Our friend said, "Let me know when you're ready because I have the perfect person for you." He was right. My husband and I could not have been luckier to have had Meredith Martin as our real estate agent. We were absolutely set on buying a single-family home in San Francisco (even though that meant being further away from the park, which we didn't really want to do). Meredith sensed our hesitation and convinced us to look at a place she thought would suit our lifestyle much better— even though it was a condo. As soon as we pulled up, we were in awe. Five years later, we love our place and our neighborhood and are grateful for Meredith's keen intuiti...

We may have the craziest real estate story in SF and only a genius and a miracle could help pull this off. And Meredith did just that. We were visiting SF from Sydney and had only one weekend in SF. We used one day to see homes in Oakland and one day to see open houses in SF - primarily in the Excelsior neighborhood. Our agent Derek Chin happened to be traveling so he recommended Meredith to us, we spoke on the phone with her and came up with a strategy, she emailed us a list of places to visit and we had only one meeting with Meredith at one of those homes. We saw about 6-7 homes that day running literally pillar-to-post between them to make it to ...

I'm going to make this an easy recommendation: if you live in San Francisco, and especially if you live in SOMA, you need these two representing you. When I was initially searching for a realtor to help me select a property for purchase in 2011, I auditioned multiple agents who ran the spectrum from enthusiastic but clearly not knowledgeable to the peculiarities of the SF realty market, to "churn and burn" agents only interested in closing a deal as fast as possible and not really representing your interests. When I first met her, I knew I was dealing with someone different. A deep understanding of the local fluctuations in the market, and a (litera...