Brett Makinen

RE/MAX Palm Realty

Looking to sell your property, buy a new home, or just need some expert real estate advice?

About
I’ve been a dedicated Realtor since 2004, earning multiple Top Agent awards for delivering outstanding results for buyers and sellers. With over 20 years of experience, I bring strong market knowledge, skilled negotiation, and a client-first approach to every transaction. My goal is simple: make the buying or selling process smooth, successful, and stress-free.
Highlights *
5
Recent sales
$14K - $310K
Price range
$180K
Median price
22
Years experience

Recent Listings & Sales

Address Sold Date Sold Price Represented
22220 Lasalle Rd
Port Charlotte, FL 33952
10/9/2025 $180,000 Buyer
917 Clarissa St
Lehigh Acres, FL 33974
9/5/2025 $19,900 Buyer
34 La Serena Dr
Punta Gorda, FL 33983
8/28/2025 $265,000 Buyer
12268 Finwick Dr
Punta Gorda, FL 33955
2/7/2025 $13,900 Buyer
601 NW Douglas Pkwy
Cape Coral, FL 33993
7/25/2024 $310,000 Buyer

Ratings & Reviews
5.0 (24)

Reviewers say

Reviewers commonly praise Brett’s professionalism, knowledge, responsiveness, and steady guidance through buying and selling. They describe him as approachable and non-pushy, attentive to their needs, and willing to go the extra mile, with several noting smooth transactions and strong sale results.

Donna Aaby
Andover, MN - May 19, 2021

We received professional and supportive service from Brett Makinen in the sale of our property. We sold after only 2 showings!

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Oct 28, 2019

My name is S & my husband name is J we purchased our first home in 2005 and the whole experience was very discouraging mainly because of the realtor and since it was our first home buying we wish we had a knowledgeable and 5% humanity qualities with our first realtor whereas Brett M has 100%.

With that experienced we decided next time we are moving would be in our old age at a old folk home with all seriousness.

We had No plans in selling our current home.
Then one day in July 2019, I decided to just sell our house and buy a new one. Since I realized someday our only (child) precious 9 years old daughter will inherit our house and we are also financially capable why not get her something better than the current home we are in.

I told my husband and he is always a go with the flow guy and trust my decisions and probably excited for a new house and neighborhood as well.

He look up a realtor for us and the process began in July.

Brett Makinen is an incredible, amazing, extraordinary, exemplary realtor and human being as a whole. He makes this world a better place by his existence.

I cannot thank Brett enough for his patience with me for my hundreds of phone calls to him questions after questions. What made me realized how blessed we are to found Brett was NOT even ONCE on my hundreds of phone calls his voice sound annoyed or did I fell he was not listening or helping me.I would have been tired of me if I was Brett.

Brett goes above at his realtor duties from helping us install GFCI outlets to going at our house whiles we were on vacation and closing up after and inspection to make sure nothing left open and set the alarm so I could have piece of mind. His actions are impeccable.

Bottom line I believe GOD sent Brett to us for me to realized their are still good people on earth I was losing hope in some humans behavior. I want to role model Brett extraordinary qualities.

J feels the same & our 9 years old daughter also love Brett and admire him and his kind demeanor.

I personally feel no monetary things will even repay Brett for the impact he has made on our lives.
We will pray that Brett & his love ones be blessed always and for him to continue touching family lives.

“At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou

Thank you Brett for adding color to earth with your presence.

J, C & S

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AlMac63
Mar 25, 2019

Brett was great to work with throughout the process of buying AND selling! He was always available to answer questions. He got showings set up quickly on houses we wanted to look at.
In the end we found a house that we love, and we sold our current home that had almost no updates done prior to putting in on the market. Awesome realtor!!

Zillow Verified

Raeanne Makinen-Brown
Aug 14, 2018

He was knowledgeable, experienced and was available to help us find homes within our budget. He made the selling and buying of our homes one less headache to worry about.

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Dana Gould
Jul 13, 2018

Brett was awesome, quick to reply and a genuine person, not a guy that just tries to make a sale. He wasn’t pushy and made sure we got what we wanted and more. He negotiated back and forth well with the sellers of our new house and buyer of our old one. We had 3 offers over list in the first two days and advised us how to proceed. Can’t say enough about how great he was.

Zillow Verified

Professional Info

Brokerage

RE/MAX Palm Realty
1808 South Tamiami Trail D3
Port Charlotte, FL 33948

Licensed

Licensed REALTOR®
FL 3594449

Awards

  • GRI Agent

Specialties

  • First-time buyers
  • Foreclosures & Short sales
  • Investment & property management
  • Luxury properties
  • Recreation & Vacation
  • Relocation

Designations

  • GRI

Hobbies

  • Fitness & Exercise
  • Food & Cooking
  • Health & Wellness
  • Music
  • Television & Film
  • Travel

Education

High School Diploma

Top Cities *

Punta Gorda

  • 2 sales past 3 years
  • $13.9K median price

Cape Coral

  • 1 sales past 3 years
  • $310K median price

Port Charlotte

  • 1 sales past 3 years
  • $180K median price

*Sales data is calculated based on transaction information available to Agent Pronto at the time of publishing and may not accurately reflect all transactions for a given agent.