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Content is loading, please wait.West Metro · Hennepin County
Rankings updated July 2026
Eden Prairie is one of the west metro's largest and most liquid markets, with a median list price around $545,000 and consistently short days-on-market. Strong Eden Prairie 272 schools, ample new-ish inventory and a range of price points make it a default choice for move-up and relocating families.
| # | Agent | Score | Focus | Brokerage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bryce Caldwell | 9.1 | Waterfront | RE/MAX Results |
| 2 | Nate Thompson | 7.9 | First-Time Buyers | Edina Realty |
| 3 | Jeffrey Dewing | 8.8 | Luxury | Coldwell Banker Realty |
| 4 | Ben Ganje | 9.5 | Luxury | Ben Ganje Group · Lakes Sotheby's International Realty |
| 5 | Joe Houghton | 9.4 | Waterfront | MN Property Group · RE/MAX Results |
| 6 | Graham Smith | 9.1 | First-Time Buyers | The Graham Smith Team · Keller Williams Integrity Lakes |
| 7 | Brian Scates | 9.0 | Relocation | Scates Real Estate |
| 8 | Kristi Weinstock | 8.8 | Luxury | The Weinstock Group · Coldwell Banker Realty |
| 9 | Tom Scott | 8.8 | First-Time Buyers | RE/MAX Advantage Plus |
| 10 | Karissa White | 8.7 | Luxury | RE/MAX Advantage Plus |
| 11 | Brandon Doyle | 8.7 | New Construction | RE/MAX Results |
| 12 | Kelly Brown | 8.4 | — | BROWN & CO Residential, eXp Realty |
| 13 | Gregg Larsen | 8.3 | Luxury | Coldwell Banker Realty |
| 14 | David Chase | 8.3 | First-Time Buyers | Chasing Dreams Real Estate |
| 15 | Richard McDonough | 8.2 | Luxury | Lakes Sotheby's International Realty |
| 16 | Heidi Swanson | 8.2 | First-Time Buyers | Lynden Realty, Ltd. |
| 17 | Katie Fears | 8.1 | First-Time Buyers | Leicht Fears Group · Edina Realty |
| 18 | Mark Reiland | 8.1 | Waterfront | RE/MAX Advantage Plus |
| 19 | Mary Pat Nydahl | 8.1 | — | Edina Realty |
| 20 | Aaron Argent | 7.9 | Relocation | Real Estate Masters |
| 21 | Eda Rivers | 7.8 | Relocation | Compass Minnesota |
| 22 | Andy and Teresa Mitchell | 7.7 | Luxury | Edina Realty |
$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.
$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+ · 5 reviews
Jeffrey Dewing is a 28-plus-year Coldwell Banker Realty veteran working luxury across Edina, Wayzata, Lake Minnetonka and Minneapolis. With a range that runs from the mid-$300Ks past $22M, he pairs a long track record with big-brand marketing reach — a credible choice for luxury sellers who want an experienced hand and a recognizable name.
$800K+ · 181 reviews
Ben Ganje leads one of Minnesota's top-producing teams — the Ben Ganje Group at Lakes Sotheby's International Realty in Edina — with more than $1.5B in career sales, 1,500-plus homes closed, and 181 reviews at a perfect 5.0. Across roughly 24 years he's ranked among the top three agents in the state by volume. He's the choice for luxury and new-construction buyers and sellers who want a proven, high-powered team.
$350K–$3M · 183 reviews
Joe Houghton runs Minnesota Property Group under RE/MAX Results out of Plymouth, and the numbers are the headline: 1,600-plus homes sold since 2002 and 183 Zillow reviews at a perfect 5.0. He's the high-volume, broad-coverage choice across the west metro — from Lake Minnetonka waterfront to first-time and move-up buyers — backed by a full team rather than a solo practice.
$150K–$2.8M · 100 reviews
Graham Smith has run The Graham Smith Team at Keller Williams Integrity Lakes since 2002, building $125M+ in career volume and 100 Zillow reviews at 5.0 (172 across platforms). He's the deeply-reviewed choice for Minneapolis city neighborhoods — from first-time buyers to investment — backed by a full team and two decades in the market.
$300K–$1.2M · 155 reviews
Brian Scates runs his own brokerage, Scates Real Estate, out of the Plymouth / northwest-metro area — a GRI-designated broker with 20-plus years, 800-plus career transactions, and 155 Redfin reviews at 4.9. He's the high-volume, independent-brokerage choice across the west and northwest metro, comfortable from first-time buyers to the upper-mid market.
$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.
$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.
$220K–$750K · 139 reviews
A second-generation, tech-forward Maple Grove team pairing an outstanding review record with genuine new-construction expertise.
$65K–$2.4M · 173 reviews
A high-volume, all-women boutique team whose social-media-driven marketing has landed it among Minnesota's top 10 teams by sales volume, with real closings in Plymouth.
$275K+
A 30-year Lake Minnetonka waterfront specialist — strong for lakefront or luxury business, less suited to a budget starter-home search.
$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.
$370K–$2.4M
Richard McDonough is a fourth-generation Stillwater resident who has worked as a real estate broker in the city for roughly three decades and holds dual licensure in Minnesota and Wisconsin. He practices as an associate broker with Lakes Sotheby's International Realty out of its downtown Stillwater office, with current and recent listings concentrated in the historic Main Street corridor. Third-party transaction data (homes.com) shows 84 closed sales over the past five years worth about $41.9 million; that figure, and the 238 sold listings shown on his own brokerage profile, are both well below the '450+ career transactions' cited in his marketing, a gap that is not explained anywhere public.
$172K–$913K
A boutique Grand Avenue agent whose Old Home Certification is a genuine edge for Saint Paul's historic housing stock.
$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.
$275K–$850K · 15 reviews
Mark Reiland has worked the south metro out of RE/MAX Advantage Plus's Savage office since 2000 and leads the small Reiland Team there. His public review record is real but thin — 15 Google reviews at 4.2 stars — and his brokerage profile lists a wide, generalist range of specialties rather than a narrow focus. Recorded sales cluster in Shakopee, Prior Lake, and Savage, consistent with a Scott County-centered practice. He holds a Certified Distressed Property Expert designation, relevant to short-sale and foreclosure work.
$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.
$145K–$630K
A solo agent headquartered in Blaine with a decade-plus track record and a 4.8-star Redfin rating, covering an unusually wide swath of the metro.
$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.
$285K–$1.7M
An Edina Realty husband-and-wife team with Minnetonka named explicitly as one of four core southwest-metro markets.
Eden Prairie moves fast, so responsiveness is the differentiator. A good local agent will know the trade-offs between neighborhoods and the district's boundaries relative to neighboring cities.
Bryce Caldwell (9.1), Nate Thompson (7.9) and Jeffrey Dewing (8.8) lead our Eden Prairie rankings.
Around $545,000 as of mid-2026, with a fast-moving market.