About Sarah Lee
From her teaching and marketing experience in the past, Sarah feels grateful of taking advantages of having utilized an educative approach and marketing skills in this tremendous real estate business. Sarah is a firm believer in that Real Estate, is not about houses; rather it is completely about real people and their emotions attached to their home or a home they purchase. Only with a thoroughly planned and organized master plan of the selling and the buying process, is it possible to integrate a client’s real estate goals, needs, wants, and dreams in a transaction. Sarah believes in what she does in putting each client’s best interest and satisfaction first.
Awards & Accolades: Starting with a lot of door knockings and 3-4 open houses every weekend, Sarah’s thorough approach to all transactions has earned her a growing customer base built on satisfied customers, referrals and repeat clients.
2010 Master Sales Award Recipient
2011 Director’s Platinum Award Recipient
2012 President’s Gold Award Recipient
2013 Director’s Platinum Award Recipient
2014 Director’s Platinum Award Recipient
2015 Diamond Award Recipient
2016 President’s Gold Award Recipient (January ~ April)
2016 May~ 2017 May (Away from business to look after her ill dad in Korea)
2018 Director's Platinum Award Recipient
2019 Director's Platinum Award Recipient
More About Sarah
Born in Suwon, a 40-minute drive from Seoul, South Korea, Sarah immigrated to Canada in 2003. Prior to entering into the real estate profession, Sarah had worked as a curriculum writer and a head instructor at LG & Samsung in South Korea, teaching test-related courses - The Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) and Business English - to the two corporates' top engineers and employees for 18 years (prior to immigrating to Canada). After she had completed an M.A. (Master of Arts) degree at Trinity Western University, Langley BC, Sarah has run an English as a Second Language (ESL) school in Surrey, BC and worked as a curriculum writer and a marketing director.
Sarah has a 32-year-old daughter, a Harvard Law School graduate, who currently works as a corporate (practice focus: Mergers & Acquisitions) lawyer at Simpson & Thacher LLP in New York. During her down time, Sarah travels with her daughter or visits her daughter in New York.
Sarah is an ardent violin concerto lover, and she has listened to her favorite violin concertos, Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor Op.64 , Beethoven Violin Concerto in D Major Op.61, Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major Op. 35, Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor Op.26, & Sibelius Violin Concerto in D Minor Op.47, played by different artists more than hundreds of times. Sarah also was a soprano singer in the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra Choir, and she has been singing as a cantor in a church choir for over 20 years. Sarah recently took up the violin, and she enjoys practicing the violin whenever she finds time.