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Dealer Highlight: Vanessa Bergmark, Purple Oak Realty

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Editorial Board Published August 23, 2024
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What do you would like extra individuals knew about working in actual property? Inform us about an epic fail you’ve skilled because you’ve been a dealerHow did you select your brokerage? What makes a great chief? What’s one factor you would like each agent knew? 

Learn the way this Bay Space dealer and her one hundred pc woman-owned brokerage create distinctive outcomes and supply award-winning service.

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“As far as brokerage size goes, we are on the smaller size with only four office locations and 160 agents. Yet we have a big voice, and we aren’t afraid to use it,” CEO Vanessa Bergmark writes about Purple Oak Realty. “Every agent and staff member speaks up when it comes to local politics, community planning and real estate industry standards. You don’t have to be big to think big and speak confidently. Great things come in small packages.”

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Because the trade modifications and a few fashions turn into out of date, Bergmark mentioned that Purple Oak Realty resides proof that “high-touch human support” continues to be related for actual property transactions.  “Our high staff-to-agent ratio continues to support our agents in every aspect of the transaction, and in doing so, increases their productivity, close ratio and local market rankings that prove we outperform much of the competition.”

Discover out why Bergmark says “you can have a huge heart, and still run a savvy, influential business” and the way her brokers create and honor excessive requirements for themselves, their employees, brokers, shoppers and neighborhood.


Identify: Vanessa Bergmark 

Title: CEO and proprietor 

Expertise: 21 years 

Location: East Bay area of the San Francisco Bay Space 

Brokerage full title: Purple Oak Realty 

Rankings: No. 158 impartial brokerages, RealTrends 2023 

Group measurement: 160 

Transaction sides: 886 (2023), 501 (by way of July 2024)

Gross sales quantity: $997,588,510 (2023), $613,247,482 (by way of July 2024)

Awards: Greatest brokerage in Oakland Journal, East Bay Occasions, El Cerrito and Richmond Chambers of Commerce 

What do you would like extra individuals knew about working in actual property? 

It’s a advanced profession. It’s a lot extra about individuals than homes. Understanding homes isn’t a prerequisite, however understanding individuals is. Don’t underestimate your duty. Your shoppers’ property, their future, are in your palms. Maintain them. 

Inform us about an epic fail you’ve skilled because you’ve been a dealer

After I first began out working a brokerage, my former accomplice and I cut up the duties. I ran entrance of the home — gross sales, coaching, recruiting, deal doctoring — and he ran again of the home — ops and finance. I believed this created efficiencies and that I didn’t have to have private oversight of our funds. Mistaken!

It doesn’t matter what, it’s on the CEO or proprietor to know what’s going on with regards to the funds of the enterprise. A couple of dangerous turns can decimate an organization. For those who care about your brokers and employees, your brokerage sustainability, then you must at all times be being attentive to the financials.

Know the place your flaws are, and transfer shortly to right them. For those who’re not working the accounting, that’s fantastic, but it surely’s no excuse to disregard that area. Keep engaged. The success of your organization is dependent upon it. 

How did you select your brokerage? 

I labored at a big franchise for a couple of years earlier than I interviewed with the unique founders of Purple Oak. I assumed again then that an impartial native model wouldn’t provide me the assets or the attain I suspected I wanted for a profitable profession.

I bought uninterested in touring to a headquarters midway throughout the continent, particularly as soon as my kids had been born. I felt disconnected from the message and compromised in my capability to encourage others when explaining it.

After I made the transfer over to Purple Oak, so many extra alternatives opened up. I had permission to get inventive with the model, our message, our relationship with the area people — all of which typically will get buried below a much bigger, nationwide model. Now virtually 18 years later, I nonetheless really feel the identical manner. 

What makes a great chief? 

Somebody who’s keen to inform the reality, even when it’s troublesome. Somebody who conjures up their group to make use of their voice and convey their creativity and their ardour to the job. Somebody who can admit once they make a mistake, is aware of when altering their thoughts is an efficient factor and might personal their failures, not solely their successes. 

What’s one factor you would like each agent knew? 

The way to transact on this new world. There are plenty of modifications and little or no course offered from the associations on adopting new requirements. Every brokerage goes to do it otherwise, at the least for some time. I want us all luck. It’s going to make for an fascinating fall housing market.

E mail Christy Murdock

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