About

Bruce Phares, Senior Managing Broker, is one of the most experienced Realtors working in Seattle. In his 35+ years of advocacy-based representation, serving Seattle's top attorneys' and professionals' real estate needs, Bruce has closed hundreds of transactions from multi-million dollar estates to the most modest of residences, all treated with the greatest of care, expertise, professionalism, and discretion.

Bruce brings his decades of Seattle real estate market wisdom, 1st-tier networking with the region's most effective Realtors, uncompromising client advocacy, privacy, and discretion combined with cutting-edge marketing techniques resulting in real estate success for our clients. Our local experience provides all and more that you would expect from premier Realtors® offering you quality care and service above and beyond the average. 

BruceandDonna.com’s origin is the result of the joining of Bruce Phares and Donna Bertolino’s separate real estate practices in early 1991. Within a short time after combining their systems and styles, which were already complementary, they were chosen to represent a number of law associates at two of the largest law firms in Seattle, which set the mold for their representation model: “The Client’s Interests First. Always.” 

Bruce Phares has been practicing real estate since 1987 in Seattle. After joining real estate practices (and personal lives!) in 1994 with Donna Bertolino, the two soon became known as “The Attorneys Advocates”, as the majority of their clients during the first 10 years of their combined practice were lawyers from several of the major law firms in downtown Seattle. As their practice grew, their reputation for fierce and creative representation for their clients was firmly established in the professional real estate landscape.