About Snyder Bassette Real Estate Group
From the beginning we recognized the benefit to clients of working as 50/50 business partners and combining our unique and complementary backgrounds (see below). We firmly believe that true teamwork often means 1+1 = 5. We see it everyday as we collaborating and work closely together. We offer the best of our combined thinking and service to each Woodstock VT real estate client.
Bassette and Snyder Multiple Skills
We are well positioned – by background, education, temperament, and skill sets - to serve both local residents as well as second home buyers and sellers of distinctive homes, properties and estates. We are a great Vermont Buyer Broker team for buyers who may be acquiring Vermont property or coming to the area for the first time.
John Bassette John Snyder
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John Bassette, GRI, ABR, Principal Broker/Partner, brings to the Woodstock real estate team over 25 years experience as a real estate broker in Vermont and neighboring New Hampshire. Over his long career in VT and NH real estate, John has successfully guided clients through hundreds of real estate transactions. He has his Graduate Realtor Institute certification (GRI) and is an Accredited Buyer Representative (ABR). Along with this skill set John has taken countless real estate courses and has Negotiation Specialist and eMarketing Specialist certifications. 20+/- years ago John was the sole MLS computer instructor to the Upper Valley Realtors when we went from bi-weekly printed B&W MLS books to a digital electronic MLS. John was raised in Vermont and "in the Dark Ages" was the United States National Ski Jumping Champion (1978). He is an extremely involved father of nine (9) with his lovely wife Donna-Lee and lives in Hartland Vermont. A fanatical skier who "loves speed", is training for the Vermont 100 Ultra-Marathon, a big supporter of the Woodstock Union High school cross country running, track, & nordic ski teams, and is actively involved in his local church. John earned his BA-Psychology starting at Middlebury College and finishing at the University of Vermont. |
John Snyder, MBA, CFA, President/Partner, brings to the team a background in global finance and marketing, having run a $30 billion fiduciary portfolio management business at JP Morgan in New York, then headed capital raising and client relationship management for a $3 billion private hedge fund in Greenwich, CT before moving his family to the Woodstock VT area in 2004. John and his wife, Ellen have designed and built many lovely and historic homes and enjoy the process. John S now works full time in the real estate business. John has travelled to 26 countries and 46 of the U.S. states, but now resides full-time in lovely Barnard, Vermont. He is actively involved in the local community serving as Chairman of the Barnard DRB (Zoning) Board, is a member of the Volunteer Fire Department and serves as a board member of several private foundations. John's hobbies include "rocking out" in a local band, running, skiing and snowshoeing, and mostly spending time with Ellen and their two children - enjoying life in Vermont. John earned his BA-History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his MBA-Finance from Cornell University during which time he was selected to attend the London Business School. |
Snyder Bassette Serving Greater Woodstock
The Snyder Bassette Real Estate Group sells Woodstock Vermont real estate and provides full-range real estate brokerage services to buyers and sellers of properties, land, and estates in the greater Woodstock VT area and into the Upper Valley of New Hampshire.
The Snyder Bassette Approach
Our business approach combines the best of “old school” excellence in client service and relationships - with “leading edge” online marketing of properties. Nearly all buyers today begin - and often end - their real estate searches online. Many buyers in fact, "drive" the showing requests. This has "changed the game", and requires a combination of excellence in on-line marketing and web distribution/syndication skills, while also requiring the traditional people skills of client management, marketing, sales and negotiations. Therefore, at Snyder Bassette Real Estate Group, we focus significant resources into on-line property marketing and are “wired” into our personal networks of contacts and customers through online social media.
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