Landing among the top ten percent of REALTORS® in Sarasota County requires a combination of skills that includes market knowledge, successful negotiating, tenacity and personality. Deborah’s focus and passion for matching her customers to the right property and negotiating to a successful close are attributes essential for the luxury market where buyers and sellers are savvy, successful professionals.
Beneath Deborah’s easy smile and charm is an energy and commitment to creating an environment of trust and good will with her customers backed by twenty-five years of buying, developing and, since 2003, of selling exceptional properties from a historical Beaux Arts mansion in Washington, DC to waterfront estates on Casey Key. Deborah has listed or sold some of the most exquisite properties on the barrier islands, and her reputation for being a perfectionist is undisputed. She has the highest sale year-to-date as of May 6, 2009, in Sarasota County, which was her listing at 552 S. Spoonbill Drive, on Bird Key, which sold for $4,750,000.
Deborah was featured on the cover of the May/June 2006 issue of Real Estate Executive and was profiled in the issue as one of Sarasota’s top REALTORS®. She is a multi-year recipient of the coveted “Five Star Best in Client Satisfaction Award,” based on integrity, customer service, market knowledge, communication, closing preparation, negotiation skills, marketing of the home, and overall satisfaction. Deborah was selected as Agent of the Month in the March 2007 issue of Broker Agent Magazine where she was featured as “Selling the Upper Bracket.” She writes and publishes her “Sarasota County Luxury Market Real Estate Report,” which analyzes trends in the $2 million and above residential waterfront market, a publication that has become a bell weather for predicting future markets.
Deborah is proud to be affiliated with Michael Saunders & Company, now in its fourth decade of successfully connecting affluent buyers and sellers on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Locally owned, nationally respected, and internationally renowned, Michael Saunders & Company has 16 branch offices in Manatee, Sarasota and Charlotte counties with over 450 experienced associates in the business. Deborah’s creative marketing brochures garnered silver ADDYS in 2006 , 2007, and 2009, and her award-winning website, www.DeborahBeacham.com has been recognized by the Florida Association of Realtors as one of the top ten agent websites. Deborah’s high-profile marketing finds audiences for her listings worldwide.
Deborah believes it is important to be active in the community and she is a past president of the board of directors of Key Chorale, Sarasota’s symphonic chorus, is a member of the Sarasota County Arts Council and supports Habitat for Humanity, Second Chance Last Opportunity, and the REALTORS® for Kids scholarship program of the United Way of Sarasota, which recently raised over $7,500 through a golf tournament sponsored by the Founders Club, REAL Magazine, and a team of Realtors, including Deborah, for the scholarship program supporting 7 Sarasota County daycare centers. She and Walton, her husband of twenty-five years, have been full time residents of Casey Key since 1994.
Give Deborah a call at 941.376.2688 or send her e-mail to let her know how she can help you to achieve your real estate dream in Sarasota!
