If you want to buy or sell with confidence in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, consider Realtor® Steve Baker.

Prior to helping more than a thousand clients and earning 25 years of real estate experience, Steve began his career as a custom home builder. This background is highly complementary to real estate sales, and Steve’s extensive knowledge about the building process uniquely positions him to offer insights on construction quality or property concerns that many other Realtors® would overlook.

Additionally, Steve is an avid outdoor enthusiast. His extensive familiarity with the Lakes Region is an invaluable asset to clients for two reasons: first, because “location, location, location” will always be the three most important words in real estate, and secondly, people from all over the nation and the world buy into a lifestyle—not just a property—when they invest in the Lakes Region.

When Steve is not helping real estate clients buy or sell with success and confidence, he’s usually canoeing, hiking, fishing or skiing where the lakes meet the mountains in central New Hampshire. Accordingly, Steve knows every pond, stream, river and mountain in the area, and he loves to guide his clients to the perfect location for their unique needs.

When it comes to selling properties, Steve also goes above and beyond, creating websites for each listing with their own domain names.

Steve is a key agent with Roche Realty Group in Meredith, a firm that since 1997 has sold nearly two billion dollars’ worth of New Hampshire properties and ranks in the top ten out of 2,392 firms statewide reporting sales during this 21-year period.

Steve has built his business largely based off of referrals.

“People love referring me because they know I will do a good job for their friends and family,” Steve said. “I don’t have a lot of repeat sales from buyers,” he added, “because I do such a good job the first time, they don’t ever want to leave. I work hard to find them the right property the first time around.”

After working with Steve, clients love to leave glowing reviews about their time together. For example, one recently said:

“Steve is a professional in the field of real estate with a thorough knowledge of the market in our area. He is able to compare areas and properties to each other because he keeps up to date with what is available, what has sold, and how much properties are worth.

“Steve was always available to answer my questions and he kept me informed regarding each step of the process. He offered his opinion when asked and I never felt pressured. His background as a builder was extremely helpful when it came to the construction of the property. His knowledge of the New Hampshire real estate rules and regulations along with the financing process made buying a home a smooth transaction. I highly recommend Steven Baker as your real estate agent.”

Another said:

“Steve is an amazing professional and it was a pleasure to have him on our team. His knowledge of the area housing market, as well as his building background was an incredible contribution to the process. Steve even took over the role to fill in for the duties that should have been performed by the seller’s agent. Just so that we had what we needed, even thought that was not his responsibility to do. We feel very fortunate that Steve was with us through this experience… he’s an amazing agent.”

Looking to the future, Steve is excited to launch a new website for his business: www.preferredwaterfronts.com. He plans on focusing heavily on waterfront sales and targeting potential buyers who are looking for homes on the water.

Decades into his career, Steve still loves every minute of it and can’t imagine doing anything else. “I love helping people and seeing them satisfied at the end of the day, knowing I made a difference in someone’s life makes me happy.”

When you are in the market to buy or sell a property in the Lake Region and you want to a knowledgeable, well respected agent, look to Steve Baker.