Special Real Estate Edition
The SMILE That NEVER QUITS Northwest Florida Real Estate Stays Strong
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n a highly uncertain time for businesses across the world with the coronavirus pandemic shutting many doors and putting many livelihoods on pause, it’s a welcome relief to hear that the real estate market along Northwest Florida’s Gulf Coast seems to have been largely unaffected. If anything, local real estate brokers and agents are seeing more activity in the spring of 2020 than they might even have predicted at the beginning of the year. For Linda Miller Real Estate, a boutique luxury real estate brokerage along Scenic Highway 30-A, May 2020 was a stellar month, with $15 million in real estate under contract.
We caught up with Linda Miller and her team to discuss the market trends and how the solid spring numbers for real estate along the Gulf Coast could mean a ray of hope for the community as a whole. VIE: First, we want to congratulate you on opening your own boutique brokerage, Linda Miller Real Estate, last year! What has set you and your team apart from other firms in the area, and what have you learned from opening your own business in the past several months? Linda Miller: Thank you! I think the biggest thing that sets my brand apart is that we are a boutique firm. We offer whiteglove service to our clients through building close relationships with them and maintaining those relationships for years. They can call me up any time and ask any question and I’ll answer with a smile—that is my brand, and I live it every day. I’m not just a robot type of realtor with a huge conglomerate behind me that has its own agenda to follow for every transaction. My whole business has been built on relationships. I’ve been living and embodying the lifestyle along 30-A and selling this market for over twenty-two years, so I can be that “hometown” realtor at the beach for my clients. It’s such a more approachable way to do business and I’m truly able to provide guidance and expertise for my customers as their trusted advisor. Many of them become my good friends. VIE: Being that “hometown” realtor means not only working along Scenic Highway 30-A but also embodying the whole lifestyle of the area. What does that mean to you, and what do you love most about it?
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