About Grand Real Estate

Grand Real Estate is a family business in Eugene. Robert Grand owns the brokerage and is its principal broker. His wife, Shelly Kane, owns and runs the companies that get a house ready before it ever lists.

That arrangement is unusual, and it is the entire reason our listing method works. It is also something we tell you about in plain type further down this page, rather than making you find it.

Robert Grand

Robert has spent 24 years in emergency services, most of it leading crews in the hours when a plan meets reality and one of the two has to give. That work teaches a few things that turn out to matter when you are selling a house: how a building is actually put together, how to stay level when something goes sideways at 11pm, and that people deserve a straight answer even when it is not the one they were hoping for.

He walks houses with that eye. Structure, systems, drainage, the things an inspector is going to find in week three of your escrow. Better to know about them in week zero, while they are still cheap and still yours to fix on your own schedule.

Shelly Kane

Shelly is a home designer and stager. She came to it through hospitality and event planning, ran a local event planning company, and mentored hospitality students along the way. That is a background in one very specific skill: making people feel something in the first ten seconds of walking into a room.

Which is the entire job of a staged house. Shelly manages our renovations, stages the listings, and runs our vacation rental properties. When the method talks about moving a house from a 6 to a 9, she is the one who does it.

We own the crew. Here is what that means.

Most agents hand you a repair list and a phone number. We do the work.

The construction goes through Grand Developments, which Robert and Shelly own and Shelly runs. The staging goes through Moxie Home Design, which Shelly owns. Robert is the principal broker here, which means nobody above him reviews this disclosure. That is exactly why it sits on this page in normal-sized type instead of in a footer.

We tell you up front because you would find out anyway, and because it is the reason any of this works:

• Speed. We are not waiting in a contractor’s queue. We are the contractor. Your house goes to market finished, in weeks, instead of sitting half-ready for three months.
• Inspection repairs do not blow up the deal. The classic deal-killer is a buyer demanding repairs and a three-week standoff. Our crew just does them.
• One point of accountability. If something is wrong, it is ours. You are not refereeing between your agent and a subcontractor who have never met.

Which raises the obvious question: if you own the crew, don’t you want to sell me more work?

It is the right question to ask, so here is the straight answer. We would rather do a small amount of the right work and earn your referrals for the next decade than a pile of the wrong work once. That is why the walkthrough exists to tell you what to skip. Any agent can hand you a repair list. We are the ones sitting next to you at closing, looking at the number.

And if that trade does not sit right with you, get a bid from your own contractor. We will work with them. The method does not depend on us swinging the hammers. It depends on the work getting done before we test price.

Lane County

We raised five children here and we are watching our grandchildren grow up here. That is not a line we put on a website to seem local. It is a constraint. We are going to run into you at the grocery store. Everything above is written like people who cannot leave town, because we cannot.

Start with your number

Rate your house 1 to 10 — 1 is a tear-down, 10 is brand-new construction. Tell us where it honestly sits and we will come back with the range it is in, and what it would take to move it up.