Johanna Dueren, Circa Properties, Inc.

Johanna was amazing. This is my second time working with her looking to buy a property. She is prompt, honest, and I truly believe is interested in looking for what fits my needs. She goes above and beyond to ensure a smooth transition into ownership. I would have no hesitation recommending her to anyone looking to buy a property. I assume she is equally excellent as a sellers agent as well. I plan to continue to use her in the future.

Johanna is by far the best around. She has helped my family find and successfully purchase 4 homes over the past 3 years. She is the perfect blend of prompting and follow through. No pressure - but a gentle nudge when necessary. She understood our needs perfectly and found homes for myself and my grown children, so quickly. Her personality is upbeat, and you feel like you've made a lifelong friend. She is professional without being stuffy, she is responsive without be a pest. She is knowledgeable and efficient, with great negotiating skills.

Johanna is the absolute best! She is outgoing, open and always makes herself available. She is the perfect balance of professional and friendly. I was shopping for my first house and had very specific needs. I had no idea what I was suppossed to do or look for; she guided me flawlessly. She listened carefully and patiently. Not once did we view a home that wasn't within my parameters, and we saw a lot of them! I recomend her to everyone looking for a place. Thanks, Johanna!

I recently sold my condo in St Louis and Johanna Dueren was my agent. She did a phenomenal job! I was a bit nervous about listing my home in late December as it seemed to be a non-traditional time to sell a home, but Johanna gave me some great tips on how to move my place quickly. She also connected me with numerous awesome service professionals to help me finish my task list prior to my first showing. Johanna and her team were always professional, engaged in the process and kind --- a combination that is hard to find in real estate. I felt like my sale was the most important thing on their plate -- and that was appreciated. Ironically, shortly after selling my home, two friends contacted me as they were relocating to St Louis from out of state. I recommended Johanna to them and within two days of meeting her, they had an offer for new build construction accepted. They were so appreciative of my recommendation to work with Johanna and I know you would be too! Thank you, Jo!!!

Fantastic! Johanna has been my realtor from my first home (bought and sold through her) and my second home. In addition, my friends have bought a house with her, my sister and her husband and now my mother is looking for a home. All of us chose Johanna and Circa because of the way we were treated. I can't explain how incredibly personable, practical and at ease Johanna's approach is. We love doing business with her and feel that we can truly trust her!

Johanna and Circa Properties are a pleasure to work with! I’ve worked with Johanna in 3 separate transactions (both buy and sell side) that went very smooth and couldn’t recommend her more highly. She is incredibly responsive and always there to gently guide you to the next step of the process. She seems more like your good, spunky, fun friend that you’ve known for years rather than your everyday realtor. Most importantly she gets the job done as efficiently and cleanly as you could possibly ask leaving you satisfied with the deal and price paid / price sold for your property. Johanna is the best! A+ recommended!! You will love working with her or anyone else at Circa!

Johanna was my buyer's agent during the adventure of purchasing my first home; I couldn't have asked for a better agent. Her knowledge of Saint Louis neighborhoods was invaluable: she greatly informed my thinking on where I wanted to live. She got to know my preferences well and was great at coming up with listings to visit. We finally found the perfect place and viewed it on the first day it was on the market. Even though we showed up pretty early in the morning, my offer was the third or fourth in line that day (the place was /that/ amazing). One memorable thing about that day is me telling Johanna how high I would go on price and her actually talking me down a bit to make sure that I wouldn't overpay (as opposed to just making the higher offer and pocketing the extra commission). She got me through the ensuing bidding war, with me coming out on top. She was helpful after the purchase with general advice for a first time homebuyer as well. Fast forward a few years to the point where I have to move to a new city for work. After renting my place out for a year, I decided to sell. Once again, I found myself in the capable hands of Johanna Dueren. She made the selling process so easy, especially considering that I was 600 miles away throughout the entire ordeal. Once we had a serious offer, she took care of all the things that I was worried would require me to fly back to Saint Louis like coordinating all of the minor repairs and touch-ups requested by the buyers. I was expecting the process to be harder; I was still waiting for the next thing to do when I noticed a big sum of cash landing in my bank account and a note from Johanna telling me, "That's it!" Whether you're buying or selling, Johanna is a fantastic agent that will work with you to get the job done. I can’t recommend her strongly enough!

Jo is great!!!

Johanna Dueren at Circa Properties provided me with an excellent experience when selling my condo. She helped me purchase my condo four years prior. During the purchase phase, she always made her self available in a timely manner to get me into the properties I wanted to see. She also helped by providing me comparable sales to get an idea on the reasonableness of the asking price and to help me figure out what asking price fit my budget best. She helped me through the entire process from inspection to closing. Throughout the last four years, she kept in touch during the holidays. This made me feel like a valued client, as it was clear she valued the client relationship rather than just the commission. Given that great experience, it was a no brainer for me to list my condo with her when I was moving. Again, Johanna helped me navigate this process and did a great job of alleviating any anxiety in the process. She provided email reminders of things I should be expecting or doing, which was greatly appreciated. My condo was under contract within two weeks for full asking price! I love the Circa Properties branding and marketing as well. The orange For Sale sign outside my condo really caught the eye compared to a neighbor whose realtor used a very boring and plain looking white sign. I will definitely use Johanna again in the future for any real estate needs in the St. Louis area. I have referred her to friends, who have purchased homes through her and also had great experiences.

She encouraged me to list for a higher price than I thought I would get and the house sold withing 24 hours! Couldn't be happier as the seller!

I live two hours away, and Johanna was very accommodating to my schedule. She made the purchase and closing of my condo a breeze. She is very experience and was always on top of the situation, but she's never pushy. She's the best real estate agent, and it was a pleasure working with her.

We had a great experience, which is saying a lot given that our house was a and quot;short saleand quot; and ironically, was probably was the
longest sale from contract to closing in the history of humankind (thankyouverymuch US Bank). During the 6 to 8 months it took for us to close on our house, Johanna was consistently responsive to all our calls and continued to help us look for another house in case the short sale fell through. She is very knowledgeable in her field and we would definitely use her again!

Johanna helped me with buying my first home in August 2013. I would have been so lost had I not had her guide me through the process. Buying a home for the first time can be intimidating, but Johanna made it easy and stress free. She is very friendly and personable and extremely knowledgable of the real estate market in the St. Louis area. She was very patient in showing me different properties and never put any pressure on me to find a place. She is also very responsive and will promptly respond to any questions or concerns you may have along the way (as well as follow up questions even after the process is completed). She was wonderful to work with and I would recommend her to anyone looking to get into the St. Louis real estate market or selling a place here in St. Louis. I will definitively be using her again whenever I plan to sell my current home (in which she helped me buy).

Johanna, helped me purchase my first home. I decided to contact her based on several great reviews. I am very pleased to say that I'm so happy that I was able to work with her. She is very very helpful, knowledgeable, easy going and genuinely kind. She would not let me just settle on any old house and made sure when I found the perfect house she would seal the deal but only if it was in my best
interest. She went above and beyond on my behalf and never made me feel as if it was a problem. I would use her in the future and recommend her to anyone looking for a Realtor.

Johanna was so great to work with through all phases of buying, or building as was our case, a home. For us, as first time buyers, she made everything so simple and straightforward. Her knowledge of the neighborhoods in STL was invaluable, and she made this a fun experience. There was no stress involved.
She has a network of professionals that are used for all aspects of home buying, from surveyors to mortgage brokers. All were great to work with.
We recommend Johanna to other people at any opportunity we get and will continue to do so. If we ever need real estate help in the future, she will be the first person we call. In fact, we still call her when we have questions concerning home projects or improvements. We consider her a friend, who happens to know about real estate :)

We interviewed several agents and companies prior to deciding to put our home on the market. With the referral of a friend, we gave Johanna a call at Circa Properties. At the time, we never heard of this agency, and were skeptical of not going with the bigger known agencies. Johanna not only blew us away with her personality and knowledge of the current market conditions in our neighborhood, but Circa Properties had by far the best plan of attack and tools for selling our home. Johanna mentioned several and quot;opportunitiesand quot; to consider upgrading or repairing before we put the house on the market that would not and quot;break the bankand quot;. In turn, these led to eye-catching bullet points for our posting. There was no sugar coating and Johanna was up front and honest with all details of the process.

With the success we experienced while selling our home, we also chose Johanna and Circa to help us purchase a new home. Johanna treated us like her number one priority and was always just a phone call away no matter how picky or time consuming we had become. She was relentless in finding us our dream home while making the whole process quite enjoyable. Not only did we get our dream home, we also gained a true friend that we still have contact with after the fact.

I would recommend Johanna and Circa Properties to anyone looking to dive into the Real Estate market, especially if the source or destination is in the city of St. Louis. The expertise, professionalism, and personalities are second to none.

Johanna helped us purchase our townhouse four years prior to us selling it, so we knew we would use her again. (We still loved our home, but needed more space for our growing family.) She walked us through the process of selling, since this was our first home and our first sale. She made everything easy--she's very responsive to emails or phone calls and we could do a lot of the document signing online, which made everything go smoothly and more quickly. Once we had an offer and went through all the inspections we made a few fixes to our home and it was closed!

She was also great when we wanted to go out looking at new houses; she set up showings and since we didn't know exactly what we wanted, she helped us narrow down what we liked/didn't like. This process went a lot faster than I thought it would b/c we found a house and moved rather quickly on the offer (we put an offer down less than 24 hours after we visited the home) and worked with the sellers, which was a relocation company, so we knew they were looking for a specific number and we went in below asking and they accepted...no counters! The inspection process went rather smoothly and Johanna did everything to ease our mind through the 30 day closing process. Our loan wasn't the easiest part because they needed so much information b/c we still owned our first home, but like I said, Johanna reassured us along the way. Buying/Selling a home can be really stressful, but having someone like Johanna in your corner REALLY helps!!