Yeonas & Shafran Real Estate

It has been great. Their agent, Radford Koerner, does everything. He is the most amazing real estate agent. He has helped with every rental, renovations, finding the right people for renovations, and selling the houses.

The house search was long and intimidating, but Dean made it look straightforward. It was a good learning opportunity from beginning to end. Dean helped us define our lists of must-have and nice-to-have features, the geographical area of interest, and then he showed us houses which covered a wide spectrum of types, prices, and neighborhoods, all within our initial criteria. After a dozen or so, we ended up tweaking and narrowing down our initial list of features and finally found a house that we liked a lot and put an offer on.
In the negotiation process that followed, Dean demonstrated his acumen and extensive knowledge again. He represented our interests very well and was able to break the stalemate we were in at a certain point, due to Seller's price expectations that weren't really aligned with the market. Dean scheduled a direct meeting with the sellers and their agent, during which he defended our counteroffer using compelling arguments. Shortly after that meeting, the sellers accepted our counteroffer (which in fact differed by very little from our initial one) and everything followed smoothly from there.
Overall, we appreciated not only Dean’s professionalism, punctuality, and extensive knowledge about the real-estate market and its workings, but also Dean’s acutely practical nature, and ability to always recommend the course of action that was in our (buyer’s) best interest. Particularly appealing to us was that he listened well, never pressured us in any way and only provided information, options and objective advice, proving to be an excellent strategist in dealing with the sellers and their agent.
Dean is a professional whom we'd be happy to ask for real estate assistance in the future. We recommend him wholeheartedly.