Why Work With Us?

"Brenda has been a GREAT pleasure to work with! She is so professional and truly cares about her customers so much. Without her, we wouldn't have this chance to successfully purchase our house and enjoy it now. My whole family admire her professionalism and dedication in this process that makes our dream quickly come true! In our house purchasing process, she tries her best efforts to understand our needs, brings new opportunities to us based on her knowledge and expertise, extremely responsive to our questions and requests, stands with us all the time until achieving the best result possible at the end. We greatly appreciate her help and feel so fortunate to have her as our agent! If you want to purchase (or sell) a property, please contact Brenda. Believe me, you will feel fortunate later."

"My husband and I have been looking for a house for 2 years. Once we met Brenda she made it happen in 2 days. Now we are happy owners of a beautiful house in Newton. Brenda is an intelligent, professional, detail-oriented broker. We are so fortunate to have found Brenda and strongly recommend her."

"I have worked with Mrs. van der Merwe for the past four months on the sale of my home in Newton Center, MA, which is a suburb to Boston. I can tell you that she is the most professional and thorough person in Any profession or capacity that I have worked with. How can I say this after only four months? She sold my home within the first two weeks of having the listing and I was an out-of-town owner! In addition to this, after the sale she either helped me Directly, or she actually oversaw the details of the buyer's having access to see the house for details having to do with their future plans, helping me to bring the house up to state fire-code laws which were required for the closing, assisting me with finding someone to help with the sale of the contents of the house, going to the house when there was confusion about who was supposed to be doing what and when and I was in a state over a 3 hour flight away. Anytime I needed something I did not hesitate to call Ms. van der Merwe because I Knew that she would not hesitate to assist in any way that she could and with the best attitude and capability with which I have rarely had the opportunity to work."

"If you are looking for a wonderful real estate agent, stop looking - you found her! I cannot say enough about Brenda's professionalism, responsiveness and great advice. She was tremendously helpful in all aspects of this experience, from getting the property ready for sale through closing. Our property sold very quickly (within days) at a great price and I had multiple choices of good buyers. Brenda gave very sage advice as to how to navigate them all. Plus, she is just so nice that's she's always a pleasure to work with!! In short, she converted a potentially very difficult time into a seemless, painless experience. I highly recommend her."

"Brenda has been a joy and pleasure to work with from beginning to end. She turned a difficult situation into an easy one. Her immediate response to any situation proved her excellent professional skills.Thank-you Brenda for ALL that you did. We highly recommend Brenda if you need a real estate agent!!"

"I had the pleasure of working with Brenda for the sale of my condo in Brookline. At the time of the sale I was not living in Massachusetts, Brenda helped with many of the details that I was not able to deal with because of the distance. The sale was fast and smooth. She did a great job and I would highly recommend Brenda to help you sell or buy a condo or house in the Boston area."

"Brenda always conducts business in an extremely professional manner. I have had three different real estate transactions with Brenda. She was my Realtor in selling my two-family home in 2015. She gave us great advice about how to prepare the home so it showed its best assets and she was spot-on with respect to the asking price. The open house was widely advertised and hugely attended. I then rented a "transition" home through Brenda and she negotiated with the owner to allow me to be a tenant at will. This was helpful as I just purchased a new home, with Brenda as my Realtor. She knows all the right questions to ask and her guidance during the whole process was invaluable, making an extremely stressful process less so."

"Buying a home for the first time is not simple but for the very first time we met Brenda, we understood that she had the expertise and the resources to guide us through this first acquisition. Brenda is available virtually anytime. We can not recall a time where we had to wait for replies or feedback. Her knowledge of the market made us very confident about buying the property at the right price. But most impressive is her ability understand our needs and walk us through the entire process from visits to closing. Brenda is a pleasure to work with. We would definitely recommend Brenda."

"Brenda was a pleasure to work with. She has her hand on the pulse of the market in Newton, she is a great advocate for her clients, she works 24/7 for her clients, and she is always available via phone, text, or email throughout the selling process. Brenda made the selling process very easy for us, and helped us maximize our home value."

"The highest compliment I could give Brenda would be to recommend her to a friend who really needs the skills and abilities that Brenda has and this is exactly what I did. I would also highly recommend her to anyone who is selling their home. I'm sure that Brenda has not had many sellers as nervous and insecure as I was and I can only say that she has enough great reserves of patience that she kept me from having daily meltdowns throughout the entire process. Brenda also had the resources and knowledge to wade through the ridiculous amount of red tape that Newton throws a seller up against and to reduce them to manageable proportions. She knows the markets; she understands the buyers and she's unflappable. Brava, Brenda!"