We used Lauren Schaffer for the 2019 purchase and 2023 sale of our Brooklyn condo. It was our first time purchasing a home and Lauren was great at guiding us through the process. We enjoyed working with her so much that we used her to list and sell our condo in 2023. She put together a market analysis to help us come up with a pricing strategy and listing price. The strategy worked and we got numerous offers and a final sale price that was higher than we were expecting. Lauren is a joy to be around and great at what she does. If you are buying or selling in NYC I highly recommend working with Lauren.
Lauren is an incredible broker and we cannot recommend her enough! She’s knowledgeable about the market and process and makes you feel very comfortable as you make decisions. Her attention to detail and focus on making sure you are educated on the process, makes for a great experience! If you’re looking to buy or sell, definitely work with Lauren!
This was our first time buying in the city, and we are so grateful to Lauren for her guidance throughout the process! She was attentive to what we wanted in terms of price and building requirements. She gave us the time to look until we found something we loved as she was genuinely invested in us being happy with the purchase! During the buying process, she ensured that we were prepared for the many details that needed to be completed (unique to the city). Her knowledge of the processes was phenomenal, and she was able to steer us through all of the steps. We highly recommend her to anyone looking in the city. She does her homework and is a pleasure to work with while looking for your perfect place!
Working with Lauren on our first home-buying experience was a great one. We started with a really helpful few days of exploring different building types in various neighborhoods to help us establish a baseline and narrow down exactly what we wanted in our home. She then walked us through each step of the search process, what to look for, and how to make a final decision. She supported us through several offers and negotiations and eventually helped us land our dream place. We trusted her judgment and expertise completely and felt supported throughout the entire process. We are really grateful for all of Lauren's guidance!
Lauren completely understood us and what we were looking for. She did not waste any time finding us a diamond in the rough and advising us on the best strategy to get what we wanted. While incredibly knowledgeable, she knows when to reach out to an expert to jump in and has all the right contacts. We would gladly recommend her to any friends or family in the future.
Speaking on behalf of my husband and myself, I say with confidence that we would not have had a successful home purchase process if we weren't working with Lauren. Before we formally started working together, we knew that Lauren was a phenomenal human and someone that we could trust wholeheartedly, because her best friends from college are my husband's best friends from childhood. That connection made our partnership feel more like a friendship from day 1, and it most certainly grew into a bona fide friendship over time. This level of trust and comfort was huge to us, especially after we'd had a few experiences getting to know brokers who were overly sales-y, aggressive, and more focused on getting a deal…Speaking on behalf of my husband and myself, I say with confidence that we would not have had a successful home purchase process if we weren't working with Lauren. Before we formally started working together, we knew that Lauren was a phenomenal human and someone that we could trust wholeheartedly, because her best friends from college are my husband's best friends from childhood. That connection made our partnership feel more like a friendship from day 1, and it most certainly grew into a bona fide friendship over time. This level of trust and comfort was huge to us, especially after we'd had a few experiences getting to know brokers who were overly sales-y, aggressive, and more focused on getting a deal done than our home-buying objectives. Our first meeting with Lauren was in July 2018, after we shared our high-level goals with her and admitted that we weren't 100% committed to buying. Ever the gracious partner, Lauren chose a quiet bar near my office for us to meet, and we spent over an hour chatting about the market and getting an overview of how the home-buying process works in NYC, which is a unique real estate market to say the least. Lauren could probably tell that we weren't committed to buying and were at the very early stages of our search, and she reiterated multiple times that there was no pressure for us to do anything or work with her, but that we could always consider her a resource, regardless of what path we chose to go down. It wasn't until Christmastime that we eventually reached back out to Lauren, after seeing some apartments on our own that we liked but feeling in the dark in terms of how to bid, best practices, etc. Lauren literally answered our call over Christmas break while at home with her family and quickly set up a full-day agenda of places for us to see the first week of January when sellers and brokers were back from the holiday break. The itinerary was thoughtfully and strategically planned, starting in Brooklyn Heights, then up to the West Village, and then ending on the UWS (the three neighborhoods that we were focused on). She accompanied us to all of the apartments and gave her candid feedback - good and bad - on each spot. Lo and behold, it was on that day that we found our new home! The bidding process was exceptionally stressful for my husband and me, as we didn't initially have a good sense of whether the apartment we wanted was "a good deal." Lauren counseled us (in more ways than one!) through this process and helped us land at a price that we felt comfortable with and was a winning number. She also forged a strong working relationship with the seller's broker, which brought more transparency and intention to the process, and helped remove all of the guesswork and "games" that can sometimes happen. Once our offer was accepted, Lauren pretty much took over the process, efficiently collecting our personal information and putting together the monstrous board package (over 1,000 pages!) with super close attention to detail. She did not want any careless mistakes to delay the process or hurt our chances of getting approved by the Board. When the Board interview finally happened, Lauren coached us on how to navigate that process, and we were relieved when the Board told us at the end of our interview that they planned to approve us. It's also worth mentioning that Lauren was consistently positive, upbeat, friendly, solution-oriented, super responsive, super accountable, and helpful in every way throughout the process. We would absolutely welcome the opportunity to work with Lauren again when the time comes. It was a joy and a pleasure partnering with her, and we miss her now that the process is over
Lauren’s real estate business spans across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens where she enthusiastically partners with her clients to buy, sell, and rent homes. Contact her today!
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