Haute Residence hosted a second “Coast to Coast” real estate webinar, featuring four of the top agents in their respective markets: Cristal Clarke (Santa Barbara, CA), Darlene Streit (New Mexico), Chris Karas (Paradise Valley, AZ), and Sylvia Fragos (Aventura, FL), as part of the successful series of live conversations with industry experts, developers, agents, and brokers.
The webinar was hosted by Haute Living's Erik Haase. Watch it below.
About today's panelists:
Cristal Clarke: over $150 million in sales last year, ranked as the #1 agent in Santa Barbara, CA and #1 in all of California for Berkshire Hathaway
Darlene Streit: over $165 million in sales last year, ranking #1 in the state of New Mexico and #67 in the United States
Chris Karas: Founder of Launch, over $1 billion in career sales and the Paradise Valley, AZ record sale of $19 million last year
Sylvia Fragos: Owner of Great Estates in South Florida, has amassed over $500 million in career sales
Top left: Chris Karas, top right: Cristal Clarke, bottom left: Darlene Streit, bottom right: Sylvia Fragos
Highlight quotes:
Cristal Clarke: "The use of technology has been fantastic. Talking with one another (virtually) has been great and been very helpful. We have realized that maybe we weren't taking advantage of (technology) like we are now... A lot of clients are waiting to get on planes to get here. I'm advising them that if sellers want to list, to do it now. There are buyers that are out there."
Darlene Streit: "It's incredibly busy right now. A lot of people are getting ready to list, some are even listing now. And we have sold properties that we listed since the virus, of which three were without seeing the property, just using Facetime and Zoom."
Chris Karas: "People that were thinking of moving to Arizona have accelerated the move. We are looking forward to the second half of the year that we feel will be even busier... On top of the amazing technology of Matterport, videos and details, we are going old-school and getting back on the phone to really listen to our clients because that's one of the strongest tools that we can have."
Sylvia Fragos: "Creativity and flexibility are two key things for financing right now... The details become so important now as opposed to before when you could walk someone through with anyone. Now you have to have an acute level of detail to get to your clients; to get every question answered; to not miss anything."
Watch previous Haute Residence webinars with agents, brokers, developers, and other industry leaders here.
