Steve Monkhouse - Realtor - Royal Lepage First Contact Realty

About Us

For 30 years, Steve operated at the highest levels of the corporate world, building frameworks for institutions like BMO to help executives navigate complex, high-stakes decisions with clarity rather than anxiety. Throughout his career as a senior leader and Director, his focus was simple:

Make the complex make sense, simplify the process , and optimize the outcome.

When Steve transitioned into Real Estate, he realized that while many Realtors were “selling houses,” very few were providing that same level of strategic rigor to families facing what is often the most emotional financial decision of their lives. Steve decided to change that.

As a partner in the Advantage Real Estate Team, Steve doesn’t just “list” your home—he applies the same care and experience developed through years of experience to your transition. Whether it’s calculating the equity you need to support the lifestyle you deserve if you downsize to a land-lease move or executing our “Freedom Blueprint” plan to unlock that equity, Steve’s approach is rooted in the same data-driven decision-making he used to save corporations millions of dollars.

Why Choose to work With Steve? With an MBA in Financial Services from Dalhousie University, Steve works to ensure you know your numbers in any transaction. He’s spent decades perfecting workflows and managing crises at an enterprise level. Finally, having developed and taught undergraduate courses at our local college, Steve prides himself on making the complex understandable. With Steve you’re never told what to do; he ensures you have total clarity at every