Welcome to Humphrey Home Connections Realty
Humphrey Home Connections Realty LLC is Northern Nevada’s premiere boutique real estate brokerage, serving discriminating home buyers and sellers throughout the area. Looking for a home for sale in Reno, Sparks, or Lake Tahoe? Need to sell your current home, or wondering what it might be worth? Relocating to the Reno-Tahoe area? Wondering if this is a good time to purchase investment property? We welcome you to browse our website to your heart’s content. Search the MLS, review local sales data, or learn more about Northern Nevada, an outstanding place to call home! Our blog is updated frequently, covering timely topics in the local real estate market; come back often, or better yet, use the button on the home page to subscribe so you don’t miss an entry.
Our Philosophy:
Humphrey Home Connections was created in 2008 to fill a void in the Reno real estate brokerage business. Founding partner Linda Humphrey was looking for a comfortable brokerage to call home, and not finding a good match for her vision of real estate sales of the future. The old, so-called “bricks and mortar” brokerage model was hopelessly bogged down in the past. Cut rate brokerages seemed more interested in recruiting huge numbers of agents to maximize their own bottom line than in providing quality service to the community. Limited service brokerages, often out of town, provided no apparent service other than entry to the MLS. Many brokers, probably making similar observations, had created their own mom-and-pop operations in order to stay in business, but did not seem to have any clear focus. The need for a small, service-oriented and tech-savvy brokerage was clear.
What’s the problem with traditional real estate brokerage companies? For starters, high overhead. The need for multiple, large offices, with desks for every agent and equally large support staffs, has been an albatross around the necks of these companies, especially in our current market. Traditional advertising is expensive and not particularly effective. Large numbers of agents must be recruited in the hopes that some will be successful enough to keep the ship afloat. Quality control suffers. Often these companies have been in business for many years, and see no reason to change the way they operate.
Benefits For You From Using an HHC Agent:
The real estate agents of Humphrey Home Connections Realty are all carefully selected to provide the integrity, expertise and service expected by our professional clients. Creative, outside-the-box thinking is encouraged, constrained only by our high ethical standards.
Many of us are e-PRO certified, having received extensive training in use of the Internet and other modern technologies to assist our clients in achieving their goals. We are readily available by phone, email, or text message, and equipped with mobile offices that bring the transaction to you. No need to jump in your car and drive to the brokerage office; convenient for them, not so much for you! Further, it is no secret that most buyers are looking for real estate on the Internet, not thumbing through the phone book looking for a traditional brokerage. Let us show you how to position your home for sale so that it is presented to the maximum number of potential buyers in the best possible manner.
Are you a real estate investor, or thinking of diversifying your portfolio to include some real property? The agents of HHC are active real estate investors ourselves; we feel there has never been a more oportune time to buy investment property in our area. We would love to help you find and purchase a cash-flowing rental or potential rehab and resell investment.
Home buyers are increasingly interested in “green” features in their future homes. Several of our agents are Eco-Broker certified and prepared to assist you in evaluating not only the current eco-friendly and energy efficient features of the homes you visit, but also what cost-effective upgrades might be possible. Getting ready to sell your current home? A few inexpensive improvements might allow you to market to this growing group of consumers. We have connections throughout the Reno area with companies and builders offering green products and services and use many of these in our own homes.
As real estate experts in the Reno area, we would appreciate having the opportunity to show you why we think this is such a wonderful place to live. In the meantime, please feel free to use this website as a resource for all your Reno real estate needs, and if you have any additional questions, don’t hesitate to call one of us!
