Jodi Nishimura – Pacific Union Real Estate

Jodi is amazing! My husband and I were first time home buyers and were terrified of the Bay Area market. She immediately made us feel hopeful and in a few months we were making our first offer. She’s patient, knowledgeable and a joy to work with! We love our home and would highly recommend Jodi for your real estate needs!

Jodi is an amazing realtor. In our experience, she goes far above and beyond what we expect from others in her profession. Beyond her vast expertise, willingness to go the extra mile, wealth of excellent contacts in the business, and strategic know-​how, she is honest and ethical. We found her to be truly a breath of fresh air in what can be a cynical and overwhelming market. Above all, when it came down to it she went to bat and got things done for us in impressive fashion. I really believe anyone would be lucky to work with her

In the last three years Jodi has helped my family buy and sell a few properties. Currently we are working with her to find my mother a home. We love Jodi because she really hears what is important to us. She’s kind and compassionate — something that is invaluable in this crazy market. Of course, Jodi is also knowledgable, experienced, hardworking and thorough. She cares about people and she cares about her work. I see that in her other reviews people have gone into great detail. Jodi really is all that :) and she inspires some of the warmest reviews I’ve ever seen. Well, there’s good reason!

Jodi is an excellent realtor. We recently purchased a small multi-​unit building. It is really hard to find realtors with experience in this market, which is very different from buying a single family home, but Jodi has handled a lot of these sales.
Jodi was great — had a lot of knowledge on multi-​unit buildings (pricing strategies, typical condition and structural style of these buildings, great knowledge of all similar buildings that have sold in the last year) that we would never have been able to tap into otherwise.
She is extremely competent and never pushes you do to anything that you are not comfortable with. Very strategic when making offers about how to use terms other than price to make your offer very competitive.
Our purchase ended up being a difficult drawn out one and her patience and professional approach got a deal done where it might very easily have collapsed otherwise.
I highly recommend her.

We thank our lucky stars every day for helping us find our way to Jodi Nishimura, and we are quite certain that without her brilliant work on our behalf we would still be searching for a home we could afford in Berkeley. When we first met Jodi we told her that we hoped to close on a home before our rental lease expired in early July. This meant we had less than two months to find a place-​a tall order on our modest budget. Jodi neither balked nor gave us false assurances, beyond affirming that our hopes were reasonable. Then she set about methodically and tirelessly bringing them to realization. She spent the next several weeks in constant communication with us – alerting us to hidden gems, steering us away from poor investments or money pits, strategizing with us about how to craft offers, and keeping our spirits up and our energies focused after the inevitable setbacks. She is professional to the core, but combines this with rare warmth and empathy for her clients. We always felt confident that she had our best interests at heart, and relied on her wise, deeply ethical perspective as we navigated the bewildering and often shady Bay Area real estate market. It can be terrifying to look for housing here these days, but Jodi kept us from compromising on our expectations even as she spurred us to explore alternative housing and financing scenarios that expanded our sense of what was possible. She was always available, accompanying us to open houses, organizing numerous private viewings, coming with us to City Hall to research title histories, etc. She also helped us to surround ourselves with equally impressive professionals – we are unequivocally pleased with the mortgage broker, home inspector, and structural engineer we found with her help. At the end of the day we have her to thank for the beautiful house in West Berkeley we now call home.

Jodi just helped us purchase a new home in Berkeley for our growing family. We can’t recommend her highly enough. Jodi was tremendously helpful, hard-​working, thoughtful, knowledgeable, and reliable. She spent hours helping us find our new home, worked with us each step of the way, was able to provide guidance when we needed it (without being pushy), and was a wealth of information and resources. Jodi is amazing!

I cannot imagine a realtor who works harder or smarter than Jodi. She found me a beautiful home for an unbelievable price, even in these highly competitive times, way beyond what I thought I could afford. She went so far beyond any other realtor I have ever heard of, even after the house closed! I felt taken care of and hand-​held every step of the way through this process. I felt incredibly lucky and grateful to work with Jodi. Thank you Jodi!!!

We were referred to Jodi from a mutual acquaintance. From the moment we met with her I knew we had found the realtor for us. Whether it was her insight into the market or her ability to communicate with the sellers agent when it was time to make an offer, her support and guidance were invaluable. Our home was a short sale that needed some cosmetic help. Jodi has as an amazing network of resources that were able to make my dream home a reality. We were very fortunate to have someone like her on our side.

Jodi is the best realtor we have ever worked with. She helped us sell our home in Oakland and purchase our new home in Piedmont. She took significant time to understand our needs, and then went out of her way to find places that might fit the bill. From the initial offer through closing, she excelled at anticipating both issues that might arise, and questions we might have. Jodi communicated very clearly our options, and accepted our preferences without trying to talk us into anything. She also provided access to an amazing amount of resources that she could activate with minimal lead time. With all those hard factors, she is also very personable and genuinely cares about putting you in the right home. We could not have asked for more in a realtor than we have found in Jodi.

We are the proud owners of a house in North Berkeley, and can’t thank Jodi enough for helping make it happen. First and foremost, Jodi is very professional. She knows the local market and had excellent suggestions throughout the whole process. She was able to point out the strengths and weaknesses of each property, and perhaps even more importantly, accurately assess the value of the home. Jodi was patient and always available to answer any questions we had. We felt that she went out of her way to make sure all our priorities were met. Jodi represented us well during the bidding process, and was successful in getting our offer accepted even though it was not the highest bid. Our praise for Jodi does not stop there however… throughout escrow and even after closing Jodi has helped line up contractors and an architect for a kitchen remodel. She even was willing to stop by the house and water some trees that the city had planted when we were out of town! We highly recommend Jodi and plan to recommend her to any of our friends that are looking for a home in the East Bay.

Jodi is phenomenal!!! She knows the Albany-​Berkeley-​Kensington-​Rockridge areas very well, and she knows the local markets, realtors and brokers. She is super patient with her clients, she will not push you to jump to a house and get the deal done if you are not ready. (We looked for houses for several months, and we did not feel any pressure to buy.) Jodi is very responsive, and she moved fast when we put an offer. Jodi is a great listener, and she had our best interests in mind all the time: she was very involved in the process and she was concerned like if she’d be buying a house for herself. What I loved the most about working with her is that she educated us during the entire process, pointing at the flaws of the houses and neighborhoods that we fell in love. Jodi helped us navigate disclosures, appraisals, inspectors, and contractors. Her negotiation skills are superb: she got us a fantastic home in a wonderful neighborhood for a great price. Thanks Jo!

Jodi was a true pleasure working with as our agent when searching for a condo to purchase in the East Bay. She understood from the very beginning the type of property we were looking for and the neighborhoods we were interested in. She was very patient with us and we never felt pressured to purchase. Jodi gave us sound advice and we always felt that she had our interest first. We love our Jack London Square Condo and are so happy that we were able to close escrow before our wedding. We will recommend her to all our friends and family who will be searching for either a home or condo in the East bay.

As part-​time teachers, my husband and I never thought we could own a home in Alameda. Jodi Nishimura was able to prove otherwise, but not until she first pulled off several tremendous feats.
We didn’t have very much money saved, were very particular about school districts, and were overall extremely tentative. For months, Jodi showed us dozens of places on any given day, and was patient and reassuring the whole time. We put in several offers and she suggested ways to compensate for lack of the highest bid, but the bids for the most money still prevailed. Finally, she found us a cosmetic fixer in a great neighborhood and school district. When she saw it, she was very excited because she instinctively new the cosmetic problems were minor, but would lessen some of the tight competition. She said that this was the place we were waiting for, and she ball-​parked, with surprising accuracy, the amount we needed for renovations. Given the price of the property, though, there were still multiple offers over the asking price. She had us write a letter, and she insisted on presenting the offer in person. They accepted, AND she was able to negotiate 2 bathroom remodels through escrow.
The happy ending was almost ruined though because of problems with our funding. She spent countless phone calls talking through the loans with our broker (not someone she had recommended). She went way, way beyond her duties as a realtor, and made it happen. After we finally moved into our newly renovated dream home, we found a few things left in the attic by the previous owner. I called the seller’s real estate agent to see if she could contact them. She told me then that the reason the owner accepted our offer was because of Jodi’s presentation. She really wowed them.
Jodi believes in justice, and she isn’t willing to accept that only a select few should own a house. She is remarkably intelligent and extremely knowledgeable about all aspects of the housing market. If you’re looking for a compassionate and professional agent, Jodi will more than meet your needs.