Joe Wolvek has helped his clients purchase and sell hundreds of properties for home and investment in the Back Bay, South End, and other downtown neighborhoods, as well as Brookline, Cambridge, and other inner suburbs Since 1992. During his 20+ years in real estate, he has brokered the transaction of everything from studio apartments to apartment buildings, covering all price ranges.

In January of 2010, Joe was recognized as a Gibson Sotheby's Master, one of the 12 most outstanding agents in the Boston area (out of about 160), building a business based on referrals and repeat customers. You can view some of his client testimonials here.

In November of 2011, Joe was names an Associate Director of Sales. While he does have a role in assisting and advising ownership and agents, his primary and overriding job is still to assist and guide current and new clients in purchasing and selling real estate.

Due to his experience, Joe has a very detailed knowledge of Boston's neighborhoods and their real estate markets, having participated in transactions in literally hundreds of properties throughout the city. He's been interviewed and quoted in, among others, the Boston Business Journal, the Boston Globe, and the South End News.

From 1998 through 2007, Joe was affiliated with Coldwell Banker, where he won several Sterling Society awards as well as the Diamond Society award, both for outstanding sales. From 1994 through 1998, he was with Boston Realty Works. He was the leading sales broker at that company, managing their Fenway office through the end of 1998. From 1992 through part of 1994, he worked at Newbury Street Associates.

In addition to his deep body of experience and knowledge, Joe's commitment has been to provide outstanding services and timely information to both his buyer and seller clients. His deep knowledge of the local real estate market is demonstrated by his Market Update.

In addition to keeping his buyer and seller clients apprised of current market trends and the latest listing information, he is also able to leverage his commitment to internet technology by using innovative methods of communicating listing and other information to his buyer-clients. For his seller clients, in addition to the traditional brokerage techniques, he make use of innovative e-marketing techniques as well blogging and making use of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Says Joe, "I owe you, among other things, complete confidentiality, loyalty, and diligence. It is my obligation to give you my very best advice, to negotiate strongly in your best interest, to be protective of your time and privacy, and to be proactive and diligent in purchase or sale of your property."

Joe has lived in Boston since 1976, and has witnessed the many changes our city has undergone. In 1980, he graduated the Berklee College of Music with a Bachelor's degree in applied performance on the guitar. During the 1980s and 1990s, he performed with a variety of local jazz, R&B, and original rock ‘n roll bands.

Gibson Sotheby's

Since the founding of the Sotheby's auction house in 1744, the Sotheby's name has earned renown marketing many of the world's most valuable and prestigious items. Founded in 1976 to provide a powerful marketing and referral program for luxury properties, the Sotheby's International Realty network was designed to connect the finest independent real estate companies to the highest level clientele in the world.

Gibson Sotheby's International Realty is Boston's largest independent real estate company. In 1962, Betty Gibson, a woman with a pioneering spirit and great vision, founded our company in Boston's South End. In December 2006, the company became part of the Sotheby's International Realty network. bringing unprecedented worldwide resources to the vast local market knowledge and depth of experience of the Gibson offices and staff.

Now, as Gibson Sotheby's International Realty®, we have over 160 agents, with offices in and around the city, including our flagship sales office at 566 Tremont Street in the South End, two offices on Newbury Street in the Back Bay, a Waterfront office, and a Dorchester office.

Our agents bring a wealth of life experiences to real estate. We have unparalleled knowledge of every street, parcel and building in Boston. With over $315,000,000 in transactions for 2009, we are the leader in Boston real estate. We're proud of the Gibson Sotheby's International Realty environment?an environment that generates creativity and innovation. We see ourselves as leaders, and we're recognized as such.

Gibson-Sotheby's International Realty has prospered where other companies have pulled in their belts in a down market. We have done this simply by providing the highest quality services possible to both our buyer and seller clientele.