Experienced Local Team

We cover the entire Bay Area. We've helped clients buy homes in San Francisco, North Bay, East Bay and South Bay. We also cover LA and San Diego in Southern California.

We provide all of the services of a traditional real estate agent, with better data-driven tools, increased transparency and more responsive customer service. We can help with as little or as much of the home-buying process as you require. Some clients come to us with a home already found and a price in mind, and need assistance with assessing the home and executing the transaction. Others are still figuring out their budget, what they're looking for, and advice on where to focus their search. Wherever you are in your home buying journey, we're here to seamlessly guide you through your home buying process - finding the right home, valuing it, understanding the disclosures, submitting a competitive offer, and closing the transaction. We're with you from start to finish.

Yes. Unlocked is a fully-licensed California brokerage (CalDRE#02060530) and all of our agents are fully-licensed California sales agents and members of the California Association of Realtors (TM) and the National Association of Realtors (TM).

With Unlocked, you'll be working with one of our fully-licensed real estate agents to get all of the services provided by a traditional real estate agent, with better data-driven tools, increased transparency and more responsive customer service. So in many respects, your buying experience will be the same as working with a traditional real estate agent - only better!

In terms of how we're different, firstly, we offer 1% cash back. This is the largest buyer's rebate in California (that we know about)! That is tens of thousands of dollars that you can put towards buying new furniture, renovating your kitchen and bathrooms, or throwing that all important housewarming party (or more responsible uses like paying down your mortgage).

Secondly, our backgrounds are different than traditional real estate agents. We are a Stanford MBA and a Yale Law JD, who have also worked at some of the top management consulting, law and private equity firms (Bain &Company, Boston Consulting Group, Wachtell and Bain Capital). We leverage our data-driven, customer-oriented experiences to deliver a more insightful, analytical and responsive home buying experience.

Thirdly, Unlocked has built custom analytical tools to bring data, insight and transparency to the key buying decision points and streamlined the buying process. For every home you're interested in, we provide our Custom Valuation Report, an easy-to-interpret spreadsheet of recent comparable transactions, competing listings and third-party valuations, as well as our Disclosure Review Summary, a comprehensive summary of the 200+ pages of disclosures.

All-in-all, we've designed the buying experience that we would have wanted when we bought our homes, and we're sure you'll love it, just like our current and past clients have (check out our Yelp reviews).

Unlocked's total commission for Buyer agent services is 1.5% of the purchase price of your home, subject to a $15,000 minimum commission per transaction. Unlocked only receives a commission upon the Closing of your home purchase; Unlocked will never charge a fee for services prior to Closing. Typically, home Sellers will offer to pay a Buyers' agent commission out of the proceeds received from their home sale. The customary commission amount offered from Sellers to a Buyer's broker is 2.5% of the home's final sale price. For a particular transaction, in the event that Sellers have offered, and Unlocked receives, a Buyers' agent commission of 2.5% of your home's sale price, Unlocked will issue a Cash Back Commission Rebate of 1.0% of the sale price to you at Closing (the difference between the 2.5% commission received and Unlocked's 1.5% fee for services), subject to Unlocked's $15,000 minimum commission per transaction. Per applicable IRS guidance, the Unlocked Cash Back Commission Rebate is not taxable to you, and accordingly Unlocked will not issue a Form 1099 or similar with respect to the commission rebate.