With about 20 years of experience selling real estate, Tara specializes in luxury waterfront homes and condominiums in the Tampa Bay beach community and surrounding areas.
Tara offers impeccable knowledge of the Tampa Bay Gulf Beaches market. She listens to and understands the individual needs of each client thereby matching a community and home to fit each of her client’s lifestyles. With her background, education, and experience, she offers a unique perspective when helping her clients their real estate needs. She strongly believes in customer service and building a long-term relationship with her clients. With her level of service, commitment and passion for real estate many of her clients often say they feel like they are her only clients. She attracts more attention to her properties by focusing on strategically positioning and promoting each one. She works hard to stay abreast of a constantly changing market to make buying and selling a smooth and efficient process.
She strongly believes we owe it to ourselves and our clients to continuously gaining knowledge & education. Therefor in order to best serve her clients, continuing educations remains to be a high priority for her each and every year. Here designations include:
• Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist and member if the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing
• Certified Resort and Second Home Specialist
• Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS), making Tara one of about 2500 agents worldwide providing the growing international market with a distinct understanding of the global buyers & sellers in her local community.
Background:
Tara spent most of her childhood years growing up in Europe and the Middle East. In pursuit of a better education, she moved to United States at the age of 14 to attend a boarding school in Pennsylvania. Tara then moved to Washington D.C. to continue her education where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and received her Master’s degree in Information Systems from the School of Engineering at George Washington University.
For the next 18 years she worked as a Project Manager and Information Technology Coordinator and Advisor for AARP at their headquarters in Washington D.C. During this time she received numerous achievement awards including AAPR’s Sustained Excellence and Outstanding Association Award among 2000 employees.
Tara started her real estate career at Century 21 and during the five years she earned the Century 21 Centurion Producer Award, was ranked #1 agent in the office numerous times. Next she joined Keller Williams Gulfside Realty and continued to be recognized as the individual top agent in her office during the next 5 years. In 2013 she was invited to join Coastal Properties Group, an exclusive member of Forbes Global Properties where she continues to be a great resource for her clients for the local market now with global reach.