Austin Real Estate Advisor.
Certified General Appraiser.
From Budapest to California to Austin—built to see value differently.
Diana Roberts is a brokerage founder, California broker, Texas Certified General Real Estate Appraiser, and Compass Austin real estate advisor with more than two decades of experience helping clients make important property decisions.
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An appraiser’s eye.
An owner’s accountability.
A marketer’s instinct.
Diana’s career was not built around one market or one title. She immigrated from Hungary, built a successful real estate business on the California coast, co-founded an independent brokerage, joined Compass as a founding South Bay agent, and later established her practice in Austin.
That path shapes how she advises clients today. Diana studies the property before promoting it, separates supported value from hopeful pricing, and communicates with the directness major decisions deserve.
Real valuation—not an estimate, not a guess.
Three places. One clear point of view.
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Where the instinct began.
Diana grew up in Budapest and came to the United States with an international marketing education from Oxford Brookes University and the determination to build something of her own.
Starting again in a new country reinforced the habits that still define her work: prepare thoroughly, ask better questions, and never confuse confidence with evidence.
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Where the business was built.
Diana earned her California broker license in 2003 and built her career in Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach.
In 2011, she co-founded Pier to Pier Brokers and helped grow the independent company before joining Compass in 2019 as a founding member of its Manhattan Beach and South Bay presence.
Owning the brokerage meant owning the outcome—an accountability she still brings to every client relationship.
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Where experience became local.
Diana and her family moved to Austin in 2020 and made Serene Hills home.
Today, she advises buyers and sellers throughout Lakeway, Bee Cave, Lake Travis, Westlake, Barton Creek, and the surrounding Hill Country.
Her appraisal training brings structure to a market where lot position, views, construction quality, condition, taxes, and competing inventory can matter far more than a broad ZIP-code average.
Three advantages that change
the quality of the advice.
Credentials matter only when they improve the decision. Diana’s background changes how a property is evaluated, positioned, negotiated, and managed.
She understands value.
Appraisal training brings discipline to comparable selection, property differences, market conditions, and pricing. Diana looks beyond price per square foot and studies the complete property.
Explore valuation services →She has owned the responsibility.
Building and operating a brokerage creates a different standard of preparation. Diana anticipates problems, explains the tradeoffs, and stays personally engaged when a transaction becomes complicated.
She knows how to position a property.
International marketing training and decades of sales experience help Diana identify what matters, remove what does not, and present a property with clarity rather than generic luxury language.
When Diana is acting as a real estate advisor, her appraisal education and experience inform her brokerage strategy. A formal appraisal is a separate professional engagement with its own scope and requirements.
Local knowledge is different when it is your own neighborhood.
Diana and her family have called Serene Hills home since 2020. She serves as Assistant Secretary of the Serene Hills HOA Board and publishes Serene Hills Monthly, an independent neighborhood publication delivered by mail and digitally.
Direct involvement gives Diana a closer understanding of neighborhood priorities, improvements, architectural considerations, and the issues residents are discussing.
Diana studies the differences that can influence value in Serene Hills, including lot position, greenbelt access, privacy, views, pools, condition, architecture, and direct competition.
Her appraisal training brings discipline to pricing and helps separate supported market value from broad neighborhood averages or automated estimates.
Start with the part of Serene Hills that matters to you.
Real estate activity, community developments, neighborhood events, and local issues—delivered by mail and digitally.
Read the publication →Learn about the neighborhood setting, housing character, greenbelts, schools, lifestyle, and property differences.
View the community guide →Follow active inventory, recent sales, pricing movement, market time, and broader Lakeway–Bee Cave trends.
View the market report →
Independent judgment.
Exceptional support.
Diana brings her own experience and point of view. Compass gives her the technology, marketing, network, and operational support to execute at a higher level.
“Compass empowers me to be my best self as an advisor—independent in my thinking, supported by exceptional people and technology, and fully focused on what is right for my clients.”
Advice shaped by evidence, experience, and the property itself—not a corporate script.
Technology, marketing support, and market intelligence that create more clarity and stronger execution.
Connections to Compass agents and clients across key markets, supporting relocation, referrals, and broader property exposure.
Good advice begins with an honest conversation.
Whether you are selling, buying, relocating, or trying to understand what a property is really worth, Diana brings direct guidance before the decision becomes expensive.