Mark has been closing real estate transactions in the Okanagan since 1999 — over 3,000 of them, across every kind of move. But downsizing clients get treated differently by his team, and deliberately so.
"You want to move out of your own volition."— Mark Jontz
That's the line Mark comes back to with every downsizing client. After 25+ years and thousands of transactions, the pattern he kept seeing was simple: the moves that went well were the ones a homeowner chose to make, on their own timeline — and the moves that went badly were almost always reactive, forced by a fall, a health scare, or a family member stepping in to make the call. Downsizing done right happens before that point, while it's still entirely your decision.
It's the reason his team built the Homesafe program in the first place — a listing structure specifically designed so a client is never pressured into a rushed sale or a rushed purchase just to avoid being without a home. Volition isn't a slogan for Mark; it's the actual mechanism the paperwork is built around.
That's why, for downsizing specifically, clients get referred to Mark: someone who has seen this exact decision play out thousands of times, knows how to structure it so the client keeps control of the timeline, and treats the emotional weight of leaving a long-time home as seriously as the financial side of the transaction.