Brenda vanderMerwe

Brenda has been an active real estate broker in the Boston area for the past twenty years, and in that time has won numerous awards and has developed lasting relationships and extensive experience with her clients, listing and selling homes not only in the existing single-family and condominium markets, but also in the fields of luxury homes and new construction. She has worked intensively with clients on condominium conversion projects with multi-family homes, investment and income properties of all types, she has been instrumental in assisting many investors and new developers build their portfolios, and in helping many first-time home buyers enter the market.

As a seasoned broker with twenty years’ experience and over $375,000,000 in sold properties, she has managed successful transactions for both buyers and sellers in many communities around the Boston area. With her multi-faceted and cutting-edge marketing strategies, analytical approach to both buying and selling, ambitious production levels, and engaging personality, she has a proven track record as a top producer in the Boston area, with an average sales volume in the top 1% of agents. For 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, she achieved the company-wide distinction of International President’s Premier, an award featuring the Top 1% of 100,000 NRT Agents Internationally. For 2021, she received the Coldwell Banker International Society of Excellence Award, a distinctive honor awarded to the top 53 elite sales professionals of all NRT Coldwell Banker affiliated sales associates nationwide. In 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, she was named “Top Real Estate Producer” by Boston Magazine. In 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 she was ranked in the top 1.5% of individual real estate professionals by RealTrends America, from among more than 1.6 million licensed Realtors nationwide. Brenda is also a Cartus Certified Corporate Relocation Specialist.

Brenda has also assisted members of the Boston Red Sox to buy and sell homes in the greater Boston area. She has worked with attorneys, doctors and chiefs of surgery at various hospitals in the Boston area, Google executives, CEOs of major national and global multi-national companies, and many professors and educators tenured at local area universities. While Brenda’s primary focus is Newton, Brookline and Chestnut Hill, she has also sold a tremendous number of properties in the surrounding communities of Boston, Cambridge, Belmont, Arlington, Lexington, Somerville, Needham, Wellesley and Watertown, helping her clients in the communities where they wish to sell and buy. In addition, Brenda has over twenty years' experience as a landlord in the Boston area.