time home buyers who are interested in being a part of the process every step of the way. My husband and I joked at the end of our search that we could be licensed agents with all she taught us. We have already recommended Caroline to friends who are interested in buying a home in the area and will continue to do so in the future. Thank you, Caroline, for all of your help! We are so happy to have found you and miss spending our weekends hanging out with you!

Update: We used Caroline again to buy our new house. Had another great experience! She was kind,…read morecompetent, and patient. It took a few months in a tough market, but we ended up in the perfect house. Happy to recommend her to anyone.

I want share my personal 5 star experience with this 5 star business. Most notably, the companies…read morepresident (our broker) Carmela Laurella along with two of her teamates that were of great help, Travis and Vito. It was August first this past summer when my wife and I decided we'd had enough of the sleepy suburbs and were ready to reconnect with the city we loved and spent most of our free time. We listed our home of 27 years and bingo, it sold in one day. Panic stricken, not prepared for such a quick sale, I contacted Carmela (I met her a year prior at an open house, liked her style and did some research on her and her company) and asked if we could meet as soon as possible. Long story short, she recommended that we look into short term lease options while we took our time finding our dream home. We followed her advice and wound up renting at Park Lane in the Seaport District-great place that deserves two thumbs up- on a short term three month lease that could have been extended if needed. We didn't need to.... Carmela sat my wife and I down at our initial meeting and listened as we described to her our 'must have' list in our soon to be dream home. Fast forward, we waited until after Labor Day to start our search as we needed time to pack up the old house and move into Park Lane....Carmela wasted no time finding four properties that met our requirements...........we bought the first home we were shown. We new it was to be as soon as we walked into the front door. She nailed it! Amazing! I thought we'd be looking for months as our criteria was not going to be an easy task for her to accomplish. The story continues.....I asked if she could recommend a mortgage broker..she said "I've got the best...Paul Sapienza of Drew Mortgage Associates"....he was dynamite! I also asked her if she could recommend a real estate attorney...she did, John Iacoi....a complete professional that made the headaches of real estate passing simplistic for both my wife and I that are just way too busy to be tied down to legal jargon. ***Do I add her recommended designer, painter and contractor? YOU BET!!! 5 star businesses have customer satisfaction down to a science, Carmela and her team get it and most importantly follow through....I could not have been more satisfied. My email that I sent her and her associates as we finished passing the papers read as follows: "Your high level of professionalism throughout this entire process was greatly appreciated. Together, you're quite a team!" Take my word, if you're looking for a new home along Boston's Waterfront, in my opinion, the only choice is Carmela's CL Waterfront Properties.

Top notch experience from the start! We had been searching for real estate in the area. One day…read morewhile walking by CL Waterfront Properties, a listing on the window peaked our interest. I went home and submitted an inquiry on their website. It was a Sunday night, so I wasn't expecting a response until at least Monday morning. To my delight, Carmela responded almost immediately and put us in touch with Chris Smith on the team. Chris scheduled an appointment with us to see our property of interest immediately. From there, we worked with Chris to see more properties in the North End. Chris was always very responsive and quick to set up appointments on our behalf. He was always very knowledgeable on all of the properties we viewed (and we ask a LOT of questions)! Although I was regularly searching Redfin and receiving daily alerts, Chris was a powerful 'secret weapon' proactively emailing us properties that fit our criteria. This extra research on our behalf was a real bonus, as the listings/photos don't always tell the full story. Searching for real estate in Boston can be a frustrating process and finding a responsive broker can be challenging (especially in this market!). I would highly recommend Chris Smith and the team at CL Waterfront. They truly cater to the needs of their prospects and their responsiveness always impressed us.

I've been working with Ivy since 2010 (total of 3 transactions and working on the 4th). She just…read morehelped us buy a home in Winchester MA and we could not have done it with any other agent, I am 100% sure of it. Ivy just knows the business inside and out and she knows how to negotiate and help her clients. She took a lot of time to help me and my fiance find the right home. In this transaction, she worked directly with the owner (who elected not to have an agent) and made this deal happen, not just for me, but for the original owner as well. In addition to being an utmost professional, Ivy is just a great person. She is kind, considerate and wants to help. Eric Levine works closely with Ivy and is the "man behind the scenes" who just makes things happen so you don't have to worry about it at all! One big thank you to him too! If you need help with real estate, talk with Ivy.

Our experience with Keller Williams was excellent. Max helped us find our first apartment in…read moreBoston, and we wouldn't have succeeded in finding everything we were looking for without Max's expertise of the market, first-hand insights of the neighborhood we were most interested in, and keen negotiating skills. My girlfriend and I had decided to move in together, and both got jobs in the city. We were nervous to move from western MA, because we knew that competition for places we could afford was tough. Craigslisting alone wouldn't cut it, but it was important to us to invest in a brokerage that had realtors that were personable, yet maintained a high standard for professionalism. Max exceeded all of our expectations. Once we had found our dream apartment in East Boston, Max went above and beyond and did everything in his power to make sure the place was ours. Needless to say, we are here today and are so happy we went through The Ivy Team. Max was very easy to work with, was very straightforward and transparent throughout the whole process, and embodied a perfect balance of friendliness and professionalism. We couldn't have had a more positive experience with a realtor!