After many rewarding years guiding families through Tehaleh and Bonney Lake, David Sturm is retiring, and he has personally entrusted his clients to Emily Peña Howell. She carries his promise forward, that you stay in good hands, with twenty years of Washington real estate experience and a deeply personal approach to every transaction.
Her Approach
Whether Emily represents a buyer or a seller, she starts and finishes the process by listening to your needs and making those needs manifest through your purchase, sale, or both. She knows you have the choice of over 40,000 active Washington real estate brokers, and she takes that seriously.
Buying and selling today can be complicated. Emily helps her client-friends navigate every aspect of the process: from financing and pre-qualification, to changing the locks and switching the utilities on closing day. Her clients consistently say they've never met anyone who works as hard as she does.
For years, David Sturm built his Bonney Lake practice on a simple promise: hospitality-grade service for every client, every time. Now, as he steps into retirement, he has chosen Emily to carry that promise forward, the same care and the same values, under a new name.
It is a handoff built on trust. When the time comes to buy, to sell, or simply to talk through the market, Emily will be there with the honest guidance, responsive service, and local expertise you have always counted on.
What stays the same
Emily grew up as a farmer's daughter, and hard work was simply life. Her father was a legal immigrant, and her parents were one of the first Mexican-American families in the late 1950s to own a home and business in the Pacific Northwest.
He taught her that the customer is always number one. She works hard to ensure that legacy lives on through her dedication to her client-friends, and she teaches her own children the same: work hard, appreciate the value of a dollar, respect others.
Her clients have nicknamed her "Bull Dog", because when she sinks her teeth into a deal, she won't let go until the job is done.
But her success reaches far beyond Bonney Lake. Emily has helped buyers and sellers in every corner of Washington State, from the Olympic Peninsula to Walla Walla, and from Vancouver to the Canadian border, she is building a legacy of customer advocacy across the entire region.
20
Years in real estate
Since 2006, plus 3 years of prior mortgage experience, so Emily understands every angle of the transaction, from financing through closing.
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Bilingual service
Fluent in Spanish and English, guiding families through every step in the language they are most at home in.
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Lifelong Pacific Northwest resident
Rooted in the region she serves, and raising the next generation here too.
Recognition
Also
Volunteering and sowing time to help improve others’ quality of life has always been an important part of her life, including but not limited to the following worthy organizations:
Ronald McDonald House (Volunteer)
Help the Animals Fund
Junior Achievement (Volunteer)
Avalon Senior Center (Group Leader)
American Cancer Society
Multiple Sclerosis Society
Susan G. Komen
Petco Foundation
Union Gospel Mission Seattle
Wounded Warrior Project
University of Washington
World Vision
TJ High School Raider Parent Movement (V.P.)
Let's talk
If you want a real estate broker who listens, executes, and combines fundamental hard work with effective negotiations, give Emily a call. You'll have success together, and fun along the way.
