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Team Overview

The Starnes Group Team, Coldwell Banker Mountain Central with leader Rachelle Starnes has grown over the past 22 years to include a diverse group of real estate advisors leading the sale of luxury real estate in the Calgary market. Rachelle’s team has worked through the peaks and valleys of the Alberta economy by consistently providing an exceptional quality of marketing and global exposure.

The Starnes Group continue to sell over $100 Million in Luxury Real Estate every year with total sales in the past 22 years exceeding $1 Billion.*

The team has attracted ‘the best of the best’ agents from other brokerages, certified luxury home marketing specialists, retirement and relocation specialists, exceptional client services coordinators, in-house mortgage specialists, quality home renovation contractors, outstanding staging consultants, and strategic marketing partnerships.

The team works beautifully together providing exceptional services in different areas of the City, Alberta and surrounding areas, and have a deep understanding of different cultures and languages providing individualized personal service to each client.

Our team works passionately with all of our clients at all stages of their lives to assist with current and future real estate decisions. We are happy to discuss all real estate related questions at any time in our client’s family life cycle.

* New homes, new condos, resale properties reported on the MLS, and private sales.

#1 Team in Alberta – 2023

#2 Team in Canada – 2023

News Release

Rachelle Starnes, Niki Taggart, Kyle Dexter, and Katina Martin of the ‘Rachelle Starnes Properties of Distinction Real Estate Team’ have been recognized by the prestigious Institute for Luxury Home Marketing for their recent performance in the million‑dollar and above luxury home market within Calgary, Alberta. “Real Estate professionals who have earned admittance to The Institutes Million Dollar Guild® not only have specific upper-tier marketing knowledge, but also understand the unique needs of affluent buyers and sellers. The recognition is awarded by the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing which trains real estate agents in the luxury home market and awards international designations to those who meet stringent performance standards.”

Why Choose Us

Clients choose The Starnes Group because the team offers a high level of knowledge. The knowledge not only comes from decades of experience but from continual education in the local and global marketplace. The Starnes Group knows how to assist their Sellers in getting their properties ready for sale to present the absolute best product. We help to create incredible value for the highest possible sale price. We take your beautiful property and showcase it to the world through the absolute best marketing and exposure.

Buyers Agent

We love to work with Buyers to assist in finding the right area and the perfect home for our clients particular lifestyle and family needs. Many families moving into Calgary need to know the pros and cons of each community and we are there to assist with providing all of the information necessary for our clients to make the perfect choice. Our team also provides detailed statistics on each area showing growth and decline patterns over the last fifteen years.

Proven Experience & Proven Results

Our Team has over 22 years of experience from high-end condo sales to country residential acreage sales to luxury city properties. Our associate broker has over 32 years of experience in real estate from contracting to brokerage management to market and development to property management and commercial transactions.

Many of our advisors have built and renovated homes, have worked with various lenders for an understanding of the real estate financing process and have personally seen the peaks and valleys of our business. Every spectrum on every level of real estate has been experienced by the diverse group of talented advisors within our Team.

Rocky View County

Our Team has listed and sold more properties over $1M in Rocky View County from 2008 through January 2023 than any other real estate Team.

Elbow Valley & Surrounding Areas

Our Team has sold one out of every four properties selling over $1M, from 2008 – 2022 in the Elbow Valley and surrounding areas.

City Properties

Our Team lists and sells unique and special properties in the downtown core areas, Bel Aire and in the South West areas of Spring Valley, Discovery Ridge and Christie Estates. One third of our real estate business has been in these areas. The Starnes Team has sold more homes over $1.6M in the Bel Aire community than any other Team since 2012.

High End Luxury Properties

The Starnes Group has remained in the Top 10 Luxury Agent group selling properties over $2M for the entire City of Calgary since 2008. In 2014, our Team sold the most expensive residential condo in the Princeton development for $4.4M setting an MLS re-sale record. In 2013, our Team sold the most expensive single family country residential home to ever sell in the community of Elbow Valley Estates for $3.95M. In 2010, our Team sold a property in Elbow Park for $5.3M ($1,276 – Sold Pr/Sq Ft) representing the second highest sale price per square foot in the history of the Calgary market.

Aspen Estates

Our Team has sold more properties in the estate community of Aspen Estates over $2M than any other real estate Team since 2007.

M.D. of Foothills

Our Team moved in the M.D. of Foothills in 2017 listing and selling incredible acreage properties in record times. Niki Taggart is an area specialist living in the DeWinton and Heritage Point areas and brings to her clients refreshing new marketing ideas showcasing this incredible area and all it has to offer.

Relocations

Our Team has some of the top relocation specialists representing buyers in Western Canada. Jeff Tincher,
Mel Loewen and Susanita de Diego have successfully facilitated multiple transactions with Canadian, American and international clients.

NOTE: All statistics in this publication are CREB MLS Reported Sales at October 1, 2018.

Exceptional Marketing

Our team moved from other brokerages over the years and found a respected local brokerage that is connected to one of the largest real estate companies in the world – COLDWELL BANKER. With the creation of COLDWELL BANKER MOUNTAIN CENTRAL, our team found the perfect combination of local expertise with a truly global reach. Please find below samples of marketing initiatives our team completed in the past across various companies. We will continue to provide and innovate with new marketing initiatives with our new global partnership with Coldwell Banker Mountain Central.

Exceptional Online Exposure | Over 9000 Page Views Per Month

Social Media

Our social media marketing strategies, including Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIN, ensure our property listings are able to reach far and targeted to find buyers that resonates with the location, the lifestyle and the distinctive features that are that story.

The Starnes Group Team have a combined LinkedIn reach of over 25,000 executive followers in Calgary. Our LinkedIn posts receive an average 6,000 to 10,000 views daily, weekly, and monthly.

Annually, The Starnes Group’s LinkedIn posts receive over 2,000,000 views!

Instagram

Our Instagram is used as a “LUXURY MAGAZINE” platform of luxury properties including the highest quality photographs and professionally rendered videos. We focus on PROPERTY LISTINGS with a sporadic ‘BLOOM’ of real estate news and updates.

@TheStarnesGroupRealEstate has over 12,000 targeted followers, and continues to grow.

Facebook

Our Facebook page is growing steadily as we utilize this platform to push ‘EVENTS’ and general informational content that may be of interest to our clients such as: NEW & FEATURED LISTINGS, OPEN HOUSE EVENTS, BOOSTED POSTS, INFORMATION BULLETINS, REAL ESTATE NEWS, DESIGN & DÉCOR TIPS, LUXURY NEWS & UPDATES.

Magazine Publications

Our Team advertises in local, national and international publications bringing potential Buyers back to our website to view all of our properties. Our Team uses across section of print media, social media, Far West bus benches and event marketing.

Target Marketing - Canada Post

Community Market Reports

Event Marketing

Professional Property Brochures

Our Team prepares a professional property brochure with extensive information on the property and community that is distributed to prospective buyers during open houses and showings. We focus on the community as well as the property which we have found provides greater appeal to the property and more impetus to buy for interested buyers.