As Ottawa’s housing market continues to interrupt data, native dealer Danny Dawson has hit a lot of his personal actual property milestones which can be price celebrating.
After having found his love of actual property and actual property investing at a reasonably younger age – buying his first dwelling on the age of 20 – Dawson’s profession has been on a gentle development trajectory.
Earlier this yr, Dawson was named one in all Royal LePage’s High 35 Beneath 35, a nationwide award recognizing the agency’s highest-performing younger professionals within the trade. In the same vein, Dawson additionally obtained a Crimson Diamond Award, which acknowledges the highest two per cent of Royal LePage realtors for the gross sales yr.
Whereas honoured by the popularity, Dawson says it’s not the accolades that drive him, however his ardour for the trade that pushes him to suppose larger.
“After I first began out, I went to the workplace daily at 7 a.m., dedicated to creating calls and rising my enterprise,” he says. “Slowly, all of it fell into place, however there’s at all times room to develop.”
At this time, Dawson works with an increasing group, dedicated to serving to purchasers navigate the shopping for and promoting means of residential and business properties – on each side of the Ottawa River.
In 2021, Dawson acquired his Quebec actual property license, a transfer he says “was one the largest jumps” in his profession.
As a dual-licensed dealer in Ontario and Quebec – a rarity in the true property world – Dawson says he has a contemporary perspective available on the market that enables him to supply an unbiased opinion to purchasers.
“On the Dawson Crew, we see no provincial border. The Nationwide Capital Area is simply that, a area that individuals need to name dwelling,” says Dawson. “Being an interprovincial Realtor licensed in each Quebec and Ontario, my group and I are in a position to service any consumer that comes our method and information them via the challenges or fears they could have whereas relocating or deciding between provinces.”
An eye fixed to the longer term
Working in each provinces has additionally given Dawson a leg-up within the luxurious gross sales market – an space he’s wanting to pursue.
At the moment, he has a number of million-dollar-plus listings available on the market, together with Gatineau’s most unique penthouse that includes views of the Ottawa River, Parliament Buildings and the Gatineau Hills, in addition to a uncommon residential/business zoned property within the coronary heart of Previous Chelsea village.
To additional broaden his actual property portfolio, Dawson is partnering with a high-end customized dwelling builder to develop multi-million-dollar estates on undeveloped tons, with building slated to start in 2022.
“It’s an attention-grabbing enterprise proposition that we don’t see typically and it is actually a win-win-win state of affairs for everybody concerned,” says Dawson. “The landowner will get extra by promoting loads with a house on it, the homebuilder positive aspects an unique contract and my group presents that market experience to assist make the gross sales. It’s nearly discovering the fitting companions and connecting individuals collectively.”
Over the past seven years, Dawson has additionally turn out to be an professional on actual property investing and has confirmed outcomes changing his personal properties into multi-unit investments, utilizing the BRRR (buy-renovate-rent-refinace) technique to assist him develop his private portfolio – expertise he additionally makes use of to assist purchasers make knowledgeable BRRR choices.
As Dawson continues to succeed in new ranges of success in his profession – whether or not via promoting properties or his personal actual property funding properties – he seems at each expertise as a chance to hone his craft and study classes that assist him present top-tier service to his purchasers.
“Whether or not you’re shopping for, promoting or investing, you want somebody to symbolize your finest pursuits, offer you good recommendation and information you thru the method,” says Dawson. “I do my finest to create that sincere relationship with my purchasers and I’d say that has been the largest contributor to my total success.”