Jeffrey Grant, Austin Real Estate Advisor

Jeffrey Grant is the founder and principal of SR Group, and the creator of DestinationATX.com and SearchLakehouses.com. He advises buyers, sellers, investors, and developers across Austin and Central Texas, and he remains actively in production alongside leading the team rather than moving fully into management.

He is a native Austinite, which in a city that has roughly tripled in his lifetime is a genuinely different vantage point from having arrived during a boom. He watched the growth happen. Both of his grandfathers introduced him to real estate young, and he has been involved in the local market for most of his life.

The career took a route through the building side before it reached brokerage. He started in 2007 with a custom home and pool builder, leading construction of luxury properties in the Bee Cave and Lakeway areas, which is where he learned what is behind a wall and what a renovation actually costs. He moved to Kemp Properties on a range of projects including the renovation of the historic Starr Building on 6th Street downtown. In 2011 he became Director of Marketing at The Stone Group, a national corporate real estate firm based in Austin, working in research analytics, portfolio management, and commercial development. He has been a licensed Texas REALTOR® since 2011.

In 2013, with co-founder Steven Edwards, he launched the predecessor brokerage that traded as Saddle Realty, built specifically to serve clients across all property types rather than one niche. It grew from two agents to roughly 25 before the whole team joined Compass through its 2019 acquisition. That history is on its own page, and it is also where the "SR" in SR Group comes from.

Today he leads 13 advisors from a base in central Austin. The practice spans luxury and waterfront, ranch and land, relocation, and development marketing, at every price point rather than a single band. That breadth is deliberate: it is the founding remit of the business, and it is why the team can tell a first-time buyer and a developer the truth about the same market.

A real estate agent is a fiduciary. That word has a specific meaning: my obligation is to your interest, not to the transaction. Those two things point the same direction most of the time, and the whole measure of an advisor is what happens when they do not.

In practice it means I will tell you not to buy a house. I will tell you the renovation you are planning will not return what it costs. I will tell you that this is the wrong year to sell, or that the offer on the table is better than the one you are holding out for, or that a different agent on my team knows your target neighborhood better than I do. None of those conversations produce a commission. All of them are the job.

It also means being straight about what I do not know. Waterfront, Central Austin, and ranch are where I go deepest. If you are buying in a submarket where someone else has the reps, I would rather hand you to them than learn on your money.

People over transactions is easy to put on a website. The test is whether an advisor is willing to lose a deal to be right, and whether you hear from them in the years between transactions when there is nothing in it for them. I would rather have your next four moves than your next one.

Rankings are published annually, so each one below carries its year. A rank quoted without a year is the one thing in this business worth being suspicious of.

Licensed Texas REALTOR® since 2011, license 617651. Speaks English and Spanish. SR Group agents are sponsored through Compass RE Texas, LLC, Texas broker license 9006927.

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