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Content is loading, please wait.West Metro · Carver County
Rankings updated July 2026
Chaska offers the west metro's more attainable price point, with a median list price around $475,000 and a healthy supply of newer construction. It's a first-time-buyer and young-family market with fast turnover in the Eastern Carver County 112 district.
| # | Agent | Score | Focus | Brokerage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nate Thompson | 7.9 | First-Time Buyers | Edina Realty |
| 2 | Bryce Caldwell | 9.1 | Waterfront | RE/MAX Results |
| 3 | Kristi Weinstock | 8.8 | Luxury | The Weinstock Group · Coldwell Banker Realty |
| 4 | Tom Scott | 8.8 | First-Time Buyers | RE/MAX Advantage Plus |
| 5 | Katie Fears | 8.1 | First-Time Buyers | Leicht Fears Group · Edina Realty |
| 6 | Mary Pat Nydahl | 8.1 | — | Edina Realty |
| 7 | Miriam Johnson | 7.3 | — | Coldwell Banker Realty |
$250K–$650K · 5 reviews
Nate Thompson is a long-tenured Edina Realty agent in Eden Prairie — licensed since 1993 — who focuses on first-time buyers and relocation across the southwest metro. He's the patient, experienced choice for a first purchase or a move into Chanhassen, Chaska or Eden Prairie, with three decades of local experience behind a modest, steady practice.
$500K–$2.5M · 27 reviews
Bryce Caldwell is the most content-rich independent agent operating in the Lake Minnetonka west metro corridor. Four years focused on Wayzata, Orono, Minnetonka, Eden Prairie, and Deephaven has produced genuine hyperlocal expertise that shows up in how he talks about bays, school district boundaries, and dock rights — not just listing counts. The best fit for buyers and sellers in the $600K–$2.5M range who want a knowledgeable local specialist, not a large team machine.
$475K–$3.9M
Kristi Weinstock leads The Weinstock Group at Coldwell Banker Realty out of Excelsior, on the south shore of Lake Minnetonka. A 20-plus-year veteran and long-running Twin Cities Super Agent, she covers the south-lake and southwest metro across a wide range, from mid-market homes to $3.9M-plus lakefront. A strong choice for buyers and sellers centered on the Excelsior–Shorewood–Chanhassen side of the lake.
$280K–$750K · 6 reviews
Tom Scott has sold real estate in Shakopee since 2001 and added a broker's license in 2010, working as an associate out of RE/MAX Advantage Plus's Shakopee office rather than leading a named team. Brokerage materials credit him with several hundred Shakopee sales and a career total in the high hundreds of closed transactions. Public review volume is modest — a handful of write-ups on Birdeye and Facebook rather than hundreds on Zillow — but every rating found is five stars.
$180K–$1.2M · 6 reviews
Katie Fears is an active Edina Realty agent in Eden Prairie (part of the Leicht Fears Group) with a fast-growing practice — 61 homes sold and 21 in the last year, at a perfect 5.0 across her reviews. She's a strong, responsive choice for mid-market buyers and sellers across Eden Prairie and the west metro, from first purchases up to about $1.2M.
$400K–$1.8M
Mary Pat Nydahl is a Chanhassen-based REALTOR with Edina Realty who works with her daughter Erin as the Nydahl Group. She has held a Minnesota license since 2009, after 27 years teaching in Eastern Carver County and Minneapolis Public Schools. The team's stated service area centers on Chanhassen, Chaska, Victoria, and Carver rather than the wider metro, with listings ranging from modest townhomes to seven-figure acreage parcels. Review counts and sales totals are not published on the sites checked, so her track record is easier to describe qualitatively than to quantify.
$450K–$875K
A solo Coldwell Banker agent with confirmed transactions inside Minnetonka and an unusually hands-on read on home condition from a prior career in TV home improvement.
Chaska is entry-to-mid price for the southwest suburbs, so first-time-buyer guidance and speed matter most. New-construction know-how is a plus given the inventory mix.
Nate Thompson (7.9) and Bryce Caldwell (9.1) lead our Chaska rankings.