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A local Utahn born and raised, Kristel Gough has focused both her personal and professional life on an expectation of hard work and personal excellence. With over 25 years of experience in the Real Estate industry, her reputation continues to rise thanks to committed passion for the business.
Kristel’s devotion to excellence shows in her exceptional career history within the Real Estate industry—first, as a member of one of the top-producing mortgage lender teams in the state of Utah for over 22 years and since 2016, as a licensed REALTOR®. At the age of 17, Kristel joined Zions Mortgage as a Quality Control Auditor, working part-time after school and softball practices to pay for a much-loved first car. From there, she worked her way up to Loan Processor and then Loan Originator, and from there to Branch Manager and then Mortgage Lender/Owner. At this point, after 20+ years in the mortgage world, Kristel decided to take on a new challenge and she set out to acquire her Real Estate license in 2016.
Kristel found early success in the industry through her driven work ethic and consummate professionalism, and she affiliated with luxury brokerage, Summit Sotheby’s International Realty, in September of 2020. A full-service brokerage with an award-winning advertising team, Summit SIR is known for offering ‘million-dollar marketing’ for every property—regardless of location or price point. Kristel’s passion drives her daily; she is committed to providing unparalleled service and expertise while collaborating with clients and colleagues alike. During her career, Kristel has received her RENE, ABR, PSA, CRS and E-Pro designations.
As a Real Estate Professional with a genuine dedication to her field, Kristel hopes to enrich the lives of her clients and the community where she works and lives. She is well-connected and actively involved in the industry, having served as the President of the Women’s Council of Realtors®, Salt Lake in 2018 and as the President of the Women’s Council of Realtors, Utah in 2021. Currently, Kristel serves on the Government Affairs Committee and the Grievance Committee within the Salt Lake Board of Realtors®. Kristel had the honor of receiving the Presidential Award in 2018 and the Pinnacle Award in 2019. She has also been recognized as a Sotheby’s International Realty ‘Top 500 Agent’ for the past five years running. Additionally, Kristel is a certified, professional Life and Business Coach.
Although Kristel enjoys all areas of Real Estate, today she specializes in luxury and new construction—working with her daughter selling, staging and designing homes for local Utah builders. The Beehive State is an exceptional place to live, and Kristel feels fortunate to help others search for and secure their ideal home in Utah and beyond. When she’s not helping clients or ruling the Real Estate world, Kristel loves traveling and spending time with her three children.
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Kristel was amazing for us! We had so many questions and she had the answers to all of them. By far the best real estate agent we have ever worked with. She saved us thousands of dollars with her knowledge and expertise of the industry and all the hidden fees.
Over the years, my family has moved from the Virginia to Europe, Europe to California, and California to Utah. No matter where we moved, finding the perfect home was not easy...until we met Kristel. As a matter of fact, we met Kristel on a house hunting trip coming back from Montana. Initially, Salt Lake City (SLC) was not on our list but since we had friends living the area, we decided to take a look around. We met Kristel on a Thursday, and by Saturday we were under contract. Thirty days later, we were proud owners of a beautiful home in SLC.
Kristel will go the extra mile for you. She will do her due diligence in making sure you get the best advice. Most importantly, she will get to know you, your needs, and match what makes you happy to the appropriate home. If you want an Agent who will look out for your best interests, Kristel Gough is your key to an easy and successful home search.
I highly recommend using Kristel, you will not go wrong.
We are so happy we met Kristel Gough. Kristel is one of the most capable, competent, and experienced real estate professionals we have met. On top of that she has an amazing personality, very personable, friendly, and is a go-getter. There is no surprise of why she is so successful! Kristel helped us sell and market our home. Our home had multiple offers and sold the first day on the market. She also helped us find our dream home. Kristel was able to manage to have the closing of the sale and purchase of our homes on the same day! We are so happy we met her, and I would be recommending her to my entire network of family and friends.
Kristel listed my place at the best price and we had 22 showings and an offer in 4 days. Beautiful photos and staging of my house set mine apart from others. Will be using her to buy in a few months!
Kristel was very knowledgeable and responsive to our new home search and with the sale of our old home. Both transactions went smoothly due in large part to her professionalism and diligence. I can highly recommend her.
Kristel is wonderful!! We moved from out of state and she was incredibly knowledgeable, helpful, and patient with us. She went above and beyond. She helped us work with builders as well as looking at used homes and helped us learn about all the areas locally. Highly recommend!
We had a few unexpected bumps in the process, which were deftly handled by Kristel. She arranged for everything we needed and provided timely, accurate advice. Most of all, Kristel was always responsive. A consummate professional in her field and now a friend. I think you would be doing yourself a disservice not to consider Kristel. Highly recommended without reservation.
Kristel was amazing throughout the entire process. She was helpful, knowledgeable and very responsive.
I highly recommend Kristel as she was beyond helpful in assisting us with the purchase and sell of our home
Working with Kristel was fantastic! She was professional, knowledgeable, and Very organized. She always went out of her way to help us when we needed it. Not only did we have an agent on our side, we had a friend. I would and will recommend Kristel to anyone.
Kristel was honestly the absolute best fit we could have possibly imagined in a realtor. We have worked with a few before and felt that they were kind of pushy and unavailable. Kristel was the opposite - she never pushed or rushed us into any decisions and never pushed paperwork on us when it was unnecessary. Somehow, she was always available. She is so easy to work with, extremely knowledgeable, and gets things done. If there’s something she doesn’t know, she finds out for you in a timely manner. Overall, we had a wonderful experience with Kristel and would recommend her every time.
Kristel was amazing!! She was so patient with us while finding our perfect home. She is very knowledgeable and we are so grateful to her for this experience. I recommend her to everyone!!
Buying your first home is scary, there's no doubt about it! When embarking on the home buying journey, you need an expert guide to keep you on the path of success. Kristel is that person. She took all of my guidelines and brought me to great homes. It didn't matter what time of day or night it was - I could count on her to dispell my fears or answer my questions about a property. Kristel let me take lead when I felt confident and stepped in when my husband was hesitant. All in all, I feel like I made a friend for life. I truly appreciate anyone that can give it to me straight, but do as much as they can to get me what I want - especially in purchasing situations. I'll miss our house tours, but I know I can go to her about any of my concerns. I highly recommend her!
We were so fortunate to work with Kristel. We appreciated her honesty and integrity. Kristel is very knowledgeable of Utah real estate trends. So easy to work with...she was willing to meet with us on our schedule. She is an excellent communicator and responds to texts and emails in a timely matter. Kristel guided us through the mounds of paperwork, eliminated stress, and made the purchase process easy for our family. We highly recommend Kristel Gough!
Kristel Gough is an amazing Realtor. She's professional, knows her market and was beyond easy to work with. Any questions I had, were answered immediately. She made sure I understood every part of selling my condo. My condo sold within hours of it being on the market. I would highly recommend Kristel to anyone looking to sell their home/property.
Kristel was AMAZING!! Always great about getting back, super friendly, stayed up on the listings and getting the right home for family and needs! We found our home and made an offer immediately! Kristel had wonderful negotiating skills and closed our deal in record time. Highly recommend Kristel Gough for any of your buying or selling needs!!
It was a great experience from the start and our needs were met at all points all throughout the process. Kristel was always available to take our questions whether by phone or text. She handled the negotiating process very well and fought for us to get the price and additions we wanted. Due to the sizzling hot market here in Salt Lake City properties are going like hot cakes and it was not easy finding what we wanted without getting into a bidding war. Kristel was very good at alerting us to properties that fit our criteria and eventually we were able to make a purchase.
Kristel was great, very easy to work with. She was always sending potential properties that fitted what I was looking for. Properties that I was interested in, she promptly organized a viewing. Her knowledge made the process a lot easier and stress free.
Buying a home with the help of Kristel was a breeze! I am a first time home buyer and I must admit, I was a bit nervous starting out with the whole process. I am so lucky to have found Kristel, she was very helpful from day 1! My nerves went right away after our first visit. I still live in the home Kristel helped me buy and I couldn't be happier!!
If you want someone who is professional, knowledgeable, always quick to respond to your questions, and will walk you through the process of refinancing/ buying a home, then Kristel is the realtor for you. I was very impressed with her work ethic, honesty, and reliability in assisting me with the refinancing/purchase of my home. I have never worked with a realtor that gave me so much of their time. I will definitely use Kristel again and I guarantee you will be very happy when you choose her as your realtor to assist you with any of your realtor needs.
Kristel is honest and very professional. She help me finance my present home. I would recommend her to friends and family. She is very personable and knows the area very well.
Kristel is a well rounded professional. Her knowledge was instrumental in my decision to purchase my house from her. She understands mortgage financing which saved me time and money. She represented me throughout the entire purchase process. When the seller wanted to make me jump through a lot of hoops, she was there to make sure I was treated fairly. I would recommend her highly to anyone selling or buying a home.
Very professional, and incredibly easy to work with. She kept me updated on all steps that got us into our family home, and offered up some great advice along the way. If I ever buy another home Kristel will be my first phone call.
Selling a house in California and buying a property in Utah would be challenging enough, but add to that a difficult seller and being forced to buy before selling my existing property made it a mine field. Kristel Gough stayed right on top of the day to day changes (sometimes even hourly) to make sure the overall transaction kept moving forward towards the desired resolution. Finding the best lender, handling the mountain of paperwork and making sure all the required documents and signatures were in order. And on top of all this, keeping her "personal touch" intact. Not many people could have pulled this off and even fewer would have put up with the seller we had to deal with. Kristel has proven to me she knows how to get things done an actally does it!