About

I would rather lose a commission than let you buy a trap.

My job isn't to sell you a home. It's to stop you from buying the wrong one.

Why my practice looks the way it does

For years the GTA market ran on speed. Bidding wars over staged photos. Buyers pressured to waive inspections to win against five competing offers. Numbers that did not make sense for the lives people were trying to build. That market rewarded urgency, and urgency has never been what I am for.

Today’s market asks for the opposite. Buyers are reading about special assessments, condo oversupply, and buildings that went up too fast during the boom, and they are afraid of the mistake nobody catches until it is too late. What this market rewards is patience: someone to make sure the reserve fund and status certificate get reviewed, to walk the building with you looking for what the listing photos do not show, and to say out loud when the right answer is to walk away.

That is the practice you will find here: slower, quieter, more careful, so you understand the risk before your money moves. Fewer transactions, and more clients who walked away from the wrong property with their savings intact.

Background

I was an educator before I was an agent: an elementary school teacher in Bosnia, and an early childhood educator after my family settled in Canada. We made Richmond Hill our home in the late 1990s, and my real estate experience here dates to 2006. The two professions are closer than people realize: in both, your real job is to make sure the person across from you understands what is actually going on, even when that is uncomfortable. I bring the educator’s instinct to every walkthrough: slower questions, the details no one mentions in a listing description, and what a building’s history says about the next ten years of living there.

Where I work, and who I work with

Richmond Hill (home base), North York, Thornhill, Markham, Vaughan, Aurora, Newmarket, and downtown Toronto condos. My specialty is first-time condo buyers — young professionals navigating the 2026 oversupply — and young families upgrading from a condo to a detached home in York Region. I am buyer-first, not listing-volume first. For young families moving up, that often means starting with an honest read on the home you may need to sell, so your next budget is built on reality instead of hope.

How to start a conversation

The first conversation isn’t a sales pitch. It’s a Listing Red-Flag Review: send me a link to a property you’re considering, and before you offer I’ll read the listing, the sales history, and the public record the way I read them for my own clients, then tell you the red flags I can see: which documents to pull (the status certificate, the reserve fund study, the minutes), what the neighbourhood actually feels like at 8 PM on a Tuesday, and what to have a lawyer review before you commit. I flag what needs investigating; a lawyer reviews the status certificate: the reserve fund, the litigation, the assessment risk. If you decide to work with me after, great. If you don’t, you’ve still left with information most buyers never see.