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Two names on the door,
and both of them show up.
Aveline & Roan has represented Tampa waterfront and historic property since 2011, from a second-floor suite on Davis Blvd, with a book kept deliberately small.
2011
The firm began as an argument.
Camille Aveline and Theo Roan met in 2010 on opposite sides of a valuation. She was the architect of record on a Davis Islands renovation. He was the county appraiser who had come in well under what the owner expected, on the grounds that the seawall behind the house was original 1926 concrete with visible rebar bloom and would not see another decade.
He was right. The wall let go in the summer of 2012, and replacing it ran to $214,000 — roughly the gap the owner had spent two months disputing. By then the two of them had stopped arguing and started a brokerage.
Camille had spent nine years at Wren & Halloway drawing houses that were then handed to agents who could not read a section. Theo had spent six years writing waterfront valuations that everyone in the transaction politely ignored. Aveline & Roan opened with a single listing on Blanca Ave and one rule that has not moved since: whatever we take on, both of us know the building down to its footings.
Why fourteen
It is arithmetic, not exclusivity.
A brokerage chasing volume hires. We did the other thing: we measured what one estate actually costs us in hours.
Pulling the survey and the permit history. Measuring and drawing the plan. Two days with an architectural photographer, one of them at dusk. Sixty to ninety private showings across a typical six-week campaign, each one attended. The inspection, the appraisal, the closing table. It lands near two hundred principal hours per property.
Two people working the way we want to work can carry fourteen of those in a year. So we carry fourteen. The consequence is that we decline more often than we accept, and we usually say so within a day of the first call — which most owners tell us they would rather hear than a slow yes.
The principals
Who you actually get.
Camille Aveline
Principal · formerly Wren & Halloway
Nine years as an architect before she ever wrote a listing agreement, the last four of them on custom waterfront. She still draws. Every property this office represents leaves it with a plan measured on site at quarter-inch scale, not a tape-measure sketch and a room count.
What that buys a client is unglamorous and useful. She can stand in a 1924 bungalow off Swann and tell you which walls carry load, what a rear addition will cost once the historic district has had its say, and why the ceiling in the middle bedroom is nine inches lower than the others. Sellers get the same reading in reverse: the three things worth spending money on before listing, and the eleven that are not.
Theo Roan
Principal · formerly county waterfront appraiser
Six years valuing waterfront for the county, which means six years reading assessor files, permit histories and elevation certificates on nearly every parcel south of Kennedy. He came out of it with an unusually literal view of what water is worth: not the view, but the depth at mean low tide, the bridge clearance between the dock and the bay, and whether the seawall behind it is tied back or simply hoping.
He prices from closed county records and walks every seawall himself, at low tide, with a probe. On the buy side he has talked clients out of four properties in the last two years — twice over a dock permitted for a boat the seller no longer owned and could not have re-permitted.
Method
Six things we do on every file.
- A principal at every showing, every inspection and every closing table. There is no one else to send.
- A measured floor plan and a survey overlay completed before a single photograph is taken.
- Pricing built from closed county records and walked comparables, never from an automated estimate.
- A quiet first look — usually ten to fourteen days — offered to our own buyer list before anything goes public.
- Dated written notes to the seller the same evening as every showing, including the objections.
- Three neighborhoods. Anything outside Davis Islands, Hyde Park and Bayshore gets a referral, not a sign.
Record
What the small book has produced.
$0M
Closed volume
Since the firm opened in 2011
$0M
Average sale price
Trailing twelve months
0
Days on market
Median; the county median is 47
0%
Of asking price
Average across 2025 closings
Aveline & Roan is a fictional demonstration business built by Kolbrant; the numbers above illustrate a format and describe no real transaction.