I met with Dale about selling my condo just prior to the pandemic lockdown. He kept in touch with me and advised on the best timing to put it up for sale. He also gave great advice on prepping it to show. When the time came to go to market, he followed Covid restrictions to make the showings safe and was able to work with me remotely to mitigate the risk of face-to-face contact. With his experience and connections, the condo sold in less than a week at asking price. Dale is professional and competent, and I definitely recommend him as an estate agent.

As out of town, first time investment buyers, Dale Sheppard was recommend to us by our hometown realtor. We have been extremely impressed by Dale’s knowledge of the Victoria market and his focus on providing incredible client service. Our priority was to secure housing for our son who attends UVic that would also service as good investment property. Not living in Victoria likely made us needier than his average client but Dale always made time for us both remotely and in person when we were able to get to Victoria. He walked us though the Victoria market, locations and property considerations, while we walked him though our wish list and spreadsheets.

After a couple of months of clarifying our criteria, when a property came up that matched what we were looking for we were confident enough to make an offer almost immediately (from our home town without viewing the property) because of the trust we had in him and the knowledge we had gained though our conversations with him. Dale really went above and beyond for us, even meeting the home inspector on our behalf when we couldn’t make the trip. His experience being a landlord also served us well as that was a learning curve for us once we purchased the property. Based on our experiences, I highly recommend Dale Sheppard to anyone looking for real estate in the Victoria area.

Dear Dale,

Thank you so much for your very thoughtful and lovely gift! It seems you “read me right”, choosing all those wonderful things that I could have chosen myself. And the French cookbook! So, so thoughtful! Thanks also for all your assistance & support in the purchase, and for being always available to help with any issue. Please thank Terri for me too, for all her hard work. I am so happy I bought this condo, I just love it and Victoria and the area. It’s two blocks (5 Minutes walk!) from the harbor, parliament buildings, and the Empress; on the corner, the shop has fresh croissants etc. every day.  I feel like I’m in Paris without the language barrier! It couldn’t be better!

Thanks again, Dale! It will be my great pleasure to recommend you unreservedly!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Very best regards, Ellen.v.Robertson

Dale had helped my wife purchase her condo 8 years ago so it was a simple decision to use him again. His local knowledge, vast experience and calm disposition helped guide us through what was, at times, a stressful situation. He answered all of our questions and responded immediately to our requests. He was patient, kind and made us very comfortable with our decisions. In the end, we were able to sell our condo and purchase our dream home in a very short time-frame and we couldn’t be happier. We highly recommend him to anyone looking to buy and/or sell.

Dale exudes a calm and confident demeanour. He critically assessed the market conditions to price the house for sale. Dale and his team were constantly available and always ready to answer our questions and concerns. Most impressively, after one sale fell through he immediately re-engaged his contacts and found another interested buyer who put in their offer within 24 hours. Dale’s aggressive and quick action secured the best outcome from a stressful situation.

As a military family we have bought and sold many times over the last 25 years. Of all the realtors we have worked with Dale and his team were the best. Dale did everything he could to ensure that our experience was stress-free and quick. He respected our time and was very calming throughout the entire process. We sold in 3 days and are sure that the stellar online and traditional marketing had a lot to do with it!! We would highly recommend Dale and his team for military moves because they ensured everything that needed to be done with Brookfield/BGRS was completed on time and even helped our lawyer figure it out so we had all our funds available as quick as possible. He definitely went above and beyond.

Extremely happy with both selling our house and the new purchase. I will and have passed on Dale to all my friends.

I could not have asked for a more responsive, knowledgeable and overall lovely human being to take care of finding a home for me and my family.

Dale was very knowledgeable and dedicated to helping find us what we needed, which was not an easy task. He was always quick to respond to all inquiries and reliable in every aspect of his profession. I appreciated his sincere honesty in a profession that can be hard to trust. I highly recommend using Dale as a real estate agent.

Dale worked tirelessly to get us a condo that suited our family and our budget and in the location we wanted; he did so within an extremely tight timeline and competitive market. He was extremely professional, honest with every question we asked, and was extremely quick to respond to any emails or phone calls. We love our new place and cannot thank Dale enough for all of his hard work.

Dale was very knowledgeable and informative. He made the process of selling and buying virtually stress-free. We appreciated Dale’s quick responses to our questions; he was always willing to offer his advice.

We have never met a better agent than Dale and recommend him to everyone we know.

Dale is a consummate professional! He is hyper aware of details and trends in every market. Superb demeanor!

I would recommend Dale Sheppard to anyone. Despite the challenges of buying in the Victoria market he found us an excellent home for our family that we are still in love with almost a year later. He was able to answer all our questions about Victoria which made choosing our neighborhood much easier. I have never had a better experience with a realtor.

Dale is incredibly knowledgeable about Victoria and property which was so helpful to us, both times we used him, getting into the condo market and purchasing our first home. He is quick to respond while still maintaining a no-pressure attitude. His great advice meant we were able to secure our dream home despite the crazy competitive market in Victoria. We recommend Dale without a doubt. You’ll be in good hands!

To Whom It May Concern:

I have known Dale Sheppard since 1995 when he represented my wife and I on the sale of our first home. Dale has represented us on multiple real estate transactions since then and will continue to be our choice of agents moving forward.

Dale’s knowledge of the market and professionalism is second to none. He is always available to answer any questions and is quick to respond when time is of the essence. Dale is extremely personable and has an excellent Rapport with other agents.

Dale’s expertise was needed most recently when he secured the purchase of our new home for us in this incredibly competitive market on the Westshore. Without Dale working on our behalf we would most likely have lost the property.

Thank you Dale, you are truly the Westshore real estate expert and my wife and I will recommend you
to all our friends and family. We look forward to having you represent us in future real estate deals.

Sincerely,

Dan and Kelly Thomas

Hi Dale
We want to thank you very much for your expert help and pricing the house exactly right. We feel we did very well. Looking at subsequent sales in the Dean Park neighbourhood, we seem to have hit a bit of a peak. We couldn’t have done it without you.

Thanks again Dale.

Regards,

Liv

Dear Dale,
Thank you most sincerely on behalf of my parents and our family. It has been a difficult time managing the sudden health problems that stimulated my parents’ relocation. Your kindness and professionalism has been greatly appreciated as my parents leave a much loved home for a new adventure. You’ve helped them find a property that they will surely love. Your guidance in all aspects of the buy and sale has been critical to a smooth transition; and, your generosity of time in answering mine and my brother’s questions has also given us peace of mind as we live in other countries.

Please extend our thanks to Kim for bringing her decorating genius – her advice allowed us to quickly prep the house for sale. We would give the highest possible recommendation to anyone recruiting you for a real estate transaction. Your dedication to your clients is exemplary and we will be forever grateful for all you’ve done.

Please feel free to give my contact details to anyone seeking a reference from a happy client.

Warmest wishes,

Adina

Dear Dale,

We just wanted to thank you for your help in finding us our new home. We are all settled in and have done some minor renovations (the hardwood floors are beautiful). We can’t wait to start on the garden.

Your service was excellent and we were very happy Pat Robbins referred you to us. As first time homebuyers, we had a lot of questions and inquiries. You were very patient and helpful in answering all of them. Buying a new home can be very stressful especially the first time, but you walked us through it, step by step and made it a positive experience.

We gave you a long list of what we wanted for our meagre price range and you, amazingly enough, found us exactly what we wanted. We wanted to thank you for all the extra work you did in regards to this sale. You are a tough negotiator and you gave us proper council throughout the entire process, to the point of almost walking away from the deal.

We already have and will continue to recommend you to all our friends and family. And in the future, we will definitely deal with you again. Both of us thank you so much and wish you the best with everything.

Dale,

Just a wee thanks for everything you have done for me with the sale and purchase.

You definitely go above and beyond what is expected of you. Thought you could use the gift card towards anything, toward your house or yard or even towards a power tool. Just think of Tim Allen in the show home improvement. (Just don’t be an accident looking for a place to happen, like him!) HAHAHA

Thanks for everything!

Dale showed us that it was possible to sell our town home and buy the house of our dreams in what we thought was a tough market.
Once we had our home on the market, Dale quickly began marketing our home while finding us possible homes to buy. Upon finding the house we liked, not only did Dale help negotiate a good price for it, but he also managed to sell our home on time for us to secure our new home purchase.

We would gladly recommend Dale to anyone interested in buying or selling real estate. He was genuinely concerned in accomplishing what we wanted, and always placed our needs first.

Dear Dale,

Gary and myself would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your outstanding performance in selling our home. You kept us informed and up to date which made us feel comfortable and at ease with looking after our home.

We would be extremely happy to recommend you to any of our friends as a professional real estate agent who took care of our needs and concerns far and beyond your duties to us.

We wish you much success in your future years with selling real estate.
Best wishes from the Annison’s – Ann and Gary

Dale,

Thanks again to you and Garry for your professional services & I hope I don’t have to sell for many years now-but you will be the first I will call or recommend to others.

Cheers,

Hi Dale,

Just a short note to convey our thanks in providing us with “A1” services over the last few months. Without your hard work and efforts, this deal would not have materialized.

You went well beyond in taking all measures possible for the deal to proceed and at the same time provided us with high level of services in a very professional manner.

Dear Dale,

I just wanted to tell you that everything went fine with the purchase of my home and I am now getting settled.

I’d like to thank you very much for the professional service you provided. As you know I have generally a bad opinion about real estate people – but you were really the glorious exception. I appreciated especially your knowledge of any neighbourhood around Victoria and your trustful advice on the quality and prices of the houses we looked at.

I will definitely recommend you to any of my friends when they look for purchasing a house. And I’ll definitely come back to you if I want to purchase a different house.

Dale Sheppard,

Mrs Hornsberger and I wish to express our appreciation in the manner you utilized your experience in selling our unit at Grand Oaks.
Your knowledge and energy put into play was quite evident in completing the sale. For this we thank you.

We wish you a good future and many more sales.

Dale,

Wayne & I want to thank you for all of you efforts throughout the sale of our house and the purchase of our new home.
As you know, buying and selling a home is a very emotional and stressful time in one’s life and we appreciated your patience, courtesy and professionalism.

Please enjoy a nice dinner on us as a small token of our appreciation!

We would like to take this opportunity (slightly belated) to express our sincere appreciation of the commendable manner in which Mr Dale Sheppard handled the sale of (our) property. We were very impressed with his expertise, his professionalism and his dedication “over and above the call of duty”, in order to effect a rapid sale of our home in a depressed market.

Thank you very much Dale. May you continue to enjoy success and satisfaction in your chosen career. Please feel free to use our name should you ever require a reference;

With sincere good wishes,

Dear Dale Sheppard,

Andrew and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for helping us purchase our home. Not knowing how to go about purchasing a home, you answered our many questions and walked us through step by step and made it a positive experience.

You found us exactly what we wanted in a very short time.

You are a great negotiator (Thanks for the hot tub)

Your name came to us highly recommended and we will recommend you to our friends and family.
Thanks again Dale.

We wish you a great future and many more transactions.

To future clients of Dale Sheppard,

I had the opportunity to have Dale handle the listing and sale of my home in the spring.

I found Dale to be very hard working, open to new ideas and innovative ways to attract prospective buyers, and always on top of the market and what was happening in the Victoria real estate scene.

Over the duration that my home was listed, Dale worked tirelessly to attract buyers, always following up after they had viewed the house, and suggesting ways that I could make my home more attractive.

I found Dale to be careful, honest and to have a great deal of integrity. I would certainly contact him again should I decide to undertake another real estate transaction in the Victoria area.

To those reading this letter, all the best for a quick sale of your home.

Dear Dale,

Terry and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for selling our home in a professional manner. We enjoyed working with you and appreciated your ability to work around our pets, children and our work schedules.

We would not hesitate to recommend you to anyone interested in selling their home.

Dear Dale,

We would like to thank you for your efforts and assistance in the purchase of our new home. Your professional and knowledgeable approach helped us achieve the best deal possible.

From the beginning we felt well advised, which helped ease the pressure of purchasing our new home. Your prompt response to our questions and concerns, and your attention to detail made us feel very confident that we were receiving the best service that we could.

Please be sure that if and when the opportunity arises, we would not hesitate to recommend your services to friends and family.
Thank you again. We love our house.

To whom it may concern,

I’ve known Mr. Dale Sheppard for several years, and when it came time to sell our home, Dale was one of several who we gave consideration to in selecting a realtor to assist in marketing our home.

Mr Sheppard’s honesty, integrity and diligence in giving consistent effort, his attention to detail, and most of all his never losing site of the fact that he works for and in the best interest of the seller proved to my satisfaction that we made the correct choice in selecting him to represent us in the sale of our property.

I highly recommend that anyone intent on the sale of their home should strongly consider listing with Dale. I’m sure your decision will be rewarded by his sound judgement and hard work.

I would be quite happy to respond by phone to anyone wishing further reference regarding Mr Sheppard.

To whom this may concern

Dale Sheppard sold my home after having it on the market after only 2 days, getting me a price that most other realtors had said was too high. My home was on the market with PRIVATE HOME/SELLERS for approximately 3 months and I couldn’t sell it even when it was priced lower than Dale sold my home for in 2 days.

Dale was very professional and to the point. He didn’t bore me with things that weren’t important to me. He gave me the important facts only. Dale was very well informed on the market conditions. Dale is very a very enthusiastic, knowledgeable Realtor who keeps seeing the positive in everything and it worked for me.

My home had been given an anticipated selling price of $210,000 to $220,000 by 2 other Realtors and Dale sold it for $228,500.
Thanks again to Dale Sheppard for doing such a great job for me.

Dear Dale,

Rose and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your hard work and dedication in both selling our condominium and purchasing our townhouse.

Rose and I had never previously sold a property before, and your guidance to us in preparing and showing the property were invaluable. We were both very impressed with your professional and helpful approach right from our initial interview with you, and the high standard of work you showed throughout the process. We also both really appreciated the amount of time you took in listening to us regarding what we wanted in our new property and making suggestions in areas we hadn’t considered. Given that our purchase process was complicated somewhat by my military duties, we were also both very happy with the extra effort you went to in making sure that everything was done promptly and in such a manner as to reduce the amount of running around.

We don’t anticipate selling our home in the near future, but if we do we will certainly contact you again and ask you to represent our interests, always assuming you haven’t taken a well-earned retirement by that time.

Please feel free to reproduce this letter for future prospective clients, as we would happily recommend your services to them.

I have known Dale for approximately seven years and during that time he has sold two real estate properties for me and assisted me with the purchase of two new properties.

Through both the selling and purchasing processes, I found Dale to be extremely professional yet understanding toward both parties involved in each of the transactions. He has always been punctual with respect to appointment times and efficient with communication from both the sellers’ and the buyers’ standpoint. I wouldn’t hesitate to enlist Dales’ services in any future real estate ventures and highly recommend him – you won’t be disappointed.

My wife Karen and I had the fortunate opportunity to be represented by Dale Sheppard in our quest to purchase a home in 2010. Simply put his participation is a major factor in our happiness at our new home.
Dale is the knowledgeable professional! The awareness research and advice was outstanding. Every step of the way was proactive and informative. Where I needed to step out and investigate on my own his advice & helpful direction was clear and exact. Performance, character, skill, knowledge, communication and patience are top tier. His knowledge of the market and people are shockingly apparent in his outstanding negotiating skill.

We recommend Dale Sheppard to anyone looking for quality representation.

Dear Dale,

Hope that this note finds you and your family keeping well and happy. I want to say a big thank you for your help during a very difficult time for me. You did an excellent job of selling our beautiful home so quickly. We all wish you and your family the very best. I’m still waiting for my suite, will be nice to get settled in my own place again. Thanks so much for all your hard work. Take care.

To Whom it May Concern:

I am writing to give Dale Sheppard my highest recommendation. He helped us find a home and provided valuable guidance throughout the process. Dale’s knowledge of waterfront and water view properties and the unique issues surrounding them helped us make the right decision. He advised us against purchasing a particular property due to the need to complete an Archeological Impact Assessment. He provided us with the necessary contacts within the government agencies that dealt with this problem and valuable counsel that steered us away from that particular purchase.

We first met Dale when we owned a business and a commercial piece of property. He was representing the purchaser and we felt that he negotiated very fairly. We were impressed with his forthright manner and honesty.

In our most recent waterfront purchase Dale sourced out the processes that we weren’t familiar with and facilitated a smooth sale. His negotiating skills and knowledge of the market, particularly waterfront properties were very evident. Dale possesses all the attributes necessary to be an excellent real estate broker: he knows the market extremely well; is responsive, and yet very patient with clients. Dale is both very professional and personable.

Hello Dale

Thank you!

Thank you also for being our Agent in the selling of our house. Once we got the asking price in the right ball park, it was actually surprising how fast the house sold!

Our next door neighbour had been talking to the owners of the houses that are for sale down the street heading south & on the same side of the street as our house and the owner of that house
was saying to our neighbour that Norm’s & my house was the last house on the street to be listed & the first sold.

Our neighbour simply replied “they priced it right”. I have noticed that that owner has now lowered his asking price by $10,000.00, but it is still not selling, and my guess is that it won’t until he lowers way more. Just another confirmation for us that in today’s market, houses on that street are really only worth around the $430,000 to $440,000 mark.

Thanks for the offer to find us an Agent in Penticton. If the one I have already talked with does not pan out, then I certainly will contact you for a referral to another one.

Take care Dale & thanks again!

Dale,

Thank you for your dedication, perseverance and patience in what has turned out to be a long journey to provide us with the perfect home. It has been a wonderful experience working with you the past 9 years. Thank you for your authenticity. Without hesitation we will continue to highly recommend you to our family and friends.