Simon Warner

How it started

In the early part of the new millennium Simon Warner had been a national top producer, multi-million dollar and presidents club member, even a Realtor honor society, as a real estate professional, and Realtor member, for almost a decade. With this experience, it was little wonder that the company he had now chosen to affiliate with, eRealty, had sort out his insights into the grass roots of real estate transaction. His then Market Director, Ben Clark, and accomplished businessman and eventually COO of eRealty regularly met with Simon to get his insights on new ideas for company development. The relationship worked well and, while both Simon Warner and Ben Clark have moved on to new projects and companies, they still enjoy a strong creative relationship today.

PREA

CondoDomain.com

Zillow.com

Vast.com

USAA

The second and third time around

Following the purchase of eRealty by PREA (Prudential Real Estate Affiliates), Simon Warner launched his own brokerage, as did others in the company. Under Simon’s management and development, With less funds, experience, and capital than the other launches, the company now known as Market Advantage Real Estate, LLC – a Virginia based company, has managed to develop and grow where most real estate brokerages started between 2004 and 2011 have disappeared.

During these initial years of growth, other companies have ask Simon Warner to help them in different capacities. Simon has made contributions to companies such as CondoDomain.com, Zillow.com, and Vast.com doing everything from developing market a single market as City VP of Baltimore for CondoDomain.com to developing a national real estate brokerage data and service network for Vast.com. Simon’s contributions at Vast.com were instrumental in bringing about the real estate portal at consumer brand giant Overstock.com. The successes and lessons learned at Overstock.com, later became valuable for the development of similar portals, one of which is USAA’s Home Circle portal, which offers “preferred brokers” to its members. As of 2011 this system is powered by Vast.com’s white label property search.

Product Development vs Project Management

While the majority of Simon Warner’s work involves the management of people and processes, functions that neatly fit into the PM job description, many of the projects he has undertaken are for the development and marketing of specific products within an offering. For instance, Vast, Inc is not a real estate specific company, but rather it is a vertical search company, offering a white label vertical search for three major verticals – real estate, auto, and travel. The projects undertaken at Market Advantage Real Estate were primarily chartered, executed, and delivered to ensure that the consumer service and professional recruiting products were viable and continued to grow. At CondoDomain.com much of the focus offered by Simon Warner was targeted the hand-off of consumers to agents in a seamless process to enhance the internet based service product offering. In almost every case, his roles from content expert, compliance advisor, product developer, to project manager, his focus has been to develop, deliver, and market in a collaborative team environment.

The next chapter

Going forward, Simon Warner has the stated goal of managing projects that generate winning products for innovative companies focused on strengthening the American economy and encouraging pursuit of the American dream.