For 11 years I have helped more than 1,000 Seattle-area families buy and sell homes across King, Snohomish, and Pierce County. Here is how I got here, how my team works, and what I would tell you before you make the biggest purchase of your life.
Years licensed
Families served
Career sales volume
Counties served
Verified
RealTrends Verified — #350 medium team, U.S.
Top 1% NWMLS
FastExpert Top Agent
Best of Zillow
REAL Brokerage Elite Agent
English · Spanish · Portuguese
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Role
CEO and founder, Lucas Pinto Real Estate Group - REAL
Brokerage
REAL Broker, LLC
Licensed
Washington State — 21002789
Experience
11+ years
Families served
1,000+
Career sales volume
$700M+
Third-party verified
136 closed sides, $116.05M volume (RealTrends, 2023 data)
Average sale price
$776,000 across 1,045 tracked transactions (Zillow)
Service area
King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties, Washington
Offices
Seattle — 1455 Leary Way NW, Suite 400; Bothell — 19015 N Creek Pkwy, Suite 105
Languages
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Specialties
First-time buyers, luxury, relocation, investment and multifamily, new construction
Also
Owner, LK Capital (commercial real estate)
I was born in Brazil and came to the United States as a kid. I grew up around real wealth and watched my own parents struggle with money at the same time, and that contrast is most of what drives me. It is also why I talk about houses the way I do — not as a lifestyle purchase, but as the single most reliable way most families in this country build something that outlasts them.
I got my real estate license in 2013 with a sales background and a lot of confidence. In my first six months, I sold nothing. Not one house. That is the point where most agents quit, and statistically they are making a reasonable decision.
What I did instead was admit the problem was not effort. In the next six months I sold 19 homes. Same person, same market — different system.
That year decided how I have built everything since. I do not believe in talent as a business plan. I believe in systems, mentorship, and knowing your numbers — which is why the team I run today has a sales manager, an operations lead, and real structure behind every agent, and why I still coach agents who do not work for me.
Everything cosmetic in a house is a budget line. Paint, counters, fixtures, staging — all of it is changeable, and all of it is designed to make you feel something on a Saturday afternoon. Layout and location are the two things you are actually buying, and they are the two things you can never renovate your way out of.
A great agent should be talking you out of houses at least as often as into them. That is the same discipline we apply on the listing side: pricing from neighbourhood-level data rather than from what a seller hopes.
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Buyers can get distracted by a pretty kitchen or great staging when they should concentrate instead on a home’s two biggest factors: its layout and location. It’s very tough to change both.
Every competing team page states its figures with identical confidence and zero attribution. Saying which numbers are audited is the differentiator.
Over 11 years, Lucas and the Lucas Pinto Real Estate Group - REAL have closed more than $700 million in sales for over 1,000 families — a pace of roughly 80 to 130 transactions a year, sustained through the low-rate frenzy of 2020 to 2022, the rate shock of 2023, and the far more selective market since.
INDEPENDENTLY AUDITED
PLATFORM-TRACKED
That spread is deliberate: a team concentrated in one submarket lives and dies with it, and the Eastside, the north end, and the south end have not moved together in years.
Seattle Bellevue Kirkland Sammamish Redmond Woodinville Shoreline
Edmonds Mukilteo Lynnwood Renton Auburn Tacoma
1455 Leary Way NW
Suite 400
Seattle, WA
19015 N Creek Pkwy
Suite 105
Bothell, WA
The group runs as a real organisation rather than a name on a sign. Aylar Oskuei manages daily sales operations and agent accountability. Alexandru Motroc and Morgan Reick lead production as partners. Kelly Wride runs transaction coordination and compliance behind every file.
Lucas stays hands-on with luxury clients and complex negotiations, and sets strategy for the group — but the day-to-day representation is deliberately spread across a team built to handle it.
Lucas is also the owner of LK Capital, which acquires and operates commercial multifamily property in the Puget Sound region; its current holding is a 21-unit apartment building. The commercial work informs the residential advice — particularly for clients weighing a first rental or a small portfolio.
Because a mentor is what turned Lucas’s own career around, he runs the Winners Circle — a mastermind for agents outside his own team, currently a cohort of 12 independent REALTORS®, focused on systems, operational discipline, and knowing your numbers rather than on motivational content.
Lucas hosts Winning with Lucas Pinto, a podcast on real estate, entrepreneurship, and investing, and has been a guest across the industry.
Real estate, entrepreneurship, and investing for first-time buyers through experienced investors.
Building the team from the ground up — culture, systems, and time management.
Going from zero to $250M in sales; mindset and investing.
Scaling a team, adapting to rate-shock markets, and the move from producing agent to CEO.
The early years, the first six months without a sale, and what mentorship changed.
Running a real estate team as an actual business, and knowing your numbers.
Growing up between wealth and financial strain, and what that built.
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Lucas Pinto is the CEO and founder of the Lucas Pinto Real Estate Group - REAL, a real estate team affiliated with REAL Broker, LLC serving King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties in Washington. He has been licensed since 2013 and has closed more than $700 million in sales for over 1,000 families.
As fast as 10days up to 70days
212+ homes sold in the last year 2025
Yes – first-time buyer is a confirmed specialty in the agent taxonomy (buyers, sellers, first-time buyers, investors, relocation, new construction, luxury, etc.), and there's a dedicated first-time-buyers service page in the location-service-pages set.
English and Spanish
Team model – the group is framed as "strategists, advisors, and partners" with 9+ team members (roster includes Kelly Wride, Aylar Oskuei, Alexandru Motroc, Morgan Reick, and others), not a solo operation.
HQ: 19015 N Creek Pkwy Ste 105, Bothell,
WA 98011, United States
Phone: (206) 889-6571
Email: [email protected]
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