Luxury and waterfront
The lake is a different market.
Lake Austin is a constant-level lake; Lake Travis is a flood-control reservoir that rises and falls. That one difference changes the price, the dock, the survey and the negotiation, and it is the first thing Tosca explains to a waterfront buyer. She has sold Rob Roy waterfront (4 Humboldt Lane), Lake Austin estates (1502 Rockcliff Road, 4501 Mantle Drive) and Costa Bella on Lake Travis (204 Bella Vista Cove).
For sellers at this level she runs the Coldwell Banker Global Luxury program: the Global Luxury listing network, professional photography and video, and the international reach of the brand, on top of the printed marketing she has used for three decades. Private showings for qualified buyers only.
Lake Austin · Lake Travis · Which lake?
Buying
Neighborhood first, house second.
Her current site says it plainly: work with the team and you are more likely to find the home that meets all your criteria, in less time, with up-to-date market information and a skilled negotiator on your side. In practice the first outing is a drive through Westlake, Tarrytown, the lake roads and downtown so the second outing is only houses that fit.
Then the parts that go wrong when nobody is watching: the offer terms, the inspection, repairs, appraisal and closing. Reviews from first-time buyers on Google and Yelp describe closing on the date they wanted, on the house they wanted.
The neighborhoods · What buyers said
Selling
From pricing strategy to the wire.
Timing, preparation, marketing, closing. She helps you set a pricing strategy, walks you through the appraisal, gives staging direction and tells you which repairs and renovations are worth doing before the sign goes up. Marketing runs through Coldwell Banker, the most visited real estate brand online by the brand's own ComScore figures, plus open houses and individual tours for qualified buyers.
When the offer comes, she tells you whether to take it. Her MLS sold feed runs to 47 pages.
How a Westlake listing gets sold · Portfolio
Executive relocation
CMRS certified, since the Cendant days.
The Cendant Mobility Referral Specialist certification covers exactly what a transfer needs: researching communities for a family that has never lived here, locating the destination home on a compressed schedule, coordinating with the relocation company's requirements and settling the family in afterward.
Executive relocation has been on her card since the 1990s. If your company uses a relocation management firm she works inside the program; if it does not, she runs the move the same way.
How a relocation runs
