Red Oak Realty, two offices and 75+ agents strong, is the largest independent real estate company in our market area. We had our humble beginnings in a converted garage off Solano Avenue, at 844-A Ramona Avenue, Albany, in the winter of 1976. The bi-centennial was upon us. Gerald Ford was president. And on January 2, when we opened our doors, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at a dizzying 858.

The young company's enthusiasm, energy, and customer-oriented philosophy quickly attracted new agents, and the converted garage soon became too small. We moved to our present location at 1891 Solano Avenue, Berkeley, in 1979, keeping the Ramona office for several more years as a training center for new agents. In November of 2002, we opened our Oakland office at Pleasant Valley Avenue and Broadway in order to better serve our south Berkeley and Oakland customers.

Much has changed since our opening in 1976. In October 1999, we opened a second office in the heart of the Elmwood, at 2983 College Avenue, in order to better serve our south Berkeley and Oakland customers. Three years later, in November of 2002, we opened our Oakland office at Pleasant Valley Avenue and Broadway.

For many years, the San Francisco Business Times has included us in its list of the most productive 25 companies in the five county Bay Area, regardless of size or number of offices. In 2000, we were proud to be voted Best Real Estate Company by readers of the Hill's Newspaper group. We have a strong and proactive administrative staff to enable our agents to do their best work for their clients. And our offices today have state of the art technology which simply could not have been imagined when we began.

Our agents are carefully selected. We take pride in having a strong staff of dedicated, intelligent, hard-working professionals, who know the East Bay and real estate inside and out. We present our mission and values and vision to you, so that you know what we believe in and what we strive for.