Where I Work — Florida Direct, Referrals Everywhere Else

The short version

My real estate licence, 3623732, is issued by the State of Florida. It is valid everywhere in Florida and nowhere else. That single fact splits this page in two.

In Florida, I represent buyers and sellers directly as a sales associate of The Keyes Company. Outside Florida, I am not your agent and will not pretend to be. What I can do is introduce you, through The Keyes Company, to someone licensed where you are actually buying — at no cost to you, and with no obligation to use them.

There is one case that lands in both halves at once, and it is more common than people expect: if you are selling a Florida home and buying somewhere else, I am your agent on the Florida side and a referral on the other. Say so early — the two closings have to be planned against each other.

Florida — direct representation

123 Florida cities, grouped under one licence. My day-to-day markets are South and Central Florida, the Keys, Southwest Florida, the Treasure Coast and Volusia County; the licence itself is statewide, and the pages for cities outside that footprint say so plainly rather than implying a presence I do not have.

All Florida cities →

Midwest — referral only

I am not licensed in any of these states and will not represent you in one. Each page explains how a referral through The Keyes Company works, what it costs you (nothing), and what changes structurally when you leave Florida for that state.

Northeast — referral only

I am not licensed in any of these states and will not represent you in one. Each page explains how a referral through The Keyes Company works, what it costs you (nothing), and what changes structurally when you leave Florida for that state.

South — referral only

I am not licensed in any of these states and will not represent you in one. Each page explains how a referral through The Keyes Company works, what it costs you (nothing), and what changes structurally when you leave Florida for that state.

West — referral only

I am not licensed in any of these states and will not represent you in one. Each page explains how a referral through The Keyes Company works, what it costs you (nothing), and what changes structurally when you leave Florida for that state.

Who I refer to

I do not keep a list of preferred companies to hand you, and I would be sceptical of an agent who did. A name that is always the answer is a name that is paying for the position, not one that was chosen for your situation.

What happens instead is that the referral is submitted through The Keyes Company, and a receiving brokerage licensed in your state is identified for your specific transaction. I look at what that brokerage and that agent actually work on — price band, property type, whether relocations are routine for them — and I speak to them before your name is passed along.

Three things stay true whoever it turns out to be:

They will hold a current licence in the state where your transaction happens, and they will represent you under that state’s law — not under Florida’s, and not under mine.
Any referral fee is paid brokerage to brokerage, out of the commission on a closed transaction. It costs you nothing and it does not increase what you pay. Under Section 475.42(1)(d), Florida Statutes, any share reaching me comes from my broker and from nowhere else.
You are under no obligation to use them. Interview them, interview someone else, or decline entirely. If the fit is wrong, tell me and I will go back and look again.

As referral relationships are formalised, the brokerages involved will be named here, together with their licence number and the regulator that issued it, so you can verify them yourself rather than take my word for it.

Where I work — and where I refer

The short version

Florida — direct representation

Midwest — referral only

Northeast — referral only

South — referral only

West — referral only

Who I refer to

Not sure which half you are in?