Why Work With Us?

“Barrie is very warm, responsive and a pleasure to work with. She was helpful in coordinating our condo sale and home purchase and patient throughout the process. She provided thorough market analysis to support the pricing of our existing property and negotiation of our home purchase. We also appreciate that Barrie was very willing to share her extensive list of service and tradespeople who we have found to be of a high caliber at reasonable prices. She has extensive knowledge and relationships, which we found to be very helpful.”

“Barrie made the house purchase easy and friendly. As first-time buyers we had no clue regarding the process and Barrie was attentive and relaxing. She guided us through the stages of the purchase, gave us great advice and knew exactly the right professionals that needed to be brought in at any stage. She is highly familiar with greater Boston real estate market and the different regulations and trends.”

"Buying and selling in the middle of a pandemic was challenging. Barrie skillfully helped us navigate the process from all aspects, including managing the sale, home marketing, pricing, and then helping us purchase our new home and negotiating with the seller and appraisal. This is the second time Barrie helped us buy and sell and she was always there for the big and small details with everything from finding the best landscaper to negotiating the best deal. Barrie's experience and expertise in what she does is why we turned to her a second time and we would absolutely recommend her!"

"Barrie is wonderful to work with. In addition to the criteria for your 5-star rating, she is a lovely, honest person who listens to what you want and helps you refine your needs and expectations. Barrie is completely trustworthy, calm and never pushy. I recommend her without reservation. Barrie is the best!"

"Barrie provided us with very accurate assessment of the local market, including recent and relevant comps in her analysis. She provided constructive evaluation of our home so that we could address items that would put the house in best position to appeal to the broadest selling demographic, especially during late fall -- not the optimum time for selling a house. She was extremely responsive and reliable, and helped us sell our house very quickly. She was honest and very easy to work with. We recommend her highly."

"Barrie was fabulous in every way. She is warm, non-judgmental, has a great sense of humor and perspective and is fully engaged and responsive. She knows the community, (both sellers and potential buyers). She is honest, makes the process transparent and straightforward and she has expertise and resources in all the requisite areas so as to get the best price with the least hassle. All in all, I can't recommend her highly enough."

"Working with Barrie was a wonderful experience -- moving into the competitive Cambridge market (and house-hunting at times from abroad) was very intimidating, and Barrie helped us navigate the process in every way imaginable. She took the time to listen carefully to our needs, and to get to know our tastes and quirks as we looked at multiple properties, arranging things with great flexibility to fit our complicated schedules and limited chances to visit in person. She gave us thoughtful, tailored advice on all aspects of the process, from looking to bidding to purchasing. The more we interacted with other agents, the more we were convinced that Barrie was the right choice: knowledgeable and responsive, outgoing and proactive, patient and understanding, encouraging and optimistic, all tempered with realistic and sage advice about the rapidly-changing market and a great feel for the negotiations on properties that were getting multiple offers in the first week. In so many ways she went above and beyond what we would expect -- we are very happy to recommend her enthusiastically (and have already done so). If we sell or buy again, we will turn to her."

"I feel so lucky that we found Barrie- she was indispensable both for helping us buy our home in Newton and helping us get the best possible price when a job change moved us out of state. When we were searching for our home, it was clear she knew the Newton market quite well, and her advice was always spot-on. When we finally found the perfect home for us, she quickly figured out what we needed to do to put our offer over the top. And when we sold, we had offers at 5-10% over asking price. We've used 2 other Realtors (in other markets) and while they were friendly and helpful, neither matched Barrie for responsiveness, negotiation skills, and advice."

“From the very beginning of the process, Barrie made us feel we were in excellent hands for the sale of our condo. This could have been a stressful time, but she took all stress away. She provided personal and knowledgeable support from the beginning to the closing. Barrie listened to us, truly heard what we were saying, and moved us steadily to our goals. It was a pleasure to work with her.

“We would highly recommend Barrie to anyone looking to sell a property.”

“I told my husband I was going to leave a testimonial for Barrie and said that I assumed he had no objection. His immediate, unguarded response was: ‘I LOVE Barrie. She’s been great!’ That pretty much sums it up, but here’s some detail. We have used Barrie for two simultaneous home sale and home purchase episodes, in 2012 and 2018. They involved four properties in Brookline, Newton and Winthrop. We got well over our asking price on the sales, received expert information about the neighborhoods we wanted to purchase into, and she handled all negotiations in a firm but professional manner. Super responsive and friendly. We never considered anyone else for our 2018 transactions given our experience with her in 2012. I recommend her without qualification, and anyone deciding to work with her is in for a real treat.”