Meet Patrice

Patrice

Patrice Horvath

Founder | Principal Realtor®

Get to Know Me

A native and lifelong resident of the Los Altos / Mountain View area, Patrice’s knowledge and insight into the area’s towns, neighborhoods, schools, and local history are unparalleled. With over 20 years of experience in high-tech corporate sales in Silicon Valley followed by a 20 year career as a top-producing Realtor®, Patrice knows how to best serve her clients’ needs with strong communication and negotiation skills, proven positioning strategies, and an unwavering commitment to their satisfaction.
 
Patrice brings a wealth of experience and professionalism to every interaction. She realizes that real estate is a relationship business and her clients are like family. She treats them with trust, integrity, and the loyalty they deserve. Patrice is an entrepreneur who knows that to be successful she must produce the results her clients want. Their priorities become her priorities, and their goals become her goals. She takes her representation responsibilities very seriously and is committed to producing the greatest value for every client.
 
Patrice's negotiation skills are one of the most important traits she provides her clients. Having honed her skills over 30 years, and trained at Harvard Business School in Negotiation Mastery she approaches negotiations from both an analytical view and an intuitive point of view.
 
In 2019, Patrice created Illuminate Properties to give her clients a more personalized level of care. Partnering with the powerful real estate technology firm, Side, she can offer state-of-the-art marketing, technology, administrative, and legal services while keeping her focus directly on meeting her client's needs.
 
Anyone who’s worked with Patrice will attest that her real estate prowess is incomparable. Illuminate Properties is a boutique brokerage, founded on the core principles of empathy, trust, compassion, integrity, and loyalty. It was built to reflect the qualities of its founder and continues to lead Silicon Valley buyers and sellers to real estate success.
 
 
 

My Community Caring Project

N. Kucharik
M. Grier & S. Dahlgren
R. & D.
Pat & Ying
The Starks
Jordan & Julia
K & R Hamburger
J. Liu S.
D. Wilkie
Charles & Jessica
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
I recently had the pleasure of working with Patrice Horvath who represented me in multiple real estate transactions when, as Trustee of my mother’s estate, one of my obligations was to liquidate several properties. I was immediately impressed at our first meeting, as Patrice was well prepared with a presentation that speaks to her extensive experience in real estate sales, her thorough knowledge of the l...

— N. Kucharik

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
My wife and I interviewed three agents after we decided to sell our house. The other two agents certainly had experience, but Patrice had distinctive interpersonal qualities that set her apart from the rest. She listened attentively to our concerns and genuinely acknowledged our particular issues. Patrice demonstrated a level of care and attention that we had not experienced with other agents, even from ...

— M. Grier & S. Dahlgren

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
We highly recommend Patrice. She was always prepared and was always willing to go far out of her way to ensure we were thrilled with her work. Patrice made both the selling and purchasing processes easy to understand, exciting and fun. If and when we decide to sell our current home, we wouldn’t consider working with anyone else.

— R. & D. | Willow Glen Sellers, Palo Alto Buyers

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
We would like to thank Patrice for helping us find the house we were looking for. Amid the craziness of the Bay Area housing market, it is easy to waste time looking at countless homes that are not suitable and stress out about the process. Patrice was great at helping us with both. On the latter, we were in a particularly difficult situation as we were traveling internationally through the acquisition p...

— Pat & Ying

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
I am writing to tell you about our truly wonderful experience in working with Patrice – as we found her to be a lovely person to work with and an exceptional agent. As both buyers and sellers of a home, Patrice exceeded all of our needs and expectations of the process. Not only was Patrice successful in negotiating a difficult offer, but she also managed to make a complex transaction function smoothly. S...

— The Starks

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
Patrice helped us buy our home and has been fantastic from the moment we met her. She spent almost two hours with us during our first meeting getting to know my wife and me and our family as well as our real estate needs, current and long term. Within days she presented multiple options, including an off-market listing that we purchased. Patrice’s relationship skills and negotiating tact are what found a...

— Jordan & Julia

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
As a first-time homeowner purchasing a home can be quite daunting. However, through Patrice’s professionalism and market wisdom, she managed to make the process as simple as possible and enabled us to purchase the home we wanted at the price we wanted. We highly recommend her!

— K & R Hamburger

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
I have had the pleasure of working with Patrice on three separate real estate transactions. She has represented me as both a buyer and a seller. In all of the transactions, her professionalism and commitment to customer service, coordination, and communication in all phases of the process were exceptional. She made sure the process was smooth and seamless for us. She is a true professional and wonderful ...

— J. Liu S.

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
Between us, my wife and I have bought five houses and sold four over the years, and have used the services of numerous Realtors® in buying, selling, and just gathering information and getting advice. We engaged Patrice to sell our house in Mountain View, and we can honestly say that she is the best Realtor®, by a mile, that we have ever run across. Patrice has a clear understanding of the market and of w...

— D. Wilkie

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
Patrice represented my wife and me in the sale of our home, and we couldn’t be happier with the process. She is well-connected in the real estate community, highly knowledgeable, extremely responsive, meticulous, and patient. From our initial meeting through the final negotiations, Patrice went above and beyond to get us the best possible price for our home. I would definitely use Patrice again!

— Charles & Jessica | Mountain View Sellers

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