She spent a decade building brands for the biggest retailers in the country, now the homes are the product.
Sarah Scannell has an MBA in shopper marketing, the discipline of understanding exactly what makes a buyer say yes in the moment they decide. She spent a decade putting it to work before she started selling homes.
She led national account sales teams in consumer packaged goods for companies including Clif Bar, The Honest Company, and Reckitt Benckiser, sitting across the table from the biggest buyers in the country at Costco, Target, and Walmart.
The product changed. The skill did not.
She has also bought, renovated, designed, and sold her own homes for over a decade. She has been the buyer and the seller, again and again. She knows where value hides and which details move a sale.
That is the practice she brings to Compass. Design-Led Real Estate. A home is a product. It deserves to be positioned, marketed, and negotiated by someone who has done all three at the highest level.
Sarah has chosen to live in Arizona twice. She left for several years, then moved her family back in 2025. She knows what a relocation actually costs and what it is worth, because she has done it in both directions. She works across DC Ranch, Silverleaf, Troon, Grayhawk, and the wider Scottsdale luxury market, with a particular love for guiding families relocating to Arizona to the right pocket of the desert. She lives here with her husband and their three kids. She knows the streets, the builders, and the homes because she lives among them.
Outside of work she travels, chases the kind of meal that makes you stop talking after the first bite, drinks good wine, gets lost in a TV series, and spends her weekends exploring Arizona. She looks at homes for a living and then goes home and looks at more of them. She has never once walked into a beautiful house and stayed calm about it.
If you care about the details that actually matter, you're in the right place.
