Gail Thomson & Stephen Slater – Slater Thomson

We were relocated to California and quickly decided to target the Los Gatos area. We were given the Slater Thomson teams names as a recommendation, but had no prior connection to them. We worked primarily with Stephen, but Gail was also very helpful in the end.
Stephen met with us and quickly prepared us for what to expect given the uniqueness of buying into this market. He then took us through many homes quickly, easily pointing out the pluses and negatives. He was always available, making us feel that we were his only client, when clearly we were not.
Stephen helped us negotiate through several offers, always with our best interest in mind. In the end, Stephen and Gail helped us buy and close on a home which is fantastic and will be a great place for us to raise our family for many years to come. They were right there with us, all the way through the closing process.
If you are looking for someone who can help you navigate the home buying process, who is a contemporary agent and who really knows the market, you should go with the Slater Thomson team! They were the best team we have worked with in all of our six home purchases.

Stephen is a great realtor and really helped us find the home of our dream in Los gatos! This is our third home so we were quite familiar with the process and were looking for an agent who knows the area well, negotiates aggressively, and has a good rapport with other agents. Stephen proved to be that and much more. He helped us patiently show homes for close to a year and helped us land the right one. We love data being in the tech field and Stephen always provided the insights and data we would need to make the right decision. My husband and I would absolutely recommend him and the team! Stephen rocks!

Stephen and team are amazing! We bought a house with them last year, and despite being outbid a few times (crazy Silicon Valley market!!), I could not have been happier with their service. Stephen is helpful, knowledgeable, courteous, patient, and has a great sense of humor (not to mention a fabulous accent!).
I always felt confident in our offers, and it was ultimately his rapport with the seller’s agent that got us our house. I never felt like he was giving us BS, and I always knew he had our best interests at heart.
The entire process went as smoothly as possible (given the crazy market and my having a baby in the middle of our search). Stephen’s team is always on it, and you can tell they’ve got a good system that works. It was the little touches that really won us over.
Could not have been happier working with Stephen and team, and I would HIGHLY recommend working with them.

All in all this is a great team, methodical, attentive, courteous, honest and trustworthy and will close the deal on time. Highly recommended and the next time we have to buy or sell I will go back to Stephen.
We were first time buyers and pretty nervous about the whole home buying process. Especially due to the competitive nature of the market in the SF Bay Area. Initially we started going to open houses by ourselves but were a little bit clueless about what to look for and what were our likes and dislikes.
At this point we approached Stephen Slater, who was highly recommended to us by two colleagues at my work place. This made it an easy decision to approach him.
A phone call later (which was very courteous and made us feel at ease) we already had a meeting scheduled on the upcoming Sunday in his Los Gatos Office. We spent an hour talking where he took us step by step through the entire process and answered all our concerns. Best of all he there was no need for contracts. At the end of it he gave us home work questionnaire which helped us define what our requirements were.
Stephen went with us to quite a few open houses and gave honest opinions about the location, condition and worth of the houses. Never pushed us into anything but gave all the facts to help us make the decisions. For the home we eventually ended up buying, we were not the highest bidders. That was in part due to his reputation, working style and because he had a good rapport with the loan officer, escrow as well as the sellers agent. He would give status updates from time to time as the process progressed. There is a lot of stuff that went on in the background which made everything go very smoothly and we closed exactly on the day that we promised. Even after closing there was still a lot of follow up stuff that Stephen and his team helped us out with.
Thanks Stephen!

Stephan was always ready to answer any question we had as a first time home buyer. We had a really bad experience with our first realtor and when we switched to Stephan we could really see a world of difference. He advised us all the way through the house buying process. All the hard stuff he took care in the background making it so easy for us. But the best part was he and his team did not abandon us after we got the house. They are still always advising and helping us with our needs for painter, roof guys, contractors.
Tessa from the slater Thompson team has been the great help as well. She was the one who helped us through setting up appointments with painter, handymans etc. and advising if the quotes are reasonable. she is amazing and super responsive.
In short the whole team is the best. would recommend them to all our friends and also will go them first in our future house dealings.

This is the 4^th time we’ve worked with Stephen and Gail. We purchased 2 houses and sold 2 houses with them.
On both the buy and sell side they have been terrific.
They have a great sense of where the market is trending and helped us price and present both houses that we sold in a way that got a maximum return and that sold quickly.
I firmly believe we would not have sold these houses as quickly nor would we have gotten the same sorts of returns if we have not used Gail and Stephen as our agents.
If I ever buy or sell another property, I would not hesitate to use them again.

Stephen and Gail are very friendly and have lot of knowledge in real estate. We were first-​time home buyers and Stephen helped us in streamlining our requirements. During our visits to open house, Stephen was very helpful in finding the issues which were not easily visible. Stephen is a kind of person who is not at all pushy and understand the buyers minute details needed. We have seen lot of open houses and Stephen was so patient in showing all the houses explaining the pros and cons. We would highly recommend Stephen for anybody looking to find their dream home.