Episode 70: Featuring Dava Davin, Founder of Portside Real Estate Group Join host Greg Boulos on The Boulos Beat as he sits down with Dava Davin, founder of Portside Real Estate Group, to discuss Dava’s career journey from pharmaceuticals to real estate, her accomplishments in endurance sports, and the continued growth of her company. Now the second-largest real estate firm by sales volume in Maine and the top woman-owned agency in Northern New England, Portside Real Estate Group supports a network of more than 200 agents. Davin underscores the importance of strong communication, mentorship, and community engagement, including the firm’s more than $1 million in charitable contributions to nonprofit organizations. The conversation also explores Portside’s recent acquisition of The Swan Agency and its expanding market presence, as well as Davin’s approach to sustaining high-quality service while balancing local roots with national opportunities.
Episode 70: Featuring Dava Davin, Founder of Portside Real Estate Group
Join host Greg Boulos on The Boulos Beat as he sits down with Dava Davin, founder of Portside Real Estate Group, to discuss Dava’s career journey from pharmaceuticals to real estate, her accomplishments in endurance sports, and the continued growth of her company.
Now the second-largest real estate firm by sales volume in Maine and the top woman-owned agency in Northern New England, Portside Real Estate Group supports a network of more than 200 agents. Davin underscores the importance of strong communication, mentorship, and community engagement, including the firm’s more than $1 million in charitable contributions to nonprofit organizations.
The conversation also explores Portside’s recent acquisition of The Swan Agency and its expanding market presence, as well as Davin’s approach to sustaining high-quality service while balancing local roots with national opportunities.
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Tue, Dec 30, 2025 10:12AM • 35:46
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Portside Real Estate Group, Dava Davin, Ironman, real estate market, mentorship, communication, growth strategy, nonprofit donations, AI integration, compliance, agent selection, business philosophy, community impact, residential real estate, career transition.
SPEAKERS
Dava Davin, Greg Boulos
Greg Boulos 00:00
Greg, I'd like to welcome our listeners to The Boulos Beat podcast. I'm your host. Greg Boulos, The Boulos Company is northern New England's largest commercial real estate services firm with offices in Portland, Maine as well as Manchester and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. We've been selling and leasing real estate in Maine, in New Hampshire, since 1975 This podcast is designed to provide insight into means business, movers and shakers. And speaking of movers and shakers, I'd like to welcome Dava Davin. Dava was born in England and lived in Europe until she was 13, when her family moved to Connecticut. Today, she lives in Cape Elizabeth and is married to Jim David. She has two boys, Cole and tie. Both are in college. Dava started portside Real Estate Group in 2012 the company now has nine locations, from Bar Harbor to Portsmouth and over 200 agents. David is also an accomplished athlete and has competed in four Iron Man's welcome. Dava. Dava, you've competed in four Ironmans. Please tell the audience what an Ironman consists of.
Dava Davin 01:06
An Ironman consists of a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and then a full marathon of 26.2 miles. So for us here in the Portland area, we can think about it of swimming the peaks to Portland, biking to Boston, and then running the Boston Marathon.
Greg Boulos 01:27
That's incredible. That really is incredible. Do you have to be mentally ill to do something like that?
Dava Davin 01:33
I think the training actually helps with it's kind of like therapy, you know, because you're spending a lot of time with yourself, with your thoughts, and so that's a great question,
Greg Boulos 01:44
but I imagine to run an Iron Man and to do four of them, you have to be in great shape. Obviously, you are, I can tell, but you also have to be mentally tough. And I'm wondering, does that mental toughness carry over to help you in business?
Dava Davin 01:58
I think so. I think being okay with delayed gratification really helps in endurance sports and in business, I think having those long term goals and knowing that you've got to incrementally show up each day to build towards it, those are definitely parallels between the two.
Greg Boulos 02:17
Now you started your career in pharmaceuticals I did before transitioning into real estate, and what motivated you to go from one field to the other?
Dava Davin 02:28
That's a great question. We're getting a little personal here. I moved to Maine in 2008 and prior to that, I had been in the pharmaceutical industry for at least a decade, and when we moved to Maine, it gave me an opportunity, I think, to reset and reinvent myself a little bit. I, at that time, you know, had a beautiful family and a lot of stuff, but I think I had a little bit of a void in my soul and doing some introspective thinking about my life. When we moved I thought, I think maybe it's time for a career change. And at the time, I was thinking of switching from corporate world to the nonprofit world to have a little bit more impact in my community. Live more of a life of service. However, it was 2008 the Great Recession. There were not a lot of jobs, and I certainly didn't have a lot of skills. So ultimately, I ended up getting my real estate license. I had always invested in real estate, you know, early on, and had bought and sold and built houses, and always thought, wow, that could be an interesting career, and maybe I could do it better than the realtor that I had.
Greg Boulos 03:48
So you mentioned 2008 and that was terrible. That was a terrible year and period for particularly residential real estate, not so much for commercial, but residential real estate. Seriously. What were you thinking?
Dava Davin 04:00
Looking back, I probably wouldn't recommend that to anyone else, being new to a community, switching careers and being in a very tough real estate market, but I fell in love. I fell in love with the work. I fell in love with being able to help people solve the situation they were in, especially sellers at the time. I mean, how are we going to get out from under this mortgage, and what is the next chapter for you and your family? And so I think that that was really fulfilling. And I just, I just went all in. I I had to be a little scrappy, as I didn't have a large sphere. So what I lacked in that sphere of influence I think I had in my grittiness. I can remember getting MLS access and just thinking like, wow, this is Christmas morning every day, and just being able to dive in and study the data and learn the market. And I just remember printing out, you know, buyer rep agreements and. Person sales and practicing going over them upside down. This was right in the beginning, before we had DocuSign, and so being able to really understand and being able to go over things, reading it upside down in front of clients, I think just helped to set me apart.
Greg Boulos 05:16
You mentioned the MLS book. I think that used to come out every two weeks or so, but it was like a phone book, right?
Dava Davin 05:22
So, I mean, I was lucky enough that we had access to the current MLS, so I never had to use the book. Okay, I'm dating myself. You are definitely Dating Yourself.
Greg Boulos 05:33
So you launched portside in 2012 but you joined real estate in 2008 what? What happened between 2008 and
Dava Davin 05:41
2012 so, I worked for a larger franchise for a few years, as when I got my license and got the brilliant idea that maybe a local brand make more make more sense for me and my personality.
Greg Boulos 05:59
So foreign side was born and your What was your vision when you started the company?
Dava Davin 06:06
I was looking for a more collaborative environment, more of a focus on feeling truly local, you know, so less of a franchise and a brand that was main born and really local. And I was excited to do a different twist on real estate marketing.
Greg Boulos 06:23
I understand portside real estate is the second largest real estate company by sales volume in Maine, and just behind Keller Williams and the top woman owned agency in northern New England. What drove this growth in 13 short years?
Dava Davin 06:38
I think what drove the growth primarily is focusing on relationships and not transactions, and I think that's been the ethos of Port side since, since the onset, and being part of people's stories and part of the community has allowed for that organic growth over the years. I think Mainers and now in New Hampshire, New Hampshire is really gravitate to a local company. We equate it to when winter comes and you're thinking that you want to buy some boots. Generally, we think, LL Bean. And we hope that when people in northern New England think of their real estate needs, that they think port side.
Greg Boulos 07:21
You know, you told me portside's new headquarters in Falmouth was designed to feel like a quote comforting environment. Was that design intended to match your business philosophy?
Dava Davin 07:32
I think so. I have a vision of our agents sort of dropping their armor at the door when they come into portside, and having this safe place to be their best version of themselves. And I think you know, you asked about the growth in 13 years, and that I have just this very large abundance mindset, and I have that for myself and for everyone in my organization, where there's a whole world of opportunity out there, and there's so much opportunity to get better, and not necessarily, and maybe sometimes that means you're growing your commissions, but also it's just growing as a person, and whether that's balancing your life a little bit better so you have more time for your family, or being more educated about how you can invest your commissions and having a sustainable life after real estate. So whatever that looks like for the individual. But that to answer your question about the office space, if that's very important to us, that people feel like they're in an environment that feels safe, and when you're safe, you can grow,
Greg Boulos 08:40
and that's really important for particularly first time homebuyers who come in, it's got to be terribly intimidating that whole process. So to the extent you can make them feel comfortable, that probably helps a tremendous amount,
Dava Davin 08:53
I think. So I think it's that, that ripple effect that that starts with our agents, and when they are feeling safe and confident and happy, it translates to the service they can provide to their their clients and and we're in a business of transition. You know, half the time it's happy and sometimes it's not. People are passing away, they're getting divorced, they're downsizing for financial reasons. Then on the flip side, they're expanding their families and getting married and moving for a job. But we're always in transition with folks, and so being able to navigate that with them and have them feel comfortable with it along the way is so important. A lot of emotion, a lot of emotion.
Greg Boulos 09:39
And I think the good my experience good brokers tend to be psychologists as well.
Dava Davin 09:48
I think so. And I think just frankly, being a good listener and being present and being responsive,
Greg Boulos 09:55
you described portside in a magazine article I read as being gritty. Grassroots, in gratitude. What's that all about?
Dava Davin 10:05
I think that's very representory. I am
Dava Davin 10:11
a gritty person.
Dava Davin 10:14
I'm been told I'm, you know, always the hardest worker in the room. You know, I think maybe I lack an intelligence I can make up for by being scrappy and grassroots. Just speaks to that. You know, we are a startup. This didn't exist before, and you know, hopefully now it's becoming this main brand. And then gratitude is, that is how I start my day, every day, and throughout the day, and it's just a something that guides me.
Greg Boulos 10:46
Do you do yoga?
Dava Davin 10:49
I do a little bit of yoga. I do a little bit of meditation.
Greg Boulos 10:52
I can tell. Are your answers? What do you think sets portside apart from other brokerage houses, aside from the fact that it's woman, womanhood,
Dava Davin 11:02
great question. I think portside is, it's hard to describe, but I think it is a little bit unique, partly because we are not a national brand. So there any of that sort of generic feel that you might see, you know, when you can see one brand that's in every city in the country, you know. So I think that it's that's part of it. I recently had a audit done, three day audit by 15 of my peers, so brokerage owners, CEOs from other brokerages throughout the country, they came, spent three days with us, and they said, We've never seen so many nice people in one organization. And so I think that is a differentiator for us. There is hopefully a sense of gentleness and kindness throughout and and really the guiding principle of we're we're here to work, of course, but having the greater good at the forefront.
Greg Boulos 12:02
So now this audit was, is that part of a group that you belong to, you audit each other, correct? And this is Countrywide, yes. So we travel around the country. The IRS was coming into it was not the IRS. This is a voluntary, voluntary critique, but very helpful. And I know you don't have a national affiliation. It sounds like that's on purpose. And the reason for that, again, is you wanted a local feel,
Dava Davin 12:26
yeah, and the opportunity to be nimble and be creative and create.
Greg Boulos 12:33
I've heard you say that communication is the number one reason clients are unhappy with realtors. How do you address that port side at the boulis company, I tell my brokers in business and in life, communication is half the battle, maybe more. How do you deal with that at your How do you instill that in your brokers?
Dava Davin 12:55
I think it's critical to be proactive. The last thing you want is the client reaching out to you and saying, Hey, where are we at with the listing and so super important to have systems in place. It doesn't make the communication less authentic. It makes sure that it gets done. And I think when agents start out intuitively, they're doing the right thing, and they're communicating, but then you get busy, and so without a system, things can fall through the cracks. So whether it's, you know, I'm gonna do Tuesday updates, and these are, you know, all the clients I'm gonna call every Tuesday that are current clients, or whatever that system is, but we really encourage that. It has to be tracked, and you have to have a system.
Greg Boulos 13:39
I don't know about the residential side, but on the commercial side, I've had clients come to the Boulos company saying, you know, we're switching brokers, because the only time I ever hear from my broker is when the listing is up, no updates along the way, and things like that. So again, communication,
Dava Davin 13:55
I think so. And I think if you can get really, really skilled at communication. There's nothing better than a current, current client referral. Because they're they've got real estate on their mind. Their house is currently on the market, or they're currently looking and so they're talking about it a lot. And if that agent can really elevate themselves as a great communicator and a great advocate for them, they're going to be able to capture those current client referrals, as well as the referrals after the transaction closes.
Greg Boulos 14:26
You select or when you're choosing agents, my understanding is you only bring in about or higher to about 10% of the applicants. So you're very selective in terms of who you bring in.
Dava Davin 14:37
We we are. There are 570 real estate brokerages in the state, so there's plenty of options
Greg Boulos 14:47
brokerage companies.
Dava Davin 14:49
Wow, many are small. They're not there's not a lot of barrier barriers to entry to open a real estate brokerage. So a lot of those are smaller shops, but there are a lot of options. Yes, for us, we are looking for full time realtors, and we're really looking for for folks that that want to grow, that want to continue to hone their craft and be great realtors and offer great service.
Greg Boulos 15:19
I'm wondering how you maintain the quality and the service that you provide at poor side, because now you've got over 200 brokers, and I've always thought that, you know, managing brokers is a little bit like birding cats. So as you grow, how do you maintain that quality of service? And that's
Dava Davin 15:37
really, really important to me as we scale, and not only the quality of brokers, the quality of everything that we do, and I've seen other brokerages grow and change a little bit. And so for me, it's always this push pull. We don't want to lose our soul. We don't want to lose what made us so great. And so sometimes that means saying no to growth, you know, and really making sure that we have the structure and systems behind it to to keep that port side feel we are constantly coaching our agents, mostly coaching them up, and every once in a while, coaching them out if, if it's, you know, not their full time focus anymore.
Greg Boulos 16:22
Kim Swan called you an awesome cheerleader for your agents. What role does mentorship play in helping your team reach its potential?
Dava Davin 16:31
I'm so grateful for mentors that I've had in my life, and I feel that everyone has a story, and sometimes people haven't had a champion in their life, and so if we can provide that at portside, it really helps agents to excel. And we have a formalized mentor program. We also have a lot of informal relationships that bubble up that just warmed my heart. We have something called shine a light. So it's sort of a virtual gratitude platform where people can catch someone doing something awesome and share that and then. And so it's just that constantly, that growing experience of, let's get better together. And I certainly love to take people under my wing and help where I can.
Greg Boulos 17:24
It probably helps that you are not doing brokerage yourself, right? So a lot of firms, the owner will be also a broker, in effect, competing with the brokers in the in the agency. And when you're not doing that like yourself, you don't participate on a day to day basis in terms of brokerage you manage. And does that help you tremendously? You think?
Dava Davin 17:50
I think so. I. I loved selling real estate. I did it for about 10 years, and as portside grew, I had to make a decision, do I want to be an agent, or do I want to lead the company? And so I made that decision, and it, I think, allows me just to have that full focus on others and helping them with their business. And so I do, I agree. I think it really does help the organization.
Greg Boulos 18:20
Otherwise, if you're competing against your brokers, I mean, there's going to be some kind of distrust in between. So when you're doing the way you do it, I think it helps with the coaching end of things, doesn't it?
Dava Davin 18:32
100% and just frankly, the time you know you're not balancing clients and agents,
Greg Boulos 18:38
you were recognized as one of main business, Women to Watch and housing, wires, Women of Influence. What challenges have you faced as a woman in real estate? Have you ever encountered a glass ceiling?
Dava Davin 18:53
I think that's a motivator for me to keep going. I would love to be a role model for young women coming up and helping them to see that the sky is the limit, and that is a huge driver for me and I, I love when I have the opportunity to work with women younger in their career, and they might tell me their goal is x and I'm like, Oh no, we're going to cross that out and triple it. And they must love that. I think so. I think, you know, like I said earlier, everyone comes from different backgrounds, and, you know, maybe sometimes the the world seems smaller than it
Greg Boulos 19:39
can be. So what percentage of women are in your organization? Or is it all women? I don't know
Dava Davin 19:44
the exact percentage. I would say more than 50% and maybe less than 70
Greg Boulos 19:51
I think I heard a stat that about 70% of the brokers in Maine or agents are women. On the residential side. So I don't it sounds like you, I
Dava Davin 20:04
would agree with that, and we're probably in line with that,
Greg Boulos 20:07
but you're not all just women. No, because I'd feel discriminated against. Port side has been very generous over the years, and from what I understand, has donated over a million dollars to nonprofits and portsides motto is, make doing good easy. How did portside give back program get started?
Dava Davin 20:31
I think it goes back to when I switched careers and I felt a little bit of a need to have an impact in my community. And after I was in real estate for a few years, I realized, wow, I'm only serving people that can afford a house, so there's this whole other bucket of people that we're not serving and I and that's where the concept of adding a sister company, the portside Foundation, to our portfolio, came into play, and it is a big part of our company. Early on, I realized that our marketing budget and our philanthropy budget could be very closely aligned. There's a lot of ways to build brand awareness through giving back, and now, over the years, it's grown quite a bit. We raise money through hosting community events, which raises money and awareness for a particular nonprofit and gives the agents opportunity to invite their sphere and bring people together. And then we also have a very systematic way of giving. So portside gives 1% of top line revenue to our foundation, and we invite the agents to also participate. So with that, we're able to accumulate a lot of money throughout the year, and then we partner with shout out to Maine Community Foundation, we partner with Maine Community Foundation to get grants from different nonprofits, and so then we have amazing volunteers at portside that spend their off hours reading through the massive amount of need that we have in Maine, reading through these grants and finding ones that fit our mission, which are essentially to break systemic cycles we see here in Maine, generational poverty, food insecurity, substance abuse, disorder and basic access to food, education, health care, housing. And then we do a little bit of math and we direct the money back into the county where it was generated. So the money that we're earning is going right back into those communities
Greg Boulos 22:45
that so if you make your money in Kennebec economy, then the money goes back there.
Dava Davin 22:50
Absolutely, absolutely, and it's been just beautiful to see this money go back to these small organizations that are helping people immediately. You know, we're really looking for those grassroots nonprofits that are that are deep embedded in the communities, and trying to get it to them as quickly as we can.
Greg Boulos 23:09
And you can see the results. Makes a big difference. Just this past July, you purchased the swan agency headquartered in Bar Harbor. I think, yeah, the swan agency was owned by Kim Swan, who's kind of a legend in the real estate business here in Maine. What made you think the swan agency would be a good acquisition?
Dava Davin 23:32
That, honestly, of all of the partnerships and different acquisitions that I've done over the years was one of the easiest. As you said, Kim swan is a legend, and our cultures were very, very aligned. Women owned, women owned. You know, you mentioned that I won the main biz Women to Watch, and so did she. And so we've known each other over the years, and that was a, just a very natural progression for us and strategically for our business, being able to add Hancock County to the areas that we serve made a ton of sense as well. So easy peasy.
Greg Boulos 24:14
And what's it mean for your company's future? Because they, my understanding of Swan agency, as they kind of focused on Bed and Breakfast lodging things of that nature.
Dava Davin 24:27
Yeah, exactly. I mean, as well as a large of a large residential business in Mount desert island. But along with this came a hospitality division, and so that's very exciting to add that to our portfolio as well.
Greg Boulos 24:42
What advice would you give to someone thinking about starting a career in real estate?
Dava Davin 24:48
Run as fast as you can. I love having that conversation with with people and in trying to discover what they're looking for and why they want. Make this change, and I try to scare them as much as I can, but if someone has that entrepreneurial spirit, and they, especially on the residential side, have a servient heart, and they want to help problem solve, and they're going to be okay with a couple years of delayed gratification. It's so exciting to help them, bring them on and help them really discover what they're capable of.
Greg Boulos 25:31
Don't you find a lot of the people want to get into real estate really have no clue as to how difficult it is.
Dava Davin 25:38
I do, and we spend a lot of time chatting with those people that want to come on as brand new sales agents, and it's tricky. I think you have to dive in pretty deep. We have them answer. I'll redo that. We have them submit three essay questions about why they want to become a realtor, what kind of savings and marketing budget they have, why they want to join our organization. And then when we come, you know, if they don't, if they don't pass with those questions, but if they do, we come in and we really dive deep, because we I want to make sure that everyone that associates with us becomes a success, and it's easier to have them not come and let them go a different direction, and sometimes they realize through that process that absolutely real estate is not for me or not now.
Greg Boulos 26:36
So 200 agents plus minus whatever do they sign non compete agreements? No, no. Just curious. Does anybody know? No. David, how do you see a AI? Excuse me, affecting your business, and have you started to incorporate it?
Dava Davin 26:56
I am so excited about AI and how it's going to make our life easier. We are in the trenches of rolling out some incredible software that will really cut down on our human power for compliance and actually do it at a higher level. Because AI won't you know, without that human eye, there's less room for error, also with marketing, just a lot of time saving for my staff with different applications. So we're very excited, and I believe in the next six to 12 months, things are going to look a lot different, and it's happening very rapidly, very rapidly.
Greg Boulos 27:37
What keeps you up at night?
Dava Davin 27:42
I sleep like a rock, to be honest, I go to bed early and I get up extremely early. I think, you know what concerns me? I think I mentioned it earlier. Our company is growing. It's growing a little bit on its own, and sometimes that can feel a little scary. I want to take care of and protect and honor everyone that is with portside and so as it's growing, every decision, there's some fear in there that we we could change, or we could lose our soul, and at the same time, we need to be fiscally responsible. And so it just that balance.
Greg Boulos 28:30
Is it difficult managing that growth? It's, I
Dava Davin 28:38
wouldn't say it's difficult. I think it's more exciting. It's exciting every time I can add someone to my staff team that that can help me with the growth. And I have a very deep deck of incredible staff and a lot of collaboration and incredible teamwork. And so as the growth happens, we're all very excited about it.
Greg Boulos 29:05
So given that number of brokers, when you have somebody new coming in, into the company, right? They're they're green, they bring in a contract, they're all excited. Is this somebody who reviews that contract? And is there a special person in organization who does that? Or is that you?
Dava Davin 29:22
That's definitely not me, but we do. So if it's a brand new sales agent, they have a one on one mentor for a full year that's going to be on every contract with them, so there's no no room for error there. And then our designated broker is also doing another check along with a full time compliance person. We are very adept at making sure that every i is dotted and T's are crossed. If it's an agent coming to portside from another agency. We don't it's not as stringent, but we do have. A three check system on every contract.
Greg Boulos 30:02
That's smart, because compliance is so huge, particularly in residential real estate,
Dava Davin 30:09
they're moving fast. And you know, it's easy for things to be missed, and that's why we just have that support.
Greg Boulos 30:17
Where do you see portside in the next five to 10 years,
Dava Davin 30:22
continue to grow it. I think it's going to grow. As I said, it's growing on its own. I don't have a blueprint of I would like X number of agents or X number of offices. I want to continue to be the best and continue to have incredible agents doing really good work. So I I'm constantly trying to hone in and fine tune and elevate but if history repeats itself, we will continue to grow. We're seeing a lot of consolidation in the residential side throughout the country, and so I think that gives an opportunity for port side being on the larger side in a small market to continue to grow as smaller brokerages decide it's not for them.
Greg Boulos 31:08
Why is that consolidation going on? Do you think,
Dava Davin 31:13
I think that the margins are really slim for real estate brokerages as commission there's commission there's commission compression from the consumer, and then there's compression from the agent to the brokerage.
Greg Boulos 31:31
And if you could dust off that crystal ball I see in front of you, what do you think is going to happen to the real estate market? You must get asked this every time you go to a cocktail party, what's going to happen to the residential market in the next five to 10 years, in the in the in
Dava Davin 31:47
Maine, I was just gonna, I was just gonna clarify, yeah, it's so local. And I am very optimistic for the real estate market. I feel when we look at some of the other markets, nationally, they've started to have longer days on market and switch to a little bit more of a buyer's market. We're seeing the shift slightly, but it's still so healthy. As we're recording this podcast, we probably have an absorption rate of three months, which is still a seller's market, yeah.
Greg Boulos 32:17
And this is October 3, 2025 i The feel
Dava Davin 32:24
people are, you know, life changes are always happening, and so I in Maine is just so desirable that I think we're just going to be in a solid place. Hopefully we can continue to build more housing to help keep up with the demand.
Greg Boulos 32:40
Dave, I understand portside Real Estate Group had 1.3 billion in sales last year. How do you keep that momentum going?
Dava Davin 32:48
Wow, that's a big number. Yes, I see that continuing with that number that hasn't taken in the swan acquisition into effect yet. So I do see that that growing just continuing to grow.
Greg Boulos 33:03
So that 1.3 is without Swan correct you add their volume.
Dava Davin 33:12
We recently opened our brand new headquarters in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and so we'll start to see those numbers start to reflect for the agents we're onboarding currently. Are you downtown? In Portsmouth? We're downtown. We're at 89 foundry place.
Greg Boulos 33:28
And does that have the comfortable interior like Falmouth?
Dava Davin 33:32
It does. It's really cool. Very cool. David.
Greg Boulos 33:36
And finally, where do you see yourself, personally, in five to 10 years. So you're gonna still be running Iron Man's Are you gonna still be working?
Dava Davin 33:47
Well, I hope I am about to do the Amsterdam marathon in a couple weeks. So would love to keep up with endurance sports as long as I can. And what about Kona?
Greg Boulos 34:02
I don't know. I don't know about Kona in Hawaii. That's kind of like the Holy Grail, isn't it?
Dava Davin 34:08
Yeah, that's the Holy Grail. But I love what I do. I get up every morning super excited to lead and create and take care of everyone in my organization, and I continue. I when I think out five or 10 years, I can't imagine a world where I'm not doing that.
Greg Boulos 34:27
Yeah, real estate can be fun. And it, I mean, I've been doing this long time too. I just love it. I love getting out of bed in the morning, going in, thinking about the deals that might happen, and trying to make them happen. And it's exciting.
Dava Davin 34:41
It is it? Truly is it? I think we're so lucky and blessed to be able to have this career.
Greg Boulos 34:48
Hey, David, thank you. Thank you
Dava Davin 34:50
so much, Greg. It was such an honor and a pleasure to be here. I appreciate you,
Greg Boulos 34:54
Dava, thank you for being our guest today on the Boulos Beat, the Boulos Company podcast. I really appreciate you taking the time to chat with us. You can learn more about Deva and Portside Real Estate Group on
Instagram: @realestate4good and @portsidereg
Facebook: @dava.davin and @PortsideRealEstateGroup
LinkedIn: @davadavin and @portside-real-estate-group
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And lastly, if you want to know the secret to owning real estate, it's pretty simple. Just be sure to outlive your death.