Houston actual property veteran Haley Garcia has taken her seven-person staff to Keller Williams. Garcia was with Compass from 2018 to early 2023 and generated $205.5 million in gross sales quantity throughout her final two years with the brokerage.
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Texas-based franchisor Keller Williams continues its recruiting streak with Compass Houston founding member Haley Garcia taking her seven-member staff to Keller Williams Luxurious The Woodlands.
Haley Garcia
“As a frontrunner in luxurious actual property, the partnerships Keller Williams presents with The Wall Road Journal, Mansion World, and plenty of others improve publicity for my purchasers,” Garcia mentioned of the transfer in a ready assertion. “As a big actual property staff, in addition they present construction and expertise constructed for big city-wide groups that different companies don’t. They offer us the infrastructure to develop into a number of markets which provides nice worth for our purchasers.”
Garcia has greater than twenty years of gross sales expertise which features a nine-year stint at Coldwell Banker earlier than leaving to create a boutique brokerage, the Garcia Actual Property Group. Garcia bought the brokerage in 2011 and two years later created an actual property staff below the identical title that served luxurious patrons and sellers within the Houston metroplex.
Her seven-person staff’s success caught the attention of Compass leaders who tapped Garcia to turn into one of many founding members of their Houston operations. Throughout her final two years at Compass, Garcia’s staff accomplished 318 transactions value $205.5 million — a manufacturing scale that earned her staff high-ranking spots on Houston Enterprise Journal’s and RealTrends America’s Finest’s lists for actual property groups.
Though Garcia skilled immense success at Compass, she mentioned the brokerage’s degree of assist post-IPO started to say no and pushed her to look elsewhere.
“I’ve nice pals and nice respect for Compass and its mission, and I’m grateful for my time with them,” she advised Inman. “Nevertheless, as soon as the corporate went public, assets for big groups modified. At this stage of my profession, with a big consumer base and a staff to look after, the stable basis with long-time confirmed leads to the posh area that KW presents made them an ideal match.”
Garcia mentioned the chance to hitch Keller Williams got here proper on time as her brokers navigate a altering actual property market.
“The brand new shifting market presents alternatives with restricted stock that stay within the vendor’s favor,” she mentioned. “Consumers are navigating greater charges; nonetheless, profitable a proposal on a property with a major location in The Woodlands is robust when a refinance will be had sooner or later.”
“Proper now, we’re centered on serving our purchasers based mostly on their targets with out worry and talking the reality about how we navigate the shift in accordance with their targets,” she added. “Many brokers new to the market up to now two years can be unable to maintain because of the shift. Nevertheless, they’ll be a part of a stable staff with a powerful basis of 20-plus years of coaching and training to assist them develop their new profession.”
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