Christina “Nina” Pechonis is a Luxury Real Estate Advisor and REALTOR® with Ryan Critch Real Estate, a South Florida brokerage specializing in luxury homes, waterfront properties, and high-value residential real estate. Born and raised in South Florida, Nina brings extensive firsthand knowledge of Broward County communities, waterfront lifestyles, and the local housing market. She helps buyers and sellers make informed real estate decisions through thoughtful guidance, skilled negotiation, and personalized representation.

As part of Ryan Critch Real Estate, Nina combines attentive one-on-one service with the resources, proven systems, strategic marketing, and collaborative expertise of an established South Florida real estate team. Working alongside Broker/Owner Ryan Critch, she has access to a comprehensive approach designed to help clients navigate every stage of a real estate transaction with confidence.

Since entering the real estate industry at age 21, Nina has completed more than 80 real estate transactions representing over $100 million in closed sales. Her experience includes notable luxury sales throughout South Florida, including the highest recorded sale in Maplewood Isles, the highest sale in Coral Springs, and the highest price-per-square-foot sale in Sterling Ranch.

Nina's firsthand knowledge of South Florida extends beyond the real estate market. Having lived in Deerfield Beach, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, and Fort Lauderdale, including the Imperial Point neighborhood, she understands the characteristics that make each area unique. She offers clients practical insight into local neighborhoods, waterfront communities, schools, restaurants, parks, and the lifestyle considerations that can influence both everyday living and long-term property value. She has called Deerfield Beach home for approximately 17 years and enjoys helping clients find not only the right property, but the right neighborhood for their lifestyle.

Nina serves clients throughout Deerfield Beach, Lighthouse Point, Pompano Beach, Parkland, Davie, Boca Raton, Southwest Ranches, and surrounding Broward and southern Palm Beach County communities. Her areas of expertise include luxury homes, waterfront properties, ocean-access homes, single-family residences, new construction, second homes, relocation, short sales, and foreclosures, with a particular focus on luxury sellers and qualified buyers planning to make a move within the next year.

For sellers, Nina begins by understanding the property's unique characteristics and the client's goals before developing a customized strategy. Her approach can include comprehensive market analysis, strategic pricing, professional home preparation guidance, staging consultation, professional photography, cinematic video, drone photography, virtual tours, floor plans, property websites, social media marketing, email marketing, digital advertising, print marketing, and open houses. Her philosophy is simple: leave no stone unturned so that exposure is never the factor limiting a property's potential. Throughout the process, she maintains consistent communication, provides market feedback, and uses thoughtful negotiation to help position the property for the strongest possible outcome.

For buyers, Nina takes an educational and consultative approach. She helps clients understand market value, comparable sales, contracts, inspections, financing considerations, neighborhood differences, and competitive offer strategies so they can make informed decisions. Her waterfront expertise is particularly valuable to buyers considering properties with seawalls, ocean access, fixed-bridge restrictions, boat-size considerations, and potential improvement costs. She also considers how these factors may affect a property's long-term value and resale potential.

Negotiation is one of Nina's defining strengths. She looks beyond the purchase price or sale price to evaluate the complete structure of a transaction, including inspection periods, contingencies, financing, closing timelines, seller priorities, concessions, and other contract terms. By considering the full picture, she works to create favorable outcomes while helping clients minimize unnecessary risk.

Her commitment to thoughtful representation is reflected in the results she has achieved for clients. In one transaction, Nina helped a family secure their next home before listing their current property, then brought their home to market and obtained a contract within two weeks. In another, she successfully negotiated terms that relieved a seller of a pending special assessment while coordinating additional concessions that strengthened her buyers' offer and helped them secure the property in a competitive multiple-offer situation.

Before becoming a REALTOR®, Nina spent 11 years as a professional clothing buyer, where she developed expertise in pricing, value analysis, merchandising, and negotiation. Those skills continue to influence her real estate practice today, helping her evaluate market value, position properties effectively, identify opportunities, negotiate favorable terms, and protect her clients' financial interests throughout a transaction.

Outside of real estate, Nina owns a local coffee shop, further strengthening her connection to the communities she serves and the small businesses that make them unique. She supports 4KIDS and enjoys promoting local businesses throughout Broward County. When she is not working with clients, Nina enjoys spending time with her husband and son, surfing, staying active, and taking advantage of South Florida's outdoor lifestyle.

Clients appreciate Nina's proactive communication, local knowledge, thoughtful guidance, and ability to understand their goals before developing a strategy tailored to their circumstances. Whether helping a homeowner prepare a luxury property for sale, guiding a buyer through a waterfront purchase, or assisting a family relocating to South Florida, Nina is committed to providing knowledgeable advice, personalized representation, and trusted guidance from the initial consultation through closing.