We advise before we agent.
Most firms earn when you transact. We earn a flat consulting fee for the first sixty days — whether or not you ever sign. It changes the conversation.
Eleven people. No junior agents. No franchise.
Four movements. Never more than four.
Discover
Two long conversations. We learn your life, not just your budget. Neighborhoods walked together, at dusk and at 8am.
Diligence
A written property dossier — comps, structural notes, zoning, tax trajectory. You receive it bound, not forwarded.
Deal
Negotiation as craft. We represent one side only per transaction — never dual agency, ever.
Deliver
Keys, contractor introductions, a twelve-month check-in. The relationship outlasts the close.
A portfolio, not a search feed.
Sold · Q2
Mandate
Sold · Q1
Purchased
They told us not to buy the first one. That sentence paid for itself twice over.
Elena walked the block with me at 7am on a Tuesday before she'd take us on. I understood immediately this wasn't a brokerage.
My father was a builder. He taught me that the house outlasts the sale.
CreateReal exists because every firm I worked at before this one measured the wrong thing. We measure mandates declined, client letters received, and twelfth-month check-ins completed. If that sounds slow, it is. It is also the only way I know how to do this honestly. — Elena Marchetti, Founding Principal
Begin with a conversation, not a contract.
Initial consultations are ninety minutes and held in person at our Cobble Hill studio or by appointment in Milan.