Kathleen Lau

Kathleen Lau Realty works out of 716 Hancock St in Quincy's Wollaston neighborhood, and its pitch is a specific one: a brokerage built around the Asian community and Chinese-speaking buyers and sellers. Kathleen Lau's Massachusetts real estate broker license is active. The company's account of itself goes like this — Lau started as an agent in 2009, later became a broker, opened the Hancock Street office under her own name, and has since grown to about a dozen agents covering Quincy and Boston. The site also says the firm takes on real estate development and construction or remodeling work alongside the brokerage, a wider range than a single-office agency usually claims. The outside view is where this thins out. Two people have rated the firm on Google, averaging 3 stars — too short a public history to tell you how a deal with this office actually runs. That isn't a strike against the work; it's a reason not to lean on strangers' ratings here. Ask for the names of recent clients on your side of the transaction, buying or selling, and call them. One small thing to square up: the site says over 10 years in business while also dating Lau's start in the trade to 2009, and everything about tenure, team size and coverage area comes from the company rather than anyone who checked it. The broker license is the piece independently confirmed with the state. If you want an agent who can work a Quincy or Boston deal in Chinese as well as English, this is a fair office to call — just do the reference-checking yourself.