Who we are
Stackly began in 2009 with two advisors, one market and a rule that still holds: write the valuation before showing the house. Seventeen years later we work across twelve US markets and cap the register at thirty-four residences a year.
Our story
The practice was founded by two advisors who had spent a decade watching good houses sold badly — priced by comparison alone, marketed before they were understood, and negotiated by people who had never read the plans.
We built Stackly to work the other way round. Every engagement opens with a written memo. Every market has a resident partner who lives in it. Every file stays with the partner who opened it, through to closing.
That method has limits, and we accept them. Thirty-four residences a year is the ceiling; it is also the reason our clients reach a partner on the first call rather than a coordinator.
In the last two years we advised against eleven purchases. Three of those buyers returned within the year for a better house and bought it with us.
Transacted since 2009
$2.1B
Sold before public listing
61%
Residences a year, capped
34
Markets with a resident partner
12
Vision & mission
Two statements we actually use to decide things — which mandates to take, which to turn down, and what gets written before a house is shown.
We want buying a premium home to feel like reading a survey rather than watching a performance. That means fewer listings, more written work, and advisors who are willing to talk a client out of a house.
Thirty-four mandates a year, each led by the partner who walked the house. We measure, we price, we write it down, and we stand behind the number when the survey arrives.
Philosophy
A written memo — comparables, carrying cost, likely exit, honest downside — before a single viewing is scheduled.
The advisor who surveys the property negotiates it and signs off the closing. No hand-offs mid-transaction.
Each market is covered by an advisor who lives there, not by a travelling team with a spreadsheet.
Most of our sales conclude before a public listing exists. Owners keep control of who knows and when.
Client approach
Brief. One conversation to set city, architecture, budget and timing — and what you would refuse.
Survey. We search the register, the private files, and owners who have not listed.
Memo. A written valuation on each shortlisted property, delivered before you walk it.
Negotiation and close. Your partner runs it, then stays available for renovation and resale timing.
Our team
Managing partner · Miami
Waterfront and new construction. Seventeen years, mostly inside one zip code.
Partner · Los Angeles
Hillside and post-war architecture. Trained as a structural engineer.
Partner · New York
Co-op boards, full-floor resale, and the paperwork nobody enjoys.
Head of valuation
Writes every memo the practice issues. Prefers the unpopular number.
In their words
Collected after completion, published with permission.
They told us not to buy the first house we loved. Six weeks later they found the one we should have been looking at, and the memo explained exactly why.
The valuation arrived before the viewing, which I had never seen before. Every number in it held up when the survey came back.
We sold off the register. Four introductions, one offer, and not a single photograph on the internet — which was the entire point.
Tell us what you are trying to do. If we are not the right advisory for it, we will say so and point you somewhere better.
