✦ About · The company

More paths. Better outcomes.

Deal Smith Realty is a Round Rock brokerage, small on purpose, deep by design. We founded and host the 1,200-investor Austin Investment Meetups, and we put every viable path on the table for every client.

✦ The company

A Texas brokerage with a wider network.

Deal Smith Realty is a Round Rock-based brokerage, small on purpose, deep by design. We founded and host the 1,200-investor Austin Investment Meetups, which means we see inventory and opportunities most offices never hear about.

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Derek Smith · Broker / Owner

More paths. Better outcomes.

Derek founded Deal Smith Realty to close the gap between how most brokerages sell and how modern deals actually come together. Retail, investor, creative-finance, clients get every viable path on the table, backed by honest math and an in-house toolset. Texas broker, license 714810.

Austin Investment Meetups
Monthly · Round Rock, TX

We host the room every month.

Hosts of the Austin Investment Meetups, the city's longest-running gathering for investors, wholesalers, and creative-finance operators. Second Tuesday, every month.

1200+ investors in network
Monthly cadence
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✦ The short story

Built deal by deal, since 2018.

We didn't start with a playbook. We started with closings, retail, investor, creative, and turned what we learned into the way we run the brokerage today.

2018

Licensed in Texas

Start selling in Round Rock. Retail buyers, first-time owners, and every deal-blocking question a buyer or seller can ask. Fast school.

2020

Investor-side work

Move into fix-and-flips and rentals alongside retail. Learn the math the market uses, cap rate, CoC, ARV, by actually underwriting deals that had to work.

2022

Creative finance, in practice

Sub-to, seller finance, wraps, novations. Real closings, real docs, real clients who got to the table when the bank said no.

2023

Open Deal Smith Realty

Launch the brokerage: small team, real relationships, the tools we wish every agent had. Round Rock address, Central Texas footprint.

2024

Founded the Austin Investment Meetups

Start the Austin Investment Meetups, now Central Texas's longest-running gathering for investors, wholesalers, and creative-finance operators.

✦ How we operate

Four rules. Non-negotiable.

01

Honest math, every time.

If the deal doesn't work, we say so on the first call. We'd rather lose the commission than watch a client lose the house.

02

More paths than one.

Cash, conventional, seller-finance, sub-to, novation, we put every viable path on the table so you pick the one that actually fits your situation.

03

Small team, deep network.

We don't scale headcount. We scale relationships, investors, lenders, title, and creative-finance operators who actually close.

04

No jargon, no drip campaigns.

Sub-to, wraps, DSCR, complicated words for simple ideas. We explain them once, plainly, then get back to your deal.

✦ The team

People who pick up the phone.

Small team, real relationships. Every agent runs investor and retail, so whoever answers knows the math and the market.

Full team
Since 2018
Closing deals across the greater Austin MSA
1,200+
Investors in the Austin Investment Meetups network we host
Statewide
Investor and commercial work beyond the Austin MSA, from Kyle and San Marcos to Corpus Christi and Baytown
8 agents
Texas-licensed agents sponsored by Deal Smith Realty, every license listed at /agents
✦ For the record

Company facts.

Legal name
Deal Smith Realty LLC, doing business as Deal Smith Realty.
What it is
Deal Smith Realty is a Texas real estate brokerage headquartered in Round Rock, Texas.
Designated broker
Derek Smith, Texas real estate broker, license 714810.
TREC brokerage license
Deal Smith Realty holds Texas Real Estate Commission brokerage license 9015261.
Founded
Derek Smith has been licensed in Texas since 2018 and opened Deal Smith Realty after earning his broker license.
Office
551 S Interstate Highway 35 #300, Round Rock, TX 78664.
Contact
(512) 784-1945 and info@dealsmithrealty.com. The number printed on Deal Smith Realty listing signs is (512) 377-6586; both reach the brokerage.
Where it works
Deal Smith Realty serves the greater Austin MSA, including Round Rock, Austin, Georgetown, Pflugerville, Cedar Park, Leander, and Hutto, and takes investor and commercial work statewide, including Kyle, San Marcos, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, and Baytown.
Services
Buyer representation, seller and listing representation, investment property brokerage, and commercial and land brokerage.
Creative financing
Deal Smith Realty structures seller-financed sales, wrap-around mortgages, subject-to acquisitions, and novations in house.
Investor network
Derek Smith founded and hosts Austin Investment Meetups, a free Central Texas event series with a network of more than 1,200 investors, lenders, and agents.
Official profiles
Deal Smith Realty is on Instagram, Facebook, HAR, Unlock MLS, and Google.
Derek Smith online
Derek Smith posts as @derekthedealsmith on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok. His LinkedIn is linkedin.com/in/derek-smith.
Agents
Deal Smith Realty sponsors a small roster of Texas-licensed agents; every agent, license number, and market is listed at dealsmithrealty.com/agents.
✦ Frequently asked

Questions worth answering straight.

Both. About half our book is primary-residence clients. The investor tooling, calculators, creative-finance paths, applies to everyone; buyers and sellers just tend to use a different slice of it.

Primarily Austin, Round Rock, Pflugerville, Cedar Park, Georgetown, Leander, and the greater Austin MSA. For investor clients we'll travel to San Antonio and Waco. Statewide for off-market opportunities.

You tell us the situation, a house, a deal, a portfolio question. We pull comps if the address is known, outline two or three paths that could work, and tell you honestly which one we'd pick and why. Zero pressure, no follow-up drip.

Two ways, concretely. One, we run creative financing in-house, sub-to, seller-finance, wraps, novations, so deals that die at a bigger shop often live here. Two, the tools you're using on this site (comps requests, calculators) are the same ones we use internally. No black box, no gatekeeping.

Selectively. We're not a churn-and-burn shop. If you're an agent who wants to run investor deals, creative finance, or technology-forward transactions, send a note.

✦ Talk to a broker

Thirty minutes. No obligation.

Tell us about the deal, the house, or the portfolio. We'll tell you, honestly, whether we can help and how.

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