Having recently bought our new home, and sold our current home through James, we feel well placed to provide a comprehensive view of his skills and knowledge. From start to finish the advice we received was clear, insightful and timely. This was supported with effective communications throughout, which helped us manage the inherent stress of buying and selling. Ultimately, the end sales result achieved was pleasing, and buoyed by a favourable market, at the top end of our expectations. James is a consummate professional and we commend him and his team to you without reservation.

We are very pleased with the job James & Lyndall did for us when they recently sold our house. Their proposal was thorough, detailed and addressed the uniqueness of our property. From that point onwards the process followed their script remarkably closely. So while selling a house is stressful, feeling like we were on a known trajectory made it as comfortable as it could have been. The outcome of our sale was right in line with James's assessment and our expectations. Highly recommended.

I found James to be warm and friendly with great knowledge and experience about the market on the Northern Beaches and the high end market in general. His presentation on my marketing video was fantastic. He and his staff, particularly Lauren are warm and friendly with an easy going approach and I enjoyed working with them. His direction and advice on on the marketing and selling of our property was excellent. I couldn't recommend James and his team highly enough.

James and Lauren are an exceptional team when it came to positioning our property in a fast moving market , and identifying the type of buyer for our property -and communicated very effectively, with an excellent outcome.

Strong market and product knowledge, over rided by his people skills. James is one of a very small group of property sales professionals

Great market insights and and a professional approach. It was a pleasure to work with James and achieve a good result. He has a good personal style and is warm and approachable.

James Baker is the leading real estate agent on the northern beaches, for good reason. He' is professional, honest, transparent and very experienced. We recommend James and his team unreservedly.

I found James very professional, friendly and always available to discuss how the campaign was going. His strategy for marketing my property by auctioning was quick and well run. I would highly recommend James as your Agent if you want to sell your house.

James is a market leader in his field, a fountain of knowledge in the local area. Following an extremely lengthy search, many disappointments and challenges, James made it abundantly clear he would try to help us find our dream home. During negotiations he was clear, communicative and was able to get the deal over the line during a time when the market is so difficult to gauge. I would highly recommend James as a buyer and when the time comes as a vendor. He manages the balance between the two with finesse due to his breadth of experience. Thank you James.

When the time came to sell our house my wife and I asked Lyndal Barry who we had used before and had not long joined the team at McGrath working with who I regard as one of Avalon’s top agents, James Baker to come and give a market appraisal for our property. When selling a home it is a pretty daunting and stressful time and I have lived in Avalon my whole life and acquired my first home here 1991 and bought and sold 4 times since then. We were clear on what we wanted - trust, honesty and no BS. First impressions are usually best impressions and I must say I was very impressed with James’s market knowledge and understanding of our “musts” in the sale of our home. James run a few scenarios by us on what to expect and how to move forward and obtain a best result and true to James’s knowledge, the scenarios he run by us actually happened so we were prepared on how we were going make the sale happen, which resulted in us selling our home in 10 days with a result both my wife and I were extremely happy with. What really impressed us with James was his honesty and focus, at no time were we let down in the sale, but more importantly in my mind, as a agent he is primarily working for the vendor, but James showed real professionalism and understanding of the purchasers requests and he managed the sale with the best interests of both vendor and purchaser. Avalon is great community and word of mouth spreads pretty quickly and I am yet to hear a negative regarding James. Avalon is lucky to have many a good agent working here, in James we found honesty, integrity and first class knowledge and experience and brings all the expansive talent of the McGrath agency into Avalon. Heaven forbid that I wish to sell again, but if we do both my wife and I would be calling on James again. Mark and Kimberley Verrills Avalon

Very good market knowledge and good communication skills. It was a very helpful and supportive experience.

Recently sold my house with James and Lauren at McGrath. Excellent local knowledge and a long list of well qualified buyers made my sale about as stress free as possible. Also using them for renting my new house in the area. I would highly recommend James , Lauren and the team at McGrath to any prospective buyers for the Northern Beaches