With Sara Madera, you will benefit from Broker experience in Austin, TX since 1984 to help you make informed real estate decisions. Sara offers experienced professional real estate representation for effective residential marketing and for an organized home search for your unique needs and guidance through the purchase process.
Sara sells homes in your neighborhood through skillful, educated assistance with sensitivity to your needs. She can help first-time home buyers, help to settle a parent’s estate, help with enjoying retirement in Austin, with rightsizing for prudent planning or downsizing for a comfortable future. She can assist with simultaneous home sale and purchase, leasing, gated communities, downtown living, townhomes and condos, investors, second homes, new homes and central Austin homes with potential. Her experience includes many areas all around the Austin vicinity.
Sara has been an Austin resident since 1978 with a Houston, Texas upbringing. Educated at Bellaire High School, she has an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master’s degree from the University of Houston. Her previous work includes experience as a School Psychologist, development of a day camp for Head Start, adult education in mental health, Director of an Early Childhood Program and President of the Austin Association for the Education of Young Children. Traveling, gardening, weaving and book clubs are other interests she enjoys.
In the past, Sara collaborated with her husband, Mark Madera, Architect & Builder, in creative additions to and renovations of older homes and the construction of new homes in older neighborhoods with the “Not so Big House” aesthetic.
Consistently honored for excellence, Sara’s clear-sighted resourcefulness will focus on your Real Estate needs. Clients say Sara is “calm”, “competent”, “patient”, “knowledgeable”, “helped me make an informed decision”, is “a creative problem solver”, a “successful negotiator”, “an assertive advocate” and “a pleasure to work with”.
Community Involvement
West Austin Neighborhood Group previous board member
Previous board member of the Austin Friends of Folk Art
Previous Task Force Member of the Austin Folk Art Museum
Volunteer usher for the Long Center for the Performing Arts
Volunteer usher for the Austin Symphony Orchestra
Awards
Austin Business Journal #2 Top Team, Carol Dochen Realtors, 2016
Platinum Top 50 Finalist 2012, 2013
Platinum Top 50 Nominee, Austin Business Journal 2001
Top Producer, Turnquist Partners REALTORS, 1993
