The Rasner Group

A seller who wasn't in the room for any of it got a closed sale in under six weeks — property review, renovations, staging, furniture hauled out, final cleaning, and negotiations with two buyers, all run by the team while the owner handled paperwork from elsewhere. That is the shape of job The Rasner Group keeps turning up in: the sale where someone needs the whole thing managed, not just a lockbox on the door. The team describes itself as a Boston-based residential operation representing buyers and sellers across Greater Boston, led by agent Ilya Rasner and working alongside Kimberly and Kristine. Those three names show up over and over in what clients write, usually split by role — Ilya on strategy and negotiation, the others coordinating the moving parts. On Google the average is 5 stars across 28 ratings, and the written history runs 19 reviews from 2021 through 2026 across three places, three of them in the last six months and none of them negative. The most telling one isn't a rave, it's a return trip: a buyer came back to work with the team a second time, eight years after they'd bought their first home with him. The hardest job in the recent batch came from an executor settling an estate. The house belonged to a relative who was a serious hoarder and needed substantial repairs before it could sell; the team lined up names for every trade the property required, then steered the sale through an FHA deal that added another layer of work. What the executor kept coming back to was that they communicated regularly and acted on his behalf rather than their own commission. So the thing worth pinning down before you sign is scope. The praise here is largely about coordination — vendors, repairs, staging, cleanouts, closing logistics — and none of the accounts spell out which pieces the team arranges versus which ones land on your invoice, so ask. Ask too who runs your file day to day, since these accounts credit different people with different parts of the work. If you're selling an inherited property, managing a sale from out of state, or otherwise need someone to hold the whole project rather than just list it, this is a reasonable call. Confirm the vendor and cost arrangement in writing, and get clear on your point of contact before you hand over the keys.