A different path. A broader perspective.
Before coming to residential real estate, we built careers in commercial construction, corporate real estate, project management, and commercial banking.
Those experiences shaped how we approach every transaction: with preparation, clear communication, thoughtful planning, and a steady hand when challenges arise.
Abby
Abby didn't come into real estate from a traditional sales background. Before joining Ankeny Real Estate Group full-time in 2022, she spent nearly eight years managing large commercial construction projects.
The last two years of that work was for a national developer of senior living facilities, where she managed contractors, timelines, budgets, and stakeholders on large commercial construction projects with budgets reaching into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
If you ask Abby what her job looked like during those years, she would say: “I was a wedding planner for very large construction projects. I basically herded cats all day long.”
Abby has a builder’s eye, a project manager’s discipline, and a clear picture of how properties are built and what can go wrong. In her time as a licensed agent, she has been involved in approximately 200 transactions across multiple roles and has built a practice that runs almost entirely on referral.
Drew
Drew left his role as Senior Vice President and Commercial Team Lead at a $1.8 billion bank based in Ankeny to join Abby’s real estate practice in 2026.
Prior to that, he spent nearly 20 years in commercial banking, the last ten in a lending role where he managed commercial relationships for companies with annual revenues ranging from $10 million to $1 billion. He is a graduate of the Graduate School of Banking in Colorado and originated over $250 million in commercial loans during his career.
This is also not Drew’s first time holding a real estate license. He was a licensed agent while a college student obtaining a double major in finance and real estate. He spent two decades watching real estate transactions from the lending side, learning how deals are underwritten, where they go sideways, and what separates a clean transaction from a difficult one.