Seattle-based real estate leader Kim V. Colaprete and Team Diva Real Estate have earned the 2026 RealTrends Verified Top Team by Volume distinction after closing $32.35 million in sales in 2025, reinforcing the firm’s standing among Washington’s top-performing residential real estate teams
Seattle real estate veteran Kim V. Colaprete has added another significant accolade to her long-running career, with Team Diva Real Estate earning the 2026 RealTrends Verified Top Team by Volume recognition after posting $32.35 million in closed sales during 2025. Based on 38 transaction sides, the achievement places the Seattle-based team among the top 1% of real estate teams in Washington State, underscoring its strength in one of the Pacific Northwest’s most dynamic housing markets.
The recognition comes from RealTrends, one of the most closely watched ranking and research organizations in the US real estate industry, known for assessing performance through independently verified transaction data rather than nominations or popularity-driven criteria. For Colaprete and her team, the distinction is more than a ceremonial honour; it is a performance marker that reflects measurable market execution, transaction consistency, and a sustained ability to navigate Seattle’s competitive residential landscape.
For a city where neighbourhood dynamics, pricing shifts, and buyer expectations can change quickly, verified production rankings carry particular weight. In Team Diva’s case, the award signals not only strong sales momentum, but also a durable client proposition built around neighbourhood expertise, strategic listing execution, and a highly personalised advisory approach.
Recognition rooted in measurable performance
RealTrends’ annual verification process has become a respected benchmark within the residential brokerage industry because it is grounded in actual sales production. Rather than relying on peer endorsements or promotional visibility, the ranking evaluates professionals and teams using closed transaction data and total sales volume.
That methodology gives the honour a degree of commercial credibility that many lifestyle-driven awards in the sector often lack. Team Diva’s 2025 performance—38 transaction sides generating $32.35 million in volume—was enough to secure the firm’s place among the state’s top-performing teams.
Colaprete framed the recognition as an extension of the team’s client-first ethos. “Being recognized among the top-producing teams in Washington is a direct reflection of our commitment to our clients,” she said.
The statement is concise, but it captures the positioning Team Diva has built over time: a firm that combines high-touch service with serious market output, rather than treating the two as mutually exclusive.
A long-standing force in Seattle real estate
Colaprete is no newcomer to the Seattle market. As co-founder and team leader of Team Diva Real Estate at Coldwell Banker Bain, she brings more than 25 years of experience in residential real estate and has helped guide over 1,000 households through property transactions over the course of her career.
That longevity matters in a market like Seattle, where housing decisions are often shaped by block-level nuance as much as by macroeconomic conditions. Team Diva has built its reputation on an intimate understanding of Seattle’s urban core, with particular familiarity across neighbourhoods such as Capitol Hill, the Central District, West Seattle, Beacon Hill, Columbia City, Ballard, and Northeast Seattle. Colaprete is also known for her work in Mid-Century Modern homes and with move-up buyers, a segment that requires both lifestyle sensitivity and strong pricing strategy.
Her practice appears to be anchored in two complementary strengths: local intelligence and presentation discipline. On one hand, that means understanding the subtle differences between Seattle’s neighbourhood markets, buyer pools, and pricing behaviour. On the other, it means executing listings with the kind of strategic preparation and marketing rigour that can materially affect outcomes in competitive conditions.
A decorated track record beyond a single ranking
While the RealTrends recognition is the latest addition to Team Diva’s credentials, it sits within a broader pattern of industry acknowledgement. The team ranks in the top 4% of Coldwell Banker teams worldwide, a notable achievement within one of the industry’s most established brokerage networks. Colaprete has also been recognised as a Top 10 agent in Seattle by Top10REAgents.com and has earned the title of 5-Star Agent by Seattle Magazine an impressive 19 times, including every year since 2012.
Additional honours include the Coldwell Banker Producers Award for consistent sales performance and a “Best Team” nomination from Seattle Agent Magazine. Taken together, those distinctions suggest a business that has managed to pair longevity with continued relevance—a difficult balance in a sector where teams often rise quickly on momentum but struggle to sustain leadership over time.
Still, the RealTrends accolade stands apart because it is tied directly to verified production. In an industry where branding can sometimes outpace substance, independently validated volume remains one of the clearest indicators of operating strength.
Why the recognition matters to buyers and sellers
For consumers, production-based recognition may sound like an industry vanity metric, but it can carry real implications. In practice, a team that consistently handles a meaningful volume of transactions tends to develop sharper instincts around pricing, negotiations, preparation, timing, and contract management. Those capabilities can prove especially valuable in a market like Seattle, where inventory conditions, financing environments, and buyer sentiment can all shift within a short cycle.
For sellers, that experience can translate into stronger positioning—from determining an appropriate list price to deciding how much to invest in pre-sale preparation, staging, repairs, or targeted marketing. For buyers, it often means access to an advisor who understands not only the visible listing inventory but also the subtleties of offer strategy, neighbourhood fit, and long-term value.
Team Diva’s recognition also suggests an ability to maintain volume without reducing clients to transactions. That is an important distinction. High-output teams can sometimes drift into assembly-line service models; Colaprete’s brand, by contrast, has long emphasised a more personalised and community-connected approach.
Real estate leadership shaped by advocacy and community engagement
Another dimension of Colaprete’s profile is the degree to which her work extends beyond brokerage alone. Alongside her residential sales practice, she is active in Fair Housing advocacy, affordable housing initiatives, and LGBTQ+ rights, reinforcing a public-facing identity that blends business leadership with civic engagement.
That alignment is particularly relevant in a city like Seattle, where housing conversations are inseparable from broader questions of affordability, access, inclusion, and neighbourhood change. For clients, it may not directly determine a sale price or a closing timeline, but it does help define the values and worldview behind the advisory relationship.
In practical terms, Team Diva appears to have built a business that combines performance with perspective: strong sales credentials on one side, and a visible commitment to community issues on the other. That combination can be a powerful differentiator in residential real estate, where trust, personality, and local credibility often shape client decisions as much as hard numbers do.
A signal of staying power in a competitive market
Ultimately, Team Diva’s RealTrends Verified Top Team by Volume recognition is significant not merely because it celebrates one successful year, but because it reinforces a longer story of staying power. In a sector crowded with short-term momentum plays, Colaprete’s team has demonstrated the kind of sustained production, neighbourhood fluency, and client continuity that marks a mature, resilient business.
The $32.35 million in 2025 sales volume is a headline figure, but the broader takeaway is strategic: Team Diva remains one of Seattle’s most established and consistently performing residential teams at a time when market conditions continue to test both agents and clients alike.
For Colaprete, the award serves as both recognition and validation—evidence that in an industry increasingly driven by noise, rankings, and personal branding, there is still considerable value in the fundamentals: trusted advice, disciplined execution, and a track record clients can measure.
