Mark Bruno

About Our Team

35 year Monterey Peninsula real estate veteran Lynda Nichols has crafted a team of local real estate professionals designed to compliment each other's strengths and more importantly offer their clients unparalleled professional real estate services with a small town personal touch. The combination of an experienced long standing real estate professional, a internet savvy 14 year corporate sales and marketing manager and a full time client care manager brings more to the table when it comes time to prepare your home for sale and expose it to thousands of potential buyers. After all, there are only two reasons your house doesn't sell, either the price is too high or it didn't receive enough exposure to find the right buyer.

Whether looking for your primary residence or a weekend hideaway from the hustle and bustle of the bay area, Lynda's team is well prepared to find you the perfect home that meets both your emotional and physical needs as well as your financial requirements.

Please call, email or stop by our office at 501 Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove and ask for Lynda, Mark or Teresa to experience all we have to offer to you during the process of buying or selling your next home.

Areas of Expertise

There are two areas we like to think we excel in that allow us to better serve our clients. We are exceptional listeners and we are extremely good at marketing your home.

Lynda has 33 years of local real estate experience! Over the years she has continually performed in the top 5% of all realtors in the business and has earned the long term loyalty of her clients. You do not become a long term success in this business without being able to listen to your clients needs, whether they are buyers or sellers, and deliver on their wants and needs.

Mark honed his listening skills while working in the corporate world for 14 yeas prior to taking up real estate. He worked in the mobile electronics field as a product development team leader, a regional sales manager, national sales manager and a managing director in a public company. He managed over 150 sales people in the field all over the country as well as drove product development teams all over the globe. This experience has given him the tools necessary to negotiate on his clients behalf and deliver their wants and needs time and time again.

From a marketing standpoint, we like to stand out from the crowd with exceptional photography and cutting edge video productions of our listings. We take all of our own photography. This allows us to come back on the right day to capture each home in its best light. It is not uncommon for us to visit a home three or four times just to capture the right lighting to get the shot we want. Compare that to a photographer that is hired to take 9 quality photos and makes an appointment at 12:00 noon. If its foggy that day, guess what...you get gloomy, dark pictures. The weather on the Monterey Peninsula is truly unpredictable. There are dozens of micro climates and catching a property at the right time is as much luck as it is skill. You always have to go back more than once!

We recognize that almost every buyer for one of our listings in the past three years learned about the property they ended up purchasing online before they ever spoke to their real estate agent. We like to give this buyer every bit of information possible in order to get them comfortable enough with our listings to want to make the next step and see it in person. We load as many pictures as neccessary to tell the story of a property and most of the time dedicate an entire custom website to that property, again with a real video production of it.

Testimonials

To see the most updated version of what our clients have to say about us, visit this page on our website.

October 23, 2009

They are wonderful, caring, experienced, realtors who I would never hesitate to use again. I could not express the gratitude I feel towards them. They are top notch.

-(Seller) 555 Robinson Street, Monterey, CA 93940 $379,000

September 16, 2009

I felt very confident and secure with them. They were knowledgeable and professional. They know their market and make things run smoothly. I have bought and sold a few homes and this was the most pleasant experience I have had.

-(Seller) 4079 Sunridge Road, Pebble Beach, CA 93953 $815,000

August 28, 2009

My wife & I agree that Linda & Mark Bruno team is the best Real Estate brokers for Monterey Peninsula. PERIOD.!!!!!!! They work really hard to find our Dream House.

-(Buyer) 25390 Quail Summit, Monterey, CA 93940 $1,000,000

July 28, 2009

Outstanding, wonderful and knowledgeable Realtors! Absolutely love them and would use and recommend them.

-(Buyer) 1519 Riata Road, Pebble Beach, CA 93953 $9,200,000

June 5, 2009

The combination of Lynda's wealth of experience and Mark's technology, openness, and friendliness makes a tremendous team! They had a good game plan for our remote buying (from Michigan) of a difficult REO and executed it well.

-(Buyer) Address withheld, Pacific Grove, CA 93950 $1,120,000

May 2, 2009

We were exceedingly happy with the experience with Lynda and Mark. They are a very professional and experience team. We were relocating to the Monterey area and they made the whole process seamless for us. I would highly recommend them to anyone.

-(Buyer) 1146 Arrowhead, Pebble Beach, CA 93953 $1,050,000

January 23, 2009

This was my first house, Mark was recommended by a friend. I could not have gotten a nicer, more helpful person to help me make the most important purchase of my life than Mark Bruno.

-(Buyer) Withheld Address, Hollister, CA 95023 $300,000

January 16, 2009

Very pleased with the service I received; second time I have used Lynda and her team's services.

-(Seller) 898 Archer Street, Monterey, CA 93940 $430,000

December 22, 2008

Extremely professional and helpful. We highly recommend these agents!

-(Buyer) Withheld Address, Monterey, CA 93940 $590,000

December 16, 2008

"As an out of area owner, the task of selling a property in Monterey County seemed daunting. The property had many problems of which I was not aware, since I hadn't seen it in several years. Fortunately, I selected Mark Bruno as my real estate agent for the transaction. He marketed the property online and in print, coordinated showings with the (usually) cooperative tenant, screened potential buyers and kept me informed at every stage of the process. I appreciate his diligence and hard work, and have no hestitation in recommending his real estate services to others.
Thanks, Mark!"

-(Seller) Withheld Address, Carmel, CA 93923 $550,000

November 5, 2008

Through two transactions, separated by 15 years, Linda demonstrated herself to be the best sort of realtor, and professional. We have close friends who are realtors, but used Linda instead because of our experience with her previously. Linda predicted the process of the sale accurately, did everything she said she would, plus some of the other professionals job. She preformed sale critical tasks flawlessly, following up at every important juncture to assure a quick and seamless sale. I recommend her regularly without reservation, and would be happy to discuss our experience with anyone.

-(Buyer) 321 Cayuga Street, Salinas, CA 93907 $276,000

October 28, 2008

Lynda and Mark have worked with us for over 10 years on our real estate purchases. They are very friendly, helpful and professional.

-(Buyer) Withheld Address, Seaside, CA 93955 $918,000

October 17, 2008

We feel that our home purchased was handled with the best informed and most professional real estate teams on the Monterey Peninsula.

-(Buyer) 27745 Mesa Del Toro, Salinas, CA 93908 $1,350,000

July 9, 2008

Could not be more pleased with S. Lynda Nichols and Mark Bruno realtors. There level of local knowledge, professionalism and honesty is unsurpassed. I have been dealing with Lynda for the past 10 years and would never go anywhere else. I have recommended her to many friends and will continue to do so.

-(Seller) 27350 Upper Forty Drive, Carmel Valley, CA 93924 $3,200,000

June 28, 2008

Lynda and Mark are the perfect real estate agents. I am not an easy client and I look for years before buying. They keep me informed and up to date on any listings that match my preferences. They know what I like and don't waste my time with houses that don't match my needs. They are like family and have worked with my mother, my brother and me! They also have the best website around that sends me instant alerts on newly listed houses with my preferences. You would not expect a real estate agent to be honest with you but these two are. They have advised me to wait so I could save money even though they get less money from the deal. They have also worked magic somehow getting me the home of my dreams for a price no one thought I could get it for. I could not ask for better agents.

-(Buyer) 855 Bayview Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA 93950 $725,000

Aug 1, 2007

"Dear Mark, Thank you very much for all of your hard work & attention to our home for sale, it worked! You have a gentle, persuasive nature about you, a benefit to both home buyers & sellers. Thanks too for having a great sense of humor, it really helps to be able to laugh along the way! We wish you & your team the best always. Kind Regards, Lisa & John Burke" Sellers

Feb 10, 2007

"Dear Lynda & Mark, We'd like to thank you for everything you did to help us sell our house! We truly appreciate all the tim and perserverance you put into that project and a special thank you for the generous gesture at closing - Our family will always be grateful. Looking forward to the next time we do business. Fondly, Andrea & Kris"
Andrea and Kris Quist - Sellers