Noe Valley · San Francisco
26th & Castro - Victorian, top floor
$2.4m
- Bd
- 3
- Ba
- 2
- Sqft
- 1,820
- Yr
- 1907
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012 active · 014 on deck · Bay Area
Find a home
that fits
how you live.
Boutique buy-side representation across San Francisco, Marin and the Peninsula. We see eighty homes a week, in person, so by the time you tour the right one - it's already the right one.
80+
Homes seen / week
14d
Median offer to accept
96%
Clients placed in <120 d
i. noe valley · placed jul 25
Noe valley
$2.4m
ii. pacific heights · jun 25
Pacific Hts
$5.1m
iii. mill valley · may 25
Mill Valley
$3.2m
iv. presidio · apr 25
Presidio
$4.7m
§ 01 · How we work
Three steps. No teams, no handoffs.
One broker, your broker, the whole way through. We don't list, we don't dual-rep, and we don't shop for a yes - we shop for the right house, which is occasionally a no.
- / 01→
The brief.
Sixty minutes, in person if you're local. We don't ask what you want to buy - we ask how you spend a Tuesday morning, and whether the light in your bedroom matters more than the parking.
- Lifestyle audit, not a wish-list 60 min
- Honest budget, total carry ±15%
- Pre-approval introductions 3 lenders
- / 02→
The tour.
We see every relevant home in person - 80-odd a week, on average, across three counties. You see only the ones that survive: typically four to nine, never the whole MLS firehose.
- Saturday brokers' opens, in person 40+ / wk
- Off-market through our network ~30% of placings
- Written notes on every house same-day
- / 03→
The win.
We don't spray offers. We negotiate two or three a year that we actually want to win - with a forty-page comp pack, a story for the listing agent, and a number we can defend on Tuesday.
- Median offer to accept 14 days
- Average paid under list 2.1%
- Escrow through close, in-house 30–45 d
§ 02 · Active listings, this week
Twelve houses we'd show you.
A working catalogue, refreshed every Monday. Six on this page - the other six are held privately for registered buyers. The houses we won't show, we don't list.
Pacific Heights · San Francisco
Broadway - flat, bay-view full floor
$5.1m
- Bd
- 4
- Ba
- 3.5
- Sqft
- 3,140
- Yr
- 1925
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Mill Valley · Marin
Sycamore - cedar & glass mid-century
$3.2m
- Bd
- 4
- Ba
- 3
- Sqft
- 2,610
- Lot
- 0.32 ac
w/ Iris HayashiRequest the pack →
Presidio Heights · San Francisco
Pacific - classical revival, garden
$4.7m
- Bd
- 5
- Ba
- 4
- Sqft
- 3,420
- Yr
- 1912
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Bernal Heights · San Francisco
Cortland - Craftsman, south slope
$1.95m
- Bd
- 3
- Ba
- 2
- Sqft
- 1,540
- Yr
- 1908
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Mountain View · Peninsula
Mariposa - Eichler, tucked street
$2.85m
- Bd
- 4
- Ba
- 2.5
- Sqft
- 2,180
- Lot
- 0.21 ac
w/ Iris HayashiRequest the pack →
The other six houses are held privately for registered buyers, including three estates in Marin we've been asked not to advertise.
Register for off-market →§ 03 · The math
A small house, on purpose.
Three brokers. About forty buyers a year. We'd rather lose business to scale than fail to know your name on the phone. The numbers we run the firm by - not the ones we put on the billboard:
$1.2b
Placed for buyers
2017 - 2025
96%
Placed in under 120 d
Median 71 days
32
Off-market closes, 2024
31% of all placings
2.1%
Average paid under list
where comparable existed
§ 04 · The team
Three brokers, three counties.
We deliberately do not have an office, an assistant, or a yard sign. Everyone you talk to has placed a hundred-million dollars of homes.
Maren Park
SF · principalFounded Northwood in 2017 after seven years at Compass. Born on Castro Street; can tell a 1907 Edwardian from a 1912 one from across the road. Speaks Korean and very direct English.
- Career
- $680 m
- 2024
- $112 m
- Median
- 14 d
Iris Hayashi
Marin · PeninsulaMid-century specialist - Eichlers, Joseph Eichler, Goodman Eichler, every Eichler. Architecture degree from Berkeley. Drives a twenty-six-year-old wagon, fast.
- Career
- $340 m
- 2024
- $84 m
- Off-mkt
- 41%
Theo Bishara
North SF · partnerPacific Heights, Presidio, Cow Hollow, Marina. Twelve years at Sotheby's before he'd had enough. Knows every doorman from Broadway to Beach. Will not show you a house with a shared driveway.
- Career
- $460 m
- 2024
- $94 m
- > $5m
- 22 closes
§ 05 · Tools & guides
Free to use. No login.
A small handful of working calculators and neighbourhood notebooks - the same ones we use internally. No email gate, no "your report is loading" nonsense.
Carry calculator
/ MO. SF · 30 YR · 6.8%$
%
%
yr
$ 14,820
Total monthly carry
P&I + TAX + INS
to qualify @ $520k
P&I $ 12,510
Tax · 1.18% $ 2,360
Ins · est. $ 184
"They saw a house on Cortland I'd driven past for ten years and never noticed - and they were right about it."
K. Tanaka · placed Bernal Hts, 2024
"Northwood passed on three houses we asked them to write up - and were correct each time. That's the entire job."
J. & M. Vela · placed Mill Valley, 2024
"Forty-page comp pack on a Sunday night - I have been a listing agent for twenty years, I had never seen one."
A. Reyes · listing agent, Pacific Hts
§ 06 · Get in touch
Tell us about the house you're looking for.
Read by a principal, replied to within twenty-four hours. The first conversation is sixty minutes, free, and very rarely about real estate.