REALTOR®
About Wendy
WENDY CORTESE is a licensed Realtor in Maine and Director of Operations for Lifestyle Properties at Keller Williams in Portland. Wendy formerly sold California luxury real estate in Los Angeles, and before that sold high-end real estate in New York City and Brooklyn for over a decade. Wendy takes impeccable care of clients, from staging and strategically marketing a property to sell for the highest price, to ensuring clients are up to date on market conditions and the hottest listings. She is a seasoned, proven expert in negotiations and bidding wars. Wendy operates with the utmost discretion and care, having worked with high-profile clientele in Los Angeles and New York City since 2007.
Wendy’s grandmother, who founded and owned a boutique firm in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area where Wendy grew up, inspired her early appreciation for architecture, design, and the real estate business. Wendy now resides in Cape Elizabeth with her wife, Caroline, an expert hairstylist. They play pickleball, hike, garden, and tend to their sweet little tuxedo cat Willow.
Gallery of Select Deals
MALIBU COMPOUND
28222 Via Acero St
SOLD: $3,920,000
MODERN FARMHOUSE
Larchmont Village
SOLD: $3,700,000
AGOURA HILLS RANCH
6144 3/4 Chesebro Rd
SOLD: $3,700,000
MAR VISTA
MEDITERANEAN
12234 Everglade
SOLD: $2,982,372
VENICE TOWNHOUSE
917 Main St
SOLD: $2,075,000
STUDIO CITY MID-CENTURY
3506 Laurelvale
SOLD: $1,590,000
LARCHMONT VILLAGE TUDOR
570 N Irving
SOLD: $1,505,700
STUDIO CITY
CALIFORNIA RANCH
4456 Beeman
SOLD: $1,370,000
MAGNOLIA PARK CHARMER
Burbank
SOLD: $1,280,000
GLASSELL PARK
VIEW HOME
3876 Sunbeam
SOLD: $1,222,800
PICFAIR VILLAGE TUDOR
1507 Stanley Avenue
SOLD: $1,025,000
PENTHOUSE IN WEHO
325 Arnaz Dr, PH4
SOLD: $1,015,500
WEHO LIVE/WORK LOFT
751 N Fairfax Ave #5
SOLD: $989,000
LEIMERT PARK
MINI-COMPOUND
4210 11th Ave
SOLD: $950,000
SHERMAN OAKS
CALIFORNIA RANCH
5716 Bevis Ave
SOLD: $930,000
HOLLYWOOD HILLS FIXER
7709 Skyhill Dr
SOLD: $900,000
Client Reviews
Wendy, it was an absolute pleasure to work with you selling our home!
Thank you for all of your hard work, the numerous open houses you held, the honest and open advice on what to list the house for. It was not an easy time to sell what with the market changing the week we listed, but you seemed to understand and forsee the buyers needs and wants. You were brilliant at communicating with us to know what to do and helping us close so quickly.
As the Queen of England once said, “In times of doubt and anxiety the attitudes people show in their daily lives, in their homes, and in their work, are of supreme importance.”
Thank you for your never ending patience, good humor, ambition, and professionalism. We will miss you as we return to England, but will always think of you and how much you helped us in both buying and selling Buckingham.
- Sellers and Buyers, Gemma & Emily
My husband and I purchased our first home, and had the most stellar experience working with Wendy. We genuinely didn’t know it was possible to love a realtor so much. Within a week of meeting Wendy, we worked together to put an offer on an incredible house. As is common in LA real estate, there was a very competitive bidding war, which with Wendy’s superb guidance, we won. Wendy was constantly collecting new information and doing analysis to make sure that our ask was just right (not too low, not too high). She miraculously scheduled 10 inspectors the week of Thanksgiving, negotiated off the closing price, and helped us close in 26 days — all during a global pandemic, nonetheless. Wendy is incredibly smart and honest, and was calm, responsive, and fun to work with through the entire process. To us, Wendy is superwoman.
—Buyers, Lisa & Joe
Wendy helped us win a competitive bidding war and got me into the house of my dreams. She was so easy to spend time with and made the home buying process as fun and chill as possible, while being extremely knowledgeable and professional. I'm a pretty indecisive person but she could feel me out and help me parse through the emotions that would come up when it was time to decide how aggressively to pursue a house. She always gave me her honest opinion but also let me know how to do the other option in a responsible way if that was what I wanted. Every step of the process was made easier by her level of experience and warm bedside manner. I recommend her to everyone!
—Buyers, High-profile