It is with great pleasure that I take this opportunity to recommend the engagement of Dominic Romeo as an agent/heritage expert.
In my dealings with Dominic over the past two years, I have found him to be a knowledgeable, capable and trustworthy person in regard to his expertise and ability to negotiate with a diverse range of clients across the domestic and commercial spectrum.
His mild-mannered style, contains a great deal of integrity and historical reference along with an ease of negotiation whereby the prospective buyer has time to digest information and obtain a clear picture of what is being presented.
Dominic is an excellent communicator and enthusiastic professional with wonderful people skills. He remains courteous, sensitive, and, accordingly: diplomatic!
Please call me if you require my further interpretation regarding Dominic’s employ.
Regards, RONNIE
We have been dealing extensively with Dominic Romeo during 2021 and 2022 while searching for a rural heritage property in Tasmania.
During this time, Dominic has been a highly valuable knowledge base for heritage properties throughout Tasmania, and their defining characteristics, restoration techniques, and important market information for us as new purchasers.
He has been generous in sharing his expert knowledge and time, providing hours of background knowledge that has helped bring us “up the learning-curve” as new owners of an important heritage property. Dominic remained in close contact with us during our search process over these last two years. He worked successfully with other agents to help us achieve our goals, and assisted in making us delighted custodians of an important rural heritage property that exceeds our initial expectations.
Since our successful purchase a few months ago, Dominic has remained in contact and we continue to regularly discuss new opportunities and issues in the heritage market. He remains a very important source of real-time information on all Tasmanian heritage properties, and we expect that we will buy once again, utilizing his expert advice.
Dominic’s gentle manner and specialist sector knowledge has allowed him to work well with other agents, and helped make our purchasing decision an enjoyable process and positive outcome. This positive journey is important for us, as long-term custodians of an important rural heritage property in the State of Tasmania.
Yours faithfully,
Gregory
To Dominic Romeo,
Dominic has been an excellent agent for our family. He understands our particular interest in architecture and the region we were interested in – always presenting us with properties that matched our brief.
Dominic is excellent at keeping us across new opportunities in a timely manner and listening to our feedback – then taking on that feedback for the next opportunity he presents.
Dominic conducts himself in a professional manner and as has excellent communication skills. He always follows up on calls and keeps us across next steps. Dominic’s knowledge of architecture, renovating and taking care of period homes sets him apart.
Yours sincerely,
Malcolm
My partner and I recently purchased the Faraday School house.
We loved the property from the moment we set eyes on it. Throughout the purchase process Dominic was a wealth of knowledge, his thorough understanding of Heritage Victoria, specifically in relation to the heritage listed property, ensured our purchase was informed and done with ease.
Dominic’s impeccable communication skills made him a delight to deal with and we would recommended him to any purchaser or vendor.
Vanessa
To Dominic Romeo
The sale of our property was never going to be straightforward. Local real estate agents had tended to downplay the value of our offering, a historic 19th century farm complex with relatively small acreage, great soils and plentiful water, just an hour of the Melbourne CBD by rail or road, and 45 minutes to the airport.
We had heard about Dominic through the development of his heritage consultancy work and practice over many years, and were prompted to call him after several articles quoted him in respect to the heritage specialist property market of the Macedon Ranges and central Victorian Goldfields.
Dominic came, he explored every square inch, and he recognised immediately what our project was about and the marketplace he needed to focus on.
His upfront offer was to work for us to find the right buyer, and he kept us all (three sellers) constantly in the loop throughout the selling period. He is smart, funny and down to earth.
The internet profile of the property was extremely effective through the backing of the Unique Estate website. We were judicious with print advertising.
Feedback was constant and many people were keen to make this place their own.
As it turned out, the eventual buyers want to continue the restoration project we put more than 20 years into; Dominic’s “bespoke bent”, for want of a better descriptor, showed them what had been done and what could be done still – and this property will now continue its revival – the best outcome all round.
Helen
During the past year, my property – the Faraday School-House – has been for sale. The real estate agent charged with the responsibility of selling the property has been Mr Dominic Romeo.
For more than a hundred years, the Faraday School-House was a small rural primary school. A kidnapping, in 1972, changed the community and its school. The school was closed and over many years, the building became a derelict ruin. Twenty years passed. The Victorian Education Department sold the Faraday Primary School and shortly afterwards, the building was heritage-listed.
Over many years, changes to the building converted the school into a residence, creating a beautiful, unusual rustic home, however the essence of its history remained intact. As a home, the Faraday School House was located in a number of separate buildings. As the owner intending to down-size, I thought it would be a big ask to find new owners who would love the place as much as myself. Between early 2014 and 2016, I engaged 2 local agencies which were unable to sell my property.
About a year ago, I was delighted to read a book written by Dominic Romeo and his wife Marie, which described beautifully the many houses that the couple had fixed up. These were historic or heritage-listed buildings, remarkable for their times, loving restored. The bonus discovery was that Dominic Romeo was also a real estate agent, specialising in unique and historic homes.
My first contact with Dominic was over a cup of coffee in a local cafe and from that first meeting, I knew I had met a real estate agent, quite different from the crowd. Here was a man who’d had hands-on experience himself, fixing up places that most people would run a mile from. Dominic’s practical experience was one thing but his additional skills and enthusiasm as a real estate agent, when first viewing my property translated into a genuinely interested person, who worked hard to sell my home. Dominic remained keen and enthusiastic during the period the property was ‘on the market’. Any other person would have given up but Dominic understood, as I did, the potential of the buildings and the property. He remained convinced, thank goodness, when my own enthusiasm flagged, that there would be a buyer out there ‘who would love the place’. He strongly believed ‘someone would eventually come along’.
Earlier this year, I was ready to give up any notion of being able to sell my place, but because of Dominic’s continuing enthusiasm, the momentum continued. Through Dominic’s particular skills – and his ability to talk with potential buyers about the place ensuring they would be a good ‘fit’ – he continued to provide practical, down-to-earth information to the many, many people who viewed my home.
I would recommend Dominic as a first-class person and as a first-class real estate person, whose knowledge and ongoing interest in unusual or interesting historic or heritage-listed homes is remarkable.
I wish Dominic the very best in his future.
Sincerely,
Jill
Dear Dominic,
I want to sincerely thank you for facilitating the sale of our property.
To your credit you achieved success for us where others had fallen by the wayside. Having bought and sold several times over the past few years, and dealing with a number of other agents, I have to say that you have been by far the most efficient, hard working, professional and pleasant agent I have known.
Your expertise in the field is obvious and commendable. Your diligence in ensuring that we vendors remain part of the process by welcoming input from us at various stages of the selling process was much appreciated and made us feel confident in your representation. We always felt that you were working hard for us, not just trying to offload our property quickly, but genuinely endeavouring to achieve the best outcome for us which you did.
I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend your excellent services.
Kind regards,
Cathy & Red