Buying or selling your home is one of the most important decisions you make. It is too unnerving to try to go it alone. With the combined experience, resources and talents of Kimberly and Daryl coupled with Tutt, Taylor & Rankin Sotheby's International Realty, we believe that there is no more qualified team to represent you in your real estate interests.

No matter where you want to buy or sell, Kimberly & Daryl can put a team together for you. It’s tough to be everywhere at once, but that’s exactly what we do. Our expertise and service network span the entire DC metropolitan area. When we don’t possess the specific knowledge to meet your needs, we cooperate with agents around the world who do. Whether you want to buy or sell in Maryland, DC or Virginia, Kimberly & Daryl guarantee you stellar performance to exceed your expectations.

Kimberly and Daryl know that today’s client expects to work with a real estate professional using the latest technology available. Investment in systems and technology that enhance our work for clients has always been at the top of Kimberly and Daryl’s list. Laptops, blackberries, high speed internet connections, an informative and user friendly web site, email access, automatic listing updates, digital cameras, virtual tours, networking and, of course, cell phones are how Kimberly and Daryl do business everyday. Having the ability to connect with clients and provide them with valuable information no matter where we are is one of the reasons our clients are so happy with our service.

Don’t even consider working with a part-time agent! The only way to stay on top of the market and understand its trends is by living and breathing real estate every single day. You can count on the attention of Kimberly and Daryl  and their team from the initial meeting to settlement. Each team professional has a specific role in the detail-packed, time-consuming process of buying or selling a home. You can be sure your transaction is our top priority every day.

Daryl Judy's customer service is beyond reproach.  From first finding suitable places to view all the way to the closing, he is the best at follow-thru I have ever seen, in any business.   There was not a time I could not be in contact with him, and he was diligent about contacting others on my behalf regarding information I needed. I am glad I had him working with me in my first home buying process.

"A number of realtors I contacted prior to you swore that I would never get my asking price for my home, but you proved them wrong.  Your marketing strategy and assistance in getting my home ready for sale was invaluable."

These sentiments are not theirs alone.  Daryl's clients routinely offer rave reviews of his service, knowledge, and tenacity.  He excels in helping buyers and sellers navigate the hurdles and details of real estate. Daryl prides himself on working ethically and keeping his clients' desires and interests at the forefront of the transaction.

With a background in corporate sales and marketing, he is a gifted negotiator and known for remaining graceful under pressure – a true asset in this aggressive, often confusing market. His clients describe him as focused and knowledgeable.   He feels fortunate to work with a diverse population – from a myriad of backgrounds, purchasing choices and professions.

Daryl still finds utmost joy seeing the look of satisfaction on a buyer or seller's face when the right deal is made.  Buyers cite his ability to tune into their needs and his passion for searching out their dream property.   Sellers point to his flair for marketing and scrupulous attention to detail that keeps his deals moving forward.

Daryl continues to become one of the Washington Metropolitan areas top agents as he works with his business partner, Kimberly Casey. This partnership is grounded in a mutual understanding by providing the highest level of customer service.  Devoted to their clients, Daryl and Kimberly have the extraordinary ability to negotiate and come up with creative solutions in order to achieve their clients' needs and goals.   They have demonstrated the importance of confidentiality and are known for sincerity and honesty in all negotiations.   Daryl and Kimberly have developed a reputation for working hard, listening well, knowing the market thoroughly and making sure their clients are completely satisfied.

Tutt, Taylor & Rankin Sotheby's International Realty is one of the largest independently owned real estate brokerages in the metropolitan area. The firm was recently selected as the exclusive affiliate of world renowned Sotheby's International Realty® for the greater Washington, DC region. The firm was founded by renowned developer, J. Wallace Tutt, and real estate broker Jonathan D. Taylor in 1988. In February 1992, Michael Rankin partnered with Tutt and Taylor to create one of the region's leading full-service real estate firms.

Tutt, Taylor & Rankin Sotheby's International Realty professionals are the proven leaders in representing buyers and sellers interested in distinctive properties, regardless of price range. As the exclusive affiliate for Sotheby's International Realty® in metropolitan Washington, the firm offers its clients the same unsurpassed service and commitment to individual attention that the storied Sotheby's auction house has provided its clients for 260 years.

Tutt, Taylor & Rankin Sotheby's International Realty is licensed in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.

Beginning with its establishment in 1744, the Sotheby's auction house has earned a reputation for a keen eye in the valuation of fine possessions. Continuing this fine tradition in exceptional real estate and professional seller services, brokerages within the Sotheby's International Realty® network represent many of the world's luxury houses and estates. We see in every relationship and every transaction an opportunity to extend the centuries-old Sotheby's International Realty® reputation for distinctive properties, prestigious heritage and, above all, the highest level of service.

On March 11, 1744, Samuel Baker, founder of Sotheby's, held the first-ever sale under his own name. The library of a certain Rt. Hon. Sir John Stanley, Bart. described as "containing several Hundred scarce and valuable books in all branches of Polite Literature" sold for a few hundred pounds. Well over two centuries later, on December 6, 1983, Sotheby's sold a single book, The Gospels of Henry the Lion, for more than 8 million pounds.

Since those early days, it is not just prices that have grown considerably. So too have the scope and scale of Sotheby's itself. Samuel Baker would hardly recognize his old firm, were he to take a stroll down London's present day New Bond Street - or, for that matter, down Manhattan's York Avenue. It has only been in the last century, after all, that the original London company has expanded from book auctions to cover all areas of the fine and decorative arts. This great expansion means that Sotheby's is not just one of the oldest fine art auctioneers in the world, but also now the largest. There are more than 100 Sotheby's offices around the world; and, in 1998, auction sales produced a turnover of just under $2 billion.

Modest though Samuel Baker's first sale might seem today, he was not without connections - or ambitions. Indeed, he and his successors were to handle, with great panache and showmanship, many of the great libraries sold at auction. On Napoleon's death, the books the French Emperor had taken with him into exile on St. Helena were sent to Sotheby's for sale. Additionally, libraries from Prince Talleyrand, John Willkes, Benjamin Heywood Bright, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and the Dukes of Devonshire and Buckingham were all sold through Samuel Baker's auctions.

When Baker died in 1778, his estate was divided between his partner at the time, George Leigh, and his nephew, John Sotheby. For the next 80 years, the Sotheby family dominated the firm and extended its role into such related areas as prints, medals and coins. By the end of the First World War, the firm had so successfully expanded its role in the art market that new premises were required. In 1917, Sotheby's moved from its Wellington Street location to its famous New Bond Street saleroom, which has remained its London base ever since.

Arrival in fashionable New Bond Street also heralded a new era during which the turnover for paintings and other works of art finally began to outstrip books and literary property. This move towards a wider sales arena was a very deliberate one, and the charge was led in the area of Old Master Paintings and Drawings. This diversification effort paved the way for the explosive growth of the firm under the leadership of Peter Wilson.

Wilson, who joined the firm in 1936, took Sotheby's onto the global stage. He ensured the firm's readiness to capitalize on the meteoric rise in popularity of Impressionist and Modern paintings. Perhaps the single most sensational and ultimately influential sale during Wilson's tenure was the famous Goldschmidt sale of 1958.

The Goldschmidt collection comprised seven of the most exquisite Impressionist and Modern paintings ever to come to auction. An evening auction was decided upon - the first at Sotheby's since the 18th century - and those attending were to wear evening dress. Fourteen hundred did attend; including Somerset Maugham, Anthony Quinn, Kirk Douglas, and Lady Churchill as well as hundreds of art dealers from all over the world. The seven pictures were all sold in just 21 minutes. They fetched £781,000, the highest total ever reached at that time at a fine art sale. Cézanne's Garçon au Gilet Rouge was sold to Paul Mellon for £220,000, more than five times the previous record for a painting at auction. It was one of the social highlights of the year, and possibly the most exciting art auction of the century.

Largely thanks to the vision of Peter Wilson, Sotheby's recognised long before its rivals that art was becoming an international market. It was because of this that the company opened an office in New York in 1955; and, more importantly, acquired Parke-Bernet in 1964. Parke-Bernet was the United State's largest fine art auction house, and following its acquisition by Sotheby's, became crucially involved in the rapidly developing North American market for Impressionist and Modern paintings.

Parke-Bernet, and its President Louis Marion, had a distinguished history of selling major collections at record prices. The most dramatic moment for the firm came in 1961, when Marion oversaw the sale of Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art for a record $2,300,000. That record stood for 18 years, until it was broken in a Sotheby's sale by another Marion - his son John, who later became the firm's Chairman.

With the greatest American auction house now a part of Sotheby's, the company looked elsewhere for further opportunities. In 1967, offices opened in Paris, Los Angeles and Houston. In 1968 it was Melbourne, Florence and Toronto. In 1969, Zurich, Munich and Edinburgh joined the list. Expansion continued throughout the 1970s, with offices opening across much of Europe, a provincial network in Britain, offices in Asia as well as numerous new addresses across the United States.

Along with many other businesses at the time, Sotheby's chose this period of rapid growth to "go public." The share issue in 1977 was oversubscribed 26 times, and within 18 months the value of a share had more than doubled.

The early 1980s, a period of market and corporate uncertainty, was followed in 1983 by the acquisition of Sotheby's by businessman A. Alfred Taubman and a small group of investors. Led by Michael Ainslie, Sotheby's once again became a private company.

At the same time, the art market was revitalized by several important sales that set the stage for the series of auctions at Sotheby's which have entered the history books for their drama, their prices and for the way they captured the public's imagination.

One of the most stunning auctions, held on the shores of Lake Geneva in 1987, was the sale of the jewels of the Duchess of Windsor. In an intensely competitive environment, bids via satellite from New York vied with bids from a celebrity audience and from phone buyers around the world. Over $50,000,000 was raised during the course of the sale - more than five times Sotheby's highest expectations.

Anything seemed possible in the late 1980s. In 1989, for example, the firm sold Impressionist and Modern art totaling a staggering $1.1 billion in New York and London. Indeed, by the end of the decade, prices had risen to such levels that auctions attracted global media attention on an unprecedented scale. With these successes in hand, the company went public for the second time in 1988.

As the 1990s began, the all-embracing chill of a global recession made its mark on the art market just as emphatically as it did on so many other markets. With the perspective that 250 years of history provides, though, Sotheby's has learned to manage these art cycles and has seen recovery follow recession a number of times.

In fact, Sotheby's grew considerably in the subsequent decade. Both of the firm's main locations, London and New York, undertook extensive expansions and renovations in the 1990s. In London in 2001, Sotheby's opened premises at Olympia to complement sales at the firm's New Bond Street headquarters, almost doubling Sotheby's gallery space in London. State-of-the-art features and technology provide the most professional and comprehensive level of client service of any UK saleroom.

Sotheby's New York also underwent an exciting expansion project. Completed in the spring of 2000, the firm added six additional floors to the York Avenue headquarters, allowing Sotheby's to consolidate New York office and warehouse space and provide specialist departments with their own exhibition spaces. The finished result is highlighted by a tenth floor gallery that has been called "one of the great dramatic exhibition spaces of New York...an environment to rival almost any of the city's museums."

In 2000, Sotheby's became the first international art auction house to hold auctions on the Internet. Sothebys.com was the venue for some dramatic and unprecedented successes, such as the sale of a first printing of the Declaration of Independence for more than $8 million, 21 panels of the historic Boston Garden floor, and a masterwork by Frederick, Lord Leighton. In addition, Sotheby's opened its traditional saleroom auctions to Internet bidding through the eBay Live Auctions service. Although no longer an auction venue, Sotheby's website remains a vital tool for the dissemination of information and news about the auction house worldwide, and select sales are open for bids via the Internet.

Whether expanding our infrastructure or exploring cyberspace, Sotheby's continues to demonstrate innovation and responsiveness to the needs of our ever-expanding international clientele. As our clients' needs and collecting tastes evolve, Sotheby's flexibility and unwavering focus on expertise and client service will remain our hallmarks into the 21st century.