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About Vestra

A Tampa brokerage that explains the numbers

An independent brokerage on Palmetto Row in Tampa, founded in 2009 by Elena Marchetti with one rule: show the client the numbers.

The Vestra office lounge with a walnut table and arched windows
Our work

We help people move with confidence

A double-height living room with a glass wall facing a pool

Vestra Realty Group is a Tampa brokerage of buyer agents, listing agents and a small rental management team. Founding Broker Elena Marchetti came to real estate from commercial lending, and Managing Broker David Okafor ran rental portfolios before joining her. That background shows in how we work: every price has a memo behind it, every rental has a spreadsheet, and every contract is read twice before it is signed.

We sell waterfront homes on Davis Islands and Bayshore, historic bungalows in Hyde Park and Seminole Heights, new builds in Beach Park and Wesley Chapel, and condos downtown. The first meeting costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

Meet the Vestra Team
  • Written pricing memos
  • Written buyer search plans
  • Pro photo shoots on every listing
  • Video tours for remote buyers
  • Pre-listing inspections
  • New construction walkthroughs
  • Investment underwriting
  • Rental management
$1.2B+ Closed sales volume
2,400+ Homes bought and sold
17 Years in Tampa Bay
4.9 Average client rating

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Why clients choose us

Clear plans. Local agents. Calm closings.

A plan in writing

Pricing memos for sellers and search plans for buyers, with the reasoning shown, before anything goes live.

Agents who live here

Our agents know the blocks, the flood maps and the new builds because they live among them.

Every report explained

Inspections, appraisals and insurance quotes, summarized in plain words with a recommendation.

One point of contact

The same agent from the first call to the closing table, backed by an office coordinator.

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Our story

Seventeen years on Palmetto Row

Portrait of David Okafor, Managing Broker
2009Elena Marchetti opens Vestra with two agents in a converted brick storefront
2013David Okafor joins as managing broker and starts the rental management team
2016The brokerage begins video tours for buyers relocating from other states
2019A new construction desk opens, led by a former site superintendent
2023Pre-listing inspections become standard on homes built before 1980
2026Vestra marks 2,400 homes bought and sold across Tampa Bay
About us

The brokerage, in plain terms


What people ask about how Vestra is set up and how we work. Meet the agents for the people behind it.

Is Vestra part of a national franchise?
No. Vestra is an independent brokerage founded in Tampa in 2009. Decisions about pricing, marketing and how we treat clients are made in our own office, not by a head office elsewhere.
Who will actually work on my sale or purchase?
One named agent leads your move from the first meeting to closing day, with a broker reviewing every contract. You will not be passed to an assistant you have never met.
What is a written pricing memo?
It is the short document every Vestra seller receives before listing: the closed sales we compared, how the home measures up and the range we expect buyers to pay, with the reasoning shown so you can check it.
Do your agents live in the areas they sell?
Most do. Our agents live in South Tampa, Seminole Heights, Carrollwood and Westchase, and they tend to work the neighborhoods they know street by street.
Recent closings

Homes we helped hand over

Condos, bungalows and lake houses across Tampa, each sold with a written plan and a calm closing.

Illustrative demo listings. Not an offer.

Three bedrooms, two parking spaces and a curved glass balcony facing Hillsborough Bay, in a full-service building on Bayshore Boulevard.

$1,275,000 Bayshore Residences, Unit 1402See the home

Three bedrooms on one level with clerestory windows, a screened pool and a private dock on a no-wake lake under cypress trees.

$735,000 8805 Cypress Lake DriveSee the home

Three bedrooms behind a deep front porch, with the original heart-pine floors, a renovated kitchen and a detached studio under the live oaks.

$1,185,000 1108 W Linwood RowSee the home
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