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Austin Jiao
Sophia has been my realtor of choice for the Bay Area for the last 6 years. She is very on top of things and is was able to hone in on what I wanted when looking for a house. I trust her opinion and her research when showing houses. For selling property, I followed Sophia's advice and achieved very good results. She is always thinking about how to get the best deal for you as a homeowner.
Yan & Xia
Sophia is a very seasoned, knowledgeable and customer-oriented agent. She has been very responsive during the negotiation and helped us nailed a deal that is 120k below listing and 40k lower than appraisal. We have been shopping for 4 months with our previous agent and didn't get any offer accepted. Then we switched to Sophia and with her connection it only took 3 days for us to make the right offer and get the deal.
Chiang Dora
Sophia has been extremely helpful with kind patience for my home purchase in US. She's not only knowledgeable with buying homes but also being as a very successful listing agent in Bay Area. Sophia has a very profound networking with all aspects of the local contractors/trade partners that new homes will be needed for furnishing/remodeling purposes but also for CPA consultation intro as well which saves us a lot of hassles to pave the way towards new home purchase. Last but not least, we appreciate so much for Sophia's fantastic support during my very 1st home purchase journey. Will highly recommend Sophia to be your trustworthy realtor with whole-hearted. You Rock! Sophia
Thomas
Sophia went above and beyond in helping me find the perfect home, and her extensive knowledge of the real estate market was invaluable in helping me make an informed decision. Not only did she assist me in the home-buying process, but she also shared valuable tips and insights on what to look for in a home. I appreciate her responsiveness, consideration, and pleasant demeanor throughout the process. Her commitment to delivering exceptional service is truly impressive, and I would recommend Sophia to anyone looking for a knowledgeable, reliable, and dedicated buyer agent.
TAI-KUEI FU
Really appreciated Sophia's help to help me buy the house. She is a very responsible and responsive agent. She introduced me the areas that I am not familiar with, and spent lots of time on explainibg the advantage and disadvantage of every area, which really helped me to know more about what house I am suitable. In addition, she helped me to contact many bank agent to resolve my loan program. I finally found a new room to start with. I felt I found a dream house and also met a good friend !
Hang Guan
Sophia did an excellent job helping me purchase my first home. She is very professional, kind, knowledgable, considerate, responsive, and insightful. We have been having very smooth communication, and she could understand all my need very clearly. With her help, I was able to move very fast to filter out the meeting-expectation options and place the order quickly. Then she helped inspect the house very carefully and helped me raising many detailed but important questions to the builders, to make sure the house I received is flawless. She also answered a lot of questions from me, and shared many useful experiences and tips. All of these have made my home purchase process effective, smooth, and comfortable. I really appreciate it.
Yukun & Fang
We engaged with Sophia for our first new home! Sophia has always been very responsive from the beginning. During the house hunting, she shared lots of her professional expertises, as well as some handy sfh home owner experience. She helped U.S. negotiate the price down, which saved us money towards house improvements! We will not hesitate to engage with Sophia for future services or inquires. Thank you Sophia !
Kappy Wang
Sophia is an exceptional knowledgeable Realtor. She helped me purchased a home in the bay area, while I was in Florida, From the beginning of search to the escrow closing, I didn't look the home in person, , she communicated with me virtually, handled all necessary things, including final walk through. When I first time set my foot in the home, I was more than happy to see the home she helped to chose for me, is beautiful, elegant, with high end upgrades throughout, and in a perfect location. I can't do better on my own. So grateful !
Caroline & Jeff
Sophia is a great agent! She’s very knowledgeable, reliable, and professional. She helped us purchase a beautiful single family home in Santa Clara and it was a good deal! She shared so much of her knowledge with us (i.e the home buying process, disclosure report’s detail, how to assess the quality of the kitchen & bathroom ‘s material etc) that was so helpful for first time home buyers like us. She also has so many good connections, such as the contractors, painters, loaners whom she referred to us after we bought the house, and that made the home buying process even smoother. Highly recommend Sophia !
Jack Zhen
As a first-time homeowner, I’m beyond thankful for Sophia being my agent. She has been helping me every step in this house purchase. Even though my case was super complicated with the mortgage loan and limited to the option of what I can purchase, Sophia was still able to pull it off for me in making this mortgage purchase in the heart of Fremont. Thank you again Sophia.
Austin Jiao
Sophia has been my realtor of choice for the Bay Area for the last 6 years. She is very on top of things and is was able to hone in on what I wanted when looking for a house. I trust her opinion and her research when showing houses. For selling property, I followed Sophia's advice and achieved very good results. She is always thinking about how to get the best deal for you as a homeowner.
Stella Wu
I found Sophia via a friend referral and she helped me purchase a new construction home in Fremont, CA in 2021 in the middle of the pandemic.
By the time we finally closed, it's exactly 12 months later in March 2022 and Sophia made sure to keep in touch with me throughout the process, and always prompt to answer questions when I had them.
She went out of her ways to explain the purchase agreement to me section by section, and helped tremendously in easing my nerves as a first time buyer.
I have been very impressed with her attention to details and the level of genuine care she delivers with her service - I will recommend working with Sophia if you are consider buying/selling a home.
Jenny
Sophia is the most responsible realtor I've ever known. She is professional , she gives us lots of useful suggestions. Also she's always so patient to answer all of our questions. With her help, my husband and I have just bought our dream house successfully with a reasonable price. Unlike some other realtors who just ask buyers to add as more money as they can to bid, Sophia gives us very pertinent advices. It's a very pleasant experience to work with her. I'm highly recommend Sophia!
Alina
High receommended Sophia to be your agent. Sophia helped us to buy a SFH in east bay and shared extensive knowledge throughout the process. She is responsible and responsive and delightful to work with. She also receommend remodelling and decorating idea when looking into different models of houses and gave us her best educated advice. She is also professional in communicating with seller agent and title company.
Andy Liao
As first time home buyer, we didn't understand the buying process, how to read the disclosure report and check on house status. Sophia helped us get through the detail of each items. With her help, we can really pinpoint our desirable house. Also, Sophia is willing to answer our questions promptly to relieve our anxious. Highly recommend!
Siew Hoon Ng
Excellent agent. Bought 2 houses with her. Have very good service in both cases. She worked really hard and tried her best to get us a good deal. The first house we bought is in San Jose in 2014. That time the market was very hot. And she managed to negotiate down and get the offer accepted. We actually paid BELOW the listing price. This was incredible. The 2nd house is bought recently in 2021, even hotter market. We did not managed to offer below listing price this time, but managed to get a good deal nonetheless (compared to other recently sold homes). We are very happy with her service and advice.
Xiao Jun
Sophia has a strong sense of responsibilty. She took care of everything from house hunting, placing bids, finding the best mortgage and loaners and recommending handy man to fix the property. She is also volunteering connecting landlords and tenants. It is a big help for buyers of investment property. Many of my friends got their sweet home with Sophia's help. Highly recommended!
Mozer Huang.
We bought a condo in April this year. Sophia was our agent. She is very professional and knowledgeable! She answered all our questions and communicated with us patiently thus we built good trust. She is responsible and considerate. She did her best to satisfy our needs and strived for our benefits. She is a nice and friendly person, and easy to work with. Sophia's team reacted fast and also provided mortgage service that reduced our burden and got us great rate.
Max
As a first-time home buyer I had done some research beforehand but was really grateful for Sophia! She has been a great help to me. Her commitment is reflected in her attention to the details. She is very knowledgeable, accessible and communicates clearly, making the process easy. She offered her opinion when I asked and helped me to consider things I hadn’t thought of. A joy to work with!!! Sophia has been awesome in finding homes match your requirement and she is also quick in arranging showings upon request. She never pressure us to buy anything that we don’t like or hesitate. Her patience and explaining things are her greatest strength as a realtor. I’ll definitely reach out to Sophia in the future and I recommend her to all my friends and family! Thanks again for a wonderful experience!
Du mu
Sophia helped us buy our house in bay area in 2019. She's very capable and patient. It was our first time buying a house and definitely the biggest investment ever. Sophia taught us a lot about the market, house inspection, house maintance, and etc. She's definitely the one you can 100% trust. We visited many open houses together. She did a lot of study and prepared docs about the details of the house every time before our visiting. Here's the story how we got our house. There was an open house in our neighbourhood. We liked it but there were too many other people bidding for it. We were about to give up but Sophia drove us around and she found another house in the same community which was about to open soon. The house had same great river view. With her help we made an offer before it went to market and we successfully got it accepted with a lower price. We were so lucky to move in before the Covid-19 pandemic. It made us very thankfuly to live in such a beautiful house and work from home for 2 years. Sophia is definitely the best agent and we will work with her again if we are going to buy/sell a house again.
Tsu-hao Chang
Sophia has been my agent for a long time. She helped me with the purchase of my first condo, sale of the condo, as well the purchase of my single family home. She is not only a professional real estate agent but also a good friend. From open house to closing a purchase, she is always willing to help answer all my questions and seek answers even if she does not know about it. After joining Intero, she is able to access more resources and help from its network. I highly recommend Sophia if you are looking for a professional real estate agent.
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BingBing Zhang
Sophia helped me buy my first home last December. After I first contacted her, she invited me to her office and introduced me lots of knowledge about shopping for homes and loans. During the process, she’s always professional and helpful. She toured the houses with me, gave advises from her perspectives and pointed out things that I need to pay attention to. With her help, my first offer got accepted successfully. We even become friends now. I would recommend Sophia if you have house purchasing needs in the future.
LiRong Tan
Ph. D.
Sophia is a good agent. I bought my condo with her. Since I was really worried about the noise for condos, she took me to the condo for many many times, and stayed over 3 hours with me in the condo to test the noise for one night. After my offer was accepted, another unit in the same community was put on the market with a much lower listing price. Sophia successfully persuaded the seller to decrease the price for $20K. Finally, she was always patient to answer all my questions about the condo during the whole process and even after the transaction. I am very grateful to that.
Yu-pei Chang, Ph.D.
It is with great pleasure that I write this letter of recommendation for Ms. Sophia Chien. If it wasn’t for her, my family and I wouldn’t be living in the home of our dream. It is within this very home that I got to create many wonderful memories. To name a few, the birth of our first child, the celebration of 5 years of anniversary, and the many birthday parties that are to come.
To us, Ms. Chien is more than just our real estate agent, she has become our lifelong friend. I still can’t forget the many trips she took us on as we tirelessly looked through the homes together. She carefully took note of our criteria for a home, and offered her expert opinions as we made important decisions. Throughout every step of the home buying process, she was always there. She was passionate, knowledgeable and really went above and beyond to make sure we have a positive home buying experience.
To further highlight how much we value and appreciate her expertise and professionalism, we have referred her to our close friends and family members who are looking to buy a home. She too singlehandedly helped them in getting the homes of their dream.
It is without a hesitation that Ms. Chien has my highest recommendation
Du Mu & Leah Su
Sophia is a very reliable agent. When I first started watching houses, my husband and I didn't know how to look at the details of the house. Under the introduction of friends, we know Sophia. When we first saw Sophia and her husband, she calculated the estimated loan amount and repayment according to our budget and purchase intention. Her careful attention made us feel really sincere. It seems like treating her own house.
Sophia drove every weekend to show us the house. In order to make us feel better to watch the house, her husband drove and she gave us a printed houses introduction. Each room has her own comments and we can see about six houses each time. She carefully checked the details: the structure of the room, the decoration, the floor, the wall, the roof, the drainage in the yard and the garage. Usually there were many details she would notice before us. So it saved us a lot of time. It makes us better to find the advantages and disadvantages of the house.
We only saw the house for three weeks and we set the offer. She also introduced us to the reliable loan agent. After setting the offer, she still fervently responded to our questions about loan process. We moved into the new house in just two weeks later.
After that, she also introduced us to the reliable decorator and paint worker. At this time, Sophia is not only our agent, but also our good friend. After staying in the new house, I received a lot of documents about the tax and transfer of the house. Sophia explained it to us whenever we contacted her. We are very grateful for this.
As a young couple, we are not familiar with the process of buying a house for the first time. Sophia has given us the greatest help and saved a lot of time and energy. We are very grateful to Sophia and her husband for this. Thanks to Sophia and we strongly recommend her as a house agent for everyone.
homes of their dream.
It is without a hesitation that Ms. Chien has my highest recommendation
JJJTng
This is the 2nd time that Sophia has helped us to purchase a house. Sophia visits every one of the property that we are interested in with us and give us valuable insight on each of them. When we decide to make an offer, she will try her best to find out information as much as she can by talking to other agents that have recent sales in nearby area. This information is very, very helpful. This allows to us make a competitive offer without drastically overpaying. In both cases, we were able to get the property at slightly below full market price for similar properties in the nearby area. This service is just amazing and it shows that Sophia put her client's interest at heart. After-sale service is also amazing. Sophia has helped to 'open the door' while the property is still pending (with seller's approval), so that we can get contractors to come to give a quote. She gave many valuable remodeling advice. She also connects us with multiple contractors so that we can get multiple quotes. After we get the 2nd house, I intend to rent out the first one. Since it is my first time being landlord, I have no clue. Sophia goes the extra mile of giving many advice, like how to screen tenants, what should or should not be included as part of the rental, etc. Sophia is also a loan officer with high integrity. If she finds that there is a loan rate better than what her company offers. She will refer the client to the outside lenders, even though it is against her interest. In fact, she has connected us to a few direct lenders. She even followed up with them and was able to help us to find a rate for 30 year fixed jumbo loan at a very good rate. We were very, very satisfied.
Xin Li
Sophia is willing to spend time helping us buy the house without overpriced offer. She is good at collecting information to help us make decisions. She also help answering any questions even after we brought the house.
June Allison
Sophia was a very good real estate agent and went beyond our expectations. During property visits, she would let us know what she thought about the property's fixtures and structure, for example whether the cabinets were built to last, and the quality of the floorboards. She would also have a good idea of what areas we should consider improving in the property, e.g., adding lights, and what we should hold off on, e.g., changing the stove. She was a wealth of information and never hesitated to share it with us. She was responsive over text and would frequently talk to us over the phone to provide us with more information as needed. During negotiations, she was effective in acting as a bridge between us and the sellers, ensuring that the process went smoothly. Even after the closing, Sophia was detailed in the final walkthrough and went personally down to check the property and wrote a report about the state of the property.
WanyiYin
We've been moving into our new home for a week, and same as the first day we visited two months ago, we love it. Thank you Sophia so much for providing us information and knowledge of buying homes as well as sparing no effort on finding new homes for us to tour. I would say we're really really lucky to find this place where all the units had almost been sold out and we were still able to pick the location we wanted among the few remaining units, but without your remarkable insight into seeing the potential homes we will like, we probably would never visit here, not to mention buying it. If you're planning to buy a new home, Sophia is highly recommended !!!
Xiao Yi Fan
Sophia has been incredibly helpful through our whole process. She helped us a lot when we start to shop around for new home, super cares about the details of houses and gave us a lot sincere recommendations and suggestions. When we decide to move forward towards an offer. She did pretty thorough explanation during our docs and file review, and helped us to present to listing agents physically, and put a lot of efforts in further negotiation, which is amazing. I would say Sophia is definitely the best agent I've ever worked with! Highly recommend!
Bo Chen Xue
When I decided to purchase a house, my friend recommended Sophia. The first time I met Sophia, she impressed me with her knowledge of the house market, her patience, and kindness. I know Sophia as a professional realtor and reliable friend. As a friend, she's able to give advice to our advantage and put herself in our shoes in terms of making critical decisions. Even after a deal is closed, she's always there to answer our questions relating to the property. My husband and I appreciate her help and friendship. We value the business with Sophia, but most importantly we value the relationship we've established with Sophia over the years.
Erhli Shen
It is an amazing experience to work with Sophia to buy my first home. In our first meeting she worked with me in detail about my financial situation and we sorted out a clear picture of what we should look for in the following weeks. We had a shared updating spreadsheet listed all the listings I am interested in that week and she always respond rapidly with comments and help me to prioritize the list. When going for house tour she always points out some important details like foundation, insulation, neighbor hood for us, which is super helpful. The closing process was fast and smooth. I am super happy with the house we bought last June and highly recommend Sophia to anyone who is looking for your dream home in south bay/east bay area.
Leah Sun
Sophia is a very reliable agent. When I first started watching houses, my husband and I didn't know how to look at the details of the house. Under the introduction of friends, we know Sophia. When we first saw Sophia and her husband, she calculated the estimated loan amount and repayment according to our budget and purchase intention. Her careful attention made us feel really sincere. It seems like treating her own house. Sophia drove every weekend to show us the house. In order to make us feel better to watch the house, her husband drove and she gave us a printed houses introduction. Each room has her own comments and we can see about six houses each time. She carefully checked the details: the structure of the room, the decoration, the floor, the wall, the roof, the drainage in the yard and the garage. Usually there were many details she would notice before us. So it saved us a lot of time. It makes us better to find the advantages and disadvantages of the house. We only saw the house for three weeks and we set the offer. She also introduced us to the reliable loan agent. After setting the offer, she still fervently responded to our questions about loan process. We moved into the new house in just two weeks later. After that, she also introduced us to the reliable decorator and paint worker. At this time, Sophia is not only our agent, but also our good friend. After staying in the new house, I received a lot of documents about the tax and transfer of the house. Sophia explained it to us whenever we contacted her. We are very grateful for this. As a young couple, we are not familiar with the process of buying a house for the first time. Sophia has given us the greatest help and saved a lot of time and energy. We are very grateful to Sophia and her husband for this. Thanks to Sophia and we strongly recommend her as a house agent for everyone.
Hong Xuan
Sophia is extremely responsive and detailed oriented. As first time buyers my wife and I had a lot of questions from time to time. But Sophia always replies promptly even during nights. Moreover, she focused on all the details during the processing paper work. She constantly negotiated the best deal for us and at the end, we are able to buy our dream house with our budget, and our bid is not even the highest! We are very grateful to have Sophia as our agent and will definitely recommend her to anyone who wants to buy their dream houses!
Frank
I have planned to buy a house since early 2018 and started working with Sophia on February. After face to face meeting with Sophia, I knew how much money I can borrow and what kind of house was within my budget. Luckily, a seller accepted my offer in 2 months. During the bidding process, I took Sophia's advice and won the bid with a good price. Sophia is easy to communicate with and responsive. I would like to work with her again if I were to sell or buy a house in the future. Best,