Mara Klein

We recently worked with Mara in our search for our first home. Mara was friendly, professional and she was incredibly helpful as we worked to understand the market and what we could actually afford. As a San Francisco real estate veteran, she made our first home buying experience easy and enjoyable and her experienced perspective was always appreciated. Mara was a pleasure to work with and we would recommend her to anyone looking to buy a home in asan Francisco.

Mara is a truly gifted real estate agent. She was able to listen to my needs and desires and helped me find what I was looking for in a very difficult market. Her patience with me was honorable. I can highly recommend her as a wonderful agent to work with, especially in the crazy market of the Bay Area.

Mara is such a great agent that I used her services not once, but TWICE! Back in 2009, I was referred to Mara for the purchase of my parents’ home. As a nervous first-​time home buyer, I was initially intimidated by the process. Mara held my hand every step of the way during the dramatic escrow period and calmly maintained full control of the situation.
Impressed by the level of advocacy and care Mara put into that experience, I recently worked with her again for the purchase of my second home. She delivered again! She was a master negotiator and always asked poignant questions of the sellers’ agent and inspectors, enabling me to close on my dream home at a great price. Also, she is very charismatic. You may have caught Mara on an episode of a well-​known reality tv show that features my home buying process with her!
I hope to be able to work with Mara for a third time!

Mara Klein is an excellent choice for buying or selling a home in San Francisco. She has extensive knowledge and experience working in real estate, business and interior design, making her a invaluable asset.
She is very detail oriented and is proactive in every step of the process of buying or selling a home. I appreciate her ability to look out for client’s best interests, ensuring the property and the client are a true fit. Mara makes herself very available to her client’s. I felt free to call/​email with questions anytime and got great prompt thoughtful responses. Her skill and dedication to making sure each step of the process is being attended too is a real treat (and rare).
I have worked with other agents and they did not seem interested in the whole process, just the sale more or less, leaving me feeling solo. Working with Mara helped expand my understanding of architecture, financing, loans, strategies for making an offer, navigating multi party negotiations and even the best food nearby. It was wonderful to have the support of a kind, savvy, dedicated agent in an expensive process riddled with stress. I am confident Mara’s guidance was essential to finding a great house, in the right neighborhood, just in time. I could not be more delighted with her work. I think you will be delighted as well.

Mara helped us purchase a condo we love in an extremely competitive market. She was an absolute pleasure to work with and was on top of the process, making it very easy for us. What a relief we found such a terrific agent! She comes highly recommended!

Over the last 10 years I’ve purchased 6 homes and sold 4 across the bay area. Having worked with many agents in that time, I can hands down say that Mara was the best to date.
Mara was able to quickly get me up to speed on the San Francisco market (it was my first time buying in the city) and stuck with me through the whole search. Mara spent a good amount of time with me seeing properties and learning what exactly it was that I was looking for, and then was very proactive in sending good matches my way. She also answered all my questions about other properties that I was seeing online myself and was spot on with why they weren’t the best fit.
Once I found my condo, Mara was quick to jump on getting the right offer together and remained meticulous through escrow to make sure there wasn’t anything unexpected. In all of my escrows over the years, this one was by far the smoothest which was in no small way thanks to Mara.
Beyond that, Mara is simply a pleasure to work with. She is friendly, honest, and given I bought a couple blocks from here will undoubtedly both remain a good friend and my agent when the next sale/​purchase comes up.

Mara was our agent in buying our first home this past fall. She was extremely knowledgeable about the SF market and the ins and outs of the process, and she was more than patient in walking some clueless first-​time buyers through! Mara also stuck with us throughout the entire process, and helped out a lot even after closing when we ran into some unexpected bumps with the seller.

Let me tell you a little story about selling a condo and buying a house…
My partner and I hired Mara after two failed experiences with other agents. We not only wanted to sell our small (okay, I’ll admit it, it was TINY!) condo, but once that was done, we also wanted to buy something larger.
After the previous experience with the other agents I have to say I was a little jaded. By the time we started working with Mara I had already begun to question whether there were any agents out there that would be honest, hardworking and direct. I didn’t want someone to sugar coat things or talk to me like they were a used car salesman. I wanted someone who knew the market, who saw the value in our home (regardless of size), who could do the job, who would be available, and who I could trust. I understood that this was a tall order, but I knew what I wanted and I wasn’t settling for any less.
Not only did Mara exceed all expectations, she approached the entire process with a level of enthusiasm that was contagious. She made herself available to my partner and me, even when we were calling at ridiculous hours. She went out of her way on many occasions to make sure we knew exactly what was going on, and was very clear about walking us through every step of the selling process. While she was great at her job, she was also a great communicator. We were happy to work with her because she was great at her job, but we enjoyed working with her because she’s just a wonderful person to be around.
By the time Mara finally found a buyer for our property, she was the perfect mixture of pleasant, professional, and unwavering. Right after entering into escrow with the buyer, my partner and I found our dream house. It was perfect, and we fell in love instantly. However, timing was everything since we had to close on the condo before we could close on our dream house. Mara drove that processes like no one else could have. She was firm when the buyer of our condo wanted to push out the close date, and she put together a rock solid offer on our dream house. In the end, Mara’s determination, focus, and savvy navigational skills made sure that both of these deals came together. We closed on time with the condo, and the offer she wrote on the dream house beat out 8 other buyers (even one that had offered more money than we had)!
I am being 100% honest when I say that we would NOT have gotten that house had it not been for Mara. There were about 100 things that could have gone wrong, and she navigated things perfect. When I was a complete mess of stress and anxiety, she was both a friend and a rock solid business partner. I cannot recommend Mara enough. No matter what you have to sell, or what you want to buy, Mara is the person to do it!