Envisage Real Estate serves Francisco, the Greater East Bay and the Tri-Valley Area real estate markets. We specialize in existing single-family home sales, luxury home sales, new home sales, and investment property sales. As a full-service real estate management firm, Envisage can provide both multi-family residential and commercial real estate investors with a broad scope of services; negotiation, acquisition, disposition, rehabilitation and re-positioning of assets.

Broker/ Realtor for Envisage Real Estate.

After obtaining a Bachelor of Business degree in his home state of Kansas, Mark Rowson moved to Connecticut and began his career working as a CPA and CFO for the “Big Six” firm, Touche & Ross Co. While in Connecticut, Mark carried on his education obtaining his Master of Business, and Master of Taxation. He then moved his family (wife Michele and daughter Montana) to California in 1987 to start working in the home building industry. Mark now has over 20 years’ experience in land development, homebuilding, and real estate sales having held key Regional and Divisional President positions with major public and private home real estate development companies including Shea Homes, KB Homes, Richmond American Homes and Warmington Residential. His leadership of these divisions led to the entitlement, development and sales of over 6000 homes.

Change Name to Envisage Real Estate: Founded in 2011, Marison Real Estate is quickly becoming one of the most respected boutique real estate companies in the Bay Area. With over 30 years of experience in the real estate industry, we have committed ourselves to understanding our client's individual needs in the ever-changing markets of home buying, selling and everything in between.

Good Solid Brokerage - with a great support team (Thanks Rick)

Directly responsible for Land Acquisition, Forward Planning, Director of Construction, VP Sales and Marketing, V.P. of Operations, Purchasing Manager and Offsite Manager. In 2007 and 2008 the division had revenues of over $200 and $103 million, delivered 189 and 128 homes respectively. In 2009 the division is projected to have revenues of exceeding $40 million and delivering 66 homes respectively. Secured and placed in contract 383 single-family lots in the Northern California Regional markets for deliveries in 2009 through 2012; Negotiated bank A & D and construction financing package to develop community; Created the company Neighborhood Stabilization Program development team.

Directly responsible for start up division in the Coachella Valley consisting of Land Acquisition, Sales and Marketing, Director of Operations (Construction, Customer Service), Director of Land Development/Forward Planning. In 2004 the division had revenues of over $28 million, delivered 67 homes and contributed $1.6 million in gross profits to our parent company. In 2005 and 2006 the division had revenues exceeding $81 and $146 million, delivering 211 and 416 homes and contributing $8.3 and $11.8 million in net profits to our parent company respectively. Secured 693 single-family lots in the Coachella Valley markets for deliveries in 2005 through 2008; Responsible for mapping projects from Tentative Map to Final maps; Responsible for the due diligence, AMC packages and contracts for all land purchases; Implemented the policies, procedures, community team, timeline process, regional land acquisition process, closing and the construction starts and scheduling processes to improve financial performance; Responsible for Divisional Profit and Loss; Hired and staffed the division implementing the KB Next policies and procedures

Directly responsible for management of Regional Finance, Purchasing and Operations, with indirect development of Sales and Customer Service. In 2003 the region had revenues of over $400 million, delivered 717 homes and contributed $84 million in gross profits to our parent company. In 2004 the region was projected to have revenues exceeding $460 million, delivering 758 homes contributing $92 million in gross profits to the parent company. Developed and implemented policy and procedures to improve cost reductions from .5% to 2% in construction cost expenditures; Developed and implemented Divisional Timeline process improving cycle up to 60%; Responsible for implementing purchasing and budgeting system throughout the region; Developed and implemented new community pricing strategy, resulting in increasing base sales prices, lot premiums, improving gross margin by over 240 basis points year over year; Implemented policies, procedures, forward planning timeline process, closing and the even flow process and sequencing processes to improve divisional performance

Directly responsible for land acquisition, management of V.P. Sales and Marketing, V.P. of Operations, Director of Design Center operations and Director of Finance. \In 2001 the division had revenues of over $120 million, delivered 258 homes and contributed $21.8 million in gross profits to our parent company. In 2002 and 2003 the division had revenues exceeding $170 and $205 million, delivering 357 and 462 homes and contribute $36.7 and $48.8 million in gross profits to our parent company respectively. Developed and implemented strategy to improve inventory turns from 1.1 to 1.7 in 12 months; Secured 768 single-family lots and 92 infill cluster lots in the Los Angeles and Ventura County markets for deliveries in 2003 through 2005;Responsible for due diligence, AMC packages and contracts for all land purchases; Implemented policies, procedures, community team, timeline process, regional land acquisition process, closing and construction starts and scheduling processes to improve financial performance; Improved Return on Assets from 10% to over 18% in one year; Improved Gross Margin by over 560 basis points in one year

Directly responsible for division Finance, V.P. of Sales and Marketing, V.P. of Operations, Director of Purchasing and Director of Design Center Operations in our San Ramon and Sacramento locations. In 1998 the division delivered 34 homes and contributed a $3.9 million loss to our parent company. In 2001 the division had revenues over $250 million, contributed $60.5 million in gross profits and delivered 650 homes to our parent company. Developed and implemented policies and procedures for the divisional accounting, finance, purchasing and budgeting. Co-developed community team, timeline process, closing and construction starts and scheduling processes; Review, analyze and approve all prospective land purchases, preparing financial due diligence and analyzing sales and operation due diligence package prior to AMC submittal;Reviewed all products for land purchases, ranging from large SFD to small infill cluster product.Co-developed management walk program insuring quality product delivery;Co-developed Project milestones timeline for all land acquisition and development projects; Directly responsible for all construction budgets, lot status budgets and cost reporting as it directly relates to active projects; Implemented and developed the gross profit/progress reports establishing current and forecasted backlog; Prepare and develop annual and monthly business plan and forecast including strategic capital planning and implementation; Chaired the Financial Land Policy committee for MDC Holdings developing national land policies

The largest privately held homebuilder in the United States with over $1.1 billion in sales and 3,500 closings in 1998. The San Jose division is the largest with over $245 million in sales and 750 closings.; Directly responsible for divisions' financial reporting including all land joint ventures. Indirect management of the vendor relations group, auditing department, AS400/JDE operations and SHIPIP department.Co-developed and implemented the Vendor Relations Group streamlining contracts implementation, budgeting, costing, auditing and payment processing; Developed and implemented an improved divisional and corporate financial reporting package focusing on accurate, timely and useful financials or information for all Senior Managers

The largest privately held commercial developer and real estate property management firm in the Connecticut with over $100 million in gross revenues.; Directly responsible of all financial accounting and management reporting, cash management, payroll, tax management and IS departments reporting directly to the President and CEO.