Jenny Heinzen

About Us:

Jenny Heinzen has completed $85 million in transactions during the past four years. In 2006 she was awarded the prestigious national distinction of Realtor® Magazine's "30 under 30". Chosen as part of a group of only thirty honorees nationwide, she was acknowledged for her product-specific expertise and demonstrated success.

Education

· BS in Agricultural Business, concentration in Marketing. Minor in Wine and Viticulture. Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

· MS in Agriculture with MBA coursework. Technical Writing Certificate. Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

• Master's Certificate in Wine Business. University of Adelaide, Australia

Credentials and Affiliations

· Licensed California Real Estate Broker, CRS

· Leadership Napa Valley, Class 20 (2006-2007)

· Women's Council of Realtors, Napa Chapter, 2008 President-elect

• Member of the North Bay, California and National Association of REALTORS®

Professional Background

· Project Manager for a wine industry mergers and acquisitions firm

• Wine industry experience in marketing, production, lab analysis, hospitality, feasibility analysis and valuations.

Personal

· Accomplished Horse Show Jumper

• Resides in Napa Valley with her husband, a viticulturist for a local winery

Areas of Expertise

About Lifestyle Properties
LifeStyle Properties is one of the most unique brokerages in the Napa Valley, with several sub-specialties to better serve our clients. The brokerage was founded in 2001 by Broker/Owner Katie Somple. The concept of LifeStyle Properties came from the realization that the Napa Valley is a destination real estate market where people come in search of a particular lifestyle that is synonymous with wine country living. Some want to own a winery or a vineyard, some want a hobby vineyard as landscaping, some come to Napa Valley to live in an architecturally significant vintage home, some want to operate a quaint B&B, and others simply want to enjoy the borrowed landscape of vineyards.

The sub-specialities affiliated with LifeStyle Properties, WineryX and NapaVintageHomes.com, have developed into a burgeoning niche marketing approach to buying and selling real estate.
LifeStyle Properties specializes in Fine Homes and Estates. The average transaction value of this brokerage ranges around $3,000,000, with the success rate of closing more than a dozen estate transactions of this caliber in recent times. (click here to preview a list of most recent transactions). LifeStyle Properties has had astonishing success even though it has only been in existence since 2001, reaching the elite 20% of the most active agencies doing 80% of the valley's real estate transactions, on a more focused personal scale.

WineryX Real Estate was established to serve the highly specialized niche of winery real estate. Managing confidentiality and the marketing skills required to effectively market real estate assets in conjunction with a wine business was a grossly under-served niche, requiring extensive valuation skills and knowledge not possessed by most residential agents. The popularity of WineryX was self-propelling due to the demand of the specialty. LifeStyle Properties and WineryX became ideal cousins, since buyers of wineries and vineyards often start out thinking they want to own a winery or vineyard, only to discover that what they really want is the wine country lifestyle, not the risk and responsibility.

In 2003 Jenny Heinzen joined the firm when the WineryX Real Estate division became more popular than Katie Somple could personally handle. With her background and formal education in the wine industry Jenny's input has catapulted WineryX to the preeminent real estate brokerage for wineries in the state, and beyond. Jenny holds two wine business related Masters Degrees from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. She is also a Broker, and was recently chosen by Realtor Magazine to the elite group "30Under30", which recognizes the most up and coming young Realtors across the country. In the spring of 2006 Jenny launched a second specialty, NapaVintageHomes.com. This comprehensive website provides one-stop-shopping for fans of vintage real estate. Buyers can avoid having to filter through ranch style homes and new homes and get right to the heart of the wine country's extensive inventory of architecturally significant, historical residences.

Betsy Buckwald joined theLifeStyle Properties team in 2004 with a background in B&B ownership. She has key insight on the realities and challenges of operating a bed and breakfast, learned from her own experience operating a B&B in St. Helena and Mendocino. Buyers and sellers who work with Betsy have the advantage of her experience in the marketplace. In addition to specializing in Bed & Breakfast real estate Betsy works with many first-time buyers and sellers of Napa Valley homes in the upper valley areas.

Whatever the lifestyle you are in search of LifeStyle Properties offers expertise advantage, giving our clients the edge in market knowledge and negotiation.

LifeStyle Properties: Distinctive. Specialized. Strategic

Testimonials

Looking for a savvy agent with extensive local knowledge of real estate values and trends? An agent who is well-respected by peers and who has demonstrated time and again exemplary negotiation skills? You have certainly come to the right place. You have three excellent agents to choose from at LifeStyle Properties:

Katie Somple, Broker/Owner of LifeStyle Properties is the author and publisher of The Inside Track Newsletter the preeminent source of real estate activity and information for the greater St. Helena area and beyond. Her well-researched and authoritative approach to analyzing the market and trends give her the edge when negotiating "real" market values on behalf of the Buyers she represents. Her average transaction value ranges around $3,000,000 , but she represents Buyers at all levels who want a confident and effective negotiator on their side of the table.

Jenny Heinzen, Broker Associate, has two Masters degrees from Cal Poly. She was recently chosen to the elite "30Under30" group of the best up and coming Realtors in the country and is the St. Helena Chamber of Commerce's chosen representative to participate in the 2006-2007 Leadership Napa Valley program (an annual countywide program that grooms the future leaders of Napa Valley). Needless to say Jenny has more on the ball than a dozen agents rolled into one! Jenny's demure personality is very persuasive and she gets what she sets out to get with a respectful positive-energy approach.

Betsy Buckwald is the Columbo of Napa Valley real estate agents. She is a bulldog and will stay with a task until it is successfully completed. More than a go-getter, Betsy is a can-do agent. She is tireless when it comes to showing Buyer's properties, and her skills of pulling escrows through impossible situations is legendary. She's not afraid to ask for anything on behalf of her Buyers. Got a challenge? You want Betsy on your team.