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Content is loading, please wait.Bloomington · Hennepin County · First-Time Buyers
Rankings updated July 2026
These 6 agents serving Bloomington have demonstrated first-time buyers expertise, independently scored on local knowledge, client reviews and market expertise — never who paid to be here.
| # | Agent | Score | Focus | Brokerage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wendy Carson | 8.9 | First-Time Buyers | RE/MAX Results |
| 2 | Karissa White | 8.7 | Luxury | RE/MAX Advantage Plus |
| 3 | Beth Reilly | 8.4 | First-Time Buyers | eXp Realty |
| 4 | David Chase | 8.3 | First-Time Buyers | Chasing Dreams Real Estate |
| 5 | Chad Anderson | 7.9 | Investment | Orange House Realty |
| 6 | Eda Rivers | 7.8 | Relocation | Compass Minnesota |
$150K–$2.5M · 155 reviews
Wendy Carson has worked out of RE/MAX Results' Apple Valley office since 1998, one of the longer continuous tenures among agents based in the south metro. Her practice spans first-time buyers through executive-level and relocation clients across a wide swath of the Twin Cities and western Wisconsin. Public review counts are unusually large for an individual agent -- well over a hundred logged ratings across Zillow and an independent aggregator, plus a separate Yelp page -- and are consistently close to perfect. She operates as a solo associate rather than under a named team brand.
$250K–$890K · 5 reviews
Karissa White has sold real estate in the Bloomington market for close to two decades, working as an associate with RE/MAX Advantage Plus. Her production is heavily concentrated in Bloomington itself, and trailing five-year transaction data shows a roughly even split between buyer- and seller-side closings. Public reviews are uniformly five stars, but the verified count is small — five on RateMyAgent — thin for a career this long.
$225K–$2.1M
A hyper-local West Bloomington specialist who, with husband-and-wife partner Dan Burling, has built a 13-year practice concentrated almost entirely in one submarket.
$184K–$1.4M
A two-decade Twin Cities Realtor and Bloomington broker-owner who has lived in the area since 1982, running his own small independent brokerage rather than a large franchise team.
$200K–$1.6M
A Bloomington-headquartered brokerage co-founder whose interest in real estate started young at his grandfather's rental properties, and who now runs his own small local firm.
$60K–$1.6M
Eda Rivers is an individual Realtor with Compass Minnesota, based out of the brokerage's office in Edina. Zillow attributes roughly 70 career sales to her, about 14 in the past year, across a price range from around $60,000 to $1.6 million and an average near $409,000. Client accounts on Zillow and her brokerage bio consistently describe her as responsive and patient, particularly with first-time buyers. She works as a solo agent rather than leading a team, so the person a client hires is the person handling the transaction.
Wendy Carson (8.9/10) is our top-rated first-time buyers agent serving Bloomington, scored on local knowledge, client reviews and market expertise — with zero paid placements.
We currently rank 6 first-time buyers real-estate agents serving Bloomington, each independently scored on the same five dimensions.
Every agent gets a 0–10 editorial score — a weighted average of local knowledge, client reviews, market expertise, response time and specialization fit. No agent can pay to rank higher. See our methodology for the full method.