Choosing a REALTOR® shouldn’t come down to who has the slickest headshot or the boldest adjective. It should come down to results. Here are Heath’s, measured in homes sold and families moved into new homes, all new construction at LGI Homes, since 2018.
The typical real estate agent in the United States closes about 12 transactions in a year, according to the National Association of REALTORS®. In 2025, Heath closed 26. That is not a one-year spike, either. Across 2018–2025, Heath has helped 140 families into brand-new homes, and 2025 was his strongest year yet.
Heath’s average sale price is about $414K. That number tells you who he actually serves. As of March 2026, the median home in the Portland metro sold for $526,267 (Zillow Research (Smoothed Metro Series)). Heath works well below that line, in the first-time-buyer and entry-level tier where affordability is tightest and where buyers most need an agent who can find the builder incentives, rate buy-downs, and floor plans that make the math work.
Moving 140 families into homeownership in one of the country’s pricier metros is a different kind of achievement than running up dollar volume on luxury listings. Every closing is a household that got into a new home in a market built to keep them out.
Volume at the entry level is earned one careful transaction at a time. It comes from:
It’s fair to ask what you save by working with Heath. The honest answer isn’t a lower sticker price. LGI prices its homes in line with the other new-construction builders in these communities, so nobody is selling you a secret discount. What Heath saves you shows up in two places that matter more than the sticker.
First, his representation costs you nothing. On a new LGI home the builder pays the buyer’s agent, so you get someone in your corner at the pre-drywall walk, reading the contract line by line, and working the punch list, with nothing out of your pocket and nothing off your down payment.
Second, he works the monthly payment instead of the sticker. The price of an entry-level home is mostly set by the builder. The payment is where a family wins or loses, and it comes from the rate buy-down, the closing-cost credit, and the down-payment program you qualify for. Knowing which ones are on the table, and how to stack them, is the part of this job that puts real money back in your budget every month.
Figures reflect Heath Watte’s new-construction home sales at LGI Homes, 2018–2025, per LGI Homes sales records (builder sales records, not MLS). National per-agent figure: National Association of REALTORS® Member Profile. Metro median: Zillow Research (Smoothed Metro Series), March 2026. Last updated May 26, 2026.
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