Thomas Groll

Thomas Groll is a realtor at The Condo Shop with vast experience in real estate investments, acquisitions and sales dealing with multi-family, industrial, commercial, and residential properties. He graduated from The University of Pennsylvania in 1994 with dual degrees in Economics and East Asian Studies. He began his career on Wall Street as a capital markets trader for multinational investment banks, and private hedge funds, trading currency, equities, and equity options. Since moving back to his beloved hometown of Philadelphia in 1999, he once again became a center city resident, dedicated to the Philadelphia metro area real estate market.

Experience:

Over the past 16 years, Tom has been involved in multi-family, industrial, commercial, and residential real estate transactions, bringing a vast range of experience to his clients, unparalleled among his peers. He has negotiated multi-million dollar redevelopment projects, multi-family investment properties, luxury home and condominium sales, and everything in between. As a Certified Negotiation Expert (CNE), Tom is among an elite one percent of all agents, saving his clients thousands of dollars up to and through settlement.

Acquisition:

Tom helps his clients acquire properties at the “right” price. From discovery, to market insight, deal structure, and negotiation he is often able to place his clients in advantageous positive equity situations from day one.

Investment:

Tom is an ideal resource for income investors, flippers, and developers. Aside from helping his clients to find and contract the best deals, he also councils his clients on maximizing cash-flows, and assessing IRR or NPV of added-value improvements. Tom has worked with owners to reposition properties to achieve their highest level of output.

He is also a Director of New Community development, where he works with managed rental communities in raising their occupancy levels. Currently his team represents over 1500 managed units in bringing tenancy through brokerage-based marketing.

Sales:

Tom does more than just market a property for sale. His ability to position a property to receive maximum price in minimum time, takes into account; seller’s goals, market conditions, buyer demographics, and comparative sales analysis. Once the marketing strategy is in place, Tom uses a multi-media campaign including social media websites, real estate web sites like Zillow, Trulia, Hotpads, Homes.com, Realtor.com, mailers to local potential buyers, and communications to all local and regional agents who may have their own buyers.