Get to know our talented team.
ASSOCIATE BROKER, FOUNDER/PARTNER, EXECUTIVE LUXE DIRECTOR
Diane (Williams) Baxter, Associate Broker and Partner of Diane Williams and Associates.
REALTOR®, PARTNER, LUXE DIRECTOR
LICENSE: 02000622
Allison relocated to the desert to join Diane Williams’s team and to bring her expertise.
REALTOR®, PARTNER, LUXE DIRECTOR
LICENSE: 01991637
With her understanding of what it takes to run a business and love for interacting with people.
Allison and her team bring a different, higher standard to their work. We completely trust and enthusiastically recommend her. From Allison's sophisticated understanding of and insights about the market to her beginning to end (and after!) white glove full-service partnership, working with her and her team has been a wonderful and fun experience. We feel like we started with a realtor and ended with a trusted friend.
To people who are interested in purchasing or selling real estate in the Palm Desert area, I would highly recommend that you contact and engage the DW&Associates AKA Diane Williams and Associates. My wife and I just recently purchased a home at Indian Ridge County Club. We engaged Allison Renz as our broker representative. What we didn’t know that was not only were we getting Allison, but we were getting her whole team, which included her co-...
DW & Associates were tremendous to work with on the transaction of selling my home. They were great in all aspects of the process. Starting from getting the price I was looking for, finding a buyer, showings, getting my home ready to show, and then taking care of the items that needed to be addressed. After closing Allison took care of my personal items and help pack them up and get them to me. They also were very good in staying in touch with...
We are so grateful for the support we received from the team at DW & Associates. Terrie and Kristeen helped us through a very complicated home purchase, while we were living abroad and in an extremely difficult market. Throughout the entire process, they were friendly, patient, and professional and by the end, almost like part of the family! We couldn’t be happier with our new home.
Very happy with the support we received from the team at DW & Associates. Terrie and the crew helped us through the process of finding a new home in an extremely difficult realty environment. We love our new place!
This is the 3rd real estate transaction we've done with the Diane Williams group. Allison Renz handled each of our sales/purchases and I would highly recommend her. Actually ALL of the staff at DW are top notch, from their rental department to support staff.
I have been in the real estate business for over 20 years. I have bought and sold many houses. Working with DW & Associates Palm Desert Real Estate has been a great satisfaction when purchasing my home. Frank agent answered the phone every time I called and was always ready to provide professional information during the purchase transaction. His office staff was very professional in preparing all the documents and delivering them in a timely m...
Hi Kristeen, Thanks to you and the agency. Great work by all. Allison was capable, friendly, helpful, accessible, easy to deal with. If she or your group ever needs a reference of any kind don't hesitate to get in touch with us. Much obliged to you all for helping us to quickly get a good price for our property and working with us throughout the process! Bests...
The team at DW & Associates are exceptional in their field. Friendly, extremely helpful, knowledgeable and thorough. Our success with both rental over the years and purchasing has been excellent. Specifically, thanks to Heather, Kristeen and Barry during this past winter. Thank you.
DW & Associates Team, We want to thank you for helping us sell our home. Terrie, thank you for always being so responsive to whatever questions we had. We could not have done it without you and the team. We appreciate everyone's professionalism and look forward to working with you in the future. Best regards,
Working through this much different process in California, with our ownership necessities, wouldn’t have been possible without everyone’s cooperation.
Kristeen, As I have said to Heather, your team, especially Heather, did a great job – they/she were on top of it from start to finish. We would use DW/Heather again if the opportunity arose, and we will definitely recommend DW/Heather to others. Thanks again for your assistance.
MY GOOGLE REVIEW OF YOU STARS Heather, Allison, Terrie, Katie and Kristeen were so incredible to us, I almost don’t know where to start. Okay, let’s start with this: our journey to home ownership at Indian Ridge Country Club was a long (nine months) and sometimes frustrating journey – not due to this great team, of course, but to the wildly competitive home-buying environment of 2021. During EVERY step of this sometimes tortuous journey, the D...
You guys are all incredible. Such an amazing group of people!! You’re all the BEST and we love Barry!! I want to buy more rentals just to have fun with you all!! Hope to have many more transactions in the future. Thanks a million!!
We appreciate all that your team did to keep us informed every step of the way - even when it wasn't great news :) Ultimately, the team navigated through a complicated sale with grace and did a wonderful job getting our parents home sold. There are many agents in the area, but your team stood out as the most professional, fair and knowledgeable of all the agents we met with. Again thank you!
Kristeen, You and Allison were awesome! I can’t thank you enough and wouldn’t hesitate to work with your team again. Here’s hoping for continued success. Our Best Wishes!
Hi Allison, We just wanted to let you know what a pleasure it was working with you and all of your colleagues in the Bennion Deville sales office at Indian Ridge. From our first phone call to our closing, you and everyone in your office made us feel welcome and responded immediately to every question we had, whether it was a technical one or whether it was an inconsequential one. Even with the high volume of real estate transactions that your ...
Thanks for providing all the documents for our recent home purchase at IRCC. This is yet another example of the fine continuous work your team has done for us over the past few months. We can’t wait until we can safely return to IRCC to move into our new home. Hopefully, it will be sometime during the latter part of May. This whole COVID-19 thing has been an ordeal for literally everyone, and it’s not going to be over for quite some time. The ...
We would like to express our sincerest appreciation to Frank Montiforte and your entire staff for the endless time and effort extended to us in our search over the past two years for a new home in Palm Desert. Initially, we called your office on a Saturday morning to tour an open house in a gated community. We quickly received a return call that someone from your office would call and accompany us to look at this open house. In less than four ...
Hi Diane I met some of your team at my house at end of July and they gave Julie and me much information and advice about selling our home at that time. They indicated the market was hot and that they would be successful in completing a sale within 60 days at the suggested sale price. Allison and Heather were extremely professional in the approach and performed to the standards that they had suggested. They did everything possible that was need...
When we decided to look for a home in Sun City Palm Desert, we were lucky enough to have a friend who lived here recommend that we use Frank Montiforte from Bennion Deville Real Estate as our agent. We contacted Frank and he quickly showed us a number of homes that met our needs. Unfortunately, our escrow didn’t close on the property we were selling for a year and a half longer than we had planned. Frank never faltered. He continued to show us...
It was an absolute pleasure working with Heather Wong and the entire DWA Team. We started the process as curious lookers, but very uncertain about buying in the desert. Some realtors would have written us off as not-serious-buyers, however this isn’t what happened. Instead, Heather and team were generous with their time, taking us on tours of various communities and sharing their knowledge. They demonstrated complete understanding and patience...
We met Terrie Pena at an open house in January and we were impressed with her knowledge and experience in the Indian Ridge community. We contacted her a week later to look at some other properties and she showed us prospective homes, provided lots of information and was very accommodating with our schedule. When we decided to move forward on a property, she was very helpful, professional, knowledgeable and always answered our questions patient...
I just wanted to thank you and your team for such fabulous service they gave us! We are so happy with your on-site sales office, what professional staff, I just can’t say one negative thing, everything was perfect. I loved every one of the people we worked with, awesome in every way. I just wanted you to know that and we have recommended your on-site sales office to many of our friends and will continue to do so. You take care, know you are lo...
We were looking for a realtor to sell our home and googled best realtor in Palm Desert and Diane Williams came up. We set up an appointment and Heather and Allison came. We had such a good feeling from them that we actually cancelled another appointment we had with a different realtor. We had an excellent experience working with them. Their knowledge, enthusiasm and work ethics were awesome and they helped us navigate selling a home in the Uni...
I want to thank you all for your assistance in our recent purchase. In particular, Terrie was professional, knowledgeable, patient and essential. For over a year she showed us dozens of homes, many more than once. She was extremely respectful of our budget and requirements as well as likes and dislikes. She never pushed us outside our comfort zone and was always available to accommodate our (changing) goals. We could not have done this without...
It’s official, we did it! Thanks to each and every one of you for helping to making this sale of our home a reality! It definitely took a village but we got it done! We are thrilled that you found someone who truly loves the home and is eager to enjoy it. I am beyond thrilled to have this wrapped up in time to enjoy my summer here in The Catskills of New York. Sherri and I sincerely appreciate all of your efforts including the numerous Open Ho...
I would like to thank everyone on Diane’s team for making this home sale come together! Diane, thank you for mentioning 528 Mesa Grande at one of your open houses back in March which really got the ball rolling and caught our interest in this home. A special thanks to Allison for putting together the Contingency Offer at the 11th hour and getting the deal done! It was a bit of a roller coaster ride but the team looked after our needs all the w...
Rhonda and I have been very pleased with the service and level of attention to detail and strategy that we have received from your team. We have now completed 3 transactions together, and each one had its own challenges, but we got through them with the help and direction from Allison and Diane and the entire team. Even as a professional commercial real estate person, I find the expertise and judgement of professionals that do this every day f...
Ran across this string today looking for something, and it brought back memories. How wonderful you were to work with. How we got such a wonderful price for our home. How lucky we were to get out before all this foolishness. And how much I miss being there. Please know in this time of abject boredom (I can only image the market right now) that you made a big difference in our lives. We would do it again in a heartbeat. Thanks Again
Well, who would’ve thought that we’d be dealing with each other on this side. You have always been such a pleasure to deal with rentals. Heather has been phenomenal, and it has just been very special working with her on a personal level and now you as well after all of these many years. We are so happy and thanks for your sweet congratulatory sentiment. We look forward to working with you on our purchase!
God was good to us as we had our house on market for over two years and we ended up selling and closing on the day the market dropped 3,000 points sometimes you have to look into the pit to realize how blessed your life is. I want you to know how happy we are with your team for hanging in there and continually advising us on making our home as marketable as possible.
Allison Renz is probably the best or one of best realtors we have worked with (period) very experienced and professional with great follow through. She is willing to do the “little” things that make the process go smoothly and we had fun! We would comfortably recommend her to anyone!
We are very appreciative of all the efforts that were made on our behalf to achieve the sale! Our agent, Heather Wong, went above and beyond in helping us and we would recommend her for sure. We wish Heather and the entire team continued success! Thank You.
2020 was a tough year for us all, yet there were high points like buying our home. We continue to appreciate all you did to make this process smooth, easy and enjoyable. Wishing you all the best in 2021 and beyond.
Your kindness and professionalism throughout this process was valued and appreciated. Seems as though, with everyone’s support, it was a seamless transaction. Thank you to everyone involved. All the best.
It was a pleasure working with all of you. You have a professional team that works well together much appreciated.
Terrie Pena, Kristeen Kidd and team did a great job selling our Palm Desert home! They managed to navigate their way to the closing under difficult circumstances created by the buyer's RE agents. Terrie stayed focused and moved the deal forward! … Also, second time using Terrie Pena - once to find our house and then to sell it! She's very responsive and diligent. The selling part became very difficult on the other side, but she persevered and ...
I have been looking for a home in the area and heard I should check out the DW & Associates website. Not only is it beautiful its so easy to navigate. They have the most wonderful resource section where they connect you to local vendors and utility companies with contact information. I would recommend this website to anyone looking for property in the Coachella Valley.
Dear Heather, This thank you is long overdue, but is no less important. 😊 Thank you for the extraordinary care and professionalism you and your team exemplified during our listing, showing and selling of our home. There was not a single item that was neglected, and you were always willing to address our questions or concerns. It felt like you were one of the family! We will enthusiastically recommend DW & Associates to our friends that are ...
Liliane and I would like to tell you what a satisfying pleasure it was dealing with Heather, Allison and Kristeen in the purchase of our home at 430 Gold Canyon Dr. They were responsive at all times even when there was the usual stress of buying a home with a very short escrow…and we might add, during the unusual stress of Liliane being confined to a scooter! In all we are viewing the experience with 100% positivity, and we will eagerly recom...
Allison and your team were wonderful! You made the whole process seem simple and pain free. I will make sure to refer you anyone buying or selling a home.
We absolutely loved our realtor, Katie Pipitone! She walked us through every step in the buying process and always went above and beyond to answer any questions or concerns we had. She truly looks out for her clients. Even after closing, she helped recommend vendors she trusted for all our renovation needs. We didn’t just find a realtor, we found a new friend in Katie. Everyone we dealt with from DW and Associates was so professional, kind, an...
Great experience working with DW & Associates. Our realtor was extremely knowledgable navigating the purchasing process in California. She was professional, detailed, prompt to follow up, and a helpful resource after our home purchase.
Heather was very knowledgeable, hard-working, principled, and an absolute delight to work with. We would have given her a 6-star rating if that was an option!
Heather Wong and Allison Renz were incredibly helpful, intelligent, honest, and paid careful attention to details large and small. They have a great support staff as well. Their sense of the Palm Desert market and in particular Indian Ridge CC sub-market was spot on and made our decision about buying a home reassuring. We loved every minute of working with them.
My husband and I cannot say enough about our realtor Allison Renz DW & Associates. Allison was extremely helpful, open, transparent, and so very reliable through the whole process of selling our home. Allison and her staff really cared about us, understood our needs from the time we decided to list our home to the time it sold. If I may add, it sold in a week!! Allison was always available to answer our questions even after hours. All I can sa...
CONGRATULATIONS Allison, Heather and DW Associates…For being recognized for over $100 million in sales with a minimal number of staff to achieve it. I already knew you guys were outstanding in your business and total professionals. I did not need a magazine to tell me you and your staff are fabulous. It is a major accomplishment to be recognized in the community as top sellers in real estate in the desert. You all have worked incredibly hard ...
I highly recommend DW & Associates for anyone that's looking to buy a house. Katie and her team were really professional with the purchase of my house . She was very attentive to any questions or concerns that I had about the purchase. We stayed in touch throughout the process. Also Katie and her team helped me close sooner than expected which Im happy for. I will recommend to my family and friends who are looking to buy a house. Really happy ...
Working with DW & Associates was a great experience. Our realtor, Allison Renz was very patient with us, as we searched over a year to find the best home for us in Palm Springs. She was always available to answer our many questions and promptly show us properties. She really helped us with the purchasing process and did a great job in following up on details. We also appreciated her helpfulness in providing contacts for the various services we...
Indian Ridge On-Site Sales Office
76-375 Country Club Drive
Palm Desert, CA 92211
Bennion Deville Homes
Indian Wells Luxury Division
74-910 Highway 111
Indian Wells, CA 92210
CA DRE# 01991637