“I consider myself very fortunate to have had the privilege to work with Ms. Angela Retelny for over 20 years. She is, quite simply, the finest real estate professional I could have ever imagined working with and has become a dear friend to me and my family.

Angela is meticulous, extremely skillful, experienced, and remarkably hard-working. She is completely devoted to her craft and understands the many subtle nuances of real estate transactions. She is kind, personable, considerate, generous, and honorable. She understands how critical buying / selling / renting a home is as a major life decision for every one of her clients. She is highly sensitive to every concern that we may ever express.

For over 20 years she has helped me many times to search to buy a home, sell a home, and to rent a home. She has become a trusted member of our family. Angela’s experience and wisdom have enabled my family and me to achieve financially optimal results every time, and to make each experience a very positive one with minimal stress.

We are also delighted to have more recently worked with her remarkably talented daughter, Ms. Jessica Shames, who is equally skillful, devoted, personable, hard-working, and as successful as Mrs. Angela Retelny.

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“When you hire a real estate broker, you really need to work with someone who is smart, sensitive, understands your comfort level, and is committed to you 100% of the time.

Angela Retelny came recommended by one of our neighbors. Her team personally staged our home and made the preparation process very easy for us. With her direction and execution, our home sold within a few days at much higher than our asking price!

We trusted Angela Retelny and she delivered!

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“My husband and I respect and appreciate Angela Retelny. She has helped us buy a house, rent a house, and sell a house! In all three transactions she was active, professional, thorough, and expert.

Of the three transactions, the most challenging was selling our old house, because not everyone wants to buy a vintage Tudor. Angela “got” our house. She advised us on how to prepare it to show, worked with us to analyze comparable sales and set an ambitious yet realistic price, hustled to find buyers who wanted a house like ours, and closed the deal with the perfect family.

Throughout this process she actively communicated with us, and kept her cool even when we were worried.

Angela has made a real difference in our lives. You couldn’t ask for a better realtor.

We are grateful that she is ours.

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“Angela Retelny and her team are simply Best in Class.

Having 20-plus years of selling luxury residential brokerage experience myself, I knew many agents to consider when selling my home in the Fox Meadow section of Scarsdale. We owned a very special home and wanted not only one of the most accomplished agents in the area but we wanted a great human being. We got both with Angela!

Angela is a superstar! In a very challenging market, Angela and her team thrive. Her commitment, insights, invaluable suggestions, and quality to attention when marketing her properties are a talent you cannot teach.

Not surprising we found another spectacular home we loved down the street and Angela happened to be the broker on that listing as well. Another great experience!

We are so grateful to have had the experience of working with such a talented, hard-working, honest, friendly and kind human being. Selling real estate is more than just about making sales. It’s no wonder Angela and her team are one of Westchester’s top brokers.

There is no one else I would rather recommend or want to work with again.

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“As first-time buyers, we were lucky to work with Angela and Jessica Retelny. These two talented agents held our hands throughout the entire process and made us feel completely comfortable with the important journey of buying our first home. It was truly an education!

Angela’s superpower is knowing the market inside and out. She was always spot on with what a house would sell for and what it would take to put together a winning offer on the most coveted houses.

Angela and Jessica provided us with every advantage to place adequate bids and advised us incredibly well. While they predicted well in advance what the “magic number” to win a bid should be, they always made sure we kept sight of what was within reason for each house and which houses were worth pursuing keeping in mind future resale and their potential to appreciate in value and be desirable properties in all types of markets.

It was important that the deal felt right to us and that we were pursuing the ideal long-term house for our family and we knew that they had our best interest in mind every step of the way to ensure this happened. We always felt that Angela and Jessica truly had our back and wanted us to be happy, so we trusted them immensely.

Working with them paid off. They ultimately found us our forever dream home! We loved working with them so much and the happy ending was a huge surprise: after a long search, they found a perfect house for us just across the street from their own family home! They knew this was our dream location and they made it happen! We are beyond excited with the outcome of our search.

Thank you to the Angela Retelny Team for your laser-focused dedication, creativity, great negotiation skills and humor. We so appreciate you helping us find our forever home! Anyone looking to buy or sell a house would be lucky to have you as their agents and advisors.”

“We would never have found our new home if we had not first found Angela. Her knowledge of the housing market - in every neighborhood - is second to none. Angela was fully committed to finding us a home - not just one we loved, but one that was right for our family.

She patiently took us to see dozens of houses over several months all over Westchester. In fact, she made so many trips with us to the house we ultimately purchased that our kids still refer to it as “Angela’s house.”

Angela is uniquely sensitive to the emotional component of home-buying. She spent countless hours after-showings helping to review pro/con lists of each property and providing invaluable insights that we often did not think of. She is beyond meticulous—no detail went unnoticed. And despite all the hours and weekends Angela devoted to our search, she never once pressured us to make a decision. She remained a calming, level-headed presence, available to us day and night to answer questions from nervous first time home buyers (and we had many!).

Her generosity with her time and dedication to her clients is truly unparalleled.

After we made the decision to bid on our home, Angela went to bat for us at the negotiation table. Not only did she help us secure an incredible deal, but she was there to expertly guide us through the next steps - inspection, mortgage, vendors for repairs - to ensure a smooth transaction. This has continued through present day - now months after our closing. Angela continues to check in to see how we are settling in and give us priceless recommendations, from handymen to decorating to preschools.

Angela was, hands down, the best part of our home-buying process.

She is honest, savvy and incredibly kind. She is also a wonderful person who we enjoyed spending time with. We truly feel like we not only got a great house but also made a great friend. Angela clearly loves what she does, which is what makes her the best of the best. We could not recommend her more highly to anyone looking to purchase a home in Westchester!

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“In very challenging times and an incredibly difficult real estate market, Angela and Jessica achieved the impossible and successfully helped us find the perfect home for our family. Angela and Jessica’s attention to detail, persistence and unprecedented knowledge of the Scarsdale market was invaluable, especially as first-time buyers. We are excited for the road ahead as Scarsdale residents and highly recommend working with The Angela Retelny Team at Compass. The absolute best!!

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“We have known Angela Retelny since 2012 when she sold us our first house in Scarsdale.

We were competing against 12 other buyers in multiple bids for the house bought. With Angela’s guidance and understanding of the market, we successfully placed the winning bid to close the deal under very competitive circumstances.

We have worked closely with Angela on FOUR successful transactions. She sold us our current home and also sold our previous home for us in less than a week with multiple offers and competing bids.

We have been very pleased with Angela’s performance as our real estate agent in Scarsdale and have always felt that she works tirelessly to represent our best interest to achieve the results we are after. Angela is extremely knowledgeable, experienced, effective, results-oriented and truly caring about her clients and meeting their goals.

She makes the impossible, possible. We wouldn’t work with anyone else.

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“Having moved to four different countries in the last 10 years, I was particularly concerned with navigating the real state market in America, especially a competitive market as Scarsdale. A friend strongly recommended Angela, and she made my whole relocation process much smoother.

Angela’s knowledge of the market together with her honest insights and tireless work made all the difference. She soon understood what kind of property we were looking for, and strived to find a perfect match for us. She was there at every viewing and available 24/7 answering every small question, ready to double check the smallest detail and raising questions we hadn’t even thought about.

When we finally found our dream home, Angela got us through a very difficult negotiation, guiding us every step of the way and leading to a successful result. We felt we could trust her advice and that gave us peace of mind in a process that can be very stressful.

Her process expertise is also outstanding. She recommended us an attorney, wasn’t happy with his work and quickly found us someone else who was able to expedite the closing process.

After we bought our house, Angela provided information and recommendations on services, contractors and everything else I needed. Until today I count on her network whenever the need arises. We were very fortunate to work with Angela Retelny and will definitely work with her again and recommend her to everyone.
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“It is with great pleasure that my family and I would like to give Ms. Angela Retelny our absolutely strongest possible recommendation and enthusiastic endorsement. She is a truly remarkable real estate agent, who has become a close friend to our family.

We are truly fortunate in having encountered Angela. I have now known Angela for well over a decade. When my family was searching for a home in Scarsdale, she tirelessly showed us numerous houses, while always offering remarkably objective insights into the properties. This quality is so rare in other agents. We never felt that Angela was just trying to sell us a home … she was trying to find the proper match for our family.

She was available to us day and night, and she is gifted with wonderful interpersonal skills. She is meticulous by nature, and is always careful to make sure that no detail is neglected. She has a remarkable ability to find common ground, and to facilitate negotiations. Angela has the highest ethical character.

We always felt that having Angela as our agent gave us an enormous advantage and peace of mind throughout this challenging process.

You can imagine how happy we were to ask Angela to represent us as our agent when we sold our Scarsdale property. Her advice, as always, led to outstanding results. She has helped us to optimally prepare our home for sale. She was relentless in informing potential buyers, both residential and builders, about the many qualities of our property. Angela did much to generate great interest in our listing, and her thoughtful approach resulted in multiple competing bids being placed.

Angela was instrumental in securing a sale price that was considerably higher than our listing price. We were delighted!

Since then, Angela’s role has gone far beyond that of a real estate agent. She more recently expertly guided our plans for home renovations and rentals. Under her careful and thoughtful direction, we were able to beautifully renovate two small homes in Scarsdale. These improvements proved to be wonderful investments, as she has had no trouble renting them for us over the years. I am sure that none of this would have been possible without her vision and support.

But I have not conveyed yet the most important of Angela’s many qualities: She has become a close friend to me and my family. She is remarkably kind and patient. She understands that buying and selling a home involves many strong emotions, and this is a life-changing event that is not simply a business decision to most of us. It puts us in a time of turmoil, and I feel that she always seems particularly sensitive to this issue.

Angela has so many intangible qualities that I simply cannot convey in writing. Simply put, she is a wonderful person all around. If you are fortunate enough to work with Angela, I am certain that you will feel very fortunate to have done so.
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