Simon Warner

Starting Out

In March 1993, Simon Warner decided to pursue a dream. Agreeing with his, some what reluctant wife, that he would take a 90 day leave of absence from his work at United Airlines to attempt to sell in excess of $1,000,000 worth of real estate before he was due back at work. If the goal was achieved, he would transition into full-time real estate brokerage. If not, it was back to his 9-5 job.

Homes For Sale

Successes

Ninety days and $1.2 million in sales later, an encouraged, but conservative Simon Warner returned to United Airlines to ask for an extension of leave. A request which was flatly denied. Now he had a choice to make. Strike-out into real estate or go back to work at UAL and forget about whatever success he had seen those first three months. It wasn’t much of a deliberation. The discussion had already been had at the Warner house and the couple was in agreement that the success had been significant. Before leaving Simon delivered his resignation, shook a few hands, surrendered his security credentials and left IAD’s restricted areas for the last time.

A few months later Simon Warner had the highest sale volume in the Loudoun County area of any rookie during 1994, even though he had only been engaged in real estate for 9 months at that time. His production continued to grow consistently and significantly over the next three to four years.

Transition

Fast forward to 1999 and, after a brief distraction into another sales and marketing venture, Simon is introduced to a new concept in real estate being built by a company called eRealty, later purchased by PREA (Prudential Real Estate Affiliates) for a strong 8 figure price in 2004. By the time PREA makes the acquisition, Simon Warner has become responsible for in excess of 8.7% of national gross commission revenue for the company.

Disappointed by a reorganization that results in all those agents and brokers with significant contributions to the company loosing their stock prior to the sale of the company, Simon chooses not to agree to work for the acquiring company. However, encouraged by his personal growth in sales and other significant contributions to eRealty, he realizes that he has learned all the essential skills to run his own real estate brokerage and to assist other agents in developing their own book of business.

The Birth of a Brokerage

In the summer of 2004, a new company, now known as Market Advantage Real Estate, LLC was born. The company was designed to help a select group of professionals to reach their goals in real estate by learning how to provide the best in service and how to build their market presence.

Utilizing the learned process from past successes for other companies, Simon Warner, quickly built joint ventures in title, settlement, and lending with Old American Title and SunTrust Mortgage.

Later, project and business development experiences working with companies like eRealty, Zillow, and Vast, Inc would assist in agent success systems like agent branded marketing channels for Market Advantage Real Estate agents and associate brokers.

Today, Simon Warner continues to be both the Broker and product manager at Market Advantage Real Estate, LLC. Under the his direction, the brokerage is one of the few companies, started in between 2004 and 2011, that has survived the carnage of the real estate collapse and the slow recovery process. Initially profitable in 2009, one of the worst years on record for real estate in the US, the company continues to serve its residential real estate clients through some of the best professionals in the business and expects to see annual growth in the triple digits during the period from January 2012 through December 2017.