Gail DeMarco: Top St Johns County FL Agent
What would change in your business if you treated time as your most valuable commodity and priced every hour accordingly?
In this episode of the Real Estate Excellence Podcast, Tracy Hayes sits down with luxury agent and team leader Gail DeMarco. Gail drops the polite filter and lays out how she built a near billion in lifetime sales by staying lean, obsessing over data, and designing a brand that shows up everywhere. From four open houses every weekend to hyper-focused farming and YouTube consistency, she explains exactly how she creates momentum in new markets and turns listings into market share.
The conversation digs into hiring for coachability, running a tight listing operation, delegating fast, and engineering deals with assumable loans and lender-powered rate buydowns. It is an unvarnished masterclass on standards, time discipline, and creative structure in a tough market, capped with faith-driven leadership and straight talk on saying no to bad fits.
If this episode pushed you to tighten your standards and reclaim your calendar, share it with one agent who needs a wake-up call and DM us the one change you will make this week.
Highlights:
0:00-5:59 Numbers that make you sit up
- Why she is in the business of real estate not just a realtor
- Team goal: everyone should out-earn the leader
- 2023 production 389M team, 80M personal
- Lean teams beat big teams, people get lost
- Expect scar tissue and weekly tears on the climb
10:00-13:00 Branding that actually moves property
- Name recognition as the north star, top of mind wins listings
- Premium signage and consistent open house experience
- Compliance first, even with team branding
- Treat 450k and multi-million the same, remove ego
- Hospitality touches: Fiji water, booklets, consistency
15:51-19:59 Mailers metrics and momentum
- Four-page data-driven mailers co-op with lender
- Pull the plug when the farm does not pencil, like a stock
- Proof of everywhere affects community recognition
- Give to the community and spend to make money
- YouTube surge from 400 to 67k with consistency
20:20-22:20 Hyper-focus and the price of time
- Farm a few micro-markets deeply
- Co-list luxury so you can be everywhere the listing needs
- Signs concentrate perception: you sell everything here
- Time is the most valuable commodity, price your hours
- If it is not on calendar, it is a no, including Pilates conflicts
52:20-1:00:37 Delegate to elevate and operational excellence
- If it is not income producing, do not do it
- Pay a premium TC to keep you out of real estate jail
- Contact sport: get off the modules and host more opens
- Role play Breakfast Club for objections
- When to spend three hundred monthly or get a part-time job
1:01:48-1:07:14 Creative deals, lenders, and the close
- Advertise payment, not price: buydowns beat reductions
- Assumable loans open doors with patience on closing
- Competing with builders: incentives and differentiation
- Say no to listings that cannot appraise or perform
- Closeout lender love and episode wrap
Quotes:
“I am not a realtor I am in the business of real estate.” – Gail DeMarco
“I want everyone on my team to make more money than me that is my goal.” – Gail DeMarco
“Your most valuable commodity is your time.” – Gail DeMarco
“You have to delegate to elevate.” – Gail DeMarco
To contact Gail DeMarco, learn more about her business, and make her a part of your network, make sure to follow her on her Website, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, and LinkedIn.
Connect with Gail DeMarco!
Website: https://www.movetostjohnsfl.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/relentlessrealtor/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gail.d.demarco/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LivinginStJohnsStJohnsCountyFL
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaildemarco/
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