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Franco Preston | Lehi Real Estate Agent | Listing & Buyer Specialist
Franco Preston is a real estate agent in Lehi, UT, serving Lehi, UT; American Fork, UT; Saratoga Springs, UT; Highland, UT; Alpine, UT; and Eagle Mountain, UT, including the Silicon Slopes tech corridor around Thanksgiving Point. He is a licensed Utah REALTOR (Lic. #13266410-SA00) and a co-founder of Olympus Real Estate, where he leads agent development and growth. He holds a 5.0-star rating across 33 Google reviews.
Before real estate, Franco spent 14 years as a teacher and school administrator. He earned his master's from Southern Utah University in 2015 and was named Masters Student of the Year. In 2022 he founded Homes 4 Educators, a nonprofit built on a simple promise: with every closing, his client names a teacher who made an impact on their family, and that teacher receives $250 in cash.
Franco works both sides of a transaction. For sellers: pricing built on real sales data, a prep and staging plan, professional marketing, hard negotiation, and a clear net-proceeds sheet. For first-time buyers and growing families: matching them to the right neighborhood and school, walking through new construction and builder incentives with Ivory, Edge, and Fieldstone Homes, and reading inspection reports honestly. He flips homes himself, so he reads condition, repair costs, and resale value the way an investor does.
Silicon Slopes is his home market, and relocation is his specialty. Most of Franco's out-of-state clients are tech professionals moving to Utah, and he walks them through the area before they board a plane: where minutes off the Thanksgiving Point commute matter more than square footage, and how Pioneer Crossing and Mountain View Corridor decide which neighborhoods work.
Lehi is home. Franco has lived here 15 years and serves on Lehi High School's School Community Council. He knows why a Traverse Mountain address is a different life than a Holbrook Farms one, and what the 2027 Alpine School District split into Aspen Peaks and Lake Mountain will do to boundaries. He and his wife have been married 22 years and have four kids; she runs the children's theater at the Lehi Arts Center.
Thinking about buying or selling in Lehi or Silicon Slopes? Call or text Franco at (801) 403-4185, email h4e.franco@gmail.com, or visit https://francopreston1.search.homes.