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ECHO’s Origin Story
The first thing to know about ECHO Fine Properties is how and why we earned a reputation as a unique Real Estate Brokerage firm. From our beginning, we focused on building the highest level of Customer Care and satisfaction.
ECHO was founded by Jeff Lichtenstein. Jeff came to the Real Estate business with a corporate-sales executive’s understanding understanding of how an efficient, customer-facing organization is supposed to work. Those standards weren’t met–then or now–by any of the Real Estate Brokerage businesses in South Florida.
ECHO is built around a team that fully supports our agents. So, the ECHO agents can focus on what’s most important to you: your home.
Added to that teamwork advantage is ECHO’s hefty marketing budget. It supports our agents. And you, our clients.
Why Choose ECHO as your Realtor?
Choosing a Real Estate Brokerage and Realtor can appear to be complex. Do you go with your Aunt Gertrude? (You know she’s not the best problem solver). Or do you pick the agent doing all the business in a neighborhood? We’ll make it easy and explain why ECHO Fine Properties and our agent experts are your best choice. Our track record is an easy trail to find. Just follow the accolades.
ECHO’s Awards for Excellence and Client Testimonials.
ECHO Fine Properties has won both the Palm Beach Post Community Choice Award for six consecutive years (out of 3,696 Brokerages), naming ECHO the best Real Estate Brokerage in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast. Comparable to the MVP in baseball or the Academy Awards in the movie industry, these “Bests” were awarded by the residents of the community.
We have a few testimonials you might enjoy reading–over a thousand, actually.
The Trusted Voice in South Florida Real Estate.
We have been featured in the following: ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, Palm Beach Post, Wall Street Journal, AARP, Access Hollywood, AP News, Axios, CNN, CNBC, Epoch Times, Florida Weekly, Fortune, Golf Digest, Homes & Gardens, Huffington Post, Inman, Medium, Money, Miami Herald, MSN, NPR, Nasdaq, NY Post, Newsweek, People, Readers Digest, Real Deal, Stuart News, Sun Sentinel, Palm Beach Shiny Sheet, Scripps News, TC Palm, USA Today, Today Show, US News, Yahoo Finance, Zero Hedge, Martha Stewart and more. And ECHO stories and quotes appear almost weekly in major media!
Our Systems are Designed Around You.
Perhaps the most important ECHO advantage begins with “Listening to your home or desired home”™ The first step to creating a marketing plan is understanding what makes your home so special. We also need to understand your situation and needs for buying the perfect property. Here’s our process, step by step:
Listening to Your Goals
Do you want the highest price? Is a fast sale most important? If you are purchasing, we want to know your lifestyle and what features are most important to you. Once we understand your needs, we will give you advice and put together a personalized strategy.
Understanding What is Special About Your Home or Purchase
Before we can create our stunning brochures, we want to know what makes your home so special. We “interview the house” in depth.“What was the first thing you felt when you walked into your home?” often gives us great clues on why the buyer will want to purchase it. If Buying, tell us about you and how you plan to live in the area.
Preparation for Sale or Buying
From getting the house ready for the photo shoot to making sure that we have your HOA documents in advance; we communicate to you what needs to be done. Same on the purchase side. Getting financials in order and explaining how Florida contracts works ahead of schedule lets you make decisions with precision speed.
Feedback from Showings
We call you after every showing. We tell you everything that occurred and what, if anything, needs to be done to make improvements.
Show You the Money
Sometimes it’s a rush to get a deal across the finish line. Other times we remain radio silent and let the other party sweat. We always consult with you in negotiations as to market conditions, what’s your goal and then carry out your instructions to secure the deal.
Feedback Throughout the Closing Process
There is no sigh of relief when the contract is signed. Anxiety builds when the inspection is due, meeting critical contingency dates, and working with a host of vendors. You will hear from our team constantly and we hold your hand every step of the way.
Where Our Buyers Come From. (Selling? Please be patient. You’re up next.)
We’re going to bring you–Direct– to the very Special Sellers Section of Our Web Site
Homes for Sale
Know what you’re looking for? Go right to our traditional search.
Country Club Cost Comparison
Greener Pastures – Choosing the right club. The location of your home is important. The place may be great — but how ‘bout the neighborhood?
Home ECHOnomics Buyers Guide
Nobody Reads This (a lot of details).
Everybody Reads This (just the important stuff)…It’s 151 Promises broken down in 18 subsections.
Contracts
We’ve seen thousands of Florida contracts. That ensures the one you see is the one you want to see.
Closing, Homestead & Tax Costs
There’s a lot of cash at stake. It’s big money in savings — and finding out how big is part of our job!
Where Do Even More Buyers Come From?
And now, For Y’all Selling. Echo, Not the Agent, is Spending Heavily in Marketing Dollars
ECHO has invested millions of dollars into our Website and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) since 2009 to pop up at the top of over 17,000 subdivision searches. When those potential buyers call/email/text/chat, we have our seven client concierges to answer the phone. Real live humans! We make sure they are matched with a specialist and made aware of your home.
We are the Largest Purchaser of Zillow Buyer Inquiries in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast.
Zillow is far and away the most recognizable Website throughout the world for global, nationwide and local searches. When those buyers inquire about a house, we capture them.
450K ECHO FineProperties.com Subscribers
3.5 Million monthly Social Media reach
7 In-House Client Concierge Taking Incoming calls chats/Email/texts
Top Google Position with Over 14 million Events on ECHO Website
Over 11 million Emails sent annually
Largest Purchaser of Zillow Buyer Inquiries
Home ECHOnomics: What it Means For You.
Home ECHOnomics. Looks like a play on a word. Actually, it’s kind of an upgrade.
ECHO Fine Properties has an updated vision and method for buying or selling a home. It’s really an art form because it combines aesthetics, advanced technology, and innovative business solutions in a way that no other Realtor can match. And it’s an update that’s already an acclaimed winner. The Home ECHOnomics Guarantee has 57 Promises to ensure everything that is supposed to happen, happens.
We Pay
Unlike other Brokerages, WE PAY the costs to have all In-House Support. By having In-House professionals and owning top-of-the-line equipment, we create an infinitely better marketing product for your home.
In-House Professional Photography and Videography
Our In-House team utilizes drone aerials, night shots, HDR photography, Matterport walk through, interior and exterior editing, floorplans, virtual staging and cinema-level video and in-house editing. True video is shot for the MLS as well as Viral storytelling on Reels and TikTok. Your home will look its very best with our staging and mastery of the imaging medias.
In-House Marketing and Design
Nobody puts more time, energy, and thought into a home’s presentation. From staging, pricing, and strategy, each home is precious to us. Our team creates brochures, postcards, and advertising.
Social Media
We recognized that everyone has their smart phone within arm’s reach at all times! We went from zero to an In-House team of three concierges overnight. Today, a significant part of our Buyer leads come from social media. By having our own photojournalists, photographers, and IT specialists, we create and distribute your home in TikTok, Instagram Reels, and Facebook for maximum reach.
Your ECHO Team
The ECHO team has multiple skill sets, laser focused towards one goal. Instead of Realtors having little support and spending their time trying to do it all when a specialist in each field should be supporting them, we work towards one goal; making your home sale or purchase the best experience possible and getting you the best terms and price.
BTW, What’s with the Dolphins?
Dolphins are in South Florida, Atlantic Ocean and Intracoastal Waterways. They are almost preternaturally friendly and have shown incredible acts of kindness. Maybe you’ve seen the videos. They also work together in a pod. And they have a “superpower”–a kind of advanced sonar. It’s comparable to ECHO Location.
For us, friendliness is actually a prerequisite for a job at ECHO. We work together in a team format and like dolphins, we employ the most advanced communication technology to help find homes for our purchasing clients and locate buyers
for our home sellers.
ECHO is Globally Connected
For both luxury and affordable sales, ECHO is connected to a worldwide collection of top brokers representing the finest luxury properties
A “Who’s Who” in Luxury Real Estate that has been leading the industry since 1986. Our numbers tell the story.
- $300B in Annual Sales
- 130K Luxury Real Estate Professionals
- 70 International Markets
LuxuryRealEstate.com is a hand-selected group of more than 130,000 professionals with properties in more than 70 countries that collectively sells over $300 billion of real estate annually, making it the most elite and comprehensive luxury real estate network in the world.
Our reputation and in-depth knowledge of the South Florida market is seen regularly and respected by many viewers, which translates to real recognition and credibility for everything we represent.
ECHO partners with Zillow (the #1 real estate Website worldwide) and is the largest purchaser of Zillow Inquires in South Florida.
Our Website brings in 14 million events each year. National and overseas buyers find us on the web because of our SEO dominance.
And to top it off, we provide Monthly Online Property Performance Reports:
ECHO is Truly Local
Supporting our community and local businesses along the way is how our effort goes beyond real estate in so many ways.
ECHO’s Tug-of-War to Stop Cancer raises $14,000+ for cancer research.
Top ECHO Agent, Andrew Levy, Pays Lunch Debts For 400+ Local Children.
ECHO Fine Properties Offered Free Grocery Shopping and Delivery for Anyone in Need During Covid
We Even Offer Free Services Such as Appealing Local Tax Increases.
We truly believe in being a huge asset to our local people. When you work with truly local companies you support your community. This is why we are voted the Best Real Estate Brokerage in Palm Beach County year after year after year.
ECHO fed 25,000 people through its now-famous PB&J Strategy.
In 2022 several in our office wanted to help victims of devastating Hurricane Ian on the West Coast of Florida. We decided upon Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwiches. Really?!? Sounds silly. But it was really smart.
Each sandwich was packed with 450 calories and was a great meal replacement for linemen and newly homeless people. We started small and then found the entire community wanted to partake. We had members of country clubs, kindergartners, businesses, and communities all take part.
Older people and younger people sometimes want to physically help but it’s hard to get involved.
In this case both groups were essential, and it made people feel good to physically be doing something to help out someone else. All in all we made and delivered 25,000 meals. Afterwards, we took the lessons and urgency of problem solving and getting things done for our own business and applied the same principles. We even wrote a book. How Making A Sandwich Can Change Your World. The Amazing Success Of The PB&J Strategy.
How Can We Help Bring You Home?
