Some brands are built in boardrooms. Ours was built on gravel roads, in auction barns, at kitchen tables, and in hospital waiting rooms. It was built through thirty years of showing up — for clients, for community, and for each other.
The Avery Company is the name that finally caught up to the life we’d already been living.
Kevin started selling real estate in 1994, at twenty-one years old, in the community where he was raised. In the early 2000s, what began as a solo practice grew into Team Avery — a growing collective of agents and support staff delivering top quality service across the Kawartha Lakes region. It was dynamic, successful, and built on a reputation that still echoes in this community today.
Kate got her license in 2012 and joined Kevin in building something together. For a few years Team Avery continued to grow — and then, deliberately, they made a different choice. They scaled back. Peeled back the onion, as Kevin likes to say. Not because things weren’t working, but because they wanted to do fewer things with greater intention. To trade volume for depth. To be the kind of realtors who truly knew their clients, rather than simply serving them.
In 2017, that vision took on a new identity. The brand evolved into Kate and Kevin — complete with the now-recognized silhouettes that captured something true: this wasn’t just a business, it was a partnership. A life and a livelihood, woven together. Those silhouettes have carried forward into The Avery Company, because the story they represent hasn’t changed.
In 2019, Kate and Kevin came home — returning to Royal LePage Kawartha Lakes Realty Inc., Brokerage, and realigning with the values that had always felt like their own. Community. Integrity. Purpose. And with that homecoming came Tricia Havas, the cornerstone of their administration and the quiet force behind the business running as well as it does. Tricia isn’t a footnote in this story — she’s a chapter. She spent a decade with Team Avery in its early years, moved into the brokerage side of the industry for a time, and then found her way back. Her loyalty to this team, across every version of it, is a thread that runs through the entire story.
Then came 2020. Kevin was diagnosed with cancer — and underwent treatment through a global pandemic, facing odds that were, by any measure, formidable. With Kevin stepping back from the forward-facing side of the business, Kate stepped forward — managing, leading, and holding the business together with the same steadiness she brings to everything. It was one of the hardest chapters they’ve lived. It was also, in ways neither of them could have anticipated, one of the most clarifying.
What cancer gave them — beyond survival — was perspective. The kind that clears away the noise and leaves only what matters. The people. The purpose. The deliberate choice to build something that means something.
A wedding in 2022. A name change in 2026 — Kate’s, on her own timeline, in her own way.
And with that, The Avery Company was born.
Not as a reinvention. As a recognition. Of everything they’ve built, everything they’ve survived, and everything they’ve chosen — again and again — to move toward together. Tricia beside them. Royal LePage behind them. Thirty years of community in front of them.
The silhouettes remain. The values remain. The commitment remains. What’s new is the name. And the name finally says everything.
The Avery Company — where every acre, every address, and every client is met with the same deliberate, elevated, and deeply personal care that this journey has taught us to bring.
