Chylese Austin

Chylese hails from a small town in Massachusetts and spent a full decade in San Diego after earning a B.A. in French & International Relations from UMass Amherst. Twenty years ago, she chose to make Portland her home because it felt like one.

Chylese’s early career in technical sales supporting the semiconductor industry refined her writing and negotiation skills. But after twelve years in corporate sales, she was ready for independence, and was quite simply in love with old houses.

Chylese has proudly built her real estate business from scratch; over ten years, she affiliated with three different brokerages, each of which taught her something important but lacked some measure of adaptability. So, in 2013, she co-founded a brokerage on Portland’s inner east side, which became very successful. After five years, Chylese decided that the west side needed its own locally-grounded and focused alternative. With Lark + Fir®, Chylese provides a holistic approach to both connect with her community and help others find their own path to success, which requires outstanding customer service, up-to-the-moment knowledge, app-saaviness, and creative confidence. These tenets make up her mantra of “concierge services.”

Her other passions include her husband’s solos on the soprano saxophone, promoting bilingual education, walking around Gabriel Park… and finding new ways to engage her teenaged daughter away from her computer.