Chris Boyd, CB&Co. at Compass Real Estate 12th St, Bellingham

As a first time homebuyer, the entire process of purchasing a house was incredibly daunting. I'm so fortunate my brother introduced me to Chris! What an exceptional realtor! Chris is incredibly knowledgeable, diligent, and understanding to my needs. Chris answered every single one of my questions, followed up with all my requests, and made himself available when I needed. I couldn't have felt more at ease during my closing process and Chris made sure I got EVERYTHING I wanted out of my home purchase. I couldn't have asked for a better first time experience! Highly recommend Chris!!!!

Committed, diligent, knowledgeable, and truthful are words that come to mind working with Chris. Being a first time home buyer in the current market was a huge struggle, and Chris made the process a breeze! Chris was very timely with his responses and very hands on when viewing homes. When we found the perfect home for me, Chris was quick to get in touch with the proper parties and we had an offer on the table the same day. I'd recommend Chris to anyone looking for a realtor that has your best interests in mind!

Chris Boyd is an outstanding real estate agent. His unbounded helpfulness and his wise advice made our recent purchasing experience a real pleasure. Chris is very hardworking and very responsive. He was always ready, often on very short notice, to take us to houses that came on the market, and he even returned with us to some houses multiple times so my children and grandchildren could see them too. If we had questions, he did the homework needed to find the answers and got back to us quickly to report what he had learned. He was extremely helpful before and even after the sale. He guided us smoothly through the buying process by connecting us with excellent mortgage, insurance, and title professionals before closing. Because we lived out of state and had to leave town shortly after initially seeing the house, he arranged to meet an inspector at the house and reported his findings back to us. He later met a contractor to explain what we have in mind for potential renovations. After the sale, he offered to continue to help set up appointments with local tradesmen and other professionals. Chris has the best interests of his clients in mind, rather than his own personal gain. Once, when we couldn’t decide whether to make an offer on a particular house, he suggested that we shouldn’t buy it if we didn’t really love it. He could have encouraged us to buy so that he could make the sale, but he didn’t. Then when we found the house we loved—as he said would eventually happen—he helped us with a sound strategy for creating a winning bid. He helped us choose an offer amount that was attractive to the seller, but not inappropriately high. He has a good sense of property values and helped us to choose a reasonable amount. Chris is very likeable and this not only helps to make the house-viewing experience enjoyable, but it also helps him to have good relations with sellers’ agents. His good communication with other agents helped us to understand what we were buying and to make a successful offer that we were comfortable with. We appreciate Chris’s energy, helpfulness, knowledge, and advice in our home buying experience. We would highly recommend him to anyone.

I just want to say what a great experienced I had with Chris Boyd and Compass Real Estate! Chris was there every step of the way. He also has great team supporting him and relationships with all kinds of vendors. Chris really put in the work to help me find properites in this tough market. Once we found the right property, Chris was very savvy with contract negotiaions and was super responsive throughout the closing process. As a licensed Loan Originator myself, I've seen a range of quality, and can say with confidence, Chris is the best of the best! Not only did we find a property that met my needs and negotiated a price that cash flows, but I've made a good friend in the Real Estate business. Thank you Chris! Happy home shopping, you've found a real gem to work with!

I can’t say enough. Chris worked early mornings, late nights, weekends including Saturday and Sunday mornings, leading into Sunday nights. (Without a complaint, and actually with enthusiasm.) During his busy days, every moment he had the slightest second to call me with an update he made the call. I forever appreciate the communication, and the smooth execution as he navigated through two tricky transactions in the same month, that could have easily turned away and scared an amateur. I mean the first transaction was a complete mess (for reasons outside of our control) , but Chris was able to just simply handle it. Like it was a cakewalk to him. If you need to go into the battle of the current tricky real estate world, you’ll be alleviated by working with Chris. He can put together and communicate a very strong and competitive offer for anyone. You just can’t find people like Chris anymore and for the off chance that you do, hold on to them. Very blessed. 👏🥳😃

Where to start, if you’re looking for an agent in the Bellingham area, look no further than Chris Boyd. From the start I had a great idea of what I was looking for, however Chris made it very easy and fast when I found a new listing to potentially view. He will go the extra mile for you and your family. When you’re around Chris he makes you feel like family and that you aren’t just another one of his clients. His ability to help out wherever he can is one of his biggest attributes. After a short phone call before starting work with Chris, I already felt like I had known him for years. Thanks again Chris for the all the help you’ve given me! Cheers, Flynn

Chris was so amazing. He was very responsive, answered all our questions and helped us find our first home together. We had no idea what the entire process entailed and Chris was more than helpful and educated us on how to best approach buying a home. Chris was patient as he helped work with us here as well as our family in Hawaii on buying this home. Would highly recommend to anybody looking to buy or sell a home. Will 100% be using Chris again in the future.

I cannot say enough about how great it was working with Chris Boyd and Kalli Hyde at Compass. New to the area and first time home buyers: My husband and I are new to Bellingham and needed help purchasing our first home. There were a lot of unknowns to us, especially when you consider the crazy housing market we are currently in, but Chris and Kalli were incredibly helpful and very knowledgable, giving us peace of mind throughout the process. Our first meeting with the team: In the beginning of this process, we saw right away that working with the team was going to be much more beneficial than working with other agents. We were originally working with someone else, but didn’t feel like we were getting much out of our meetings with them. The very first time we met with Chris and Kalli, they brought us in to the office (working around our busy schedules) to ask us a series of questions to understand us and what we were looking for. In this exercise they covered topics that you don’t always remember to discuss when you simply meet with an agent at a property. After they had a good understanding about who we were and what we were looking for, Chris took us on a virtual tour of comps that had sold in the area throughout the last six month and all of the houses currently on the market. This was incredibly helpful in setting our expectations and having market data that we’d use to inform our purchase decisions. It was great to go through this process and getting answers to our questions in real time. Finding the right home: Once we found a property that we were happy with, the team hit the ground running. Chris helped us put together a strong offer, talking us through all of the various levers that we could pull to help our offer stand out to the seller. He helped set up a pre-inspection so we knew what the state of the house was prior to putting in our offer. He used his network to keep us informed on how our offer was doing against others and always responded in a swift manner. With his help, our offer was accepted. Because Chris had helped us understand what we could include in our offer to stand out, we were even able to beat out an offer that was higher in price than ours. Closing: We had a quick closing window, but Chris was there for us and answered any and all questions with lightening speed. This was incredibly important to ensure that we could close on time. Going above and beyond: We uncovered some small projects during the inspection and will do some renovations to the house before we move in. Chris and Kalli helped set up a meeting with a great contractor they know and gave us a list of recommendations for stores we could find and purchase materials. While the house was mostly empty after the seller had move out, there were some items left behind that we needed removed (including a sectional couch). Kalli helped in removing and donating these items from the house prior to us going into renovations. Lastly, Chris and Kalli were incredibly thoughtful and bought us some amazing house warming gifts that were anything but generic. Because they took the time to get to know us, their gifts were very tailored to us and what we want in our home. It was such a lovely and unexpected end to our home buying journey. I cannot recommend them enough to others. Purchasing a house is easily one of the most stressful and biggest decisions that one can embark on. But I know that you will be in good hands when choosing to work with Chris and Kalli because our experience was nothing but exceptional.

Chris is a top notch realtor. In this hectic market he was able to get my offer accepted on two separate properties. I ended up with the perfect home for my needs! He will always be my go to realtor.

Chris' knowledge and work ethic is unmatched. He was so helpful at getting us set up to sell our home from making sure our house was professionally cleaned to the photos that were taken which turned out amazing! This is the second time we have worked with Chris and both times we have been blown away by the amount of professionalism he holds himself to. He always made himself available for questions. Chris will always come highly recommended whenever some one asks about a realtor!