Fort Lauderdale · Compass

The right house,
and the right answer about it.

Isabelle Gainey sells homes across Fort Lauderdale and Broward County. First-time buyers, sellers, second homes, and the short-term rentals that need a different set of questions asked before anyone signs anything.

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Aerial view of downtown Fort Lauderdale: towers on the skyline and a river winding past waterfront houses with boats at their docks

Downtown Fort Lauderdale · Photo by MARTLEY U on Unsplash

Three kinds of work, one standard

01 Buying

Your first house, or your fourth

First-time buyers get the most time, because they need it. What the offer actually commits you to, what the inspection is really looking for, and what the insurance quote does to the monthly number.

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02 Selling

Priced on evidence

A list price argued from comparables you can see, a preparation list ranked by what returns the money, and a marketing plan that starts with photography rather than ends with it.

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03 Short-term rentals

Houses that have to earn

Zoning, association minimum stays, city registration, the state license and the county tourist tax. Checked at a specific address before the inspection period closes, not after.

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Buying your first

Nobody explains the middle part

Most first-time buyers understand the deposit and the closing. What catches people is everything between: the inspection window and what it actually protects, the insurance quote that arrives late and changes the monthly payment, the association documents nobody reads, and the appraisal that comes in under contract.

Isabelle walks first-time buyers through that middle part in plain language, before it is happening rather than while it is.

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Represented: Buyers and sellers, 33 closed sales
Where: Broward and Palm Beach counties
MLS: BeachesMLS
Brokerage: Compass, license #3498234
Most clients: Arrive by referral from earlier ones

Wooden dock and moored boats on a Fort Lauderdale waterway lined with palms and waterfront homes — Fort Lauderdale · Photo by Maloree Bloom on Unsplash

Neighborhoods

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01 Rio Vista Deep-water canals a few minutes from Las Olas. 02 Victoria Park Walkable, mixed housing stock, north of Las Olas. 03 Tarpon River Small older homes, minutes from downtown, on the river bend. 04 Coral Ridge Mid-century houses on canals, close to the beach. 05 Imperial Point Single-story homes on quiet streets in north Fort Lauderdale. 06 Lighthouse Point Its own city, deep water, northeast Broward.

Meet Isabelle

A Florida native who buys land on purpose

A proud Gator alum of the University of Florida, from a family of entrepreneurs and real estate agents. She works with first-time buyers, sellers, second-home buyers and short-term rental owners, and most of her clients arrive by referral from earlier ones.

She works under Compass, and she is the referral agent for Holdfast Holdings, a Fort Lauderdale short-term rental management company. That relationship is disclosed on every page where it is relevant.

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In their words

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Isabelle helped me close on my home in October 2022 and I couldn't have been more satisfied with her service. It took me a whole year to find the right place, and as a first-time buyer I had a million different questions and concerns, but Isabelle was there…

Mazin H.

My husband and I had been looking to purchase a home for more than a year, and we had spoken to several realtors. To be honest it felt like no one wanted to take the time to help us deal with the process on our own terms. Until one day we found Isabelle.…

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Work with Isabelle

Buying, selling, or working out whether a property can do what you want it to.

Phone: (954) 258-1131
Email: isabelle@isabellegainey.com
Office: 1200 E Las Olas Blvd, Suite 103 & 201
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301