Duarte Downey Real Estate

Duarte Downey Real Estate has been renting out and selling Cape Cod property from its Truro office since 1937 — 89 years under one family, with Steven Downey listed as owner today and Jessica Smart working the office as its front-facing agent. The Better Business Bureau, which the company has never sought accreditation from despite carrying an A+ grade, and the agency's own site both describe the same two-sided business: booking furnished vacation homes on the Cape and handling brokerage work for buyers and sellers. The public track record leans almost entirely toward the rental side. A family who says they've rented furnished homes through the company "many times over the years" called the staff — naming Maureen, Jess and Chelsea specifically — honest, responsive and reliable in a 2019 review, and two shorter reviews from 2020 and 2023 echo the same "helpful staff, lovely rental homes" theme. Google shows a 4.9-star average across 10 ratings, though only three written reviews are visible in the record, and none of them describe a home purchase or sale. Before booking, it's worth asking directly whether Duarte Downey is handling a rental or a sale for you specifically — the reviewable history is rental-focused, so there's little public feedback yet on the buy/sell side, even though the company and BBB both list brokerage services for buyers and sellers. This is a long-running Truro outfit worth calling for a Cape Cod vacation rental, where its reputation is best documented; homeowners looking to list or buy through them should confirm current availability and ask for recent references on that side of the business.