Broker Associate and Team Leader of Patriot Home Group by SERHANT. — formerly the leader of Robb Luxury Home Group, a 2025 HGTV House Hunters feature on “A Cinderella Story in Tampa,” and the host of This Is Tampa TV. He represents buyers and sellers across South Tampa, Downtown Tampa, Wesley Chapel, and St. Petersburg with off-market access, a pre-construction allocation pipeline, and risk-adjusted waterfront underwriting built around the actual monthly carry of a Tampa Bay luxury address.
The credentials, footprint, and media profile attached to a Robert O'Connor representation — verifiable against the Tampa Bay public record, his HGTV feature, and his role as Team Leader of Patriot Home Group by SERHANT.
The cadence that Robert runs on every Tampa Bay transaction — buyer-side or seller-side — from the first Calendly call through the day-one operating stack after close. Run them in order, run them with the same team. Tampa Bay luxury closings that follow this cadence clear in 120 days and re-trade less at inspection.
The first forty-five minutes run on Calendly. Lifestyle pattern first (urban, family-anchored, water-led, or pre-construction-led), then budget, then the full monthly carry — taxes, insurance geometry, HOA/CDD envelope, and the operating cost of the address over a ten-year horizon. Buyers who arrive with this map ahead of the tour clear at the right number on day ninety.
Every Tampa Bay luxury transaction gets a one-page case before the first showing. Why this address, why now, what it carries monthly, what it clears at on resale, and what the risk-adjusted underwriting says under three weather scenarios. The case is what the buyer walks into the showing with. The case is also what makes the difference between a tour and a contract.
The Tampa Bay luxury buyer pool is not on the open MLS. Off-market access, pre-construction allocation pipelines at Two Rivers, Mirada Lagoon, Pasadena Hills, and the Roche Bobois St. Pete Tower, plus SERHANT.'s national and international media footprint, reach the buyer pool before the listing goes public. Distribution is the difference between clearing in 96 days and clearing in 96 hours.
Tampa Bay luxury underwriting is not a national comp average. Elevation certificate, FIRM panel, prior flood claims, seawall condition, opening-protection documentation, four-point insurance form, plus the school-boundary check for the specific address, and the actual wind-and-flood bind quote in the offer package. The buyers who carry the binder into the offer clear faster and re-trade less at inspection.
Closing is the easy day if the day-one stack is already built. Insurance bind, contents and valuables policy, post-occupancy where relevant, surge-letter addendum, post-close seawall or dock contractor on speed dial, and the school enrollment or HOA transfer paper trail. The buyer or seller who closes with us integrates on day one and again on month six.
The analysis, the practice notes, and the relocation guide that this agent page is built on — the long-form articles Robert publishes alongside the canonical bio page, framed off his Tampa Bay buyer and seller work in the same period.
The quarterly submarket scorecard: pricing, days-on-market, cash-buyer share, pre-construction absorption, and the Q2 outlook for South Tampa, Davis Islands, St. Pete Downtown, Wesley Chapel, Tierra Verde, and Clearwater Beach.
Read the articleSix habits that separate a top-five-percent luxury agent from a typical buyer agent — reading the addendum, reading seawall and elevation, school-boundary tracking, holding pre-construction allocations, comp-as-risk-analysis, and staying past close.
Read the articleA practical pre-move to post-close timeline for executives and families relocating into Tampa Bay — lifestyle map, tour calendar, inspection, underwrite, offer, and the moving-day stack that puts keys in hand and the household in rhythm on day 31.
Read the articleA Tampa Bay buyer does not feel the difference between Rob and a typical buyer agent in the first showing — they feel it at the inspection table, when the inspector flags a four-figure seawall item and the other agent waves it off. Rob pulls the survey, the prior title commitment, and a contractor bid before asking for the credit. They feel it at the insurance call, when the wind-and-flood quote comes in eleven thousand dollars higher than the seller's last renewal and Rob has the elevation certificate and opening-protection documentation in the inbox. They feel it at month eleven when they call to ask about listing and Rob already has the comp set, the broker opinion of value, and a launch calendar mapped to the school calendar.
The clearest indicator that you are working with the right agent is how they handle the document trail. If you have to remind them to send the HOA estoppel, the seawall survey, the elevation certificate, the prior insurance binder, and the CDD budget — you are working with the bottom fifty percent of the profession. If those documents show up before you ask, you are working with someone who reads the addendum the way an underwriter reads it. Tampa Bay's premium market rewards buyers who do the underwriting simultaneously with the showing tour, and those buyers are always represented by someone whose practice is built around pre-emptive diligence rather than reactive firefighting.
A Tampa Bay luxury seller does not feel the difference in the first listing conversation — they feel it in the first thirty days on market. Rob's pricing decision is anchored to the absorption rate, the actual buyer pool in the price band, and the days-on-market exposure cost of clearing at the right number rather than the right-headline number. Overpricing a Tampa Bay luxury listing in 2026 does not test the market — it compresses the eventual clear price, drags the days-on-market counter into the public record, and pulls the eventual sale down ten to fifteen basis points relative to a disciplined launch. Rob is willing to argue the number against the seller's wish, in writing, on day one.
The second place a seller feels the difference is the launch. Top-tier Tampa Bay luxury listings are built as a media-first event — cinematic video, drone corridor footage, lifestyle photography, and a SERHANT.-level distribution plan that reaches the national and international buyers before the listing goes live on the local MLS. A standard seller agent uploads photos, writes a paragraph, and waits. Rob treats the launch the way a public-company CMO treats an earnings call — timing, narrative, audience, and a follow-up cadence that is built into the listing agreement from the first day, not bolted on at the eleventh hour. The seller who works with Rob clears at the right number, in fewer days, with a buyer pool that has been qualified before the first showing.
Who is Robert O'Connor, and what brokerage is he with?
Robert O'Connor is a Broker Associate and the Team Leader of Patriot Home Group by SERHANT., a Florida-licensed real estate practice that pairs SERHANT.'s national and international media footprint with deep Tampa Bay local-market expertise. He represents buyers and sellers in the $500K–$10M+ range across South Tampa, Downtown Tampa, Wesley Chapel, and St. Petersburg. He was formerly the leader of Robb Luxury Home Group and is a 2025 HGTV House Hunters feature guest on the episode “A Cinderella Story in Tampa.”
What is Robert best known for as a Tampa Bay luxury agent?
Three capabilities that compound. Off-market access — the buyer and seller pool that does not appear on the open MLS, sourced through SERHANT., private broker networks, prior-client referrals, and builder-side allocation lists. A pre-construction allocation pipeline across Two Rivers, Mirada Lagoon, Pasadena Hills, and the SERHANT.-authorized Roche Bobois St. Pete Tower. And risk-adjusted waterfront underwriting — the seawall, elevation, school-boundary, and full wind-and-flood carry work that protects a Tampa Bay luxury close from the first offer through the month-fourteen renewal.
How do you start a Tampa Bay real estate conversation with Robert?
Book a forty-five-minute strategy call on Calendly and bring three things: the lifestyle pattern that best fits your week (urban, family-anchored, water-led, or pre-construction-led), the reference city you are relocating from or selling into, and the timeline you are working against. The first call is a strategy call, not a property tour — Rob maps your timeline against the current market, surfaces the two or three micro-markets worth touring next week, and surfaces the lender, inspector, insurance, and HOA paper trail that the typical buyer or seller finds out about too late.
The end of this page is the easiest place to start — text the lifestyle pattern that matches your week and the reference city you are relocating from or selling into. Forty-five minutes on Calendly is enough to map the timeline and surface the two or three micro-markets worth touring next week.
Whether you are buying into South Tampa, pricing a Tierra Verde resale for spring launch, underwriting a Wesley Chapel allocation, evaluating the Roche Bobois St. Pete Tower pre-launch, or relocating an executive family into Tampa Bay from out of state — Rob runs the same strategy call. Bring the lifestyle pattern, the reference city, and the timeline.
The representational, community, and buyer-side companions to this canonical agent page — the next three reads if you have decided that Robert is the right agent for the address and the timeline.
The full about-page, services list, and the areas of practice that this Robert O'Connor agent page frames.
The community-level map that pairs with this agent page — South Tampa, Downtown Tampa, Wesley Chapel, and St. Petersburg, ranked by lifestyle pattern with school, flood, insurance, and HOA underwriting.
The 2026 buyer-side companion to this agent page — six submarkets, ranked by lifestyle pattern, with the school, flood, and insurance geometry behind each address.
