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Greater Pasadena Real Estate—Updated Daily
Follow current real estate activity across Pasadena, Altadena, South Pasadena, and La Cañada Flintridge. Explore new listings, price reductions, homes in escrow, and recent sales.
Featured Properties & Recent Successes
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The deFazio Experience at Compass
Sell your home
Your sale begins with a thoughtful consultation about your goals, timing, and property. With decades of Greater Pasadena experience, we prepare and present your home, negotiate strategically, and guide you through disclosures and escrow—protecting your interests at every step.
Buy a Home
Your home search begins with understanding how you want to live—not simply what you want to buy. With deep Greater Pasadena knowledge, we help you identify the right neighborhoods and homes, shape a competitive offer, and navigate inspections and escrow with confidence.
Meet Hem-young deFazio
Hem-young deFazio has represented buyers and sellers throughout Greater Pasadena since 1988. Her approach is thoughtful, unhurried, and highly personal. She listens carefully, anticipates complications, and protects her clients’ interests from the first conversation through closing.
Her calm judgment, creative problem-solving, and deep local knowledge have earned the trust of clients across generations. For Hem-young, a successful transaction is not the end of the relationship. It is often the beginning of one that lasts for years.
Her career has included an independent family brokerage, nationally recognized production at Coldwell Banker, and today, The deFazio Experience at Compass.
Explore Greater Pasadena Neighborhoods
Here we highlight five distinctive Greater Pasadena communities, each with its own architecture, history, and pace of life. Explore Pasadena, Altadena, La Cañada Flintridge, South Pasadena, and Sierra Madre to discover the neighborhoods, homes, and local character that make each place unique.
Whether you are comparing communities or preparing for a move, Hem-young can help you look beyond the listings and understand which neighborhood feels most like home
Greater Pasadena Insights
Greater Pasadena is more than a real estate market. Here we share practical real estate guidance, local market perspective, neighborhood stories, and the people and places that make living here worth knowing about.
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The Pasadena Woman Who Just Keeps Running
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