Hi, I’m Emily Grosvenor (pronounced “Grove-ner),”

Home is everything I do.

Nothing interests me more than the particular mix of residence, neighborhood, community, geography, vibes, and palpable magic that makes a place truly feel like home.

I’ve always been this way. As a child, I drew floor plans and went to open houses every weekend with my mother. Since then, I’ve been a curious observer of how the places we live shape who we are, how we move through the world, and how we put down roots.

My career has taken me in some unexpected directions. I’ve lived in Germany as a Fulbright scholar, moved around the country, worked for an embassy, and reported on travel and design in Oregon. I edited Oregon Home, the state’s premier home-design magazine, and wrote a popular design book, Find Yourself At Home. I also work as a values-based design consultant, helping people see the possibilities in their own spaces.

These days, my work as a real estate broker specializing in Oregon Wine Country brings all of these interests together: a lifelong curiosity about how people make a home, an outsized passion for design, and what might be described as an almost otherworldly obsession with places and spaces.

I love the moment when a house starts to feel like a possibility, when a neighborhood begins to feel familiar, or when someone discovers a place that makes them think, Oh, I could really live here.

For me, real estate has always been about more than the property. It's about the life that happens around it.

A few things about me

• My typing speed is 144 words per minute. (Yes, I've tested it.)

• I once won a competitive game of live-action Oregon Trail and wrote about the experience for The Atlantic.

• I've helped run Terroir, our homegrown literary festival, since 2013.

• I'm an Enneagram One, the Reformer, which tracks with my lifelong tendency to see how things could work a little better.

• My husband and I met while working as counselors at a German-language camp.

• I'm certified in Feng Shui, the practice of arranging spaces to support the flow of energy.

My real estate philosophy: delight and magic

I believe in delight and magic. I also believe that buying or selling a home requires clear eyes, careful research, good communication, and someone who can keep track of the details while holding the bigger picture in mind.

I bring the exactitude of an editor, the organizational instincts of a cruise director, the service-mindedness of a teacher, and a deep interest in how today's decisions shape tomorrow's life.

But I also bring something that doesn't fit neatly into a transaction checklist: a drive to connect people with places, people with people, and ideas with possibilities. I love discovering the character of a town, finding the right person to help solve a problem, and imagining what a space could become. I want my clients to feel not only well-guided through the process, but genuinely excited about what's next.

Oregon Wine Country is a particularly rewarding place to do this work. Its towns each have their own personality, and finding the right fit means looking beyond a house to the community, landscape, and everyday life that come with it. Helping people discover that fit—and watching them build lives here that feel like their own—is the most satisfying part of my work.

If you connect with that way of looking at the world, I suspect we'll get along.

Let's chat.