Hilltop Luxury Home Advisors | David Lampe & Tom Grant

Co-Founder · Broker

David Lampe

Real Estate Broker, Metro Brokers

"Luxury isn't about the price tag. It's about the standard you bring to every transaction, whether it's a five-million-dollar home or a starter property."

David Lampe is the broker and co-founder of The Principal Team, a Metro Brokers practice serving luxury buyers and sellers across central Denver and the Front Range, with deep focus on the established estate neighborhoods of east Denver — Hilltop, Crestmoor, Cherry Creek, and Hale among them. With almost two decades of Colorado real estate experience, David has built his reputation on three things clients consistently repeat in their reviews: precision, calm, and a relentless focus on outcomes.

His specialty is the negotiation and contract phase of luxury transactions, the chapters of the process where most of the value is either captured or lost. He's known for thorough comparable analysis, structural offer design, and the kind of disciplined back-and-forth that ends with sellers netting more and buyers paying less than they expected.

David leads listing strategy for the team. When a Hilltop home goes to market under his direction, every aspect, from photography and staging to pricing strategy and qualified-buyer outreach, runs through a process he's refined over hundreds of closings.

On the buyer side, David brings the same negotiation rigor to representing clients purchasing in Hilltop. Whether it's structuring an offer that wins in a multiple-bid situation without overpaying, identifying lot and home characteristics that affect long-term value, or coordinating the due diligence work that protects a multi-million-dollar purchase, the goal is the same: get the right home on the right terms.

Recognitions

GUILD™ Recognition · CLHMS

Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist with documented sales performance in the million-dollar-and-above market. The Institute for Luxury Home Marketing.

Five Star Real Estate Agent

Awarded by Five Star Professional in 2026, David's ninth consecutive year as a recipient.

Specialties & Credentials

·Luxury home listing strategy
·Buyer representation & private showings
·Contract structure & negotiation
·Comparable market analysis
·Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist (CLHMS)
·Metro Brokers · License # ER.100029801
·17+ years Colorado real estate

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Co-Founder · Agent

Tom Grant

Real Estate Agent, Metro Brokers

"The best home isn't always the one on the MLS today. Sometimes it's the one that hasn't been listed yet, and getting in front of it is the entire job."

Tom Grant is the agent and co-founder of The Principal Team. Where David's strength is in the strategic chapters of a transaction, Tom's expertise is upstream, in the search itself. He built the team's MLS-direct concierge system, the same system that lets Hilltop buyers see new listings the morning they hit the market, hours before they ever surface on Zillow® or Realtor.com®.

Tom personally walks every luxury client through the showing process, from the first private tour through inspection, due diligence, and the closing table. His clients describe him in their reviews as patient, candid, and unusually attentive to the details that don't show up in a listing photo: the orientation of a primary suite, the morning light on a kitchen, the actual quality of a builder's finish work.

For Hilltop buyers, Tom's network matters as much as his MLS access. Through long relationships with luxury teams across central Denver and active relationships with Hilltop and Crestmoor homeowners, he routinely shares pre-MLS and off-market opportunities with concierge clients before they ever reach the public market.

On the seller side, Tom brings the same attention to detail to listing preparation. He works with sellers on the pre-listing items that typically pay back at this price point: photography direction, staging decisions, and the unglamorous coordination work that gets a home presented at its best. His relationships with the buyer-side agent network also drive the qualified-buyer outreach that often produces pre-MLS interest before a Hilltop home formally goes to market.

Recognitions

Five Star Real Estate Agent

Awarded by Five Star Professional in 2026, Tom's sixth consecutive year as a recipient.

Specialties & Credentials

·Buyer representation & concierge search
·Off-market & pre-MLS sourcing
·Private showings & due diligence
·Metro Brokers · License # FA.100086303
·Real-time MLS-direct system architect
·6+ years Colorado real estate

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Our Approach

How we work,
and why we work this way.

A two-principal practice, intentionally. Fewer simultaneous clients means each engagement gets the attention that produced 136 consecutive five-star reviews — and the kind of pace that suits the way buyers and sellers actually move in Hilltop.

Discretion

Conversations with the team stay between the team and the client. We don't announce closings publicly, we don't post addresses on social media, and we don't share details with anyone who isn't on your transaction.

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Precision

Comparable analysis grounded in actual Hilltop and adjacent-neighborhood sales. Contract clauses reviewed line by line. The kind of preparation that turns negotiations from anxious into matter-of-fact.

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Patience

Hilltop inventory is small enough that the right home doesn't always surface on your timeline. We won't push a client into the wrong house. The transactions our clients are still happy about a decade later are the ones we waited for.

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Presence

Direct lines to David and Tom, not a routing system. No call-center intake, no junior-agent shadowing, no handoffs at the contract stage. The principals you meet on day one are the principals at the closing table.

Buying In Hilltop

Find your Hilltop home.

MLS-direct alerts the morning new listings hit, off-market introductions through the team's working agent network, and a search process run by David or Tom directly. Tell us the criteria, the timing, and the dealbreakers; we handle the rest.

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Selling In Hilltop

Sell for more.

Editorial-grade marketing, a private buyer network across central Denver, and a fee structure built to return real equity to the seller. The full breakdown of how the team's listing service produces stronger net proceeds is on the sell page.

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Two principals.Two decades.One standard.