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Content is loading, please wait.West Metro · Hennepin County
Rankings updated August 2026
Deephaven is a small, established lake community on the south shore of Lake Minnetonka with a median list price near $1,450,000. Housing stock is a mix of legacy lake homes and renovated estates, and addresses generally fall within Minnetonka ISD 276. It is a low-inventory market where relationships and local knowledge win.
| # | Agent | Score | Focus | Brokerage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joe Houghton | 9.4 | Waterfront | MN Property Group · RE/MAX Results |
| 2 | Ellen DeHaven | 9.2 | Luxury | Coldwell Banker Realty |
| 3 | Bryce Caldwell | 9.1 | Waterfront | RE/MAX Advantage Plus |
| 4 | Kristi Weinstock | 8.8 | Luxury | The Weinstock Group · Coldwell Banker Realty |
| 5 | Daniel Gustafson | 8.7 | Luxury | Coldwell Banker Realty |
| 6 | Tom Nicklow | 8.6 | Waterfront | Minnetonka Realty, Inc. |
| 7 | Gregg Larsen | 8.3 | Luxury | Coldwell Banker Realty |
| 8 | Mary Pat Nydahl | 8.1 | — | Edina Realty |
Profiles compared
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Area match distinguishes a recorded home base, a stated service area and a manually curated editorial assignment. None by itself verifies a recent closing in Deephaven; ask candidates for relevant recent examples.
$127K–$1.9M
Joe Houghton operates Minnesota Property Group under RE/MAX Results in Plymouth. Minnesota Commerce showed resident-broker license 40503429 Active through June 30, 2028 when checked August 2, 2026. His biography claims 1,600-plus career sales since 2002, while Zillow separately displayed 1,597 team sales, 20 in the prior 12 months and 183 team reviews at a displayed 5.0.
$185K–$8.8M · 2 reviews
Ellen DeHaven leads a Coldwell Banker Global Luxury team in Wayzata and held an Active Minnesota resident-salesperson record when checked August 2, 2026. RealTrends reports 9 individual sides and $22.01M for 2025, while Homes.com displayed 82 closed sales and $170.9M over five years. Her $800M career-sales and 300-plus lakeshore-sales figures remain first-party claims, not independently reconciled career totals.
$126K–$891K · 27 reviews
Bryce Caldwell is a Minnetonka-based RE/MAX Advantage Plus agent whose strongest public differentiator is a library of sourced west-metro and Lake Minnetonka due-diligence guides. Zillow displayed 27 reviews at 5.0, 17 sales in the prior 12 months, 62 total sales and a $126K–$891K range when reviewed. His own About page claimed 64 career sales, so the two totals remain separate rather than being blended.
$475K–$3.9M · 9 reviews
Kristi Weinstock is a Coldwell Banker Realty agent in Excelsior with a first-party Lake Minnetonka and west-metro focus. Zillow displayed nine reviews at a 5.0 average, 53 sales in the trailing 12 months, 814 total recorded sales and a $130,000-to-$4.5 million sold-price range when this profile was reviewed. Coldwell Banker's experience and award statements remain attributed brokerage claims.
$150K–$3M · 1 reviews
Daniel Gustafson is a Coldwell Banker Realty agent in Wayzata. Minnesota Commerce showed salesperson license 40402029 Active through June 30, 2028 when checked August 2, 2026. A separate 2016 Commerce consent order imposed a $5,000 civil penalty, a 30-day suspension, ethics education and mortgage-satisfaction terms; that historical order is not a claim of current suspension.
$250K–$1.5M
Tom Nicklow has run Minnetonka Realty, a brokerage carrying the city's name, as broker/owner for the past 14 years, inside a firm with more than three decades of history there. He has sold Twin Cities residential real estate since 1984, holds the NAR's GRI designation, and was named a Mpls/St Paul Magazine "Super Agent" in 2023 and 2024. He works alone rather than leading a team, and covers a broad mix of property types — lakeshore, distressed, land — rather than one narrow niche.
$275K+
A 30-year Lake Minnetonka waterfront specialist — strong for lakefront or luxury business, less suited to a budget starter-home search.
$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.
Ranking disclosure
This page compares 8 researched agents serving Deephaven. The displayed order follows the published five-factor score. The math is fixed; the five input scores are editorial evaluations of the public evidence available through August 2026.
Deephaven's low inventory means an agent's local relationships and early knowledge of coming listings are decisive. Waterfront and near-lakefront expertise plus Minnetonka 276 district knowledge are the core requirements.
By Minnesota Top Agents' current five-factor editorial score, the first three agents in this published Deephaven comparison are #1 Joe Houghton (9.4/10), #2 Ellen DeHaven (9.2/10), and #3 Bryce Caldwell (9.1/10). Numbered order follows the published score formula; it is not an MLS production ranking or a guarantee of fit.