Anne Lok

About Anne:

Design-focused Urban Real Estate

Anne Lok began her career as an intern architect at several award winning architecture firms, and continues to be active in a variety of design consulting. As a licensed full time design-conscious real estate professional, Anne understands architecture, design, resource-efficiency, sustainable design for healthier environments, affordable quality and value for modern living. Recently, Anne has extended her services to helping homeowners acquire energy efficient modern prefab homes by Hive Modular for urban infill sites in Toronto. Her overall services are not only limited to design conscious homes, she also has expertise in helping you source and market all aspects of conventional residential and commercial properties that suit your individual needs in Toronto's vibrant communities.

Pls goto website www.annelok.com to check out Anne's marketing, special services, and sale/purchase/retrofit services for new and resale homes, and green properties in Toronto.

Education:

Master of Advanced Architectural Design Columbia University, New York

Bachelor of Architecture Carleton University, Ottawa

Awards and Achievements:

Homelife Silver Club Award 2011

Homelife Presidents Club Award 2008

Membership and Affiliation:

RECO, CREA, OREA, TREB

Areas of Expertise

-Specialize in working with first time buyers, move-up buyers, green consumers, design oriented community (as well as all conventional real estate services)

-Dwelling types:

• Affordable dwellings with a design aesthetic
• Modern Prefab by Hive Modular
• Urban Infill + Laneway Housing
• Mid-Century + Historic dwellings
• EcoProperties
• Architects Designed Homes
• Boutique Condos + Lofts
• Adaptive Re-use/ Rebuild

-Specific market areas: Corktown, Regent Park, Cabbagetown, King West Village, West Queen West, Trinity Bellwoods, Little Italy, Kensington Market, Brockton Village, Roncesvalles, High Park, Parkdale, King/ Spadina, Downtown Toronto- Bay Corridor, Leslieville, Danforth, St Lawrence Market, Historic Distillery, Film District, Liberty Village

Testimonials

Emily W- I am currently residing in the UK and I choose Anne because her level of service is really first rate and stood out from the competition. Despite the distance and time difference, Anne always made herself available and communication was never an issue. I could trust Anne and I choose her because I was confident that I could leave everything in her hands and that she would work hard putting in 100% of her effort to sell my property in Toronto. I also liked the fact that she came across as confident and knowledgeable but never arrogant or aggressive which showed a level of professionalism that was impressive.

Carl Orbach QC, LLB, BA Mayor of Cabbagetown -You are a good agent. You worked very hard on the matter and kept and protected your cleints' interest in this sale. You also had to deal with 2 vendor's on a difficult sale. You should be proud or yourself in how you handled this deal. Many agents put client's protection second. You were a good example of a what a good agent does, and kept involved throughout.

Mary-Anne and Pak Sen- Thank you just isn't enough for all you have done for us. We really appreciate your efforts in finding us our new tenants in such a timely fashion. Everything you do is so orgainized and complete. You really take the time to explain things thoroughly and carefully. We are so lucky to have you as our realtor. Thanks again for all your tremendous help.

Wally and Joanne T -We would like to thank you for such an excellent job that you have done for us in leasing out our commercial property. You were very professional and went out of your way to do the little things that most agents wouldn't do for their clients. You have made exceptional efforts in getting the property leased out quickly. You are very knowledgeable and informing us every step of the way. Your advices to us were greatly appreciated. We would definitely refer you to anyone who needs a good realtor. Hoping to do some more business with you in the future! Thanking you again from the bottom of our hearts.

Tom E - From the moment I saw your web site, I knew you were the right real estate agent to help me find that unique project, to turn into a home / office / workshop. I know my taste and requirements are a bit unusual, and varied, I can get interested in very different dwellings for equally various reasons. Your knowledge of architecture, was a great asset to understanding my requirements. Your marketing of my old house was exceptional. The website, the floorplan, the printed material were far beyond the industry norm. Thank you for helping me find my new home (new project)! I hope to work with you again in the future.

Michael D and Lisa S - Our home buying experience was excellent because of you and your extraordinary efforts to find us exactly what we were looking for. Our experience with you was better than my best expectations of dealing with a professional real estate agent, and I've been very proudly spreading the word, and encourage anyone I've come across in need of an agent to look you up.

Best success in all your future business, and we are already looking forward to working with you again on our next home or investment purchase.

Caroline W - Anne was very knowledgeable, helpful and savvy when it came to selling
my condo. Being new to the real estate market, she left no question
unanswered and made the whole process extremely painless. I am now on
my second purchase and feel like a seasoned veteran, thanks Anne!

Yang Family - I really enjoyed the services Anne provided as our real estate agent when selling our house. Aside from suggestions such as un-clutter, Anne proactively re-arranged items to help stage our house impeccably for each open house to which I am sure added traffic because of it. She also respected our decision on the bottom-line price during the tough negotiation phase, and relieved us from the tedious legal details, but however, provided answers where we had them.

Chris S and Veronica M- It all started when my fiancee, Veronica, made it absolutely clear to me that she would not be happy much longer in our one bedroom apartment which basically meant I would not be happy much longer either. For the first few days while she searched by phoning around, we hit up a few open houses and so I got a general idea of what real estate agents were like as people. All personable, most were quite professional but they were all as I had imagined, 'sales people'.

But then along came Anne Lok. Veronica was so excited to let me know that she found the one. She had taken her search very seriously as she does with most of her obsessive compulsive missions in life so when she got excited that the mission was completed succesfully, I couldn't help but feel overwhelming relief as well. She went on about how she got such a good vibe over the phone and although I was a little sceptical before we actually met our agent, by the end of that first meeting I was just as excited about our newly acquired house hunting hobby.

Anne supplied us with everything we needed to make our important decision, including historical prices, regional amenities, zoning laws, required electrical upgrades, real estate market trends in the various areas and a bunch of not so easily understood legal matters. But it was not her knowledge base or her ability to express the necessary information to us which impressed us, it was the way she did it. It was as if one of our close friends was taking us on scenic tours of Toronto, from Lansdowne to Woodbine, from Eglinton to Lakeshore and every residential area in between.

My fiancee and i had started looking for a two bedroom condo to fulfill our needs then shifted the search to a house and back and forth a few times during our hunt. There were times during the search when even a long time friend may have gotten fed up with us, but Anne stayed patient and understanding, bending to accomodate her two overly emotional clients. As the months went by Veronica and I felt our confidence building as Anne's shared knowledge was digested and we were able to determine property values on our own. In the end, we ended up with exactly what we were looking for the entire time.

Anne's friendly nature combined with expert knowledge of her business made a potentially torturous period in our life into a pleasurable experience which I am actually looking forward to repeating a few years down the road when we are ready to flip our lovely new home. Seven months of searching, well over thirty viewings (seemed like hundreds by the last month) and three unsuccessful offers later, I am delighted to say that we ended up in the best home possible found for us by the best possible agent.