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About Me...

While buying and selling real estate can be a fun, exciting and rewarding experience, it is important to develop a broad knowledge of the real estate market and all it has to offer you. As your local real estate expert, I am dedicated to providing you with the most enjoyable experience, helping educate you on all aspects of the current market conditions, property values, loans suitable to your needs and desires, and endless knowledge of the communities of interest to you and your family.

My experience, skill and familiarity with the Wine Country real estate market are essential ingredients needed to provide you with an enjoyable buying or selling experience. Utilizing strong communication and negotiation skills, energy and effective marketing tactics, I will be dedicated to providing your family with service unsurpassed in today's market.

Please feel free to use this site as a starting point and a guide throughout your adventure in buying or selling your Wine Country home.

Thank you for stopping by my site! Be sure to let me know if you have any additional questions or even if you have a few suggestions for my site! I welcome your questions, comments and suggestions.

Lots More About Me...

Mark´s Mission Statement and Life Standards

Mark will work ceaselessly to ensure that his clients´ interests are preserved through his unblemished integrity and his unique qualities of perception, combined with his experience in negotiation and facilitating. 

Having earned the professional designation of Seniors Real Estate Specialist (SRES®), Mark applies his knowledge and skills to the needs of the maturing Baby Boomer (and beyond) community as well as his deep affinity for helping first-time buyers achieve their dream of home-ownership.

Mark´s professional and personal standards have a strong emphasis on "giving back" to his community.  Included in these standards is a program through which Mark donates a portion of every commission earned to local animal welfare organizations in his clients´ name(s).


What Mark´s Clients Should Expect

  • Performance at the highest levels of quality
  • Respect
  • A trustful environment
  • Communication tailored to clients´ needs and desires
  • A friendly and understandable Real Estate experience

Professional Affiliations

  • National Association of REALTORS®
  • California Association of REALTORS®
  • Bay Area Real Estate Information service (BAREIS)

Personal and Career Background

Mark is a San Francisco Bay Area native and has bought, sold and built homes in Northern California since 1982.  His properties were located in four Bay Area counties, stretching from Mendocino in the North through San Mateo in the South. 

Mark´s first career in secondary education allowed him to develop his teaching and communication skills.  His second career in Air Traffic Control brought forward his perception, quick-thinking, and intuitive qualities.  In the later days of Mark´s term with the FAA, he was a national representative to Administration executives in Washington where he earned trust and recognition of his leadership and facilitation abilities across the country.  Now, as a REALTOR®, Mark combines all of these talents and skills to lead his clients through the complex world of buying and selling homes.


Education

  • Undergraduate degree (education) at University of Southern California (USC)
  • Graduate work at USC, San Francisco State University, Stanford University

 
Other Interests

Mark enjoys spending his "off-duty" time as a music director and singer, volunteering at the Humane Society of Sonoma County where he is also a member of the Board of Directors, and at home playing with his Beagles.


If you have any additional questions or if I can help you in any way please contact me:

Mark Penn


Coldwell Banker Northern California
101 Morris Street, Suite 100
Sebastopol, CA  95472

Direct: 707.824.4293
Toll Free:  888.766.6622
Email: Mark@MyHomeInSonoma.com
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