Laura has an incredible grasp on the Berkeley Market. She also is incredibly knowledgeable when it comes to identifying issues in disclosures as well as how to mitigate them. Even after closing Laura offers her time to assist with connecting us with reputable people in her network for any of our housing needs. I cannot recommend Laura enough!

Some agents are “sellers agents” and some are “buyers agents” but Ana and Team Forest are simply “the best agents”. Every single step of the way we felt like their only client and dearest friends. Our goals were their goals….and getting us exactly what we wanted was their only mission. After finding our forever house we needed to sell our home of 26 years. Faced with the prospect of moving out in the summer and spending time doing fix ups to wait for a less certain fall season was very stressful for me. Ana helped me understand the market and supported the plan for an “off market” sale. We developed an acceptable range for a sale price and my husband and I left for a week away. Ana scoured her Rolodex and sold our house in 5 days for a price well within our range. As if that wasn’t enough she was negotiating with the buyers and their agent until nearly 11 pm on a Friday night to be sure we had everything we needed spelled out in a clean offer. In this crazy Berkeley market I feel like we reinvented real estate! Now we can turn all of our attention to our next chapter. Thank you, Team Forest. New Years Day celebrations planned at a certain fully transformed Craftsman bungalow in Rockridge!

Emma helped us find our ideal home. We didn’t think we’d be able to find a home within our budget in the area that we did, but her keen eye and deep understanding of what we were looking for (and what we could love without) led to the one we eventually purchased. Emma went above and beyond to open the house for us a second time before putting in an offer, and being incredibly responsive. She has a knack for negotiating offers, and was able to get us a favorable price on our home. She continues to help us post close with recommendations for flooring specialists, locksmiths and more - everyone she’s recommended has also been great. We highly recommend Emma for your East Bay housing search!

Anja’s years of experience shows: she has many qualified vendors to make your home look great; she has tons of contacts and my home sold after receiving multiple offers. I trust her advice and appreciate her as a professional partner

He is very personable both with the client and with others in the business he deals with. As a result he creates an immediate rapport with key players that smooth the entire process.

Patricia is a wonderful real estate agent. She was very responsive and understanding throughout the whole journey, including when times got very frustrating and disappointing. She was knowledgeable of the market and helped us understand reasonable purchase prices and expectations. She also listened very closely to what we wanted and continued to find appropriate homes for us within our budget. She provided feedback and advise, and continued to help us in detailed ways even through escrow. She helped us beat out 3 other offers on the home we own today. I'd recommend Patricia to friends and colleagues in the future.

Dana Cohen and her team helped my family sell our house quickly, recommended improvements and helped us implement them at every stage of preparation, exhibited the utmost professionalism, honesty, and warmth while doing so, and made the experience as easy as possible for us. I am impressed with the hard work they all put in to save me from stress, anxiety, and detail work. I found Dana through the recommendation of a friend of a friend, and liked her so much 5 years ago when we bought that I made sure to seek her out again when we were ready to sell; we did not consider using anyone else to list our property, and we feel that was the right decision.

Liz was incredible from start to finish. We were moving from Texas to California as empty nesters and had no idea which neighborhoods would be the right fit for us. She took the time to really understand what we were looking for and helped us find the perfect home. Even after closing, she has continued to be an amazing resource. She’s connected us with trusted contractors and professionals for repairs and upgrades, which has made settling into our new home so much easier. It never felt like she was just trying to sell us a house. She genuinely cared about helping us through every step of the process. We are so grateful for everything Liz has done and would recommend her without hesitation to anyone looking for a knowledgeable, responsive, and caring realtor.

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.

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.