Karyn von Engelbrechten

Local Expertise,
Global Connections

Recognised as a High Achiever and awarded Second Place in NZSIR’s Top Sale of the Year 2025, Karyn has built a reputation for delivering exceptional results while providing a highly personalised client experience. Her journey to real estate has been anything but conventional. After 13 years building and operating a successful hospitality business on a remote island in Tonga, Karyn returned to Nelson and joined New Zealand Sotheby's International Realty. Alongside her entrepreneurial background, she brings experience in information technology, digital marketing, property management, and luxury client service - providing a unique perspective that enables her to guide clients Having lived and worked across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the South Pacific, Karyn offers clients a truly global perspective and a genuine understanding of international buyers, expatriates, returning New Zealanders, and investors. Her extensive international network, combined with the global reach of New Zealand Sotheby's International Realty and deep local market knowledge, enables her to connect exceptional properties with qualified buyers both within New Zealand and around the world. Karyn's international life experience gives her valuable insight into what overseas purchasers seek when investing in or relocating to New Zealand. This perspective, coupled with her strategic marketing expertise and strong negotiation skills, has proven particularly valuable when representing premium homes, lifestyle properties, and unique real estate opportunities. Whether representing sellers, acting as a dedicated buyer's agent, or assisting international clients navigating the New Zealand property market, Karyn is passionate about building lasting relationships and delivering a seamless, highly personalised experience. Having built homes, businesses, and relationships across several countries, Karyn understands that property is about far more than a transaction - it's about lifestyle, opportunity, and finding the right place for life's next chapter.