New Haven Register (Sunday) (New Haven, CT)
Milford Realtor focuses on condo living, waterfront properties
After starting a job as a manager for a commercial property firm in the 1990s, Julia Siegman got her real estate license so she could properly handle on-site issues with the properties that were owned by the corporation.
Over the years, she gained experience in residential real estate, relocation and property management, as an assistant manager of a residential sales office and now as a sales associate with the Michael and Julia Siegman Team of William Raveis Real Estate.
“Together we make a great sales team” Siegman said. “Mike has great technical skills and I have broad real estate management skills. Before we became a team, we each worked for competing companies so ‘pillow talk’ was forbidden. Now we collaborate constantly to assist our clients.”
For Siegman, the most rewarding part of being a Realtor is helping clients achieve their dreams by guiding them through a very complicated process.
“This is probably the most expensive transaction of their lives,” she said. “We help them avoid the many pitfalls that can and do occur.”
Having been condominium owners and condo board members for many years, the team specializes in the ins and outs of condo living, with condominiums making up a significant proportion of their transactions.
Siegman credits the Raveis Company as being highly innovative and constantly implementing new ideas for selling and marketing properties. She says Raveis is very advanced in using new technical aids as well as traditional advertising to help each agent achieve the best results for their clients. The team relies heavily on social media advertising as their chief marketing tool and supplements that with property brochures.
Siegman monitors the status of the market daily to stay on top of market conditions and constantly takes education classes as well as keeps abreast of changes in the laws to watch out for her clients’ best interests.
She is active in the Milford American Red Cross. She and her husband are involved with a “Loaves and Fishes” church group whose mission is to feed the homeless. They are passionate about skiing, sailing, travel, and most importantly, their three sons and three grandchildren.