The Principal Team

Two principals.
Two decades.
One standard.

David Lampe and Tom Grant work as a two-principal practice with two decades of experience selling new homes and working with builders. Every client engagement runs through one of them directly, not a junior agent, not a transaction coordinator. We know exactly what to ask for to get our buyers concessions, and we represent our clients' interests at every step that the builder's on-site agent cannot.

Years Combined
Colorado Experience

Denver-Area
Transactions Closed

Five-Star
Verified Reviews

$0M+

In Colorado
Real Estate Sold

Co-Founder · Broker

David Lampe

Real Estate Broker, Metro Brokers

"The builder's on-site agent represents the builder. When a buyer walks in unrepresented, they're just giving extra profit to the builder. Our job is to make sure that doesn't happen."

David Lampe is the broker and co-founder of The Principal Team, a Metro Brokers practice serving buyers and sellers across the Denver metro and the Front Range, with deep focus on Parterre, Heritage Todd Creek, and the new-construction master-planned communities of north metro Denver. With almost two decades of Colorado real estate experience, David has built his reputation on three things clients consistently repeat in their reviews: precision, calm, and a relentless focus on outcomes.

His specialty is new-construction negotiation: builder concession packages, rate buydowns, design center allowances, closing-cost credits, and the contract provisions where most of the value is either captured or lost. Many buyers incorrectly believe they'll get a better deal by going direct to the builder. The opposite is true. David knows exactly what to ask for, when to ask for it, and how to structure a contract that protects the buyer through the eight-to-ten-month build window.

David leads listing strategy for the team. When a Parterre resale home goes to market under his direction, every aspect, from photography and pricing to qualified-buyer outreach, runs through a process he's refined over hundreds of closings, including the specific dynamics of selling resale in an active builder community.

On the buyer side, David brings the same rigor to representing clients buying new construction at Parterre. Whether it's structuring an offer on a quick move-in, sequencing the design center decisions on a build-to-order, or coordinating the construction-phase oversight that protects a six-figure purchase, the goal is the same: get the right home, on the right terms, with every available concession captured.

Recognitions

Five Star Real Estate Agent

Awarded by Five Star Professional in 2026, David's ninth consecutive year as a recipient.

Specialties & Credentials

·New-construction buyer representation
·Builder negotiation & concession strategy
·Listing strategy & resale in active builder communities
·Contract structure & design center oversight
·Comparable market analysis
·Metro Brokers · License # ER.100029801
·17+ years Colorado real estate

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Co-Founder · Agent

Tom Grant

Real Estate Agent, Metro Brokers

"The best home isn't always the one on the MLS today. Sometimes it's the quick move-in the builder hasn't listed yet, and getting in front of it is the entire job."

Tom Grant is the agent and co-founder of The Principal Team. Where David's strength is in the strategic chapters of a transaction, Tom's expertise is upstream, in the search itself. He built the team's MLS-direct concierge system, the same system that lets Parterre buyers see new listings the morning they hit the market, hours before they ever surface on Zillow® or Realtor.com®.

Tom personally walks every Parterre client through the new-construction process, from the first builder visit through design center, construction milestones, final walkthrough, and the closing table. His clients describe him in their reviews as patient, candid, and unusually attentive to the details that don't show up in a listing photo: the orientation of a primary suite, the morning light on a kitchen, the actual quality of a builder's finish work versus what's shown in the model.

For Parterre buyers, Tom's network matters as much as his MLS access. Through long-standing builder relationships across the major Thornton-area new-construction communities and active relationships with current Parterre owners, he routinely shares the full builder inventory list, including the quick move-in homes the MLS doesn't show, with concierge clients before they reach the public market.

On the seller side, Tom brings the same attention to detail to listing preparation. He works with sellers on the pre-listing items that typically pay back in an active builder community: photography direction, staging decisions, and the unglamorous coordination work that gets a Parterre resale presented at its best against the builder's brand-new product two streets over. His relationships with the buyer-side agent network also drive the qualified-buyer outreach that often produces pre-MLS interest before a Parterre home formally goes to market.

Recognitions

Five Star Real Estate Agent

Awarded by Five Star Professional in 2026, Tom's sixth consecutive year as a recipient.

Specialties & Credentials

·New-construction buyer representation
·Builder inventory list & quick move-in sourcing
·Builder showings & design center oversight
·Metro Brokers · License # FA.100086303
·Real-time MLS-direct system architect
·6+ years Colorado real estate

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Our Approach

How we work,
and why we work this way.

A two-principal practice, intentionally. Fewer simultaneous clients means each engagement gets the attention that produced 136 consecutive five-star reviews, and the kind of pace that suits the way new-construction buyers and sellers actually move at Parterre.

Discretion

Conversations with the team stay between the team and the client. We don't announce closings publicly, we don't post addresses on social media, and we don't share details with anyone who isn't on your transaction.

ii.

Precision

Comparable analysis grounded in actual Parterre sales and adjacent-community data. Builder contracts reviewed line by line. The kind of preparation that turns negotiations from anxious into matter-of-fact, and that puts every available concession on the table.

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Patience

Builder release schedules and design center decisions take time, and the right floor plan on the right homesite doesn't always surface on your timeline. We won't push a client into the wrong house just to close the year. The transactions our clients are still happy about a decade later are the ones we waited for.

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Presence

Direct lines to David and Tom, not a routing system. No call-center intake, no junior-agent shadowing, no handoffs at the contract stage. The principals you meet on day one are the principals at the closing table and at every walkthrough in between.

Buying In Parterre

Find your Parterre home.

The full builder inventory list, including quick move-in homes the MLS doesn't show. MLS-direct alerts the morning new resale listings hit. Builder concession negotiation, design center oversight, and a buyer-side process run by David or Tom directly. Tell us the criteria, the timing, and the dealbreakers; we handle the rest.

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Selling In Parterre

Sell for more.

Selling a Parterre home while the builder is still selling next door is a specific transaction. Top-notch marketing, precision pricing, and expert negotiation, paired with a competitive listing fee structure that returns real equity to the seller. The full breakdown is on the sell page.

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Two principals.Two decades.One standard.