Judy Smedes & Kate Herk

Tucson, AZ Real Estate Agents

Discover Tucson Luxury Living

Explore the epitome of luxury living in Tucson with Kate Herk and Judy Smedes, your trusted real estate partners since 2004. Specializing in golf course and gated communities, we ensure unparalleled service and access to exclusive properties.

$149M

Total Value

20+

Years of Experience

$835.1K

Average Price

Meet Judy & Kate

We are a mother-and-daughter real estate team with a full-time administrative assistant and a licensed Real Estate Agents assisting us with Buyers. Judy has been licensed and selling residential real estate in Tucson since 1988, and Kate since 2004. We are Tucson natives specializing in luxury properties and homes in golf courses and gated communities. Hiring us means you will have two fully committed Realtors working on your behalf each day. We are committed to delivering a high level of service and delivering results. Our proven track record of success spans four decades. Our clients benefit from the incredible local, national, and global network at Russ Lyon Sotheby's International Realty.
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Testimonials

Buyer & Seller

Buyer & Seller

Kate is an outstanding agent that puts her clients and their best interests first. She has deep knowledge of the market and has developed meaningful connections with her colleagues in the industry which enhances her ability to ...
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Holly J.

Holly J.

Kate was an amazing agent! I recently had the pleasure of working with her to sell my home, and I couldn’t be more impressed with the experience. From the beginning, Kate was professional, knowledgeable, and genuinely committed...
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Clare J.

Clare J.

I had an amazing experience working with Kate. To start, she is incredibly knowledgeable and explained the process, my options, and the next steps in helpful detail. Kate was in touch every step of the way and was efficient in ...
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Buyer

Buyer

I cannot recommend Kate highly enough. Kate was so knowledgeable and informed in all aspects of our city, the market, and all of the things we didn't even know to think about that go into thinking about buying a property and it...
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Seller

Seller

There are quite a few good realtors covering the Tanque Verde Valley. We had decided to go with another realtor group but at the last minute decided we should interview a couple of our other top choices just to be sure. Kate sh...
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Cynthia E.

Cynthia E.

Kate and Judy were awesome at selling a few of our homes. They know the market and everyone involved. They solve all your problems and get anything you need done. They make buying and selling easy and pleasurable. They are the ...
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Susan S.

Susan S.

Kate was outstanding in every way. She encouraged our decision to sell and provided guidance in pricing, staging, and closing. We benefitted from her knowledge, and support from her firm as well. At the same time, we were looki...
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Seller

Seller

Kate and her team were fantastic to work with! I expected that selling my house would be very stressful, but Kate's expertise immediately put me at ease. I thought I had some unique challenges but she'd seen it all before and n...
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Emily S.

Emily S.

Kate and her team are fantastic. We were dealing with a very unusual selling situation while buying our home and Kate handled the entire transaction with professionalism we had no doubts that she would have our back the entire ...
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Seller

Seller

Kate is one of the most delightful individuals I know and it is always a pleasure working with her. She has now sold two properties on my behalf. She is innovative, organized, always on top of every detail, and responsive, offe...
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Diana I.

Diana I.

If you’re looking to actually close on a home Kate is the realtor for you. Kate’s scope of understanding is vast and she leaves no stone left unturned. Her foresight is incredibly helpful in this market and her ability to get t...
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Buyer

Buyer

Kate and her team were great to work with. Kate knows the local market very well and was able to direct our attention to the areas where we found homes we liked. With the market so crazy at the moment it was great to have hones...
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Seller

Seller

We have purchased and sold 8 homes over the past 36 years and Kate Herk is the most professional and easy realtor with whom we have worked. She is always receptive to your ideas and works to earn trust immediately. Trust is ver...
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Ileah W.

Ileah W.

Judy and Kate are knowledgeable, professional, and easy to work with. They were attentive to every detail and gave me excellent guidance and advice to make my home sale fast and easy. I recommend them highly.
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Buyer

Buyer

She was always responsive and a pleasure to work with. Most importantly she was very patient. We looked on and off for nearly a year and that did not seem to bother her.
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Seller

Seller

Kate and Judy did a fantastic job selling my property and making the process easy and understandable. I would recommend Kate and Judy to anyone looking for hardworking and honest real estate professionals to help them buy or se...
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Nakamura M.

Nakamura M.

Kate was incredibly helpful and patient with us throughout our first-time home buyer process! She answered all of our questions and put our minds at ease whenever we were feeling overwhelmed or underprepared for the process.
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Seller

Seller

Working with Kate was the absolute best choice I could have made in the daunting process of selling our first home! She was super helpful in navigating all the nuances of this very tricky current market we are in. It is obvious...
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Buyer

Buyer

The first piece of advice everyone gave us as first-time homebuyers was to make sure we interviewed multiple real-estate agents as the agent can be the maker (or breaker) of the entire experience. Luckily a good friend found Ka...
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Laurine R.

Laurine R.

Working with Kate and Judy was such a great experience! Everything was timely and handled with professionalism. Not to mention our house was negotiated and sold for over asking. We would highly recommend calling these two ladie...
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