Coastal Alabama & Northwest Florida

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Search every active listing from Gulf Shores to Perdido Key — with a brokerage small enough to answer the phone.

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Where We Work

The Whole Coast

Every city, town, and community across Baldwin and Mobile County, plus the Perdido Key and Pensacola corridor — arranged the way the coast actually runs, from the Gulf inland to the Delta.

Gulf & Beaches

Beachfront & island

Gulf Shores/Orange Beach/Fort Morgan/Ono Island/Perdido Beach/Bon Secour/Dauphin Island/Laguna Key

Eastern Shore

Mobile Bay

Fairhope/Daphne/Spanish Fort/Point Clear/Montrose/Magnolia Springs/Barnwell/Belforest/Battles Wharf/Malbis

Inland Baldwin

Towns & farmland

Foley/Robertsdale/Loxley/Summerdale/Silverhill/Elberta/Bay Minette/Stapleton/Seminole/Lillian/Josephine/Rosinton/Bromley/Miflin

Mobile County

City & delta

Northwest Florida

Escambia & Santa Rosa

Or just type a place name into the search at the top.

For sellers

Want to see a cash offer on your home?

Cash buyers are buyers like any other, and taking your property to them is part of what a listing agent does. We will bring you what they offer and what we think the open market would pay, and you decide. Most people find the second number is higher. Some do not, and for those the certainty is worth it.

See what they would offer

Who we work for: you. We act as your listing agent and are paid from the sale, whoever ends up buying. No offer is promised and no amount is real until it is in writing.

Not ready to browse alone?

Every request below comes straight to your agent — nothing gets sold to a third party.

Home valuation

Find out what your property could sell for in today's market.

New listing alerts

Be first to know when a home matching your search hits BCMLS.

Talk to an agent

Buying, selling, or just curious about the coast — ask anything.

Tell us what you want

Describe your dream home and we'll notify you the moment it's available.

The Numbers

Baldwin County Market

Live from the MLS, updated continuously. What's actually on the market right now, and what it costs.

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Worth knowing

Before you buy here

The things people ask us most, written down properly. No sign-up, no catch.

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Jimmy and Christina Thies, Avani & Co. Real Estate

Jimmy & Christina Thies · Founders

The Brokerage

Built for this coast.

Avani & Co. is a boutique brokerage licensed in both Alabama and Florida, covering Baldwin County, Mobile County, and the Perdido Key and Pensacola corridor.

Our agents live in the communities they sell in. They know the condo boards, the flood maps, and what a fair number looks like on either side of the bay — backed by a brokerage that stays small enough to actually answer the phone.

Jimmy ThiesQualifying Broker · Alabama & Florida

Who You'll Work With

Meet the team

Every agent here lives and works on this coast. Pick the person you'd like to hear from.

First Time Buying?

How buying a home actually works

Nobody explains this properly, so here it is start to finish. No jargon, no pressure.

Get pre-approved

Before you look at a single house. A lender checks your income, credit and debts and tells you what you can actually borrow. It takes a day or two and it's free.

Why first: sellers here won't take an offer seriously without it, and you'll waste weekends falling for homes you can't buy.

Work out what you want

Beach or bay. New build or established. School district, commute, flood zone, HOA. Write down what you won't compromise on and what you'd trade.

On this coast, flood zone and insurance cost matter as much as the price. Ask early.

Go and look

Your agent lines up showings and tells you what's wrong with each place, not just what's right. Expect to see plenty before something fits.

Before we tour homes together you'll sign a written buyer agreement setting out what your agent is paid and who pays it. We'll walk you through it first — it's a short document and there's nothing hidden in it.

Make an offer

Price, closing date, what stays with the house, and how long you have to inspect and finance. Your agent advises; the decision is yours.

A clean offer often beats a higher one. Terms matter as much as price.

Inspection & appraisal

An inspector goes through the house properly. The lender sends an appraiser to confirm it's worth what you're paying. Either can change the deal.

Never skip the inspection to win a bidding war. On the Gulf, add wind mitigation and a roof age check.

Underwriting

The lender verifies everything. Don't change jobs, open credit cards or move large sums around now — it can sink the loan days before closing.

The quietest and most nerve-wracking stretch. Answer their requests the same day.

Closing

You sign at the title company or closing attorney, funds transfer, and the deed records. You get keys.

Bring photo ID and a wire confirmation. Never wire money on instructions that arrive by email without calling the title company first.

Ask us a question

A word first: we're real estate brokers, not lenders. What follows is general information to help you know what to ask. Rates, terms and whether you qualify come from a licensed loan officer, not from us.

Conventional

Most common

Not government backed. Usually needs a stronger credit score and 3–20% down. Put 20% down and you avoid mortgage insurance.

Good fit: steady income, decent credit, some savings.

FHA

Lower barrier

Government insured. Lower credit scores accepted and as little as 3.5% down, but you pay mortgage insurance for the life of most loans.

Good fit: first-time buyers, thinner credit, smaller deposit.

VA

Veterans

For eligible service members, veterans and some surviving spouses. Often no deposit at all and no monthly mortgage insurance.

Good fit: anyone who has served. Worth checking eligibility even if you think you don't qualify.

USDA

Rural areas

Zero deposit for eligible buyers in qualifying rural areas. Parts of Baldwin and Mobile County qualify — more than people expect.

Good fit: buying inland, moderate income.

Jumbo

Higher price

For loans above the conforming limit. Stricter on credit, reserves and deposit.

Good fit: beachfront and larger waterfront homes.

Cash

No loan

No lender, no appraisal requirement, faster closing. Sellers often accept less for the certainty.

Good fit: investors, downsizers, anyone competing on speed.

Need a lender? We'll give you two or three names and you choose. We don't accept any fee for referring you — that's prohibited under federal law (RESPA), and it's not how we'd want to work anyway.

General information only, current to the best of our knowledge and not legal, tax or lending advice. Commissions are negotiable and are not set by law or by any association. Your own agreement governs what is actually paid.

Rough guide only. Your lender and title company give exact figures in writing before you close.

Earnest money

$500 – $5,000

Paid when your offer is accepted, held in escrow, credited back to you at closing.

Inspection

$300 – $600

Paid up front. Add wind mitigation and termite here on the coast.

Appraisal

$500 – $800

Lender orders it, you pay for it, usually at application.

Deposit

0% – 20%

Depends entirely on the loan. VA and USDA can be zero.

Closing costs

2% – 5%

Title, recording, lender fees, prepaid taxes and insurance. Sometimes negotiable with the seller.

Insurance

Varies widely

On the Gulf this is a real number, not a footnote. Wind and flood are often separate policies. Get a quote before you're under contract.

Get a real estimate for a specific home

From the Founders

Why we built this.

Avani & Co. Real Estate was built with intention, heart, and shared values.

We created this brokerage because we wanted something different — something more personal, more meaningful, and more aligned with how we believe real estate should be done. A place where professionalism and high standards exist alongside kindness, support, and genuine connection.

The name Avani is our youngest daughter's middle name — one of the most unexpected and beautiful gifts we have ever been given. To us it represents gratitude, purpose, and the reminder that the most meaningful things in life are often the ones we never planned for.

We believe real estate should be professional, but it should also be human — a business built on relationships, trust, and helping others. And we believe success should never come at the expense of ethics, family, or personal character.

Jimmy Thies

Founder & Qualifying Broker

Christina Thies

Co-Founder

Thinking about a move?

We're intentionally selective, and we're always glad to talk with agents who share these values.

Join the Brokerage

How We Help

Services

Buying

Primary homes, second homes, and everything from beachfront condos to acreage inland.

Selling

Pricing, preparation, and marketing built around what your specific property is worth.

Investment

Short-term rental analysis, condo financials, and what the numbers actually return.

Relocation

Moving from out of state? Remote showings and remote closings are routine here.

Get In Touch

Talk to a real person.

Call or text

251-229-3216

Office

191 Northshore Circle, Suite 100-D
Gulf Shores, AL 36542

Licensed in

Alabama & Florida

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What our clients say

Recently deleted

Deleting a lead keeps a full copy here. Putting one back restores everything — score, history, saved criteria.

Paste in a contact list

From Dotloop, or anywhere that gives you names and email addresses. Paste the whole thing — it works out who is who, skips anyone already in your list, and flags the ones that look like agents, lenders or title companies so they do not end up on a marketing email by accident. Nothing is sent to anybody by adding them.

Put existing people on a follow-up

New leads go onto a follow-up by themselves the moment they arrive. Anyone already in your list when that started — imports, anyone added by hand — never got picked up, so this is how you reach them.

Automatic follow-up — already on

Nothing below needs setting up before it works. It is running now, on the wording that comes as standard. Everything here is about changing that wording to sound like you.

Pick an opener

In Openers by situation below, find the card that matches how the person came to you. Press Use this one.

Make it sound like you

The messages open for editing. Change any wording you would not say out loud, then press Save. It is now yours and lives under Follow-up sequences.

Set “Starts when”

Pick how the person came in — asked about a listing, asked what their home is worth, and so on — or “Every new lead” as a catch-all. Your version then replaces the standard wording for those leads.

Still call them

The automated email opens the conversation and asks the qualifying questions. It is not a substitute for you ringing them, and the hour clock runs regardless. You can also put anyone on a sequence by hand from “Put them on a sequence…” on their card.

✓ This is already running. You do not have to set anything up. Every lead is put on the matching follow-up the moment they arrive, and the first email goes out within a minute — day or night, whether or not anybody is signed in. It uses what they told you on the quiz: their name, the property they asked about, and their town.

Speed is the whole game: contacting someone within five minutes rather than thirty makes you roughly 21 times more likely to qualify them, and most people online have messaged several agents at once.

⚠ That email does not replace your call. Claim a lead and you still have one hour to speak to them yourself and log it, or it goes back to the broker. The openers below are the wording it uses — edit any of them and your version is used instead.

Listing alerts are a separate thing and do not need any of the above. They email one person new listings that match what they asked for, at whatever pace they choose.

☞ Openers by situation

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✉ Follow-up sequences

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🔍 Listing alerts

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? New here? How to send one of these out open

1. Pick what to send. Anything marked Live is already published and safe to send. A Draft is not on the site yet, so send it only after the broker has published it.

2. Press Share it on the article. That gives you a link with your name on it, so anybody who becomes a lead from it is credited to you rather than to the brokerage.

3. To email it to a group, use the broadcast below. Choose who it goes to, add a line of your own at the top, and send. Your name, your team name if you have set one, and the brokerage details go on the bottom automatically, along with the unsubscribe link the law requires.

4. Put your own words at the top. The article does the work; the line above it is why they should read it. "This one comes up on every listing appointment" beats "Please see the attached article".

5. Do not send the same people something every week. Once a month is plenty. Every email carries an unsubscribe and once somebody uses it, they are gone from your list for good.

Set your branding once under My page — team name, tagline, logo and color. It then appears on what you send without you doing anything else.

Articles

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Say hello

A one-off introduction for people already on your list who have never heard from the site — imports, an old spreadsheet, anyone added by hand. Sent once per person, ever.

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The monthly market letter

One email a month to everyone whose town you know — what is on the market there right now, counted at the moment you send. Built from live listings, so it is never out of date and nobody has to write it.

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Videos

Listing walkthroughs and marketing pieces. The video stays on YouTube or Vimeo — paste the link and it becomes something you can send to one person at a time and see whether they watched.

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Send a newsletter

Nothing sends until you have seen the number it is going to.

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Check the follow-up system

Asks the system what is actually happening to your most recent leads — whether each one was put on a follow-up, which one, and what it is waiting to send. Nothing is saved and nothing is sent. Use this instead of guessing when an email does not turn up.

Check an MLS feed

Type a feed code and press Check. This asks the MLS directly whether our key can read that feed — which is the only thing that actually decides it. Nothing is saved and nothing changes. Wrong codes are harmless.

gcmls2 with the Gulf Coast key is the one already working — check that first to prove the test itself is fine. Baldwin's code is baldwin, and it needs the Baldwin key, which is a separate account. It will not work until Baldwin approves direct access for a broker not using an outside vendor.

What reaches you

Yours alone — nobody else sees or changes these, including the broker.

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Clear the test data

Everything in here was seeded to prove the system works. Clearing it before real leads arrive is what makes the numbers on Today mean something. Your agents, settings, articles, tab layouts and outside tools are never touched.

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Outside tools

ShowingTime, Redex, Paragon, the MLS — whatever you open all day. They sit at the end of the tab row and open in a new window. They cannot open inside the CRM: every one of these systems blocks that on purpose.

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The questions people are asked

The six screens a visitor sees when they press Get new listings emailed to me or What is my home worth? Change the wording, add a question, or drop one. What they answer still feeds the listing alerts and sets how urgently the lead is treated.

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Can the world find this site?

The site is reachable by anyone with the address either way. This decides whether search engines are allowed to index it. While it is private, Google is told to stay out, the sitemap is empty, and nothing you publish will ever show up in a search.

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Suggestions from your agents

Anything sent with the Suggest an improvement button lands here, and emails you at the same time.

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When someone is about to leave

A quiet prompt as a visitor heads for the door, asking where to send new listings. It shows once, never to anyone who already has an account or has been in touch, and a "no thanks" is remembered for two weeks.

Show it

Headline

Underneath

Button

These arrive in Leads with the source exit-intent, so you can see how many the prompt actually brings in.

Beach reel on the homepage

Photographs that fade one into the next near the bottom of the homepage. Nothing shows until you add some — an empty carousel looks broken.

Use your own photographs or ones you have the rights to. The hero image on this site is credited to Zayde Albiyati at Salt Air Media — if you use more of that work, credit it the same way.

Fill the two boxes first, then add the photo — the words go with whichever picture you add next.

Data connection & lead notification setup

1. Connect your real MLS feed

Contact Baldwin REALTORS® (BCMLS) and/or Gulf Coast Mobile Assn MLS and request RESO Web API (or IDX) credentials for your account. Once issued, replace the fetchListings() function in this file's code with a fetch call to your MLS's RESO endpoint — the listing card fields (price, beds, baths, sqft, city, status, MLS#) are already named to match standard RESO fields, so it's mostly a data-mapping job, not a redesign.

If you'd rather not edit code yourself, this is a well-defined task to hand to a developer or to Claude Code — the mock data structure at the top of the file (MOCK_LISTINGS) shows exactly what shape real data should arrive in.

2. Get leads emailed to you

Checking email notification status…

This is configured directly on the server (not here in the browser) using your own Gmail account — set the GMAIL_USER, GMAIL_APP_PASSWORD, and NOTIFY_EMAIL values in your hosting provider's environment variables / secrets. No third-party email service needed.

Until this is set up, every lead is still saved and visible in this CRM the moment it comes in — you just won't get an email yet.

3. Free listing views before sign-up

Visitors can view this many listings free before we ask them to create a free account (which becomes a lead automatically). Once they create an account, browsing is unlimited on that device.

4. Testimonials

Add a quote and name — these show in a "What our clients say" section on the site. Paste in reviews from past clients or from Google.

5. Your Google review link

Each agent (and broker) has their own link here — used by the "Request review" button on leads assigned to you.

Assistant

Drafting help that can see your own records. It writes; you decide what goes out. Nothing here sends anything on its own.

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🔑 Change my password

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Current password

New password

💰 Closed deals & commissions

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Receipt Download

🧾 Business expenses

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★ Pending reviews to approve

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Clients can leave a review directly on the site. Nothing shows publicly until you approve it here.

Bring your Google reviews in

Open the Reviews list on your Google profile, select the whole thing, copy it, and paste it below — all of them at once is fine. Your own replies are stripped out automatically, and anything already imported is skipped, so you can paste the full list again whenever new ones come in. Nothing shows publicly until you approve it.

⚠ These stay marked as Google reviews and are shown with that credit. Reviews are not reworded, and they are not turned into site testimonials — passing a Google review off as something collected here would misrepresent where it came from, and real estate advertising is regulated.

★ Recognition & award tiers

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👥 Manage agents

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Add agents at your brokerage so they can log in and manage their own leads. Each agent only sees leads assigned to them — you (as broker) see everything and can assign leads to whoever should follow up.

Find your placeon the Gulf.

Featured listings

What's it like down here today?

The Whole Coast

Gulf & Beaches

Eastern Shore

Inland Baldwin

Mobile County

Northwest Florida

Want to see a cash offer on your home?

Not ready to browse alone?

Home valuation

New listing alerts

Talk to an agent

Tell us what you want

Baldwin County Market

Before you buy here

Built for this coast.

Meet the team

How buying a home actually works

Get pre-approved

Work out what you want

Go and look

Make an offer

Inspection & appraisal

Underwriting

Closing

Conventional

FHA

VA

USDA

Jumbo

Cash

Earnest money

Inspection

Appraisal

Deposit

Closing costs

Insurance

Why we built this.

Thinking about a move?

Services

Buying

Selling

Investment

Relocation

Talk to a real person.

What our clients say

Who to call now

Paste in a contact list

Put existing people on a follow-up

Automatic follow-up — already on

☞ Openers by situation

✉ Follow-up sequences

🔍 Listing alerts

Articles

Say hello

The monthly market letter

Videos

Send a newsletter

Check the follow-up system

Check an MLS feed

What reaches you

Clear the test data

Outside tools

The questions people are asked

Can the world find this site?

Suggestions from your agents

When someone is about to leave

Beach reel on the homepage

Data connection & lead notification setup

1. Connect your real MLS feed

2. Get leads emailed to you

3. Free listing views before sign-up

4. Testimonials

5. Your Google review link

Assistant

🔑 Change my password

💰 Closed deals & commissions

🧾 Business expenses

Find your place
on the Gulf.