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During a five month period in 2021, Barry Van Patten helped us complete five separate transactions in the Scottsdale/Silverleaf area. All were done flawlessly, with a high level of professionalism and attention to detail. As a result of Barry’s efforts, three families were able to complete the move to Arizona with a minimum of disruption and inconvenience. Se could never say enough positive things about Barry’s work ethic and the value he brings during each transaction. We would highly recommend Barry for any real estate requirements.

My wife, Any and I both met Barry and his wife Ginger when we were looking at selling a rental property in Utah and purchasing a rental home in Scottsdale. We had a very extensive list of amenities that we were looking for in the rental home. We also had a short window of time in which to find and purchase the rental home in Scottsdale. In a hot housing market in 2021, with little inventory Barry had his work cut out for him.

Barry Scheduled several homes for us to visit and was very knowledgeable about the different neighborhoods that the homes were located in. Barry prepared packets on each of the homes we visited, which were very useful in deciding which home to purchase.

Barry also went above and beyond by visiting potential homes, while we were in Utah, and would walk us through the home via facetime. The home we ended up purchasing was one of the Barry toured for us virtually.

After the home purchase Barry continued to help us by introducing us to a great General Contractor to complete renovations on the home. He was also available to meet several contractors at the home for us after the sale.

We couldn’t be happier with our choice of a Realtor in Barry! He was professional, never pushy to close on a deal, and we always felt like he had our best interests in mind. We would recommend Barry and Ginger to anyone!

Barry has sold 5 of my custom homes and I couldn’t be happier with his professionalism, knowledge, attention to detail and his ability to communicate and navigate with ease each step of these transactions. At no time did I have any concern as Barry had my best interests in mind at all times. He obtained “top dollar” with each of my properties sold. I would highly recommend Barry for all your real estate needs.

If you are looking for a realtor that is responsive, conscientious, friendly, and a joy to work with, look no further. Ginger Van Patten is all of these. She kept me up to date on what was happening with my home showings and sale without being intrusive.

When I was out of town for several of the showings I never had to worry about a buyer’s realtor having left lights on, the doors unlocked, the alarm not set, etc. With Ginger at every showing to explain how the equipment in the house worked and to lock up after showings, I knew everything would be fine.

I would not hesitate to recommend Ginger if you are looking for a realtor that you can rely on. The fact that she was great to work with was a pleasant bonus in the showing and selling process.

Barry is a total pleasure to do business with. knowing Barry for the better part of 3 decades I can saw he is a man of the highest integrity and professionalism. He is a man who keeps his word and is someone who has your back. Barry is the ultimate professional advisor. It is my pleasure to recommend Barry if you plan on purchase or selling a home.

We have been a client of Ginger for over 8 years. She has always been very knowledgeable and professional.
She pays personal attention to her client’s needs and structures her services in their best interest.
Over the years Ginger’s advice and services have been invaluable to us.
Ginger is a joy to work with and we highly recommend her.

We were experienced home buyers and from the start could appreciate Barry’s expertise and educated eye for quality which guided us through the buying process. Barry understood our unusual and specific needs, applied our feedback, and was well prepared with portfolios and details of every home we viewed. It was apparent through the home buying process that Barry had our best interest in mind paying close attention to the details at inspection and closing. He is professional, practical, personable, and knowledgeable. We have our dream home now and are nothing but please with Barry Van Patten and Russ Lyon Sotheby’s.

We met Barry Van Patten when we came to Arizona looking for a rental home. Barry took the time to find out what we needed and diligently worked through our list of wants and must haves to narrow the search. This saved us a tremendous amount of time and effort. Then unexpectedly, we were tempted by a few houses that came on the market to buy. Without much warning or preparation, Barry once again jumped into the fray to vet these homes. He was available immediately, did thorough investigation, and steered us in the right direction. Homes were disappearing faster than buyers could arrange to see them. But not with Barry – he was quick and on his A game. We wound up buying a home nearly a year before we planned to do so, because everything was simply aligned perfectly. We could not be more thrilled with the service, level of attention, and expertise we had in Barry. There is no one I would recommend more. This is a true professional who knows his work and pays attention to his clients.

Tim and I thank you for the expertise and thoroughness you demonstrated in our search for a home in Arizona, the preparation of all necessary paperwork and finally the closing of the property. We can’t imagine the transaction being as seamless with any other Realtor. Again, we thank you for your professionalism and friendliness.

I had the most wonderful experience purchasing a home from Barry !! He is extremely trustworthy and caring and I will be recommending Barry Van Patten to my friends and family as their Real Estate Provider. Living in Minnesota, this was our first purchase in Scottsdale and Barry took care of all our needs in a professional and timely manner. Barry navigated the sometimes tedious purchase process with ease. Barry’s personal personality and high integrity helped us obtain great results. My thanks to Barry and my husband and I will definitely do business with Barry again.

Barry has represented me in selling 2 of my homes with vastly different sales prices. Two of the homes were in the luxury market at 3M plus and my parents home in the $250,000 market. In both cases, regardless of the price of the home, Barry’s results were outstanding in terms of days on the market and selling price. Barry’s level of professionalism, knowledge of the market, attention to detail and follow up sets him apart from his competition. He also incorporates excellent marketing tools and has a network of other Realtors that helps maximize exposure in selling a home. He is the only Realtor I will recommend for someone buying or selling a home.

Barry was most helpful to my wife and I in our home selection process. After many weeks of looking, Barry found the perfect home for us. Barry is knowledgeable, conscientious and very professional. We have recommended Barry to many.

In the past 2.5 years, Barry has represented members of our family in 3 separate real estate transactions in the Greater Phoenix / Scottsdale area. Professional, experienced, client focused, high integrity are words we use to describe Barry Van Patten.

Our initial experience working with Barry developed after struggling for six months to sell our residence in Phoenix with another Realtor and agency. Upon contracting with Barry and implementing his suggestions, we received a full price purchase contract within the first week under his expertise and leadership. We highly recommend Barry Van Patten.

After an unsuccessful year of having our Desert Mountain home listed with a local Realtor, my husband and I knew it was necessary to make a strategic change in brokers. After researching top agents in North Scottsdale, we chose Barry Van Patten. After our first meeting, we were confident that Barry would get our home sold quickly. We signed with Barry and within 30 days and in the middle of July, he had found a buyer for our home. The transaction was quick, efficient and hassle-free.

Barry Van Patten is not only a stellar Realtor, he is a gentleman who is easy to work with, helpful, professional, knowledgeable and diligent.

We highly recommend Barry Van Patten and Monson Luxury Group/Russ Lyon Sothheby’s as a very professional real-estate team. It may be helpful to perspective clients to know why. Lots of real-estate people are “nice”. Barry certainly is. But, The following are our reasons for selecting him:

— We have moved many,many times in the course of our careers and have a broad base for comparison of agents and firms. Barry is clearly at the top of our list as he exceeded all our expectations.
— We were moving this time from Atlanta to Scottsdale and had zero knowledge of the local real-estate market. Barry quickly helped us get calibrated without being “directing” , set aside exclusive time for three separate visits with preselected, scheduled viewings. We were on a very tight time schedule.
— We were looking in a “rapidly rising” market and needed to make timely decisions, including negotiations. Barry and his team handled this remotely and flawlessly—including attending the inspection process of the home to provide first hand feedback.
— We were not familiar with Arizona’s use of title companies for closing. Barry explained and arranged this for us. Again, well executed with both a remote buyer and seller.
—We planned a number of update projects for our new home, and Barry’s recommendation of a general contractor was excellent. (We continue to use him for various projects and he has become a good friend).
—A bit later, when we decided to move my wife’s Mother here, we contacted Barry. She is 80, does not drive and we wanted her fairly close to our house. Barry found her a ground level, two bedroom condo with walking trails (she has a small dog) in a safe area with community patrols. She can walk easily to a grocery, restaurants etc etc without crossing major roads. She is as independent and happy as she can be. And, helpful to us, she is no more than five minutes from our home. The point of this is that Barry listens carefully to needs.

Please ask Barry for our contact information if you have any specific questions.

Cheri and I can highly recommend Barry Van Patten.
From listing our house, to professionally marketing it, to helping with the sales transaction – he made the entire process extremely easy for us.
Barry is the consummate professional and if/when the need arises we will most certainly call on him again.

Ever since our first conversation with Barry as the listing agent on a property during the early days of our home search, we decided right away we wanted to work with him and we soon became good friends. Barry knows his market extremely well but most importantly, he is an absolute joy to work with. On top of this, Barry was phenomenally patient with us and always a pleasure to be with. We ended up finding a fabulous home that was beyond our expectations and through the relationship we have found a reliable and trustworthy friend for the long term.

My wife, Lynn and I met Barry when we decided to buy a seasonal home in Scottsdale. We have visited Scottsdale many times but didn’t know anything about the housing market and the local communities. His patience would be further challenged by the fact that Lynn is very particular. We have built every house we have lived in because she could never find a resale that was acceptable. But we didn’t want to build again.

Barry took us to see dozens of houses and his knowledge, patience and professionalism was amazing. Most noteworthy was his honesty and integrity. Instead of just trying to close a quick sale he made sure that we knew what we were getting into. He would point out aspects of a house or neighborhood that we weren’t even thinking about, but surely would have been disappointed with after the sale. We eventually settled on a home in Desert Highlands and love everything about it.

Shortly after contract acceptance we had to return to our primary residence in Cincinnati and handle closing remotely. Barry made it the easiest real estate closing I have ever experienced. He performed the final walk through, took possession of the house, recommended remolding contractors and provided them with access to the house, and made sure everything went smoothly when we couldn’t be there. We couldn’t have done it without him.

We first met Barry three and a half years ago while looking for a home in the North Scottsdale area. After Barry showed us several homes in several areas of North Scottsdale, we decided we wanted to be in the Mirabel community Barry helped us make offers on two properties and eventually we decided on our current home in Mirabel.

We found Barry to be extremely knowledgeable on the geographical areas we were considering, but also very much in touch with market conditions at the time. It took several back and forth negotiations with the current owner to finally seal the deal. Throughout the process, Barry remained professional while advising us on how best to proceed. Eventually we were able to secure our home.

Although we were impressed with Barry’s knowledge and professionalism throughout the process, it was after our closing that we found Barry still engaged. He met us at the house and had purchased light bulbs, toilet paper and other essential items that we were not even thinking of. It is this attention to detail that, I believe, separates Barry from other brokers in the Scottsdale area. We would highly recommend, and have done so on many occasions, Barry for any real estate needs. He is by far the most professional broker we have ever worked with. We would not consider anyone else for our real estate needs. He has stayed in contact with us ever since. We highly recommend Barry to all our family and friends.

When my wife and I decided to sell our home in North Scottsdale, I contacted two friends who had sold their homes over the prior two years. Both had used Barry and recommended him highly. So we contacted Barry who arranged a convenient time to visit our home and prepare a market analysis and marketing plan. Within a week Barry presented both and we were extremely pleased with the depth of analysis and detail and quality of the marketing plan. I say this as a somewhat experienced home seller as we have sold several homes in prior years and were familiar with what other Realtors had presented as detailed market analysis and marketing plan. As a result, we listed with Barry due to his knowledge of the market, quality of the marketing plan, and intent to personally lead the selling team and process.

My wife and I did not expect our home to sell within a year of listing. In our immediate neighborhood there were 2 other homes in site of ours for sale which had been listed for over 24 months with no activity. Secondly, we listed our home at the highest price per square foot ever achieved in the neighborhood, per Barry’s recommendation due to the design, quality of construction, and ambiance, which Barry recognized and around which he developed his marketing plan. Finally, immediately upon listing my wife and I left for a 3 week tour of Europe. To cut to the chase, while in Salsburg we received an email from Barry saying we had 4 offers on the home and that we could respond to those upon our return in 2 days. Upon returning to Scottsdale, Barry managed a ‘best offer’ bid among the 4 potential sellers and then closed the sale for a price above our listing price.

In conclusion, our home would not have sold had it not been for Barry’s market knowledge and interpersonal skills dealing with a sophisticated cadre of buyers in a competitive market.

We were referred to Barry by a close friend who had purchased a home in North Scottsdale. We reached out to Barry for guidance and assistance in purchasing our new dream home in the North Scottsdale area. From our very first interaction with Barry to the follow up details and assistance post close, Barry was proactive, understanding, thoughtful and responsive.

Since we were navigating many aspects of our purchase from 2000 miles away, Barry became our “feet on the ground” to help with everything from home finishing details to helping us set up relationships with a decorator and for pool, landscape and security services.

The purchase of our new home was not just a sale for Barry. We felt that he takes each relationship personally and wants each customer delighted with their ultimate decisions. I would highly recommend Barry to anyone hoping to sell or purchase a home in the Scottsdale area.

Barry Van Patten is a consummate professional realtor in every sense of the definition of being the best at what he does. Barry represented us in purchasing our retirement home in Arizona, moving from the Midwest. His knowledge of the market, the many communities, and his skills in negotiation, were all of great benefit to us. He stayed with us every step o f the way, and when we were not able to be here, he made the personal sacrifices to represent us as if we lived here, by giving of his time and many talents.

We have given Barry several referrals, and we have also gotten to see him representing the seller in the real estate transaction. What always impressed us was he personally tried to make every showing of the home, because he felt by being there he could point out more of the important selling features, that the realtor representing the buyers would not know about. I am confident this has yielded incremental results to his clients.

The best complement I can give Barry is that he became not just our real estate agent….he became our friend!

My wife and I listed our home at 11549 E. Penstamin Drive in Scottsdale with Russ Lyons / Monson Realty and we would like to recognize Barry Van Patten for his exceptional work and his real estate professionalism. Barry was unknown to us but was recommended by Tom Locati when we were thinking about selling in February 2013. It was not more than 15 minutes after hanging up with Tom that Barry called to schedule a meeting with us to introduce himself and to discuss selling our home and since that time Barry has gone “far above and beyond” in all aspects of the process of selling an upper end home in the Scottsdale real estate market.

He guided us in the proper listing price, he set realistic expectations on how long it would take to sell the home in the market conditions facing us and he represented us and our home exceptionally well at each viewing. He would provide us with a showing overview with visitor comments after each showing and would also provide us with further visitor feedback after speaking with the other real estate agent a few days later. When we became a bit frustrated with no workable offers after about 10 months Barry coached us not to reduce our price even though our home was the most expensive in our neighborhood. Barry knew our builder and involved him when prospective buyers considered modifications to the home. His positive attitude and his high moral and business ethics gave us great confidence in Barry when others in the real estate business were not as honest or forthright in their actions.

We have purchased and sold several homes and we have worked with many Realtors but none can compare to Mr. Van Patten. He took nothing for granted and he was heavily involved in all aspects of the process from creating a 4 page list of features offered in our home, to arriving early for every viewing to put out the patio cushions if we were not in town to do so and staying late to put them away. About once a quarter he would update us on the market conditions and the competitive homes in our selling area with detailed analysis of where the market was going and where we were positioned. Barry worked with the appraiser and the home inspector to make sure we were well represented and he offered to be at the home when a few service people were scheduled to correct issues on the BINSR. Barry negotiated with the buying real estate agent in several areas and represented us well by looking out for our best interests, even over his. Barry was on top of everything throughout the sales effort.

I could continue listing many other ways in which Barry stood out from other Realtors, including other Russ Lyon agents, but I think you get the point. Barry Van Patten is a very special person and an equally special realtor. We were very honored to have Barry on our team and Russ Lyon is very lucky to have Barry on your team as he also represents your company very well. Sue and I know that Barry is who to call for our future Scottsdale real estate needs and we will do so.