My husband and I work with Cathy whenever we need assistance selling or purchasing a home. She has extensive experience and is an excellent Realtor. We would highly recommend her to anyone looking to sell or buy a home in the Washington, DC Area. Cathy maintains an extensive, trusted network to facilitate the end to end process for her clients. For example, she recommended a contractor for our home repairs, helped us bring in a professional staging company to stage our home, and helped us to find movers and even a mortgage lender. After our home was staged, she worked with a professional photographer to create a brochure and customized sales sign. She organized the open house and also used a service to facilitate showing our home. She did an absolutely fabulous job and we ended up with 19 offers in 4 days. Our home sold well above listing price and was the highest sales price in the neighborhood. She then helped us to find a new home in our target area in record time, despite a current home supply shortage. Again, we have been incredibly pleased with her services and would highly recommend her. Less

My husband and I work with Cathy whenever we need assistance selling or purchasing a home. She has extensive experience and is an excellent Realtor. We would highly recommend her to anyone looking to sell or buy a home in the Washington, DC Area. Cathy maintains an extensive, trusted network to facilitate the end to end process for her clients. For example, she recommended a contractor for our home repairs, helped us bring in a professional staging company to stage our home, and helped us... More

When interviewing agents to sell our home, we considered an agent with one of the large firms in the area, an agent with a discount firm, and Cathy. It was clear from the listing presentations that Cathy was the best choice and we couldn't have been happier with the result. From helping us price our home correctly, to her advice staging our home, to her innovative yard-signs which promote the house rather than the real-estate firm, to her regular feedback through the selling process, it was clear that she was doing everything possible to get our home sold quickly and for the best price. Our home had multiple offers within the first week. It sold for over $11,000 above the list price - and over $22,000 above what the agent with the large firm had been recommending we sell for! Once we had the house under contract, Cathy also took care of all the details to make sure that the sale went through, including little details like recommending a title company that found and fixed old title problems that had been missed in previous transactions. Overall, we had a great experience working with Cathy from beginning to end and would recommend her highly. Less

When interviewing agents to sell our home, we considered an agent with one of the large firms in the area, an agent with a discount firm, and Cathy. It was clear from the listing presentations that Cathy was the best choice and we couldn't have been happier with the result. From helping us price our home correctly, to her advice staging our home, to her innovative yard-signs which promote the house rather than the real-estate firm, to her regular feedback through the selling process, it wa... More

Cathy was infectiously enthusiastic from our first meeting through the closing process. She was always positive and reassuring about marketing the sale of my townhouse. Her suggestions for paint and staging paid off. Cathy's prediction that my house would be under contract within 30 days was accurate - under contract in 19 days and closing in 30 days. Her marketing skills are exemplary and necessary to get desired results. Cathy was very responsive to my phone calls and any issues that arose during the sale process. I highly recommend Cathy's services for the sale or purchase of a property. Less

Cathy was infectiously enthusiastic from our first meeting through the closing process. She was always positive and reassuring about marketing the sale of my townhouse. Her suggestions for paint and staging paid off. Cathy's prediction that my house would be under contract within 30 days was accurate - under contract in 19 days and closing in 30 days. Her marketing skills are exemplary and necessary to get desired results. Cathy was very responsive to my phone calls and any issues that arose... More

Listen up all you home sellers....there is no reason to look any further for an agent other than "Cathy Poungmalai"! DO NOT waist your valuable time with anyone else. She understands the needs of both sellers and buyers to satisfy all and seal the deal. She found a buyer for me in three weeks and i was very satisfied with her perfomance and how she handeled everything!

Cathy Poungmalai is a true professional. She understands the natural emotions involved with people selling their homes that they love;often their greatest asset.She presented data and helped analyze options every step of the way, through listing, staging and the sale. Knowing the homes that were competitors for the same home buyers was an extended and constant focus. Besides all of the business reasons we enjoyed, we consider her a friend. When we purchased a home through her as well, she never rushed us or tried to convince us to any home; she listened and pursued our interests at all times Less

Cathy Poungmalai is a true professional. She understands the natural emotions involved with people selling their homes that they love;often their greatest asset.She presented data and helped analyze options every step of the way, through listing, staging and the sale. Knowing the homes that were competitors for the same home buyers was an extended and constant focus. Besides all of the business reasons we enjoyed, we consider her a friend. When we purchased a home through her as well, she neve... More

We had a wonderful experience working with Cathy for both the purchase of our new home and the rental of our old home. We really feel like we would not have been able to get our new home, which is absolutely perfect for us, without her! When we first saw the home, there were already multiple offers on the property so Cathy helped us to put together a very strategic, smart, and solid offer that ended up getting us the home! There was so much that occurred during the homebuying process, but through it all she was both proactive and responsive and gave us the best representation we could have asked for. Cathy is a great communicator. She is very knowledgeable about the northern Virginia market, but most of all, has a very friendly, candid, and warm personality (that drew us to her to select her as our agent in the first place) that makes her easy to work with while still having the assertiveness, strength, and confidence you want in an agent representing you. She really understands how to market and stage properties to highlight their best assets and get the full value out of either a sale price or rental. We really appreciated that while she was very candid to provide us with her honest opinions and perspectives, she also listened to ours, particularly when they differed from her own, and worked with us to find solutions that we mutually agreed upon. For our rental, we also worked with her assistant Undrah quite a bit, who was very responsive and so helpful to us in providing the background checks and information we needed to make a selection. We were able to get multiple applicants within one week of our listing, and found an excellent tenant for our home on a very tight timeframe, thanks to Cathy and Undrah's help! You will not be disappointed if you select Cathy to be your agent, for either buying, selling, or renting a home. She really does her best to get you the most value for your dollar and is truly a wonderful person to work with. Less

We had a wonderful experience working with Cathy for both the purchase of our new home and the rental of our old home. We really feel like we would not have been able to get our new home, which is absolutely perfect for us, without her! When we first saw the home, there were already multiple offers on the property so Cathy helped us to put together a very strategic, smart, and solid offer that ended up getting us the home! There was so much that occurred during the homebuying process, but thr... More

We are pleased to strongly recommend Cathy to be your realtor. She and her husband, Tomas, work together as a terrific team, staging your home beautifully, pricing it accurately, posting it strategically, negotiating for you honestly and aggressively, and closing the deal. It was clear from the first time we met her that she would be our strongest advocate. Cathy is the consummate professional, yet compassionately understands the personal side of staging and selling a home that is near and dear to your heart. She uses the latest technology to get your home in front of as many people as possible, plus some traditional tried and true methods to steer traffic to your home for an open house. She also uses a terrific photographer who is artistically skilled in capturing and enhancing the look and feel of your home and producing stunning brochures and flyers. We couldn¹t be happier with our experience working with Cathy and Tomas. Steve and Kim (Happy Falls Church Sellers) Less

We are pleased to strongly recommend Cathy to be your realtor. She and her husband, Tomas, work together as a terrific team, staging your home beautifully, pricing it accurately, posting it strategically, negotiating for you honestly and aggressively, and closing the deal. It was clear from the first time we met her that she would be our strongest advocate. Cathy is the consummate professional, yet compassionately understands the personal side of staging and selling a home that is near and d... More

Cathy is a fantastic realtor and Frankly Realty is a great company. My family made a cross-country move from California to Virginia. Hoping to expedite the process and have a home waiting for us when we arrived, we contacted Cathy and Frankly Realty months before our move. Cathy listened to our requirements and quickly forwarded us a list of homes that might meet them. From that list we were able to better determine what kind of home we were looking for and what neighborhoods we wanted to consider. About three months before our move, I traveled to Virginia to meet with Cathy and look at some of the homes we?d been considering. While we weren?t able to find the perfect home on that visit, we were able to nail down the type of home and neighborhood we wanted. Shortly after my return to California, a new home appeared on the Frankly MLS site. I called Cathy and asked her to preview it for us. Cathy quickly made a detailed video preview of the home and the neighborhood in which it was located. It was almost like being there in person. After viewing the video and discussing the property with Cathy, my wife and I decided that we wanted to make an offer. In the two days that the home was on the market, four other families made offers on it as well. Cathy provided us with great advice on our offering, including some flexible terms that we?re sure contributed to our offer being the one the sellers accepted. We bought the house without ever seeing it in person. A number of our friends thought it was a rather risky thing to do. We, however, didn?t doubt it for a minute. Cathy knew precisely the type of home we were looking for, and we had complete confidence in Cathy?s advice and ability to represent our interests. We?ve been living in the new house for about three weeks now. It?s the perfect house for us. I?d like to say I couldn?t be happier, but everyday we?re here I am more pleased with our home. We?re grateful to Cathy and Frankly Realty for helping us find our new home. Less

Cathy is a fantastic realtor and Frankly Realty is a great company. My family made a cross-country move from California to Virginia. Hoping to expedite the process and have a home waiting for us when we arrived, we contacted Cathy and Frankly Realty months before our move. Cathy listened to our requirements and quickly forwarded us a list of homes that might meet them. From that list we were able to better determine what kind of home we were looking for and what neighborhoods we wanted to co... More