Sara Garabedian

Sara came recommended by a neighbor and thank goodness for that! Her first recommendation was for the house we purchased in a neighborhood we had overlooked. Her knowledge of eastbay real estate is second to none. We would never have found this home without her. Sara made recommendations that wound up really working in our favor when it came down to making an offer. Sara is without a doubt, the best.

Sara handled the challenging sale of a mixed use property in West Oakland with an exceptional level of competence and professionalism. The property required a very specific sort of buyer and Sara was able to locate several qualified buyers which resulted in a multiple offer situation and a final price that was in excess of my expectations. She demonstrated a sophisticated knowledge of the Oakland real estate market. Completing the transaction needed quite a bit more expertise than a typical sale and Sara never disappointed. In addition, her level of honesty and integrity was great. She literally found a couple of hundred dollars lying behind a door which she turned into me when I would never have known if she had simply pocketed it. I can recommend her without any reservations.

Sara is smart, fast, ethical, creative, funny, and just plain makes things happen. I am a real estate agent myself (specializing in rentals) and I still used Sara for my 2012 home purchase. I can definitively say that I owe my wonderful West Oakland Victorian home to Sara’s savvy skills. I refer people to her often, including my two best friends who now live down the street from me, and I have heard nothing but thanks and cheers from everyone who deals with Sara. She’ll problem-​solve with you and use her extensive knowledge of the market to help you get what you want, or help expand your options. Whether it’s your first home or condo purchase or an investment or development project, Sara is truly the first call you should make. She’s got you covered.

Without Sara we would never have been able to buy our beautiful house! She is really amazing. She has so much experience and is able to get things done in a way that other realtors cannot. We were looking a house in one of the worst bay area markets. It was so competitive and houses were going for more than a hundred thousand over asking price. The house we finally got was all because Sara knew how to talk to the seller’s agent and structure our offer so that it was very competitive even though we had to offer our maximum. The sellers ended up accepting the offer even though it was not the highest all because of Sara. We can’t thank her enough and are so lucky to have found Sara (and our house of course)! As a buyer you couldn’t have a better agent on your side.

I don’t think that I could say enough in terms of praise for Sara. I’ve known her professionally for almost twenty years and engaged her services twice over the past dozen years before asking her to sell the home that I co-​owned in Kensington this past December. To say that it was a challenging transaction would be an understatement. It was precipitated by a difficult ending of a ten year relationship with my co-​owner partner and was further exacerbated by a looming foreclosure and bankruptcy, rendering the whole experience extremely stressful for all parties. Besides Sara’s superb job of marketing and negotiating a better than expected sale price at a less than ideal time [the Xmas holidays], she deftly navigated the tensions and speed bumps between my ex and me and made the whole experience as satisfying as was humanly possible under the strained and trying circumstances .
Sara is the most ethical, trustworthy, hardworking and skilled realtor that I know of and I recommend her without reservation.