Richard James Deacon
Luxury + Unique Property Specialist Engel & Völkers Okanagan
Richard James Deacon is is an award winning Engel & Völkers Private Office Real Estate Advisor and the leading professional property advisor with Engel & Völkers Okanagan office. Richard has an international background with 26 years of global luxury sales and marketing experience. Richard is hyper focused on offering a premium client experience and believes that a luxury level of personalized service should be offered to every client. Richard approaches every property with a goal to use creative storytelling, premium marketing solutions, combined with the latest technology, a global network of contacts and key data+market insights to achieve world class results for his clients. A skilled negotiator and master of detail, Richard is a professional advisor that clients want in their court when it comes to buying or selling a property.
Richard is the Co-founder of TIGER 21 Canada www.tiger21.com, an exclusive and highly private investor education organization for ultra-high net worth families. TIGER 21 has over 800 members across the globe with collective assets in excess of $90B. TIGER’s mission is to help members improve their investment acumen, tackle common issues of wealth preservation, manage family-related challenges, and understand estate planning options, philanthropic endeavors and legacy impact.
Why Engel & Völkers?
Engel & Völkers is quite simply the #1 brand servicing the premium and luxury segments of the real estate market. The international reputation of excellence combined with the proprietary tools +technology makes E&V the best choice to give clients the service they deserve and to achieve the results they are looking for.
My goals as a Luxury + Premium Engel & Völkers Advisor is to:
Listen to my client’s needs and to ensure that every interaction I have with them offers tremendous value and a personal connection.
To leverage our incredible global network of contacts and brand power to bring international exposure to every listing.
To ensure that your home selling or home buying experience is best in class and always about a personal relationship that ends with your family being 100% satisfied.
Richard is licensed as a real estate advisor in British Columbia, Canada, and a member of the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing and achieving the Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist. Richard is fluent in French and English and working on fluency in Spanish, Richard dabbles in other languages such as German and Mandarin. Richard is an experienced cook, avid wine drinker and even sports what he bills as one of the largest private vintage Tequila collections in Canada and one day hopes to combine those talents into something worthy. Richard loves tennis, skiing, mountain biking and hiking and has been known to host meetings while on the side of a mountain doing something active. In any city, Richard always seeks out the best espresso, croissants, jogging trails and as a result, meets the nicest locals.
Richard is a passionate and connected philanthropist and his list of volunteer involvements include his role as; Past-President of the National Advertising Benevolent Society, in 2008 Richard was inducted by NABS into the Canadian Advertising Hall of Honor in Toronto, as a Past Director of the Board of the acclaimed Children’s Charity Arts Umbrella, as a national past-judge for the Courage to Come Back Awards, as a Mentor of the Year awardee in the Vancouver Board of Trade Leaders of Tomorrow program, as past Chair of a capital campaign for the Union Gospel Mission’s Women and Children’s Ministry, and as an active volunteer in the kitchen and with their Treasures After School kids program. Richard is the Immediate Past- President of the Nicola Valley Food Bank and also sat on the Campaign Cabinet for the University of British Columbia’s Business Families Centre, and was honored to have been nominated in 2006 for the National Top 40 Under 40 Award where he was a finalist. Richard is a former Director on the Board of Governors for Fraser Valley Elementary School, the leading independent IB School in BC’s Fraser Valley, a Scouts Canada leader in Kelowna, past Committee Member for Opera Kelowna, a head coach for Central Okanagan Youth Soccer, a member of the 100 Men Who Care charity and the Founder of 100 Kids Who Care Kelowna.
In 2016, Richard and his family created a new student leadership and mentoring program in the small town of Reston, Manitoba. Reston, their oldest son was named after his grandparents who called the town home for nearly 100 years, the program pair’s high school students with business and community leaders with a focus on paying it forward and exposing them to special guests from across the planet. In 2018 Richard was a finalist for the City of Kelowna’s Fred Macklin Community Man of the Year Award and also a finalist in the Okanagan Real Estate Board’s Realtor’s Care Awards in 2017, 2018 and 2019. In 2019 Richard developed a sustainable giving program that empowers clients by donating $500 for every transaction to the charity of their choice. To date this program has seen over $35,000 donated to more than 40 charities across Canada, USA and Mexico.
Richard, his beautiful wife MaryAnn and their young sons Reston and Parker along with Golden Retriever ‘Buddy’ and kitten Scarlett call Kelowna home.
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