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About / The agent

Belladonna Bayless

Associate Broker with eXp Realty's Luxury Division and part of the Lawson Real Estate Team, a premier Park City team for 20 years. Twenty-one years in the market, one standard for every deal.

Belladonna Riso-Bayless, Associate Broker with eXp Realty's Luxury Division, smiling in her professional portrait
The agent. 21 years, one standard.

21

Years in the market

1

Inman News author, still filing

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Certifications and designations

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World's largest C21 office, managed

01 / The story

From the top desk to your deal.

Twenty-one years, one market spine. Belladonna started as an agent and spent years running the world's largest C21 office, then brought that management discipline to eXp Realty's Luxury Division as part of the Lawson Real Estate Team, a premier Park City team for 20 years. She learned the luxury business from the inside: how listings get priced, how buyers decide, how the high end actually moves.

Her ground is the whole mountain corridor and the bench beneath it: Park City, Hideout, Deer Valley, Heber, and Kamas, and on the Wasatch Front, Capitol Hill, Salt Lake, East Bench, Holladay, Cottonwood Heights, Sandy, Draper, and Millcreek. Each community reads differently, and her book of comps covers all of them.

She writes about it too, as an author for Inman News, and stacks the designations: Certified Luxury Agent, Certified AI Broker, Certified Negotiation Expert, Certified Expert, Seller Representative Specialist, and VA & American Warrior Certified. The credentials matter less than the habit behind them: keep learning, keep measuring, keep showing up.

That is the whole pitch. No softeners, no pressure, no scripts. Just a trained eye, a straight number, and a line of communication that stays open after closing.

02 / The approach

Four moves, every time.

01 Listen. The brief, the budget, the deal-breakers. Written down before it is priced.
02 Plan. A strategy per property: timing, positioning, and the numbers behind it.
03 Execute. Showings, offers, inspections, appraisals. Managed like a campaign.
04 Follow. Closings on paper and after. The follow-up is part of the job.

03 / The credentials

Paper that backs the pitch.

eXp Realty Associate Broker, Luxury Division National platform, local ground game
Lawson Real Estate Team Premier Park City team, 20 years The team behind the deal
C21 leadership Ran the world's largest office for years Operations, agents, volume
Inman News Author, on the business of real estate Writing since the desk days
Certified Luxury Agent Guild-level luxury designation High-end buyers and sellers
Certified AI Broker AI-trained market analysis Numbers, modeled and checked
Certified Negotiation Expert Negotiation, trained to the standard Offers, counteroffers, the table
Certified Expert Advanced representation training Buyers and sellers, both sides
Seller Representative Specialist Seller-side specialization Listings, priced and sold
VA & American Warrior Certified Veteran and military clients The VA lane, covered

04 / The rig

And then there's the truck.

A bright-green, lifted Jeep Gladiator with a light bar and a winch. It is the official showing vehicle, the storm-day backup, and the cheapest recovery service in Park City: stuck after an open house? She pulls you out. No invoice, no charge.

It also handles the grocery run, because in a mountain town even the glamorous stuff needs hauling.

Belladonna Riso-Bayless smiling in sunglasses in front of her bright green lifted Jeep Gladiator
Lifted Giant tires Light bar Winch: $0

"We watched her drive a showing in a storm the town skipped. The client closed that week."

Word around Old Town

05 / On my wall

From my office wall.

Mastery that looks like stillness inside motion.

On my office wall hangs a painting by my husband, Walt Bayless. A quiet reminder that the best work in any room, the mat or the market, is the work that looks easy because somebody did the hard part beautifully.

Original painting by Walt Bayless that hangs on Belladonna's office wall, mastery that looks like stillness inside motion
Walt Bayless, painter and pioneer. Painted for the office wall.

Let's talk turkey.

Buy, sell, or scout. The first conversation costs nothing, and the winch is always free.