TESTIMONIALS

"Her guidance, enthusiasm, and sensibility resulted in all parties feeling great about the outcome. Sarah is knowledgeable and savvy yet remains grounded in the reality of her clients."

- Sarah & Maryanne

mike & maryanne

"You said you were the dream team, and you truly were for us! You are incredible! From our first meeting where you came prepared with house comps, market charts, and a great plan for marketing and selling our home, we knew we were in great hands. Then you showed up at our house a few days later with a plate of delicious cookies, and we knew we made the right choice! Selling a home you love in a neighborhood you adore is very emotional and difficult, but you made the process stress free, easy, and exciting. We happily handed everything over to you, and you ran with it! You truly did everything for us: turned the lights on at night, watered plants, baked homemade cookies for the open houses, answered our endless questions, and encouraged us through the entire process. Your attention to detail, creativity, eye for beauty, and organization and coordination of the many moving parts really shone through and impressed us. We all knew the end result would be great, but you far surpassed all of our expectations and hopes with the very successful sale of our home! We can’t thank you enough, and we will be telling all our friends about the amazing dream team!"

brian & colleen

"It was a pleasure working with Sarah to find our new home in Piedmont! Having raised her family in Piedmont, she is highly knowledgeable about the local community, schools, and activities. She listened carefully to what we were looking for in a house, then she proceeded to leave no stone unturned finding potential properties and informing us about them before they even hit the market. Throughout the home search process, she was responsive, encouraging and professional. She was a good sounding board as we weighed the pros and cons of different properties. When we chose to make an offer on our home, she provided guidance and she advocated strongly for us in a competitive, multiple offer situation. Through closing, she was always there for us handling the details in a timely manner. Even as we are going through the process of remodeling our new home, Sarah has sweetly checked in with coffee, pastries, and recommendations from architects to babysitters. We have already referred other friends to Sarah - she makes it happen!"

greg and renee

"We had a great experience with Sarah selling our home. From the beginning, her approach of working together as a team created a great collaborative relationship. This team dynamic allowed us all to have input into the process, while Sarah was not afraid to provide her opinions when appropriate. She brings unending enthusiasm, energy and tenacity to the process, and has a creative, problem solving approach. She has fantastic knowledge of the market and is extremely proactive in her marketing efforts. We would not hesitate to recommend Sarah to other potential clients."

brad & lynne

"After forty years at 500 Hampton Road we wanted to maximize the selling price of our Piedmont home. We interviewed some of the top agents in Piedmont. Sarah was our first choice because of her presentation, reputation and professionalism. Sarah worked diligently to get our home into the best possible condition to amplify its strong points. She used all the best marketing tools at her disposal to sell our home. Sarah sold our home for more than we ever imagined. But she provided much more than that. She became a friend to our family. We are disabled and she helped us deal with the small details to make the selling process go well. We strongly recommend that you hire Sarah to help you sell your home. You will pleased with your decision and its outcome."

aradhana & sid

"In an unpredictable, highly competitive market, Sarah’s sound advice and counseling are the sole reason we were successful in finding the house we really wanted! She has a solid understanding of the market fluctuations and its effect on housing values. Sarah really streamlined the process for us, all with a wonderful, professional attitude. Thanks, Sarah!"

sarah & maryanne

"We cannot overstate our praise for Sarah Abel as our Realtor. We recently purchased a home in Piedmont and are crystal clear that we could not have done it without Sarah. Her guidance, enthusiasm, and sensibility resulted in all parties feeling great about the outcome. Sarah is knowledgeable and savvy yet remains grounded in the reality of her clients. She is a real person helping real people achieve their goals."

anthony & debbie

"We are happy to let anyone interested in finding a top-notch real estate agent know about our terrific experience with Sarah Abel. Sarah handled the selling of our house in Piedmont, California this past summer 2018, and we could not have asked for a more thorough, efficient, communicative, and easy-to-work-with realtor. We are tremendously grateful to her for her hard work and expert abilities in obtaining a high price for our house, even as the residential market in our area was beginning to turn downward from its previous peak. Sarah has the whole range of skills needed to bring success to the sale of a house. She is exceedingly well organized. When we first interviewed her as a possible agent, She arrived with a detailed booklet outlining the steps we would go through and showing us examples of some of the properties she had recently sold. After talking to us about our needs, she evolved a plan covering which improvements would be good to make before putting our house on the market, bringing to bear many professional people who she has worked with to carry out any of the projects that we didn’t wish to contract out for ourselves. We ended up relying on Sarah to direct the work of most of these professionals because in our case we moved out of state about a month and a half before the house went on the market. She handled all of these tasks with precision and her characteristic good humor, putting our minds at ease over the final stages of getting the house ready to show prospective buyers. Sarah made excellent professional judgments all along the way about how to prepare and advertise our house. We want to emphasize just how warm, friendly, and communicative Sarah was to work with. These traits are so important in a realtor, given the stresses that inevitably arise when a family sells their house after living in it for many years.

"We found Sarah to be highly adept at presenting a range of choices for us at critical junctures of the process, making her informed recommendations but always listening to our own preferences and adjusting to them."

Indeed, she got to know us quite well over the five months or so that we worked together on the sale. At every point, she always made sure that we made the final decisions. Sarah was a pleasure to work with. We wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone ready to sell their home."

david & patricia

"Sarah is a straightforward, sophisticated, and savvy broker. She is a good negotiator who will close the deal. She is generous with her time. Also, she is not pushy at all - she wants you to find the right place for the right price and respects your limits. On one house, we appreciated that she told us that it was overpriced, even though she knew we wanted to put an offer on it. She is detail-oriented and thorough. She is diplomatic without being canned. We went through three brokers before her and were consistently outbid in the East Bay’s surprisingly competitive housing market. Our problem was that we had brokers who did not know how to negotiate (all the houses that we bid on had multiple offers). I had no idea what a big difference our broker would make, and I learned the hard way. That's just hard to find out in an interview, unfortunately. By "negotiator," I don't just mean someone who will advocate price for you, but also someone who will be able to get the other side's attention and be listened to, someone who can communicate directly and genuinely with the other side to get more information so that you can figure out what kind of offer to write, and most importantly, someone who can close the deal.

"By 'negotiator,' I don't just mean someone who will advocate price for you, but also someone who will be able to get the other side's attention and be listened to, someone who can communicate directly and genuinely with the other side to get more information so that you can figure out what kind of offer to write, and most importantly, someone who can close the deal."

She is proactive. I am absolutely confident that if we had started working with Sarah in the beginning, (1) we would have spent far less time looking (she finds out what you guys want in a house, looks at them on her own time, then takes you to see only the houses that she knows you will like), and (2) we would have had far less stress because we would have been successful in our offers. Putting an offer on a house is so stressful and very time-consuming. We felt muzzled with our previous brokers and just watched them make mistakes and mishandle the situation. With Sarah, it was like, "sit back, and trust her, and she'll make it happen." She put us in control of the situation. It was a lot more relaxing, for lack of a better word. I was extremely impressed with her and so bummed that we did not work with her from the start."

dawn

"I can’t imagine what it would have been like to sell the home I loved with anyone but Sarah. The level of personal service she delivers is extraordinary, and her gentle and thoughtful guidance helped me make good decisions every step of the process. Her knowledge of the area and professionalism, together with her warmth and good humor, got us to a great outcome. I would not hesitate for a moment to recommend her to family and friends. Thank you, Sarah for making an emotionally difficult experience go so smoothly."