Gail Anderson - Executive Agent Magazine

GAIL
ANDERSON
As a real estate professional with nearly 15 years’
experience in the field, Gail Anderson is wellversed
in the business of buying, marketing
and selling homes. Like many of her contemporaries,
she is skilled at identifying the features that make
each property unique. And she pays extraordinary
attention to details in every aspect of the transactions
she represents. But what truly distinguishes Gail is her
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passion for historical preservation and her commitment
to helping others as they endeavor to maintain the
significance of some of the region’s most established
and distinguished properties.
She didn’t intend to become a specialist in the
architectural treasures of Anaheim’s historic district.
Gail explains that her foray into this niche market came
when she purchased her own home, a
1910’s bungalow in serious need of
care and refurbishment. “I began to
love the home, to understand it,” she
smiles. “Though it needed work, I
realized that I had to honor the history
of the property and the neighborhood.”
It was a pivotal incident, a seed sown
that would eventually blossom into a
veritable garden of historical homes.
Gail carefully tends to the blooms – her
clients and their homes – and cherishes
the unique beauty of each one.
Like the houses she so treasures, Gail
is also a unique and complex individual
with a ripe history of her own. Before
she became a real estate professional
she was a social worker, then a custom
decorator. She went on to enjoy a
thriving career as a top-producing
mortgage broker. For 15 years she
built her business on an acute ability to
connect with others and determine their
specific needs, then to work with them
as they obtained their loan packages.
When the industry began to suffer as a
result of worldwide economic climate
changes, Gail discovered that the spark
that had long driven her professional
success had begun to fade. “There
were so many challenges, and everyone
was stressed,” she recalls. “What had
once been a natural fit and a really fun
experience became tedious.” Wellconnected
within the industry and busy
with the restoration of her own home,
she determined that a transition into
real estate sales would allow her to
continue to nurture clients as they
sought to accomplish their dreams of
home ownership.
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