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RE/MAX Advisor Launches Tampa Realty & Wine, Pairing AI Market Tools With a Curated Local Lifestyle Guide

TAMPA, Fla., July 23, 2026 — Chadd Engel, a luxury residential and commercial advisor with RE/MAX Action First, has launched Tampa Realty & Wine (tamparealtywine.com), a real estate advisory platform that pairs AI-assisted market analysis with a curated guide to Tampa’s wine and dining scene.

Engel holds a CARE (Commercial Academy of Real Estate) certification and spent 15 years in international hospitality management before moving into real estate.

The wine side of his background carries its own weight. Engel is a Certified Specialist of Wine (CSW) through the Society of Wine Educators, holds an advanced Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) Level 3 certification, and has earned additional specialist credentials in Argentine and American wine — formal training that goes well beyond an enthusiast’s palate. He’s visited wine regions in more than 20 countries, the kind of firsthand study that backs up his picks for the Local Wine Guide and the pairings he curates at showings.

He built the platform around two ideas: that high-net-worth buyers and sellers need sharper data, and that the property search itself should feel like a hospitality experience rather than a transaction.

“Buyers in this market are comparing waterfront listings against options in Naples, Miami, and abroad,” Engel said. “They expect pricing data and risk analysis, not just a listing sheet. At the same time, the decision to buy a home is still personal — that’s where the hospitality background comes in.”

What the platform does

Tampa Realty & Wine builds tools directly into Engel’s own workflow, rather than relying on generic listing software:

Market research: Engel uses AI tools to synthesize comparable sales, portal activity, and local development trends when pricing a listing or evaluating an offer.
Buyer intake portal: Rather than a generic contact form, Engel designed a custom buyer portal for the site, using AI tools to help build it. Buyers set a budget range, target neighborhoods, and home specs — bedrooms, square footage, must-haves like a pool or waterfront access — and their submission routes directly to Engel, who begins the search personally.
Buyer Broker Agreement, on request: When a buyer is ready to tour homes, they submit a request through the site, and Engel personally sends the Buyer Broker Agreement for digital signature. The agreement establishes Engel’s fiduciary relationship with the buyer and commission terms before any in-person showing, gate access, or offer paperwork begins.

For sellers, Engel applies his wine credentials directly to the showing process, curating pairings for open houses and private showings rather than running a standard walkthrough. “A quick walkthrough doesn’t tell you what it’s like to actually live in a space,” Engel said. “When buyers can sit down and use a kitchen or a patio the way it’s meant to be used, they stop touring the house and start imagining themselves in it.”

The site also hosts The Local Wine Guide, where Engel rates Tampa wine bars and restaurants using a taste-profile matching tool and a personal vetting process — evaluating each spot’s by-the-glass list, bottle depth, and food and ambiance before it makes the list. Current picks span South Tampa, Downtown and Water Street, Ybor and the Heights, St. Petersburg, the Pinellas beaches, and North Tampa/Pasco.

Engel has since added three interactive tools to the guide: a map of his picks by neighborhood with Michelin spots marked separately, a taste-matching tool that compares a wine visitors already drink against a lesser-known local alternative, and a food-and-wine pairing lab built around principles from Master of Wine Tim Hanni and the Wine & Spirit Education Trust.

Through RE/MAX’s global network — more than 149,000 agents across over 120 countries — Engel also handles referrals for buyers and sellers relocating across borders. That work is personal for him: Engel and his family have lived abroad as American expats in England, and he draws on that experience navigating visas, sourcing a lease overseas, and leasing out their own home in Tampa while they were away, when advising relocating clients. “Buying or selling the house is only part of an international move,” Engel said. “I’ve navigated the visas, the overseas lease, and renting out our own home while we were abroad — that’s the rest of it, and that’s what I help clients think through, too.”

The data-driven approach has translated into results for clients. “While other homes in our neighborhood were sitting on the market for weeks with price reductions, Chadd sold ours within 48 hours — for the second-highest price ever recorded in our neighborhood,” said Kelsey Swiggett, a recent client. “He backed every recommendation with local data, helping us invest only where it would bring the highest return.”

Media Contact Chadd Engel, Realtor® RE/MAX Action First / Tampa Realty & Wine ch***@*************ne.com tamparealtywine.com (813) 452-9141