BUYERS

Olivia was wonderful and an excellent agent to work with. She was responsive, professional, and a delight to work with. She is extremely good at finding the right home for her buyers and makes the process seamless. She made my experience as a first-time home buyer very rewarding and was always an advocate for me in the process. I highly recommend working with her.

Many of the listing agents that we spoke to at open houses knew Anne or had worked with her. I think that her reputation in the industry probably gave us a leg up over other offers on multiple occasions. Anne worked with us for a couple of years before we found our current home. She was always patient and did not rush us. We would often take the initiative on finding properties on Zillow and the like, but ultimately we purchased a home that was not yet listed, which Anne found for us. It’s perfect, checks all our boxes and we couldn’t be happier. Thanks, Anne!

We have had the pleasure of working with Anne Feste twice in the last 7 years, first to buy our family home in Montclair and more recently to sell our loft in Eastlake. Though the experiences could not have been more different, one that needed patient and gentle handholding through making multiple offers only to be outbid time and time again until that moment when the stars aligned and we got the house and another that needed her knowledge and experience to guide us through being first time sellers and getting the best price for our precious first home. Anne is beyond professional, unabashedly honest, constantly communicative, and unbelievably good at her job. We continue to highly recommend Anne to anyone that has asked for our advice in choosing a realtor. Anne is truly the best in the business and she has the exact mix of professionalism, integrity, and kindness that makes the experience of buying or selling a home in this highly competitive market a little less daunting.
We write this review with immense gratitude,
- Bambi Vicklund and Michael Wilks, Oakland

Anne is exceptional. We found our last home in Berkeley in 2015 through her and closed on it quickly. When we were ready to sell in 2020, she coached us all the way through the process and pushed us on making better decisions to increase the value of our home. In the end, she coordinated all the staging and improvements to the home that needed to get done and then worked with us on setting an aggressive selling target price. We were thrilled when the offers came in and we were able to accept an offer well over our target.

Anne knows the local real estate market in the near east bay (Oakland/Berkeley) exceptionally well. And we wholeheartedly recommend her services.

Anne Feste was instrumental in us having the winning bid to buy a house in a contested market on a moment's notice. Through the years she has offered sage advice. Her skills were greatly appreciated in a sale of a house in Oakland CA with a very difficult tenant on-site. Despite that challenge, Anne guided us to get the remodeled house on the market in time for the highest price. I would hire her again and again.

- S. Tipton

I have bought two homes with Anne and love working with her. She is an expert and both times I purchased a house she found me my dream house. She also has excellent connections - I use her handyman, plumber, and electrician. She followed up with me to ensure everything is great in the new house, and provided recommendations for how and what to fix or update, and what is not critical. She has great tactics for making your offer stand out from the crowd. Anne goes above and beyond every time. I highly recommend working with Anne!

Anne helped me buy my dream home!

For three years prior, I had been working with a different agent in the area and was considering giving up my search completely. I had made seven offers on homes that I loved and lost them all. I was discouraged, exhausted and was starting to believe that as a single home buyer I was going to have to give up my dream of owning a home in the San Francisco Bay Area.

When I first met Anne, she was friendly, engaging, curious, and knowledgeable. After a short conversation with her, I felt the confidence to once again start the search for a place to call home.

Anne was very flexible and responsive which allowed us to look at many homes over the course of a few months. With each place that we saw, she offered her professional opinion as well as her intuitive suggestions. She would help me visualize the potential of the home or recognize the deferred maintenance that I may not be seeing. She would listen and then advise, gently steering me in a direction that gave me the confidence to make difficult decisions about such an important purchase.

Once we found the perfect home, Anne went over and above my expectations to make sure the offer stood out from the rest - she strategized and negotiated in a manner that won us the first offer that we put on the table! The first offer!

With Anne, came a team of professionals that made the process seamless. She orchestrated an introduction to a lender that helped put all the financials in place on the front end and then a friendly and responsive contractor to help me with a few projects on the back end...with many more interactions in-between that demonstrated her deep relationships within the industry.

Without a doubt, I have found my Real Estate agent!

My wife and I worked with Anne to relocate from SF to Berkeley. We were (admittedly) picky buyers, and she provided excellent advice -- both on individual properties and on big-picture market dynamics -- throughout the process. Anne is smart, experienced, responsive, and strategic, and we highly recommend her to anyone looking to buy or sell in Berkeley-Piedmont-Oakland.

I worked with Olivia to buy my home. Olivia is very uniquely talented and has a lot of local neighborhood knowledge. I truly enjoyed working with Olivia. Olivia understood my home requirements and specifications and was very efficient and effective in showing properties that matched my exact needs. Olivia effectively worked with the seller's real estate agent and my lender to effectively compile the offer which is very competitive best probability to accept by the seller. Olivia worked really hard to reduce the time taken for my entire home buying process. Olivia always communicated promptly and she always available whenever I had questions on the potential properties. Olivia is very detail-oriented and went through all the fine print of the disclosures effectively and made sure I understand inspections conducted on the property and additional requirements needed on the property. I recommend and endorse Olivia’s expertise for the best home buying experience.