FIRST TEAM’S BARBARA AND AUTUMN MCCALL: PERSONAL SERVICE ALWAYS WINS

People unfamiliar with the way Barbara and Autumn McCall do business are sometimes surprised to see one or both of the high-powered real estate agents on site at their Huntington Sea Cliff area open houses to talk with potential buyers. The surprise is understandable: some real estate agents, as they become more successful, delegate open house responsibilities to assistants – but not these award-winning First Team® Real Estate agents.

For the McCalls, a mother-daughter team that solely represents buyers and sellers of homes in Huntington Sea Cliff 16 different communities, their presence at open houses is a natural part of the tightly focused personal service upon which they’ve built their reputation. They consider working directly with clients instead of sending them to assistants, helpers, or coordinators, as providing personalized service.

“This is a passion for us, a way of life as well as a profession,” said Barbara McCall, who has lived in Huntington Beach for 42 years. Barbara has dealt exclusively with Huntington Sea Cliffs, located between the north side of historic downtown Huntington Beach and the Bolsa Chica wetlands preserve, since selling her first Sea Cliffs home in 1983 before its framing was even completed. Those were the early days of what is now a prestigious gated and non-gated planned development coastal community of about 3,300 residences ranging from attractive town homes to ocean-view and golf course estates. At the time, Barbara was working as a sales person for the project developer. When that first project finished in 1988, she joined First Team after interviewing with several real estate companies.

“First Team had then, and still has, more advantages that I can pass on to my clients than any other company. I know this because I’m approached all the time by different real estate agencies,” she explained, adding that every year since 1989, she has won recognition as one of First Team’s top-producing agents.

Autumn, who played at the site of Huntington Sea Cliff development as a child, joined her mother at First Team in 2003. “We’re the only agents working the Sea Cliffs area who advertise strictly Sea Cliffs homes every single week of the year,” Autumn said. “People ask why we don’t expand our focus beyond Sea Cliffs. We answer that if we did, we’d be spreading ourselves so thin we wouldn’t be able to live up to the personal service standards that made us so successful in the first place.”

“Once people live here, they love it so much they stay. The range of housing options makes it so they can do that,” said Autumn. To talk with Barbara and Autumn McCall, call (714) 861-1221. For more information about First Team Real Estate, visit its easy-to-navigate and extremely comprehensive website, www.fi rstteam.com.