About Chris

Building The Gioia Group

Chris co-founded The Gioia Group with Lucille and helped build it into a luxury practice working across Palm Beach County and Broward County. He has represented buyers and sellers in numerous multi-million-dollar transactions in one of the most competitive luxury markets in the country. He personally negotiates and closes a substantial share of the firm's business, and is directly involved in sourcing, pricing and client management on the rest. Every client works with both of them, never with an assistant, and never passed between agents.

He rebuilt the way The Gioia Group brings a home to market from the ground up: through a fresh new pre-listing package every Seller receives before meeting The Gioia Group and with a reimagined listing presentation that shows how The Gioia Group gets homes sold for top dollar. Not built on a template like other agents, but customized to a seller's exact property and refreshed as the market changes. He is deeply involved in the firm's marketing efforts, helping to promote The Gioia Group's listings globally.

Getting Your Home Ready to Sell

Chris helped create and run the firm's Concierge Program, which exists to do one thing: put a home in front of buyers in the condition that earns the highest price. He identifies the improvements that return the most at closing, prices the work, negotiates it with contractors, and coordinates the trades through completion, so the house is finished before a buyer ever walks through it. A fresh coat of paint and a freshened-up kitchen go further toward a sale price than most sellers expect, and a home that shows finished draws more showings and stronger offers.

It goes well beyond the construction. Chris arranges staging and brings in someone who can correct the interior design choices that hold a house back, so that buyers can see themselves living there instead of tallying up what they would have to change. That is the difference between a home a buyer likes and a home a buyer competes for.

He has managed renovation and resale projects, from acquisition through the finished product. The cost estimates and return projections behind his advice come from work he has supervised, not from a spreadsheet, and he draws on an established network of local contractors, designers and service professionals.

Education and Early Career

Chris played football, lacrosse and track and field at St. Andrew's School in Boca Raton. At Marquette he served as President of the Writing Society while completing his finance coursework.

He began his career in Milwaukee's real estate market, where he worked as a REALTOR® and gained valuable experience in residential sales, client representation, and market analysis. After returning to Boca Raton, he partnered with Lucille to expand the firm's luxury presence throughout South Florida.

A Relationship-Focused Advisor

Chris is known for straight answers, hard negotiation and staying close to a deal from the first showing to the closing table. That attentiveness is the standard Nationwide Realty International has been built on for more than thirty years, and Chris has invested in carrying it forward, every date, disclosure and follow-up accounted for, on every transaction, so his clients hear from him before they ever have to ask.