What People Are Saying

We began our cross-country home search with a long wish list and a short timeline for making our job-related move. Thank goodness people we trust referred us to Phoebe Martin.

Phoebe made sure she understood exactly what we were looking for and stayed in constant contact throughout the process. After our initial visit to Iowa City, she offered multiple Facetime home tours so that we could keep our home search progressing from Arizona. When the time was right to make an offer, Phoebe made sure we got the best deal possible, and she was tenacious about ensuring that every single home repair was completed satisfactorily. She even made arrangements to help us get new carpeting installed so everything would be perfect when we moved in.

Phoebe is resourceful, determined, kind, and incredibly well connected. She is a model ambassador for Iowa City and a first-rate Realtor!

— Allison and Richard Vaillancourt

 

“Phoebe was an absolutely fantastic realtor for our first time purchasing a house in Iowa City. Not only is Phoebe responsive, kind, and helpful, but she's a local with insider knowledge of the area. My partner and I are not from here, but Phoebe guided us through every step--telling us about particular neighborhoods we might like and listening as we told her the kind of place we imagined ourselves living in. Not only that, she was so helpful in explaining the different steps of home buying to a couple of first-timers. If down the road, we ever decide to move in the area, we'll absolutely seek Phoebe out again. Thank you again for helping us find a house we love!”

— Eric Ensley

 

“Phoebe Martin is an excellent realtor. She grew up in Iowa City and knows the market!! She is well-connected to the community and has extensive resources at her disposal. I had an offer on my house before the sign even went out. Phoebe's guidance through the process made selling my house very easy.”

— Jamie Sharp

 

“Phoebe is simply the best, I cannot recommend her services enough. I have worked with her a few times over the years, and most recently, she helped us get the house of our dreams in the middle of an extremely competitive market. Without her connections, knowledge, dedication, and creativity, we know we would not have had such great success. Oh, and she also helped to sell my former house in a few days and made that a quick and easy process, despite the complications of a pandemic. Overall, she turned a very scary and stressful process into something manageable and exciting for everyone involved. Phoebe rocks!”

— Sasha Alexander

 

“Phoebe Martin has been amazing! She guided us through every step of buying a new home. She helped us find a mover and a cleaning crew. We hadn’t changed homes in 27 years, so she was just the right person to help us relocate to our ‘forever condo’.”

— Ginny Kirschling

 

 "She sold my kids' home and found them a new one in record time. A genuine, lovely, good person."

— Charles Drum

 

"Phoebe is an absolutely amazing realtor. She came to me highly recommended, and within a week of meeting her, I had an accepted offer on a home that was exactly what I wanted. She has a great deal of industry knowledge, follow-through and grit that made me feel supported and confident as a first time home-buyer. Phoebe goes above and beyond what is expected, and goes the extra mile to personalize and make the process fun. You can trust Phoebe to represent and guide you through the home buying and selling process. I can't recommend her enough to friends and family."

— Megan Mathews

 

"Phoebe was our realtor when we moved to Iowa City roughly 2 years ago. She did a great job and found us a wonderful house. I would recommend her to anyone looking for a realtor in Iowa City."

— Eric Higgins-Freese

“Phoebe Martin and her team were wonderful! We decided to sell our rental house right before COVID 19 shut everything down. Like everything else this made a normally stressful process seem way more difficult, but they were able to adjust to the situation quickly and handle everything safely and professionally. They worked around renters, a pandemic, and finally an Iowa winter to get it sold. Phoebe is endlessly patient, gave us great advice throughout, and we would recommend her to anyone looking to buy or sell in Iowa City!”

— Steve Grismore and Ginny Armstrong

 

“Finding the right home for us required perseverance, wisdom, humor and an excellent agent who responded to our needs and concerns. Through a lengthy process of elimination, we finally narrowed our search to one town but still could not find the home we loved. We kept searching, hopeful every time, and with our agent's guidance landed in a perfect, wonderful location and home. We kept an opened mind, considered all options and didn't settle for less than what we wanted. Phoebe was available 24/7 to answer endless questions. Great experience!”

— Steve Hektoen

 

“Just love Phoebe! Calm reassuring professional and always there when you a call. Gives great guidance through a very stressful process of purchasing and selling ago e. Recommend to all of my family and friends. Phoebe is the best!”

— Deb Bennerhan

 

"Phoebe has been amazing to work with! She helped us find the perfect home and sell our old home. She and her team were excellent at marketing our home, with regular open houses and creative strategies to make sure it was seen by as many agents and prospective buyers as possible. She is trustworthy, attentive and fun to work with! I highly recommend her."

— Peggy Grimmer

 

 "We couldn’t have picked a better Realtor. Phoebe is the BEST!!!"

— Sidney Ayers Young

 

"A year ago, my husband and I wanted to begin looking for our first home. We were experts in renting places but knew absolutely nothing about buying a home. That is, until I met Phoebe. I couldn't have asked for a more professional, charismatic, or respectful real estate agent. Not only did she help us find the perfect home on our budget, but she ensured we were educated on those important questions I would've never thought to ask. Phoebe truly takes the stress out of buying a home."

— Brenna Kingyon

 

"As first-time homeowners, we did not know what to expect - Phoebe made the process informative, fun, and helped us find the perfect home!"

— Diane Blyler

 

"Phoebe provided wonderful service as I bought my new home, and then prepped and sold my previous one. I've since recommended her to friends, and have sought her advice a few times on questions around the housing market (residential and rental). A great resource, and all around good person!"

— Carl R. Brown

 

"Phoebe was a joy to work with and extremely knowledgeable about the Iowa City area, I recommend her to anyone looking for a real estate agent."

— James Gambrell

 

"Phoebe helped us to find our first house. She did a great job at listening what we wanted and to find the best match for our family. She is very knowledgeable about every single aspect of buying a house and give us great advice in every step of the process. Buying your first house can be a stressful and scary situation but Phoebe made this process enjoyable and easy for us. I will definitely recommend her to anybody who is looking to buy or sell in this area and we would love to work again with her in the future."

— Marta Hamity

 

"Phoebe was our realtor when we bought our first home. She is passionate and dedicated with deep expertise. As a first time buyer what I most appreciated was her expertise in renovation to guide the buying process. She helped us see each home as it is, but also see what it might be. As we viewed properties, she could help us view things of concern. She could guide us when we had ideas for tweaking the house to have a sense of what might be affordable renovations and which ones were cost prohibitive dreams for the far future. That allowed us to make the best choice for a house that we could be pleased with in the short term so that we could save and target reasonable tweaks to fix known problems and get it closer to our ideal."

— Colleen Theisen

"Phoebe is an energetic, creative, and motivated realtor. She thoroughly understands the business and the market, and is thoughtful and considerate to her clients' needs, whether they are buying or selling. She has a knack for marketing, and is a strong advocate for her clients in negotiations. I highly recommend her, and will definitely call her again the next time we have buying or selling needs!"

— Jen Knights

 

"I've known Phoebe for many years as a long time friend of our family, and can say among her many qualities, she has the ability to connect with and understand a person almost instantaneously. She is as pure and genuine as sunlight. This makes her a truly trusted partner in any decision-making process. Many people can fake enthusiasm, passion and sincerity, but Phoebe is the real deal."

David Klockau

 

"I have used and referred Phoebe for several real estate transactions. I have found that she is not only incredibly amazing to work with, she helps you think outside of the box to find the perfect home."

— Neva Evans