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SPONSORED CONTENT BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT SPONSORED CONTENT Jeffrey Costa Select Realty’s Melissa Steffey – Local Company, Local Roots W hen Realtor Melissa Steffey was recruited out of a corporate-chain real estate company to work for Jeffrey Costa Select Realty, she saw the opportunity to really get back to her local roots. Her commitment to the South Hills runs deep, and working for a local business was an important consideration for her. “It’s a newer brokerage based out of Elizabeth, where I grew up, and it gave me the opportunity to start the Melissa Steffey Team,” Steffey said. “I was a mentor manager at my previous brokerage in addition to handling my own clients, so I’ve been able to expand my role here by managing my own team and helping some newer agents break into the business.” She has helped homeowners buy and sell homes all over the South Hills—from Elizabeth to Mt. Lebanon. A longtime fixture in the Jefferson Hills community, Steffey not only has children in the West Jefferson Hills School District, but also serves on the Jefferson Hills Recreation Board. “I have a lot of clients who are residents in the community already. They are looking to upgrade a little bit, but want to stay in the school district,” she said. “The school district drives a lot of attention into the real estate in this area, and a lot of residents who want to expand a little bit for more space want to work with me because they know how entrenched I am here.” And when she says “entrenched,” she means it. Steffey can tell you which neighborhoods are served by which school bus routes off the top of her head because that’s information that’s important in her clients’ decision-making. “With my knowledge of the market and my two buyers agents working alongside me, Katlyn Bercik and Sarah Smith, I’ve been able to expand my services to more clients as well as help train all of the new agents from the ground up,” she said. “It is so important to me to help new agents who are just starting out in the business. They need to always keep it in the back of their mind that we as agents are responsible for one of the largest financial purchases that a person will make in their lifetime. Jeffrey Costa Select Realty was founded by Jeff Costa and Guy Reschenthaler to help bridge a gap between the homebuilding industry and Realtors where clients were getting lost in the shuffle as they were trying to sell their existing homes through other companies during the building process.” As a Multimillion Dollar Producer with 2017 sales of $6.4 million, Steffey will have no problem transitioning to her new “home.” You can find her at Community Day on June 9, both as a Realtor and representing the borough as a longstanding member of the Recreation Board, where she’s been serving for the past eight years. Sarah Smith Melissa Steffey Katlyn Bercik For more information on Melissa Steffey and how she can help you buy or sell your next home, check out her website at pghrealestate. com, where you can see all of her current listings as well. You can also reach her directly by calling 412.980.4616. Her office is located at 600 Hayden Blvd., Building 1, Elizabeth,15037. Her office number is 412.946.4002. Or you can email her at [email protected]. WEST JEFFERSON HILLS ❘ SUMMER 2018 31