Searching for a home with the Happy Homes Team means being guided by two local agents who treat the search like a friendship, not a transaction. Anna Hakim and Perry Fanthorpe start by listening, build a search that matches your life instead of just your budget, tour with you like honest locals, price homes with real market context, protect your offer in competitive situations, and carry you calmly through closing. Browse live Greater Victoria listings any time at happyhomesvictoria.com, then book a conversation when you are ready.
Searching for a home should feel like being guided by friends who genuinely know the city, not like a transaction with a stranger holding a tablet. That is the promise we make to every client, and it shapes how we work from the first conversation to the day you get the keys. We bring three things to every search: strategy, sharp technology, and real human connection. No pressure, no pretense, and nobody trying to sell you on anything except the home that is actually right for you.
Who We Are
We combine deep local knowledge with cutting-edge AI tools to help you search smarter.
We are Anna Hakim and Perry Fanthorpe, AI Certified Agents with the Happy Homes Team at eXp Realty, serving buyers and sellers across Greater Victoria. We are a small team on purpose. Anna comes from a background in massage therapy and emotional trauma healing, which sounds unusual for a realtor until you work with her, because she reads what clients need before they say it. Perry makes sure it actually happens, turning every wish list into an address, every strategy into an offer, every offer into a closing. Together we help people navigate one of the biggest transitions of their lives with honesty, humour and heart.
Anna and Perry of the Happy Homes Team. Homes with soul, strategy with heart.
If you want the longer version of our story, why we do this and how we work, we wrote it on our about page, and the honest list of reasons clients choose us lives on our why choose the Happy Homes Team page. Here, we want to show you what the search actually feels like.
Why We Are Different
A boutique experience sounds like a marketing phrase until you have had the other kind. For us it means every client is a priority, not a pipeline number. It means honest counsel, even when honesty is not what you want to hear, like when a home you love is overpriced, or when the offer you are planning will not win, or when the fixer upper is a better deal than the polished one. We would rather protect you from a mistake than celebrate a sale.
It also means deep local knowledge. We have our hands in every neighbourhood in Greater Victoria, from the walkability of James Bay to the acreage of Metchosin to the family streets of Langford, and we share it freely in our neighbourhood guides. We pair that local read with real market intelligence and the technology to find you the right home faster, not by carpet-bombing you with listings, but by tuning the search so tightly that the handful of homes we walk through together are the ones actually worth your Saturday.
How the Search Works with Us
The search has six steps, and the first one has nothing to do with listings.
We listen
Before we show you a single home, we need to know what you actually need, not just your beds-and-baths number. We ask about your commute, the schools you care about, how you actually spend your weekends, whether there is a dog that needs a yard or a garden that needs sun, and where you picture yourself in five or ten years. Anna reads between the lines, and Perry turns the answers into a search that reflects your life.
The search starts with a conversation over coffee, not a list of listings.
We build your search
Then we build it: current listings across Greater Victoria, matched to your life, not just your budget. We set up notifications tuned to the details that actually matter to you, and we filter out the noise. You can browse live Greater Victoria listings any time on our site at happyhomesvictoria.com, and when something catches your eye, send it to us. Nothing is a wrong answer. If you are brand new to the whole process, our buyer's guide walks through every step of buying in Victoria, and it pairs well with this one.
Your search lives in your pocket. Browse listings on your phone and bring us whatever sparks interest.
We tour with intent
When we walk through a home together, we are not there to admire the staging. We point out what the photos hide: which way the light really moves, whether that gentle slope in the floor means something, what the neighbours' yards say about drainage, how close the street noise actually is at 5 pm. We tour with your checklist in our heads, and we tell you straight whether a home is worth a second look or best left to someone else.
We know the streets before you do, so you tour with context instead of guesswork.
We price it honestly
When you find the one, our job is to make sure you know what it is actually worth, not just what it is listed for. We pull real market context from our Victoria market stats, layer in our own read of the neighbourhood, compare what similar homes have actually sold for, and look at how long things are sitting. If you are still weighing whether buying makes sense this year at all, our guide to renting versus buying in Victoria in 2026 is the honest version of that math.
We protect your offer
Victoria's market can move fast, and a competitive market is exactly where a good team earns its keep. We build your offer strategy around protection, not just price: solid conditions, and that means a proper home inspection. Our guide to home inspections in Victoria, deal breakers versus easy fixes, is the exact conversation we have with clients before every offer. For the broader strategy of winning without gambling, read our guide to protecting buyers in a competitive market, and if this is your first home, start with the first-time home buyer programs available in Victoria in 2026.
We get you to closing
Accepted offer is the milestone, not the finish line. From financing steps with your mortgage broker to the lawyer's paperwork to insurance and the thousand small things in between, we keep everyone moving in order and answer every nervous question calmly. By the time you get the keys, the only surprise left is how smooth it all felt.
The whole point of the search: a home that feels right from the day you move in.
Start Your Search Today
The best time to start looking is when you are curious, not when you are desperate. Browse the live Greater Victoria listings at happyhomesvictoria.com tonight with a cup of tea, save the ones that make you stop scrolling, and send them our way. Or, if you would rather talk first, book a conversation with the team on our booking calendar, or send us a note and we will find time for coffee, in person or over a video call. No pressure, no obligation, just a conversation about what you are looking for.
And when the search narrows and the offers start flying, you already know where to go for the inspections: our guide to deal breakers versus easy fixes in Victoria home inspections will be waiting for you.
About the Author
Anna Hakim & Perry Fanthorpe, Happy Homes Team
Anna Hakim and Perry Fanthorpe are AI Certified Agents at eXp Realty helping buyers and sellers across Greater Victoria. Anna reads what clients need before they say it, and Perry makes sure it actually happens. Together they turn the search for a house into the start of a life.
