Hippo RealtyHutto, Texas
Est. 2012
Hutto, Texas, since 2012

Family owned. Hutto proud.

Hippo Realty is Brooke and Russell Daniel, a husband-and-wife brokerage that has called Hutto home since 2012. The hand-forged hippo hanging outside the office on CR 135 says most of what you need to know about how we work: built to last, a little unexpected, and impossible to knock over.

The record, verifiable

Zillow rating
5.0 across 85 reviewsEvery one from a real closing
BBB rating
A+Better Business Bureau, 9 years in business
Sales on record
463Brooke's public Zillow record
Years in Hutto
14Family-owned since 2012
MCNE designation
Held by under 1%Of REALTORS nationally. Brooke holds it.
Every license
State-verifiableTREC and NMLS registries, linked below

The brokers

Brooke Daniel, Broker / Owner

Abilene Christian grad and former teacher who moved into Austin real estate in 2011 and never looked back. She would rather walk you through it than talk over you, and it shows in how her clients write about her.

Designations: GRI, MCNE, ASP, RENE, SRS, SFR. GRI is the Graduate REALTOR Institute, MCNE is Master Certified Negotiation Expert, ASP is Accredited Staging Professional, RENE is Real Estate Negotiation Expert, SRS is Seller Representative Specialist and SFR is Short Sale and Foreclosure Resource.

Call 214-232-6840 or email the office.

Russell Daniel, Broker / Owner

The other half of the brokerage and the reason the phone gets answered on the first ring. Russell covers the investor side of the book, from single-family flips to the fourplexes and duplexes you see in our listings.

Call 512-626-7973 or email the office.

Why we work the way we do

There is no call center here and no rotating cast of junior agents. You work with an owner, start to close. That is not a scalable model and we know it. It is the model we want.

It also shapes what we write on this site. We publish the property tax math including the parts that make Hutto look expensive against Round Rock. We tell buyers the Samsung plant has not raised Williamson County prices, because the county data says it has not. We tell sellers when a price will not work. That approach costs us deals occasionally. It is also why 85 people have left us five stars.

Look us up. Seriously.

Every Texas agent and every loan officer is searchable in a public registry. We would rather you check than wonder.

Lending partners

We work alongside Network Funding, whose loan officers quote this market daily rather than working from national averages. You are welcome to use them and equally welcome not to. We will work with whatever lender you choose.

  • Kyle Richardson, Retail Branch Manager, Network Funding. NMLS# 863464, 512-657-1333
  • Emily Sultan, Loan Officer, Network Funding. NMLS# 974905, 512-851-7241

Where we work

Hutto is home, and we list and sell across the whole northeast Austin corridor: Hutto, Round Rock, Georgetown, Pflugerville and Taylor, plus Coupland, Thrall and the unincorporated parts of Williamson County in between.

Talk to us

Ask a broker,
not a call center.

Tell us what you are trying to do and Brooke or Russell will get back to you the same business day. No drip campaign, no handoff to a lead desk.

Brooke Daniel, Broker and Owner of Hippo Realty
Brooke Daniel Broker / Owner · 214-232-6840

We answer every message ourselves. Your details are never sold or handed to a lead network.