Summerlee Martin × Murdock’s

Summerlee Martin's path into real estate started young — she purchased her first investment property at just 17 years old, long before she ever held a license. That early, hands-on experience with buying, selling, and investing gives her a perspective that most agents only develop after years in the business, and it shows in how she talks with clients: less like a salesperson, more like someone who has personally sat on both sides of a closing table.

Now with Keller Williams Realty Chico Area and more than 10 years of licensed experience, Summerlee has closed over 130 career sales, including close to 20 transactions in the past year alone. Her business spans residential homes, land, and investment properties across a wide swath of the North State — Chico, Orland, Corning, Willows, Paradise, Hamilton City, and the smaller communities of Artois and beyond, covering parts of Butte, Glenn, and Tehama counties. That breadth means she is equally comfortable helping a first-time buyer in Chico or an investor evaluating acreage outside Corning.

She has earned recognition for communication, local expertise, and professionalism, and her guiding philosophy is straightforward: informed clients make better decisions. Rather than pushing a transaction forward, she focuses on educating buyers and sellers at each step so they understand exactly what they are signing up for — a style that tends to produce calmer, better-planned closings and, by extension, better-planned moving days. Whether a client is purchasing a first home, expanding an investment portfolio, relocating for work, or preparing to sell after years in the same house, Summerlee brings a rare combination of investor instincts and patient, client-first guidance to every transaction across the region.