When my wife Elissa and I decided to put our Newtonville, MA home on the market, we were pleased to meet with Brenda van der Merwe, a seasoned and highly successful Hammond Real Estate broker. From the first time that Brenda visited our home, she brought along a binder filled with current marketing information including statistics, pricing, demographics and more for our immediate and surrounding neighborhood in Newton. It was very clear that even for our introductory meeting, Brenda had invested considerable time and effort to prepare her presentation. When we toured the entire house together, Brenda quickly offered invaluable recommendations and practical suggestions and solutions that would help us prepare the house for sale at the best possible price. In addition to Brenda’s extensive knowledge and residential real estate experience we appreciated the fact that she lived around the…
When my wife Elissa and I decided to put our Newtonville, MA home on the market, we were pleased to meet with Brenda van der Merwe, a seasoned and highly successful Hammond Real Estate broker. From the first time that Brenda visited our home, she brought along a binder filled with current marketing information including statistics, pricing, demographics and more for our immediate and surrounding neighborhood in Newton. It was very clear that even for our introductory meeting, Brenda had invested considerable time and effort to prepare her presentation. When we toured the entire house together, Brenda quickly offered invaluable recommendations and practical suggestions and solutions that would help us prepare the house for sale at the best possible price. In addition to Brenda’s extensive knowledge and residential real estate experience we appreciated the fact that she lived around the corner and was thoroughly familiar with our neighborhood, including the type of buyer we would attract and an appropriate price point for our condo. From our first meeting, we appreciated Brenda’s warm and personable demeanor, and meticulous attention to all technical, legal and practical details to facilitate the best sale of our condo. Brenda is an excellent communicator and swiftly replied by phone, email or in person to any questions we had, or information we required. She introduced us to Mia Schofield, of ArtRoom Boston, a talented interior designer to help stage our home, and give it an inviting and attractive atmosphere to entice potential buyers of all ages. Brenda also introduced us to Leon Gelfand of Home Ready Solutions who from start-to-finish helped with moving furniture, packing, discarding, repainting and repairing and any miscellaneous tasks to prepare our condo for the Open House. We are confident that that Brenda’s years of experience contributed greatly to the successful and swift sale of our home. Moreover, we would enthusiastically recommend Brenda for her efforts, warm personality, extensive knowledge and countless proven successes and successful track record in residential real estate.
Brenda helped me find my first home, that met all my needs and wishes, within 2 weeks! She really listened to me and understood what I was looking for in a home, and did not waste my time with homes or neighborhoods that would not be a good fit for me and my daughter. She is the perfect combination of professional and personable. She is extremely knowledgeable about homes in general, from the home-buying process to maintaining a home after purchase, and specific details of the homes she showed me. Additionally, she gave me tips on how to manage the house, and connected me with her contacts for handy-man, flooring, vents, and more. I highly recommend working with Brenda if you are searching for a home.
I’ve worked with Brenda several times over the years when I was the appraiser assigned to one of her listings. She is incredibly knowledgeable, hard-working, thorough and honest. It’s always been a pleasure to work with Brenda and you should feel confident that you’re getting the best of the best when working with her.
Brenda helped us buy our home in Newton, MA. Being first time homebuyers and new to the neighbourhood, we really leaned on Brenda's expertise and knowledge. She is extremely resourceful in connecting us with all the services that we needed to close on the home. She's very responsive, professional, and we couldn't recommend her more.
Brenda was knowledgeable and effective every step of the process. She was extremely responsive, and her own extensive experience renovating houses was a great help for us evaluating the work we might need to do for the houses we seriously considered. She was also fun to work with. I would highly recommend Brenda to anyone looking for a house in Newton and surrounding areas.
She had a lot of knowledge of the area and of home construction so was able to advise us on possible improvements to the homes we considered purchasing. She responded quickly and thoroughly when we had questions.
Brenda was fantastic! She has a ton of knowledge of the local area that helped us find a home that met our needs. Also, as first time buyers, we are ignorant of many details of the process or even homeownership in general. Brenda was able to answer all of our questions. She was extremely responsive and easy to work with. I would definitely recommend her.
Brenda was a great asset to us as we moved from Chicago to Boston. We needed to decide quickly where we would settle our family in the greater Boston area. Brenda was most knowledgeable, resourceful, and patient. She truly listened to our priorities and responded accordingly with the properties she showed us. Brenda goes the "extra mile" to make it all happen. We are very grateful and would use her services again without a doubt!
My wife and I, along with my brothers, would like to thank you for acting as our agent in the successful sale of my mother's house over the past year - a job which turned out to be more involved and undoubtedly more frustrating than any of us anticipated at the start. We were impressed by your dedication to achieving a sale, with at least 18 open houses and 32 private showings before a serious buyer was found. The intricacies and complexities of this transaction made us appreciate the value of a professional realtor, and we feel that your commission was well earned. We enjoyed working with you and are glad to have chosen you and Hammond for this mission. I believe my mother would have been very pleased by the result.
"Dear Brenda, Thank you very much for all you did to assist us in finding our investment property. We couldn't have done it without you! Your expert advice & quick response to all of our questions were greatly appreciated. We couldn't be more pleased with the end result!, Also, thanks for the bottle of champagne. We love it! We look forward to continuing to work with you for our tenant search. We're keeping our fingers crossed & hope we can get the right tenants soon. Thank you again, for all your help!
I had the great pleasure to work with Brenda in selling our family home. Brenda is very professional and knowledgeable, and took us though the whole process with care and confidents. I highly recommend her to others who are in need for an excellent agent. I am looking forward to working with her again, when my son is looking for property in the near future.
Since I met Brenda, she took care of all my needs. She went straight to the point, when I was selling my condo in Newton. she was always on the top of everything. she is really a great seller/agent.
Brenda helped my mother sell her condominium and she was extraordinarily patient, knowledgeable, and reliable. At the time, my mother was in a nursing home for rehabilitation, and Brenda took care of a number of the loose ends that my mother was unable to address - and there were some highly significant loose ends, including critically important missing documents. Brenda put on her detective cap and found the missing documents AND tied up every loose end. The entire family was under a great deal of stress, but Brenda was calm, cool and collected! I cannot say enough positive words about Brenda.
I would unconditionally recommend Brenda van der Merwe. I've known her for 6 years and would not consider working with anyone else. I've worked with Brenda since buying my first property - she was very professional, had answers to all my questions, was extraordinarily patient and really impressed me with her calm personality, and thorough knowledge of the business. I really felt at all times that she had my best interests at heart. Since that first property, Brenda has helped me buy my second (both residential / investment properties in Cambridge) as well as helped me find and qualify tenants. She's great at her job, and is always available to answer my questions. I feel very lucky to have found her!
Brenda helped me and my cousins buy a two family house in Allston/Brighton in 2006. She was very thorough and knowledgeable; walking us first time buyers through the process. She worked tirelessly to ensure all of our questions and needs were met. 5 years later after the housing collapse in 2011, she worked even harder to help us sell our investment for MORE than we bought it for in the height of the housing market; a result that was unheard of given the state of market. Brenda has helped me on several occasions in regard real estate questions, even when she was not actively working with me. I would highly recommend Brenda and use her again.
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