Having grown up in Houston and then spending time in London and Dubai in her twenties, Rayya is proud to call Texas home again and even more proud to be a resident of The Woodlands!
Having undergone the stresses of navigating the unprecedented 2020-2022 Real Estate environment in Houston, she thoroughly enjoyed the process, and loves to help buyers and sellers through the detailed process. Seeing beyond the initial aesthetics, she focused on traffic patterns, length of school pickup lines, inspections (including non-required stucco drilling), access to main fairways during flood events, HOAs, elevation levels, drainage work done by MUD or Township after major storms, construction quality (Pex pipes, HVAC zoning and efficiency), and the other details that most miss.
Rayya is committed to continuing education coursework that covers updated legal forms, tax issues, foreign ownership, negotiations and more. As of June 2023, she has a (CNE) Certified Negotiation Expert Designation which only 1% of Realtors in the Nation have achieved from the Real Estate Negotiation Institute.
As of 10/14/2022, she is one of 16 licensed Realtors in the North Houston area to attend and pass the test for Residential Mortgage Financing- an in-depth guide for realtors to help negotiate closing costs for buyers and achieve seller contributions towards mortgage buy downs.
As part of the BHGRE-The Woodlands office, she recognizes the enormous advantage of being integrated into an office that has consistently been able to achieve a sold price/list price ratio exceeding 100% for their clients over the years. For buyer clients, her ability in specialized inspections and getting quotes for remodels/upgrades has consistently helped her buyer clients achieve thousands of dollars in seller concessions at closing or contributions to buy downs (decreasing the buyer’s mortgage rate)
She is an active member at First Presbyterian Church in Houston and is working towards Certification in Counseling from the ACBC.
