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Navigate Real Estate Stands for Stronger Communities Through Homeownership

We’re leading the way in modern real estate. We build lifetime relationships through integrity, transparency, exceptional client service and innovative technology. At Navigate, we combine real-world experience with local market expertise. From the ground up, we are built on precision and purpose, empowering clients with the strongest home buying and selling strategies available.

Agents love working at Navigate Real Estate because we provide cutting-edge services and technology, as well as unparalleled support for career growth.

Team Profile - Emily

I joined NavigateRE because I loved the community and sense of family they all shared. I had attended functions where I was able to meet other agents and loved all of the different personalities and dedication to their jobs and each other. Everyone supports one another and I couldn’t be happier to be apart of the NavigateRE family. 

 

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RERALTOR®

I joined Navigate Real Estate because it’s all about taking things to the next level. As a tech-savvy, forward-thinking company, they keep us ahead of the game in high-end real estate, marketing, and planning. 

Lionel King

REALTOR®

Joey Dibono Profile (2)

We have a CRM software system and a lot of other resources at our disposal that allow us to maintain our client and act with urgency on their behalf.

Joey DiBono

REALTOR®

Lorna Corak (400 x 600 px)

“I joined  navigate because I was very impressed with the marketing support. Many brokerages do not offer marketing, and if they do it isn’t without a fee. They have a high caliber team of top notch professionals that deliver quality work on the fly and it has come in extremely handy”

Lorna Corack

REALTOR®

I was with a national franchise paying way too much. Now I pay less than 1/10th of what I was paying to them. And I get total broker support, Free transaction Management, Free website, Free CRM, they even post daily multiple times for me on my social networks. With all the assistance they provide it has freed up my time to spend face to face with prospective clients.

Paul Ponitkoff

Broker - REALTOR®

The energy here is unmatched, with a focus on innovation and growth that resonates with dynamic entrepreneurs. Plus, the family-like support makes it a fun and collaborative environment where everyone can thrive. With over 40 years of experience, I’m excited to be part of a team that values technology, community, and business growth.

Lionel King

REALTOR®

Our Offices

Promotion

Hassle Free Marketing For All Your Listings

We promote every stage of your listing lifecycle with our fully automated marketing campaigns directly connected to the MLS. We create just listed, open house, price improvements, and just sold flyers, brochures, emails and postcards. Saving you time and money.

We Market your listings with:

  • Custom, mobile friendly property website

    Showcase your listings with an IDX enabled website complete with your own branding.

  • Listing video showcased on YouTube

    Impress your sellers with a custom listing video uploaded directly to YouTube.

  • Listing flyers and postcards

    Listing flyers, postcards, brochures created for you and each of your listings.

  • Off-Market-Open House Emails

    We will curate off-market, open house, and or coming soon emails to be delivered to your desired zip code.

Promotion

Hassle Free Marketing For All Your Listings

We promote every stage of your listing lifecycle with our fully automated marketing campaigns directly connected to the MLS. We create just listed, open house, price improvements, and just sold flyers, brochures, emails and postcards. Saving you time and money.

We Market your listings with:

  • Custom, mobile friendly property website

    Showcase your listings with an IDX enabled website complete with your own branding.

  • Listing video showcased on YouTube

    Impress your sellers with a custom listing video uploaded directly to YouTube.

  • Listing flyers and postcards

    Listing flyers, postcards, brochures created for you and each of your listings.

  • Off-Market-Open House Emails

    We will curate off-market, open house, and or coming soon emails to be delivered to your desired zip code.

Access to Resources

Everything you need to succeed in one place

navi-re.com is the one stop resource for everything the modern agent needs to thrive today. You’ll find tools to help you gain new leads, spend less time on administrative tasks, and helpful support resources.

Access to Resources

Everything you need to
succeed in one place

navi-re.com is the one stop resource for everything the modern agent needs to thrive today. You’ll find tools to help you gain new leads, spend less time on administrative tasks, and helpful support resources.

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We have an “App” for that

Expertise

Our selective hiring process means that only the best and most productive agents partner with Navigate. Our Partners love knowing that their colleagues are the best in the business. We focus on the tools and support that busy and successful Partners need.

A Culture of Growth

A Culture of Growth

At Navigate, we go beyond the ordinary playbook. We’re dedicated to not just setting you up for success but empowering you to excel and flourish. Through our comprehensive in-house training, personalized coaching programs, and consistent support via weekly office meetings and individualized sessions with your managing partner, we provide a clear and strategic pathway for you to achieve your professional and personal aspirations.

A Culture of Growth

At Navigate, we go beyond the ordinary playbook. We’re dedicated to not just setting you up for success but empowering you to excel and flourish. Through our comprehensive in-house training, personalized coaching programs, and consistent support via weekly office meetings and individualized sessions with your managing partner, we provide a clear and strategic pathway for you to achieve your professional and personal aspirations.

A Culture of Growth

A Team of Support

With “Navi,” our cutting-edge marketing and transaction app, you’re equipped with dedicated Transaction Management to seamlessly oversee every aspect of your deals. This ensures timely communication with clients, strict adherence to deadlines, and the efficient delivery and signing of documents. Our marketing experts work tirelessly to maximize your listings’ visibility across email, social media, physical mailers, and more. Additionally, our in-house Marketing team is here to help you build and enhance your personal brand, offering a wide range of complementary content—from custom websites and weekly “Front Porch” newsletters to a growing library of social media posts, client engagement programs, and a comprehensive selection of high-quality, on-demand marketing materials.

A Team Of Support

A Team of Support

With “Navi,” our cutting-edge marketing and transaction app, you’re equipped with dedicated Transaction Management to seamlessly oversee every aspect of your deals. This ensures timely communication with clients, strict adherence to deadlines, and the efficient delivery and signing of documents. Our marketing experts work tirelessly to maximize your listings’ visibility across email, social media, physical mailers, and more. Additionally, our in-house Marketing team is here to help you build and enhance your personal brand, offering a wide range of complementary content—from custom websites and weekly “Front Porch” newsletters to a growing library of social media posts, client engagement programs, and a comprehensive selection of high-quality, on-demand marketing materials.

A Team Of Support

A Dedication to Modern Solutions

At Navigate, we are committed to delivering best-in-class solutions that elevate your ability to serve buyers and sellers, empowering you to exceed expectations and provide unparalleled service in any situation. Our selling philosophy, “Every home has a story,” unlocks a world of marketing possibilities, transforming each property into a compelling narrative. Through our proprietary storytelling software, we equip you to become the ‘modern agent’—one who not only meets the industry standard but redefines it. With our innovative approach, you’ll captivate clients and set a new benchmark in real estate excellence.

→See one of our recent stories Here

A Dedication to Modern Solutions

At Navigate, we are committed to delivering best-in-class solutions that elevate your ability to serve buyers and sellers, empowering you to exceed expectations and provide unparalleled service in any situation. Our selling philosophy, “Every home has a story,” unlocks a world of marketing possibilities, transforming each property into a compelling narrative. Through our proprietary storytelling software, we equip you to become the ‘modern agent’—one who not only meets the industry standard but redefines it. With our innovative approach, you’ll captivate clients and set a new benchmark in real estate excellence.

→See one of our recent stories Here

A Luxury Experience

At Navigate, we are committed to delivering first-class service and premium marketing materials to all our clients, ensuring that luxury is not a price point but a standard of experience. Our mission is to present every property in its most captivating light, attracting the attention it deserves. We’ve partnered with RESAAS, the world’s largest real estate agent network, encompassing over 460,000 agents globally. This strategic alliance is crucial, as 38% of real estate transactions in California involve buyers or sellers relocating into or out of local communities. By reaching hundreds of thousands of potential buyers and sellers worldwide, we provide our agents with a powerful platform to build a successful and far-reaching real estate career.

The Luxury Experience

A Luxury Experience

At Navigate, we are committed to delivering first-class service and premium marketing materials to all our clients, ensuring that luxury is not a price point but a standard of experience. Our mission is to present every property in its most captivating light, attracting the attention it deserves. We’ve partnered with RESSAS, the world’s largest real estate agent network, encompassing over 460,000 agents globally. This strategic alliance is crucial, as 38% of real estate transactions in California involve buyers or sellers relocating into or out of local communities. By reaching hundreds of thousands of potential buyers and sellers worldwide, we provide our agents with a powerful platform to build a successful and far-reaching real estate career.

The Luxury Experience
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A Commitment to Community

At Navigate, we hold a deep commitment to giving back to the communities that we proudly serve. We partner with organizations that share our passion for making a meaningful difference. The CarrieOn Foundation embodies our dedication to supporting underprivileged individuals and communities, striving to create a world where basic necessities are within everyone’s reach. Additionally, we support Underdog, a devoted network of Bay Area volunteers working tirelessly to rescue and uplift the ‘underdogs’ in our shelters and communities. We believe that homeownership is not just about acquiring property—it’s about building stronger communities and fostering upward social mobility. Our mission is to positively impact the lives of those we serve, ensuring that our efforts extend beyond real estate to truly enrich the lives of our neighbors.

A Commitment to Community

At Navigate, we hold a deep commitment to giving back to the communities that we proudly serve. We partner with organizations that share our passion for making a meaningful difference. The CarrieOn Foundation embodies our dedication to supporting underprivileged individuals and communities, striving to create a world where basic necessities are within everyone’s reach. Additionally, we support Underdog, a devoted network of Bay Area volunteers working tirelessly to rescue and uplift the ‘underdogs’ in our shelters and communities. We believe that homeownership is not just about acquiring property—it’s about building stronger communities and fostering upward social mobility. Our mission is to positively impact the lives of those we serve, ensuring that our efforts extend beyond real estate to truly enrich the lives of our neighbors.

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Here's What you Get

Here's What We Offer Every Partner
(No Charge)

Our in-house design team will work with you to create a personal branded logo consumers can identify with and one that you love!

500 stylish, ultra thick business cards with a red line sandwiched in the middle. These cards have a velvet touch and wow everyone you come in contact with. 

Our in-house design team will build a fully customized, branded website that highlights you, your value proposition, and how you serve buyers and sellers. The site features a dedicated marketing section, a contact page, and showcases how our marketing department supports you in promoting and selling homes.

The Navigate in-house design team creates a weekly real estate blog post optimized with strategic keywords, meta tags, and formatting designed to capture Google’s attention. Each post builds momentum, steadily increasing your website’s visibility and influence week after week.

Imagine every time you take a listing the Navigate marketing team goes to work to design a single property website for your sellers. Site includes the property address as part of the URL. The sites feature, photo tours, video, mapping, school reports, mortgage information and of course how to reach you so they can buy the home. 

Each and every Thursday our marketing design team curates an entire newsletter packed with lifestyle articles about the home, health and wealth. The newsletter title “front porch” also includes local events and happenings, real estate market updates and fully branded to you, from you, by you but we do all the work. you just watch it get delivered to your entire sphere.

All of your business promoted for you. Simply click “Social property Promotion” in the navi APP and request a post for a transaction in place. We will post all of your Coming Soon, Just Listed, For Sale, In Contract, Contingent, Pending and Sold Properties. We even include all open house promotions. FREE – No charge for any of this. 

Each week, our in-house marketing team curates content for your social platforms. You’ll receive multiple lifestyle posts, along with educational and inspirational content. Plus, every holiday is covered with custom-designed posts to keep your brand relevant, engaging, and consistently visible.

You’ll receive a professionally designed, digitally ready buyer and seller guide—fully branded to you. These guides can be shared instantly via email, added to your signature, and featured on your website. Many of our agents also choose to print them for open houses or pre-listing presentations, creating an impressive, value-added touch. View an example of our Seller’s Guide to see the quality firsthand. here: 

Aside from our buyer and seller guide our Navigate marketing partners will design a powerful listing presentation fully customized for each listing you go on. We have even taken the time to create a pre-listing email that covers everything a consumer might want to know regarding how we sell homes. We prepare them, print them and ready them for delivery. You just need to point, click in the navigate App and tell us. 

Exclusive use of our in-house marketing design team to assist in all your marketing needs. From creating brochures, signs, business cards, flyers, special promotions, pie day party invites, we do it all and we do it all for you. 

Say Hello to navi, our exclusive app that allows you to manage your entire transaction from the palm of your hand. Take listings, write offers, add agreements, modifications, addendums etc. All with the point and click of our app. You will never have to fill out a form again. Our A.I. powered app does it all for you and super fast and efficient. Think of having a transaction coordinator that does literally everything you can imagine! Coming January 2026

Our offices are designed as collaborative hubs for socializing, networking, meeting with clients, hosting events and or playing games or just lounging around.  Each office has been specifically designed to enhance your sensors, make you feel comfortable while working and playing. We currently have offices located in Fairfield, Vacaville, Petaluma, Napa and Hidden Valley Lake.

We kow you work hard and at times you want to relax and or play for a while. Each of our offices offers unique ways to play. From Corn Hole, Pin Pong, Foos Ball, darts, shuffleboard and card games. You are sure to enjoy a pop by the office. Did we mention there are TV’s everywhere with full access to every channel?

Unlimited snacks and beverages are available in each of our offices. The fridge is always loaded, the snack racks full of chips, energy bars, candy, and a full bar accessible 24/7 for all our partners. Bring a friend and come chill and relax in a great environment surrounded by friends and family. Be responsible!

Throughout the year we host various social events, team building opportunities, get togethers and special meetings. Many friends in the industry utilize our unique offices for their events so there is always something coming and going. We publish a calendar so you are always in the loop. Plus you can use our spaces for your own special events. 

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WHAT MAKES NAVIGATE

PHILOSOPHY

Better companies make better communities.
We believe our business has a responsibility to serve, connect, grow and protect the communities we operate in.

OUR VALUES

Independence is worth preserving. Our independence matters more than our size. It allows us to prioritize our community involvement and better serve our agents and clients.

Social impact at the center.
Everything we do has a cause and effect. We maintain a responsibility to contribute to every community in which we operate.

Communities over shareholders.
If our business has to grow at the expense of the communities around us, it isn’t worth it. It is important to us to continually invest in building community.

Growth for the sake of bigger impact.
We grow our business to become a stronger, independent network of individuals who benefit as a result of more resources.

Meet Your Founding Partners

Don McDonald

As a visionary leader and creative marketing expert, Don spearheads the marketing and business development initiatives at Navigate Partners. With a proven track record, Don was instrumental in building two Top 10 real estate teams within RE/MAX from 2006 to 2023. His strategic acumen and innovative approach have consistently delivered exceptional results. As one of the Founding Partners of Navigate Real Estate, Don has returned to his true passion—empowering agents to achieve their highest potential. Since leaving RE/MAX in June 2023, Don has been deeply involved in collaborating with the Navigate Real Estate Partners, leveraging their in-house software app, Navi, to drive success and growth across the organization.

Don McDonald

As a visionary leader and creative marketing expert, Don spearheads the marketing and business development initiatives at Navigate Partners. With a proven track record, Don was instrumental in building two Top 10 real estate teams within RE/MAX from 2006 to 2023. His strategic acumen and innovative approach have consistently delivered exceptional results. As one of the Founding Partners of Navigate Real Estate, Don has returned to his true passion—empowering agents to achieve their highest potential. Since leaving RE/MAX in June 2023, Don has been deeply involved in collaborating with the Navigate Real Estate Partners, leveraging their in-house software app, Navi, to drive success and growth across the organization.

Donovan Schemke

Donovan Schemke is a sharp, focused, and highly experienced real estate professional, carrying on the legacy as a second-generation Realtor with a keen business acumen. With over 20 years of experience in the industry, Donovan was instrumental as a Founding Partner in driving the growth and success of the Elite Partners, a top-ranking RealTrends Mega Team in California within RE/MAX. His background in sales from the computer sector, combined with rigorous corporate training in both sales and technology, has equipped him with a unique skill set that sets him apart in the real estate market.

For more than 40 years, Donovan and his mother, Pam, have been among the top-producing Realtors in Solano County, demonstrating a deep understanding of the local market and the mindset of home buyers and sellers. This extensive knowledge allows Donovan to expertly connect exceptional homes with exceptional lives. As one of the two Founding Partners and the Chief Operating Officer of Navigate RE, Donovan continues to apply his expertise to lead and inspire, ensuring that the firm remains at the forefront of the real estate industry.

Donovan Schemke

Donovan Schemke is a sharp, focused, and highly experienced real estate professional, carrying on the legacy as a second-generation Realtor with a keen business acumen. With over 20 years of experience in the industry, Donovan was instrumental as a Founding Partner in driving the growth and success of the Elite Partners, a top-ranking RealTrends Mega Team in California within RE/MAX. His background in sales from the computer sector, combined with rigorous corporate training in both sales and technology, has equipped him with a unique skill set that sets him apart in the real estate market.

For more than 40 years, Donovan and his mother, Pam, have been among the top-producing Realtors in Solano County, demonstrating a deep understanding of the local market and the mindset of home buyers and sellers. This extensive knowledge allows Donovan to expertly connect exceptional homes with exceptional lives. As one of the two Founding Partners and the Chief Operating Officer of Navigate RE, Donovan continues to apply his expertise to lead and inspire, ensuring that the firm remains at the forefront of the real estate industry.

Serving The Following Counties

Solano | Napa | Yolo | Sonoma | Marin | Lake | Sacramento

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