Testimonials

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!

Sold a home in 2019 in Oakland, CA.

We can't say enough great things about Anne. We were so fortunate to have Anne as our realtor. She truly took away all of the stress that came with selling our home.

My family was facing a sudden out-of-state relocation from the Bay Area. We had to move out of our home and find contractors to make some improvements to the house before listing it; and all within an aggressive timeframe. When we met Anne, she showed us her project plan for all of the tasks and time frame each task would need to be completed by, and she identified the resources to make it all happen. We expressed our concerns about managing all of this while starting our new lives in another state. Anne said, "Don't worry. I got it."

Anne truly took care of all of it. While my family and I were getting settled with our new lives a thousand miles away, Anne would give us regular updates on how things were going. We didn't have to stress about any of it. Not only did Anne facilitate the improvements to the house, but she also found some untapped value with our home that helped us with our final sale price. Throughout all of this, she also took the time to get to know our neighbors to help ensure the buyer of our home would fit in with the neighborhood which was a big concern of ours.

If you want a realtor who listens to your needs, is organized and makes things happen, then Anne checks all of those boxes. We would choose her again in a heartbeat!

Markyeh

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

Tiptonsuzanne1

Anne Feste is a charming, delightful, and professional agent!

Her expertise and attention to all the details enabled us to achieve the highest dollar, we otherwise would not have seen on our home!

I highly recommend Anne's services!

Mokehillguy

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!

Jenna Ford

Anne was a wealth of information as we worked to prepare our father-in-law's home for sale. Not only was her knowledge of the local market expert - she was a wealth of information for everything from who to work with for estate sale items to how best to prepare the property for viewing by potential buyers. This experience was so good that we again engaged her services to help us purchase a rental property.

591maple

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!

Krista Taylor

Anne was amazing! With Anne's help, we quickly got our place painted, furnished, and sold in a matter of weeks! She has a keen eye on the current market and was spot on with the color palette for painting and furnishings. We really felt that Anne cared about us as people not just clients. She went out of her way to send us flowers when we had a family crisis. I would highly recommend Anne if you are looking to buy or sell. As a side note, we also engaged Anne's services in 2013 when we bought the condo we just sold.

Tamaraf378

We worked with Anne for many reasons, she had referred me to many of her clients and is wonderful at connecting folks together for the best outcome. The market in Oakland is tough and it's really helpful to have someone that stays cool and unshaken by the rocky roller coaster ride of submitting offers and going through disclosures. Anne is the kind of local agent that knows the ins and outs of the neighborhoods and the real estate process. As first times buyers we felt we could ask all the questions needed and get the clarifications we desired. We ended up in our Dream Home beyond our imagination! View! Pool! Epic neighbors and a connection to our friendly seller to boot! Go with Anne you won't regret it!

Colleenlongo