THE GRUBB CO. - North Berkeley

Martha skillfully guided us through the challenging real estate market in the East Bay for more than 6 months. We were new to this current Bay area real estate market and quite shocked by the pricing and bidding process. Martha’s advice was essential in guiding us to our new home. She listened to our reactions to various properties and pointed out strengths and weaknesses, such as foundation issues, house layout, and how it matched up (or not) with our wish list. She was always quick to respond to our questions, calls and requests for scheduling house viewings, and willing to write offers no matter the time of day or even on her vacation. She has the practical experience of remodeling her own home as well as preparing hundreds of homes for the market for her clients, which we found very valuable as we toured houses. Martha is a highly skilled agent and a wonderful person to work with. Her humor and good cheer brought a sense of fun to the search for our new home.

Martha Becker

star   5   (4 reviews)

Car figure always took into consideration, my personality and capabilities in recommending location and actual places for me. She was very observant of what would suit me and pointed out things that would not. I found her always available to go out with me and search new locations and condos. She kept in good touch with me. She kept in mind both my husbands and my interests and neat.

Karthiga Satkunanandan

star   5   (3 reviews)

Martha is a wonderful realtor - she helped us navigate a complex situation (purchasing our rental property from our landlord) from beginning to end , all the while being extremely responsive, thoughtful, and knowledgeable. Martha knows the nuances of real estate buying and selling in different parts of Oakland extremely well. Having Martha represent us allowed us to submit an offer that was ultimately accepted before the property was listed. Thank you, Martha, for making our dream a reality!

Martha Becker

star   5   (4 reviews)

We worked with Marianne and Lindsay about a year ago when we moved to California and started our search for a single-family home. Buying a home in the Bay Area can be daunting, but they supported us from start to finish. As a mother-daughter team, they offered a great combination of market knowledge, consistent communication, and realistic feedback on our expectations. We actually interviewed with three different agents before deciding to work with them based on their experience. Being new to the area, it was also super helpful that they introduced us to a great general contractor whom we have been working closely with for the past several months.

Marianne Scott

star   5   (7 reviews)

We recommend Marianne for anyone looking for a home in the Bay Area. As first time home buyers she helped us and guided us through the process. She is deeply familiar with the neighborhoods, a strong sense of the market and very attuned to what you need. She helps our family find the perfect house in the location that we had not considered, and helped us close very quickly.

Marianne Scott

star   5   (7 reviews)

Working with Marianne to find our home in Berkeley was one of the best decisions we made in the entire process. From the start, she took the time to truly understand what we were looking for, not just the obvious checkboxes, but the things that actually mattered to us in a home and a neighborhood. Once she got it, she did the filtering for us and only brought us places we'd genuinely be interested in. That alone saved us an enormous amount of time, and she was still always happy to go see as many properties as we wanted. Buying in Berkeley is its own thing. The market doesn't work like other places, and so much of it comes down to local knowledge you can't find online. Marianne has that in spades: a deep feel for neighborhoods and streets, plus a trust network and relationships with other agents that genuinely helped us land our house. What we appreciated most was that she never pushed. She wasn't trying to sell us a house just to close a sale; she used a critical, honest lens to tell us whether a place (and its layout) would actually work for us. And when it came to bidding, she gave us a calm, transparent read on what to offer, never pressuring us to over- or under-bid. That helped us price our offers correctly. She's simply a wonderful person to work with. We've since recommended her to friends who've worked with her too, and she's helped them find and close on their homes as well. We can't recommend her enough.

Marianne Scott

star   5   (7 reviews)