Yola Ozturk – Vanguard Properties

Yola Ozturk sold my home and I was rewarded with the sale but also with the benefit of observing up close how a talented, naturally caring and intelligent realtor works. I appreciate her know-​how in preparing for the sale and concluding it in a timely way. In addition to being a fully engaged presence throughout, Yola also surrounded our project with her team of inspired and dedicated professionals who each drew potential buyers to the negotiations.
Yola exudes confidence. Her warmth and inclusiveness attracted buyers. She took nothing for granted and addressed any concerns quickly and skillfully. Yola Ozturk’s personal and professional qualities are outstanding. She made it a great experience for me! N.J.

My husband and I were looking to sell our house in San Francisco, on very short notice, to move into a house that was not yet vacant. Time was of the essence to us to avoid paying two mortgages.
We knew of Yola because she had represented our neighbors, who were buyers, and who recommended her highly. We interviewed other brokers, but it was Yola who presented us with options on how to proceed that no one else had even mentioned.
Yola understood our situation, and acted speedily, professionally, and effectively on our behalf. Throughout the process, she was always available and responsive, and in the end negotiated a sale that was the best of all possible worlds for us.
Our neighbors thought she was wonderful to them as buyers; she was certainly wonderful to us as sellers.

Yola helped us find a house in San Francisco. Quite a challenge.
She was great at helping us make the right trade-​offs based on our constraints and the market reality.
Her network turned out to be a great asset. She introduced us to financial partners with the same high professionalism, efficiency and enthusiasm.
You’re in good hands with Yola.

Yola has sold 2 condos for us over the years. We love working with her and would highly recommend. She’s smart, personable, responsive, detail oriented and really knows her stuff. San Francisco is a unique, crazy market and she is a great person to help navigate it. She’s also honest, which is quite refreshing when you’re nervous or new to buying/​selling properties — the advice and ideas she gave us turned out to be spot on.

We relied on Yola’s expertise in our first home purchase. She gave us real advice, and made sure we felt comfortable with every step of the process. We could not have found our dream house without Yola, and we definitely couldn’t have made it ours without her skill and guidance. She steered us in the right direction, and made sure we were being realistic in our offer. We now have a beautiful house, and couldn’t ask for more!
P. S. Yola also matched our communication schedule well, and made it easy for us to work around our job schedules and personal life.

We first interacted with Yola when she was representing the seller at a building where we were renting an apartment. She was extremely professional and respectful throughout the process even though we were not her clients, and we turned to her when we were ready to buy a home a couple years later.
Her knowledge of the market and expertise with remodels was invaluable in navigating the frustrating SF buyers market. She was very quick to understood our needs, and we quickly grew to trust her opinion with regard to property values and price, which helped make the process a whole lot more efficient. I particularly appreciated her no-​nonsense attitude and keen business sense.
Overall, It was a great experience working with Yola and I would highly recommend her to anyone looking to buy or sell a home in San Francisco.

My husband and I recently purchased a home in the Inner Sunset and we worked with Yola throughout the entire process. We would highly recommend her to anyone that’s interested in purchasing a home in San Francisco and here’s why:
–Lives and works in San Francisco so has a good grasp of the many different neighborhoods, what they offer and its potential. This is especially important because the city has invisible lines that divide up each community and the vibe can change significantly one block away. Think you’re in Downtown SF? Walk one block west and you’re now in Tenderloin.
–On top of the market and can give you guidance on whether a home is super underpriced, overpriced, or just about right. This is especially important because you can get excited about a home, only to be crushed that it goes 30+% over asking. She helps give you a reality check and so you don’t waste time on properties that you ultimately won’t be able to afford.
–She has your best interest in mind. Sure, if you put 100% over ask, you will get any property you put an offer on. She wants to make sure your offer is aggressive and ultimately a winning offer, but you don’t overpay for it.
–Warm, calming personality but can be direct. That’s the perfect mix IMO. She is willing to listen and guide you through the process but also tell it like it is when the situation calls for it.

Yola recently helped us close on our dream home.
It’s a bloodbath for buyers in San Francisco, and it’s critical to not simply have an agent, but an advisor.
Yola helped us understand:
1. Price trends. Most houses are selling above asking, and she helped quantitively frame these prices in the context of our budget.
2. Remodel costs. She has extensive experience with her own projects and is a trusted resource.

Yola recently helped us sell our home in Noe Valley. She was extremely insightful during the preparation process, helping us to both form a selling strategy as well as source and schedule all of the necessary services (painting, floors, roofing, inspections, etc.) to get our home into the best possible shape for sale on a tight timeline. Her market knowledge and personal skills are excellent and gave us great comfort through what can be a stressful process, and she has surrounded herself with a team that can do anything, anywhere & anytime. I would recommend her without hesitation and look forward to working with her again the next time we are in need of her expertise.

Yola was absolutely wonderful to work with. We were first time home buyers and very anxious about buying in this very competitive market. I know I wasn’t the easiest client to work with, but she held our hand and assisted us through every step of the process. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend her to anyone looking to buy in SF. Thanks Yola!

I very highly recommend Yola if you are at all looking for agents – once you meet her you will not want to put your business in anyone else’s hands.
Yola helped me buy at duplex in Pacific Heights, and was absolutely fantastic start to finish. She has a fabulous combination of smarts (Yale MBA), market knowledge (she knows SF neighborhoods and values inside and out) and negotiation skills (she worked as if it was her own house and money in play) – and as an added bonus she is a lovely person who was always a bright face in what can otherwise can be a very stressful process of homebuying.
I am one of those people who researches all the options before I make a decision, and it is nice to know I never have to do that again when it comes to real estate agents because Yola is simply as good as it gets.

Yola is a tremendous real estate agent. She is responsive, patient, and works hard. She also understands the SF/​Bay Area real estate market well and is exceptional at negotiation. I would recommend Yola without hesitation and would work with her to buy or sell my next home!

Yola sold our Inner Richmond condo for us in 2011, which involved a fair amount of negotiating with buyers, the HOA, and contractors doing some repairs to the building. She met our needs for a timely and smooth sale, keeping every piece moving so that we could, in turn, move out and move on.
When we bought a single-​family home in 2012, Yola was very helpful again. She advised on the potential of every property we saw, teaching us to see more than its current state. When we settled on a house in Cole Valley, her steely-​eyed advice on how to write our offer was absolutely the reason that we won the bid, despite not having the highest dollar amount. We owe our current happiness with our home to Yola and look forward to working with her again (if we ever move).

We had gone through many real estate agents and finally found a keeper with Yola. She is very knowledgable about the market. She keeps up to date with what is going on and knows many people in the industry and has a very strong network. This helps when you are selling your house as well as when you are buying.
We bought a fixer upper with Yola’s help in March 2013. She had gone through buying fixer uppers herself so she had a lot of advice on what to expect as far as costs and architects. She also helped us come up with a price for the offer doing her analysis of what was happening with the market. This helped us be the top offer on the table and we got our «dream» home in Noe.
She also helped us sell our first home off the market in March 2015. We had worked through the costs of remodeling and staging the house to put it on the market and with Yola’s suggestion put it «off» market as is and got the same price that we wanted had we put the money into remodeling and staging. She saved us a lot of time and $$$ by not having to do any of the extra work. She knew what was going on in the market for the timing and she knew that there were buyers that were seriously looking from her real estate network. We are very thankful to have Yola as our realtor. She truly is the best there is.

Rarely do you get a real estate agent in a hot market who stops to listen to you and get to know you. But Yola does. She was patient when it came to leading us to decisions, and couldn’t possibly know more about the market in SF. We’re highly appreciative of the time and effort she put in on her behalf. As the person who referred her to us said, «Yola will get it done.» And she did.

We highly recommend Yola. She helped us in our search for our first home in San Francisco in the midst of a crazy market and far exceeded our expectations for a real estate agent. She was professional, polite, and a true advocate for us right from the beginning. She listened to what we were looking for and stayed within our budget when showing us properties.
When we placed our first bid, she walked us through every step of the process and even took the initiative to negotiate the price down with the sellers during the counteroffer stage. She remained involved through the closing and calmly and thoroughly answered all of our questions. Even after we had moved in, she went above and beyond the duties of an agent to help us resolve an issue with our condo by reaching out to our building’s management company.
In short, we couldn’t have been happier with the service that Yola provided us and would strongly recommend her to anyone buying or selling property in the Bay Area.

If you are looking to buy or sell a house in the Bay area, I highly recommend you speak with Yola. As a first-​time homebuyer, I was thrilled to have someone really take the time to sit down and listen to what it was that I was looking for, patiently walk me through the process, give me great advice, and help me find EXACTLY what I was looking for. She truly cares about finding the perfect place for you. The experience was wonderful. She is simply put, a smart, empathetic, and world-​class real estate professional. I cannot recommend her enough. Thank you Yola!!!

Yola is a fabulous professional. She works hard, is personable and listens to her clients. She was patient with us and educated us beyond expectation. We knew nothing about real estate in SF and Yola made it make sense! She did not waste our time when we were looking. She was an excellent negotiator on our behalf and we were pleased with the transaction process. We hope to buy another property with Yola soon!

Smart, trustworthy, and a true professional with a solid network…
I rarely post a review unless I think it’s truly worth it, either good or bad. Yola did such an amazing job as our agent to both buy and sell our condo that I felt obligated to share our experiences.
Yola was our agent when my wife and I purchased our first condo in SF. We spent a year searching with other agents before we were referred to Yola. Once we met with Yola, the rest was history. She did an outstanding job quickly understanding our search criteria and finding several places that met our requirements. Other agents dragged us around to viewings that were completely off from our stated requirements and wasted our entire weekends. Within 2 months of meeting Yola, we found our dream home that we purchased 15% under the original asking price which is rare for SF. Yola knew everything about the current market trends of the neighborhood, the history of the apartment, and the previous owner to give us an edge in the price negotiations. Since this was our first purchase, we were a little apprehensive due to the amount of money we were about to spend. A lot of agents and banks forget this and treat you like a number. Yola took the time to step us through the entire process and was extremely responsive to all of our questions. She managed to keep us calm by keeping us well informed throughout each step of the process.
2 kids later, we decided it was time to sell and look for a bigger place. We almost put our place on the market two times pervious to when we actually sold it. Yola helped us assess the market and timing of our sale each time we considered selling. We flew through the sale process in record time which helped us avoid the additional costs that come with moving out to stage the apartment for sale. Everything down to setting the asking price, staging recommendations/​options, identifying disclosures, flyers, websites, etc. was top quality. We received numerous bids, sold well over what we had imagined, and took in a handsome return on our investment.
We would love to have Yola as our agent for our next purchase, but unfortunately we’re not looking in the city any more. Yola’s area of expertise is the city of SF so she makes the smart choice of referring clients to other trusted agents if clients are looking outside of SF. That says a lot about Yola since many agents will try and stretch themselves to unfamiliar areas just to keep the commission.
I am one of those people who researches and wants to know every detail before making a major purchase or sale, but over a short period of time, I quickly learned I could trust Yola. She knows exactly what’s she doing and is a true professional which was a huge weight off my shoulders.
A lot of people worry about trusting real estate agents for issues such as collusion with other agents to increase their commissions/​sale price/​network, being treated like a number, and agents not looking after the best interest of their client vs the company they represent or themselves. With Yola, all these concerns can be left at the curb.

My in-​laws recently sold our Sunset home with the help of Yola. One of Yola’s great qualities (she has many!) was her patience and expertise. Our home was unique, as we had an in-​law unit and had to deal with moving out tenants. She was always available to discuss our options, answer any questions and just be an overall great resource to us on San Francisco real estate. From the moment we decided to work with Yola, I knew we were in good hands. Her hard work, dedication to us as clients and her negotiation skills made her the best in the business and we couldn’t have been more pleased with the results!