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Geraldine Santiago
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REALTOR® · Published Author · Land Assembly Specialist, RE/MAX
Wrote three real estate books, then built a land-assembly practice around them.
RE/MAX REALTOR® licensed for residential and commercial work. Author of three Self-Counsel Press guides, and one of the few Vancouver agents who publishes land-assembly statistics on her own site.
16+
Years in real estate
3
Self-Counsel Press books written
2002
Running public seminars since
Meet Geraldine Santiago
Geraldine Santiago is a Vancouver REALTOR® with RE/MAX, licensed for both residential and commercial real estate. She has worked in the trade for more than 16 years and has run free home-buying and home-selling seminars at community centres and public libraries across the Lower Mainland since 2002.
She wrote three real estate reference books for Self-Counsel Press: the Complete Home Buyer's Guide for Canadians, Selling Your Home in Canada, and Buy and Sell a Recreational Property in Canada. She later self-published an ebook, How To Band With Neighbours in Land Assembly, drawn from her work assembling multiple adjacent lots into single development sites.
Her land-assembly practice covers the full process: title and lien checks, zoning and ALR confirmation, meeting with homeowners and their neighbours, preparing the spec packages developers ask for, and coordinating timelines with the owners' lawyers and notaries. She publishes land-assembly statistics on her firm site, which is unusual data to find published in a field that usually runs on private relationships.
She has been covered by the Vancouver Sun, Real Estate Weekly, City TV, and Breakfast TV Vancouver, mostly on first-time buyer topics and market trends.
Credentials
Why work with Geraldine
01
Land assembly is her actual specialty
Multiplex and townhouse sites often need two or more neighbouring lots combined. Santiago does this work directly: she meets the neighbours, checks title and zoning, and prepares the package developers want to see. She also wrote an ebook on getting neighbours to band together.
02
Licensed for residential and commercial
Assembly deals cross from single-family homes into commercial and development territory. Holding both licences means one agent can handle the homeowner side and the developer side of the same transaction.
03
She publishes her own data
Her firm site carries land-assembly statistics, which is rare. For an owner trying to gauge whether their block is a realistic assembly candidate, that primary data is a useful starting point.
Frequently asked questions
What is land assembly and why does it matter for a multiplex project?
Does she handle both the homeowner side and the developer side?
Has she published anything I can read before hiring her?
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You'll probably also need
Money
Mortgage brokers, credit unions, CPAs, and insurance brokers — the money side of multiplex.
Lawyers & Notaries
Law Society of BC lawyers and BC notaries handling strata, conveyance, co-development.
Builders & Trades
Licensed Residential Builders and the trades who frame, wire, plumb, and finish them.
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