About David Brown

As a second generation real estate broker, with twenty five years of diverse business experience, David Brown provides a refreshing and professional approach to both buying and selling a home. Through combining an integrated service approach, David will help you leverage your time by providing a systematic approach from an initial consultation to the escrow closing and a strong follow up afterwards. As a creative, motivated, and focused broker, David is sensitive to your process of moving, and all that is involved with that in addition to the buying and selling of your home. He makes himself available for extended hours for clients in the process of buying or selling and is proactive in making sure that all the bases are covered through each step of the process.

David brings a diverse professional background of financial planning, securities brokerage (formerly a CFP, CLU) and web site design to the real estate business. Prior to moving to Oregon, he owned a business in Chicago for ten years, and is a California native with roots in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area. His extensive experience and customer service in marketing, investment sales, and web site design projects included a Hollywood celebrity, and investor-clients from Fortune 500 companies. In the mid 1980's, he was featured on a major radio station, was a pioneer in socially responsible investing in Southern California and published a nationally recognized newsletter titled Wall Street Green Review which tracked environmental mutual funds and stocks.

David has had a vision of Oregon as a preferred destination not only for travel, but for retirement, second homes, and relocations from out of state. He believes that what has occurred in Bend, Oregon is indicative of what is occurring on a smaller scale in numerous locations in Oregon and the Northwest. There is plenty of real estate opportunity in this state.

David is a member of the National, state and Salem Area Realtors Association, as well as the International Webmasters Association. He enjoys bike riding with his dog, playing the piano, reading the Wall Street Journal, exploring the Oregon Coast and Cascades and designing web sites.

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Testimonials

I am humbled and grateful for the following testimonials that have been sent to me. There are many top professional agents in my office and other companies in the Salem area that I have been privledged to work with as a buyer's or listing agent, and I know that they have similar feedback from clients. - David Brown

from Grant and Christine C., West Linn, moving to the Salem area

"To Whom It May Concern:

My wife and I recently went through the process of purchasing a rural property. In our quest, we were fortunate enough to have no restrictions on where we could live, and were able to actively investigate areas from extreme southern Oregon to southern Washington. A large task, to be sure!

Along the way, we worked with nearly a dozen buyer's agents. Of all the agents we met, only one stood out: David Brown. It wasn't because he was gaudy or obnoxiously extroverted; it was because he was quiet, thoughtful, and really knows real estate and the buying process.

He was the only agent who was fully prepared from the first time we shook hands. He came with folders holding more information on the properties we viewed than anyone else had even thought about supplying. In fact, it was astonishing how well he'd done his homework - right down to visiting the neighbors ahead of our showing! 

We ended up selling our existing property and purchasing the new one simultaneously. We had a listing agent and a buying agent on each property, which meant a total of four involved agents. 

Of the four, David was (not surprisingly) the standout. He had his finger on every detail; everything was done on time, exactly as required, and completely professionally. My wife commented that she wished we'd been able to have David sell our old house, as he was simply so much better at his job than the other three - none of them were even close. 

We can tell you from experience: if you need to buy a new home, David Brown is the only person worth calling. He's just that good."

December 2007

"---David,
Thank you for your outstanding service as our realtor in our search for a house we could rehab. You listened to our criteria and found exactly what we were looking for without wasting our valuable time. Going above and beyond the call of duty, you even researched city ordinances, coordinated bank paperwork, and met with us on our time schedules (some times before the sun was up). We appreciate your professionalism and attention to detail, and we look forward to working with you again in the future."
Don and Laurie Isaacson

from Christine . - contractor with the Office of Homeland Security, Washington D.C. , relocating to Salem.

"David Brown held my hand through the entire experience of long distance home search.  He kept in touch daily, or as I required to assure I was viewing homes I was interested in with the detail I desired.  He was there to help during day and evening hours to assist and provide additional information when web sites, virtual tours and even walk throughs left unanswered questions.  He took the time to preview homes when I couldn't be there and left no stone unturned to assure my decisions were solid, sound and fulfilled without questions.  He answered emails, phone calls and provided his own site with additional area links to give me a full range of area opportunities.   I couldn't go wrong with David's friendly, helpful and personally considerate assistance.  I would consider David a good friend after having worked with him through tough and regular business decisions that he handled with finesse, integrity and great professionalism.  I recommend you to David as my very best experience in home buying, and this is far from my first experience! "