The East Bay Real Estate Podcast | Inside The East Bay Housing Market

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Janine Hunt is a REALTOR® with Red Oak Realty in Oakland, CA. Janine works alongside her husband, Paul Hunt, and together they've been serving residential real estate clients in the East Bay for 10 years. Janine Hunt is the outgoing 2022 president of Bridge Association of REALTORS® , serving thousands of REALTORS® from their of...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Dan Marzilli is a Pest Control Operator (aka Pest Inspector) with GT Inspects, currently based in Oakland. GT Inspects Inc . is a licensed Branch III operator in the State of California (Lic #PR7280). This is a companion piece to Episode #23 , a conversation with Home Inspector Brian Cogley Serving 30 cities in the East Bay , GT Ins...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Shawn Dunning is a candidate for mayor in the City of Richmond, CA. Shawn is the former chief operations officer of organizational development company Adventure Associates, Inc. During his tenure there, Shawn developed and facilitated leadership, team development, and conflict resolution programs for corporate, government, and nonpr...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Aman Daro has become a regular on the podcast, and with good reason. If you've ever received statistical charts from me or any Red Oak Realty agent showing aspects of the real estate market in the East Bay most likely they were conceived of and compiled by Aman Daro.  Aman Daro is COO at Red Oak Realty but is more fondly though...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Andrew Butt is a candidate for City Council for District 2 in Richmond, California. He’s managing principal at Interactive Resources , his family’s architecture firm in Pt. Richmond.   Andrew lives with his family in Point Richmond and has served as planning commissioner for the cities of El Cerrito and Richmond, and chaired the Ric...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Brian Cogley is an American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI) Certified Inspector and a California Licensed General Contractor (#954299). Brian has been inspecting residential and commercial buildings in the Bay Area since 2004. He has performed Condo-Conversion Inspections, Reserve Studies, BOMA Measurement Calculations, ADA Inspec...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! It's been 2 years since the real estate market roared back to life after the initial COVID lockdown in March 2020. Interest rates dropped in 2020, and as people took the time ( and had the time ) to reevaluate their lives and what, where, and how they wanted to feel about life, the real estate industry was about as hot as it co...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Aman Daro  has become a regular on the podcast, and with good reason. If you've ever received statistical charts from me or any Red Oak Realty agent showing aspects of the real estate market in the East Bay most likely they were conceived of and compiled by Aman Daro.  Aman Daro is COO at Red Oak Realty but is more fondly thoug...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Katie Lance is the CEO and Co-Founder of Katie Lance Consulting . For the past 10 years Katie has been working with agents and brokers to help them get smarter about how to use social media to grow their business. Her specialty is in helping real estate agents and brokers achieve big results using social media WITHOUT spending a ton...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Liam O’Donoghue is the host and producer of the East Bay Yesterday podcast and co-creator of the Long Lost Oakland  map . His journalism has appeared in outlets such as KQED Arts, Berkeleyside, Open Space , KALW-FM, Mother Jones , Salon , East Bay Express , and the syndicated NPR program Snap Judgement. In 2018, he was honored by th...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Ben Stewart has 18 years experience as a financial advisor and portfolio manager. He founded Stewart Wealth Management in 2007, after spending seven successful years as a Vice President at Wachovia Securities.  I greatly enjoyed chatting with Ben! He has a very matter-of-fact approach to investing and is so incredibly down to earth...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Aman Daro is becoming a regular on the podcast, and with good reason. If you've ever received statistical charts from me or any Red Oak Realty agent showing aspects of the real estate market in the East Bay most likely they were conceived of and compiled by Aman Daro.  Aman Daro is COO at Red Oak Realty but is more fondly thoug...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Kevin Roose is an award-winning technology columnist for The New York Times, and the New York Times bestselling author of three books: Futureproof , Young Money , and The Unlikely Disciple . In this episode of the podcast we focus on Kevin's book Futureproof and I try to, in particular, look for its value with respect to surviv...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Tina Kopko is a CA licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Advanced Certified Grief Recovery Specialist® . She's also a friend with whom I enjoy endless conversation as we hike the lovely local parks in the east bay hills. Today's conversation is an invitation to the listener to take stock of your own mental health. The...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Brenda Wyatt is a loan agent based out of Oakland, CA with All California Mortgage. Brenda has two decades of experience helping Bay Area renters become homeowners and helping homeowners refinance their homes. Following in the footsteps of her mom, she is a 2nd generation top-producer in real estate, earning President Club status th...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Open Houses are back!! In this fairly short conversation I catch up with the wonderful Simon Black , a fellow Red Oak agent and Realtor®. Simon is a consummate professional and a particularly effective and knowledgeable open house host. I though Simon would be the ideal guest to chat with about the very recent update to health guide...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Alissa Custer is a top-producing agent known especially well for her dominance in the City of El Cerrito, CA, where she's perhaps better recognized by her team name and brand MAJ Realtors . I was excited to chat with Alissa because I've watched her rise to prominence with great respect and professional awe/curiosity. I&apo...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Farrah Wilder is the California Association of Realtor’s Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer. In this newly created position, Farrah supports C.A.R.’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. We talk about about the history of zoning and redlining with specific references to Berkeley and the East Bay, the new deal and the...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! This is a shorter podcast than usual. In this, my second conversation with Aman Daro, I wanted to quickly understand if the stories I'm hearing in the field about this being the most intense and hot market ever are in line with actual market data. Or are we just exhausted from adjustments to work life as a result of the pandemi...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Anna Bellomo is the founder of District Homes , a real estate company with an office on Solano Avenue in Berkeley. District Homes is a woman-owned and operated business, partnering with the brokerage firm Side, Inc . Side, Inc. offers a new business model by exclusively partnering with top producing agents allowing them to create, g...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! I'm incredibly grateful for the support I received in producing the podcast this year. I'm deeply grateful to my guests. Thank you for choosing to spend time chatting with me Andrea Gordon, Pat Leaper, Felicia Mares, Herman Chan, Aman Daro, Edna Olmstead, and Vanessa Bergmark. Thank you dear listener for spending time list...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Vanessa Bergmark is the owner of Red Oak Realty and an East Coast native who has called the East Bay home for over two decades. We talk about her journey to where she is now by trusting the people around her and trusting the intuitive voice within her. We talk about her intense interest in conflict resolution and how her studies in...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! This episode means more to me than I can say. It's truly one of the great good fortunes of my life to count Edna Olmstead among my closest friends. Edna spent 28 years at Red Oak Realty before retiring about a decade ago. I was fortunate to join Red Oak and become her friend right before she retired. You'll forget as you l...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! If you've ever received statistical charts from me or any Red Oak Realty agent showing aspects of the real estate market in the East Bay most likely they were conceived of and compiled by Aman Daro. Aman Daro is COO at Red Oak Realty but is more fondly thought of as "the data guy". I wanted to understand this challeng...

Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text! Herman Chan is a top producing Realtor® with Golden Gate Sotheby's International Realty in Berkeley, CA. We talk about his almost accidental start in the business, his adventures in LA, various aspects of marketing from social media to video and what the term Luxury Real Estate really means. We also talk a little about local re...