Founder & Host
Meet Kelly Raabe
Kelly Raabe is a communicator, entrepreneur, event host and award-winning real estate professional with more than two decades of experience bringing people, ideas and opportunities together.
Her background spans live events, trade shows, hospitality, communications, brand development and real estate. Before establishing her real estate career, Kelly gained hands-on experience in the event and exhibition industry through her involvement with Aerospace North America and the West Coast Women’s Show. She also coordinated trade-show participation for TIR Systems, helping manage the planning, presentation, logistics and brand representation required to create an effective presence at major industry events.
Kelly’s earlier career included guest-facing roles with Celebrity Cruises and Carnival Cruise Line. Working in large-scale hospitality and entertainment environments strengthened her understanding of hosting, audience engagement, service standards and the importance of creating experiences where guests feel welcomed, comfortable and well cared for.
She holds a degree in Communication from Simon Fraser University. Her education provided a broad foundation in audience engagement, media, branding, promotion, interpersonal communication and the ways ideas are presented across live, digital and professional environments.
For the past 21 years, Kelly has worked as an innovative and award-winning real estate professional. Throughout her career, she has combined market knowledge, creative marketing and strategic problem-solving with a highly personal approach to helping clients navigate significant real estate and financial decisions.
Her work with homeowners has given her a close understanding of the practical, financial and emotional considerations involved in downsizing. Selling a long-held family home is rarely just a real estate transaction. It can involve retirement planning, investment decisions, renovations, organization, family conversations, relocation and the broader question of what life should look like next.
Property Wisdom Events was created to make those decisions feel more understandable, connected and enjoyable.
Rather than offering a conventional seminar, the event series brings together trusted professionals, relevant education, hospitality, entertainment and meaningful conversation in one carefully curated environment. As founder and host, Kelly’s role is to bring the right people into the room, ask the questions attendees genuinely want answered and create an atmosphere where people can learn without feeling pressured or overwhelmed.
Creation, entrepreneurship, new ideas and relationship-building have always been central to Kelly’s work. She is energized by helping people recognize possibilities, build confidence, use emerging technology intelligently and take practical steps toward greater financial independence.
That passion also extends to the next generation. Kelly helped her son launch his first successful business at age 14 and believes young people should be introduced earlier to entrepreneurship, mindset, practical business skills, new technology and investing. She is particularly interested in helping families teach what traditional education often overlooks: confidence, initiative, possibility thinking and the value of starting early.
Property Wisdom Events reflects that broader vision. Each edition is designed around a different stage of life, from downsizing and preserving wealth, to building careers and investing in real estate, to helping young people and families develop entrepreneurial confidence. The common purpose is to connect practical knowledge, credible relationships and new possibilities so people can make better decisions about their future.
Kelly is also the founder of The Kelly Raabe Group, a Metro Vancouver real estate team with Sotheby’s International Realty Canada. More information about her real estate background and professional work is available at www.kellyraabehomes.com (opens in a new tab).
