Joseph Pytcher has a unique value proposition for potential home buyers and real estate agents: “If our brokerage clients can’t find a home on the market to purchase, we can build them the luxury custom home they want.”
Pytcher is owner and founder of the Pytcher Real Estate Group, a Plano-based custom home builder that recently launched its full-service brokerage in early 2022. It’s a unique opportunity for innovative real estate agents to offer their clients something that other agents in the Metroplex can’t.
With the Pytcher Real Estate Group, clients can purchase a move-in-ready home with a full-service brokerage or start from scratch to build a new, custom home with an experienced boutique home builder. They can even sell their home to Pytcher, who’ll make a cash offer and flip it into a beautifully-renovated home.
“This gives our agents the opportunity to find the best solution for their clients among several different options we can provide them exclusively,” Pytcher says.
Pytcher is a U.S. Army veteran who started out with a career in finance and mortgage lending, before moving on to renovations and home building. He lives in Plano with his wife Julie and son Henry.
Pytcher has built and renovated some impressive homes that we’ve fawned over through the years, including this Briarwood transitional, an Old Lake Highlands ranch-style, and a Lochwood midcentury.
This concept of blending a custom home builder with a full-service brokerage is working well for agent Erik Mollenhoff, who joined the Pytcher Real Estate Group a few months ago and already has a client considering the custom build route.
“It’s something that sets us apart and I’ve found clients are impressed when they learn all the options they have with us,” says Mollenhoff, a Plano resident who grew up in the Mid-Cities.
Mollenhoff left a career in market research last year to become a full-time real estate agent with a large brokerage. But when Pytcher launched his brokerage and Mollenhoff saw how competitive the numbers were, he decided to join his long-time friend. “For Joseph to provide all that value, it was a no-brainer for me,” he says.
Agents with Pytcher Real Estate Group don’t have to pay the typical brokerage fees that other brokerages charge, and they receive sales leads for free. “That’s huge,” says Mollenhoff, who’ll close five homes within one month since he joined the firm.
Fellow agent Saira Saeed of Plano was one of the company’s first hires.
“Joseph offers a very generous commission split and provides a user-friendly CRM where we can manage our leads,” says the former data analyst turned Realtor. “He provides us as many resources as possible and we’ve been making good sales as a result.”
But more than business or numbers were concerned, Saeed was looking for a partner in her success.
“Joseph was not just opening a brokerage,” she says. “He had a vision to make it successful.”
But balanced success. Saeed wanted to find a broker who understood the balance between work and home.
“During the early days of the pandemic, my mom became ill so I traveled back to Pakistan where she was hospitalized,” Saeed says. “But travel and everything shut down and I couldn’t come home for four months. That was so difficult, being out for four months financially.
“In that situation, most brokers would go, ‘You’re on your own. You have to manage that.’ But brokerages need to understand that agents have issues sometimes, and they need some compassion and flexibility to take care of things. Joseph treats all the agents like family and he works to help us be successful.”
Agent Mark Manley of East Dallas met Joseph about a year-and-a-half ago when he was looking to sell his mother’s home to Joseph as an investor. He didn’t end up selling to him, but he kept in touch.
“There was just something about Joseph and how kind yet professional he was,” says Manley, who left a large brokerage to join Pytcher Real Estate and now takes care of his elderly mother at his Buckner Terrace home.
“I’ve been with a couple of larger firms and I felt lost at times,” he says. You can’t find anybody higher up to talk to, so you’re on your own. That’s what I love about a small firm. This personally gives me the flexibility to take care of my family.”
But there was something very unique about Pytcher that impressed Manley most.
“He always answers his phone,” Manley says. “That is so rare. And if he’s in a meeting or can’t answer the call, he calls back. I’ve met a lot of people in this business and that was very impressive to me.”
As founder and owner of his eponymous company, Pytcher takes this commitment to agents seriously. He’s now hiring new and experienced agents for the team.
“I want to share my experience and knowledge base with our agents,” Pytcher says. “Knowledge is the scarcest of all resources.”
For more information about joining Pytcher Real Estate Group, you can visit PytcherRealEstate.com or call 817-637-7001. And yes, he’ll answer the phone.
