01Preparing to sell
Start before the sign goes up.
Begin with a direct conversation about the preparation decisions that protect your time, leverage, and result.
Get the Seller Preparation BlueprintPittsburgh's eastern suburbs
Positioned to sell.
Prepared to move.
Before you repaint, replace flooring, or guess at a list price, we determine what will actually change a buyer's decision—and what is better left alone.
Murrysville · Export · Delmont · Monroeville · Harrison City · Level Green · Plum · Oakmont
Christy KotwicaReal Estate Advisor · Piatt Sotheby's International Realty
Start where you are
Choose the doorway that fits today.
Planning a sale, watching your equity, or preparing to buy each calls for a different next step.
02Watching your equity
Know what your home is doing.
Receive home-value and neighborhood updates without committing to a sale—or inviting pressure into the process.
Get my home value03Planning a purchase
Search with context, not noise.
Pair a smarter home search with the Buyer Strategy Guide, local insight, and a clear plan for the offer stage.
Start my home searchComplimentary strategy guides
A focused place to begin.
Choose the guide that fits your next move. Each offers practical direction before you are ready for a personal strategy conversation.
For sellers
Prepare before you spend.
Five decisions to make before you spend money, start renovating, or put your home on the market.
Get the Seller Preparation Blueprint
For buyers
Search with a strategy.
Learn how to search with clarity, evaluate the right opportunities, and make a confident move.
Get the Buyer Strategy GuideChristy's guiding principle
“When the right decisions are made early, everything that follows becomes more predictable, more controlled, and ultimately more successful.”
The Anchor Approach
Preparation isn't a prelude. It's the strategy.
Selling well is not one dramatic decision at the end. It is a sequence of smaller, sharper decisions made before the listing becomes public—and then managed with discipline once it does.
Preparation before exposure.Data before assumptions.Calm over chaos.
01
Prepare
We surface the decisions most likely to affect leverage before buyers ever walk through the door.
- Pre-listing inspection when appropriate
- Repair, improvement, and return-on-effort decisions
- Micro-staging and showing-readiness plan
02
Position
We define the buyer, the story, and the price architecture so the home enters the market with intention.
- Competitive-market and buyer-pool analysis
- Pricing and launch-timing strategy
- Professional media and property narrative
03
Release + manage
We control the launch, read the response, and manage every decision through contract and closing.
- Coming-soon and agent-network activation
- Digital distribution and showing feedback
- Offer strategy, contingencies, and finish-line management
The goal is not simply to put your home on the market. It is to bring it to market ready to compete.
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My listings
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Public inventory can sit between launches or move before the feed catches up. Ask about current opportunities, recent sales, or the homes Christy is watching before they reach the broader market.
Tell Christy what I want to know aboutLuxury representation
Distinctive homes need a more deliberate market entrance.
Explore Christy's upper-tier preparation, pricing, presentation, and Piatt Sotheby's International Realty reach.
Proof over promises
Strategy should show up in the result.
100+Recorded career salesServing Allegheny and Westmoreland counties
Speed is one measure—not the only one.
These homes entered different markets with different conditions. Christy evaluates the result across price, terms, leverage, risk, and the quality of the path to closing—not days on market in isolation.
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In their words
Clients remember how the work felt.
Public profiles tell a consistent story: informed advice, strong negotiation, clear communication, and steady guidance when the transaction gets complicated.
Verified Murrysville seller
When the sale became more complicated than expected
Unexpected issues left the sellers questioning what their home was worth. Christy kept the advice realistic, managed each surprise, identified the right buyers, and helped them reach the price they were working toward.
“Christy guided us through every step of the process, was very realistic with us, and we got the price we were looking for.”
Hunter HoeperRealtor.com
Close to the market
Local expertise gets specific.
A Pittsburgh suburb is not a pricing category. School-district lines, plan-by-plan demand, lot character, tax profiles, and even one turn in the road can change the buyer pool. The advice should be just as precise.
Search local homesMurrysvilleExecutive homes, established plans, acreageExportVillage character and Franklin Regional accessDelmontNewer communities and accessible acreageMonroevilleBroad housing stock and distinct micro-marketsHarrison CityPenn-Trafford neighborhoods, newer homes, and larger lotsLevel GreenEstablished homes, commuter access, and Penn-Trafford schoolsPlumSpace, value, and suburban-rural optionsOakmontRiver-town character, walkability, and distinctive homes
Meet Christy
Calm counsel. Clear expectations. No vague advice.
Christy Kotwica is a Pittsburgh real estate advisor specializing in the strategic sale and purchase of homes throughout the eastern suburbs.
Before real estate, Christy co-owned a collectible gaming business and developed a collector's eye across cards, coins, and art—markets where condition, scarcity, presentation, and timing shape defensible value. That lens now informs how she evaluates homes, positions property, and negotiates when the stakes are real.
Her background in education shapes how that strategy is delivered: explain the why, make the options concrete, and give clients the clarity to decide confidently. The result is sophisticated representation that still feels personal—direct communication, disciplined strategy, and a plan built around the actual property and people involved.
The next move
You do not need to be ready to list. You need to be ready to plan.
Tell Christy what you are considering, what feels uncertain, and what timeline you are working with. The first conversation is for orientation—not pressure.
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