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"Anne's experience and knowledge of the market were invaluable in selling our home. Every bit of advice she gave us was 100% dead-on from the listing price, to the way the house was staged, to the contractor she paired us with to get the house on the market. I would highly recommend Anne to anyone looking to buy or sell in the East Bay. She's someone you can trust and someone who makes it her mission to do the best you. "

"When we decided to sell our home unexpectedly we turned to Anne for help. She provided us with masterful insight into the local market and what it would take to sell our home in the time of COVID-19. She worked with us to develop a strategy and to prepare our property for sale. All through the process, Anne was a sterling example of a real estate professional. She combines that with a personal touch and level of availability of service better than any I have ever seen. Anne capped this by negotiating a sale price for us that netted us a price well above our expected estimate. If you are looking to buy or sell, you won't find a better resource than Anne Feste. "

"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 Feste is an excellent real estate agent. I wanted an agent, I could trust, and work for the best interest of my investment. Anne is honest and has years of experience and knowledge of the real estate market. Because she is respected in the real estate community, she has a wide network of agents; staging and construction contractors that supported marketing my condo to sell quickly. Her negotiation, communication, and personality skills worked in favor of my successful sale. You would be lucky to work with Anne Feste! "

"Anne is the best there is. My husband and I recently sold our home in the East Bay and she was able to get us 25 competitive offers on our home, knocking the sale right out of the ballpark! At each step along the way, she was there to guide us and allay and anxieties about the sale process. She has also been our family's realtor for the last decade, buying and selling several homes between various family members, and she has displayed professionalism, caring, patience, expertise, and a great deal of intuitive knowledge with every transaction. Trusting Anne with our home sale was one of the best decisions we've made. "

"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. "

"When my wife said we should use Anne for the sale of our Berkeley Victorian because her girlfriend had a good experience with her, I was dubious, because that's the way I am. But now that the sale is completely complete, I was wrong to doubt my wife's girlfriend. An agent is going to be called upon to do more than you think. Unexpected stuff comes up. How to price the property. What about the disclosures. To stage or not to stage. All cash, or not. What about contingencies. Picking the buyer. Negotiating the offers. At every step, Anne was cool and experienced. She knew her stuff and spoke with confidence. Everything she said would happen, happened. When someone has a sizable chunk of their life savings on the line, you want Anne in your corner. No, seriously. You want Anne in your corner. "

"Anyone who thinks they can use an app to sell their home has not met Anne Feste! This delightful, experienced, energetic, and whip-smart professional can never be replaced by a set of algorithms and we feel so lucky to have had her handle the sale of our family home in Oakland. Let me count the reasons…. Anne was extremely strategic in her approach to selling our house: from setting the right list price, to creating a profile of prospective buyers, to sprucing up and staging our property to show off its best assets; everything Anne recommended made good solid sense with great bottom-line results. She’s great at marketing, networking, and negotiating. Anne has integrity: she’s honest, straightforward, and tells it like it is. She has a tremendous work ethic and keeps you on track and in the loop. Anne is very experienced: Anne has a carefully curated and dedicated group of partners (from personal bankers to painters) that she works with to provide turn-key services for whatever is needed to get your house ready for market. In addition to her years of success as an Agent, Anne is backed by an established and well-known firm that provides additional support to its representatives but still feels very local. We would not hesitate for a split second to work with her again. We miss her already! "