A client-first investment real estate professional, Herb is both honest and direct. “My years in commercial and investment real estate have provided me with the experience to quickly evaluate properties and help sellers and buyers structure transactions to achieve their goals. I look at properties as investments first and have a nose for finding the best use for a property that is also in the best interest of my clients,” he says.
For the past 15 years, Herb Alston has excelled as a real estate and securities professional in San Francisco, California. His specialty is providing thorough service by exploring all options for the sale and/or purchase of personal residences, commercial or investment properties. Herb prides himself on his statistically driven analysis of real estate investments and the market. He compiles the quarterly statistical updates for the City of San Francisco & the Bay Area as a whole. Bottom line is that if you're looking to real numbers to price your house for marketing purposes to get the highest sale price in the shortest amount of time. If want to spend $843,612.23 Herb is going to know what areas you're going to be able to get the most for your dollar and he'll help keep you on track.
Herb is licensed in both real estate and securities. He is not a Realtor, he is a Real Estate Advisor. Herb is on track to earn his Graduate of Realtors Institute (GRI) designation, the highest professional residential achievement, in 2008. He holds Securities series 22, 62 and 63 licenses. Since 2003, Herb has consistently won Top Producer awards in both real estate and securities sales. Herb's particular expertise is his ability to analyze, sell and purchase investment real estate.
Herb joined Coldwell Banker in 2008. For four years, Herb has worked for Pacific Union Real Estate. Prior to his Pacific Union experience, Herb worked for Prudential for four years, and as an operations consultant for Silicon Valley high-tech companies before that.
Herb is a San Francisco native and first generation American. He is an active member of his community, involved in a variety of community activities. Herb is a long-distance cyclist who rides 200 miles per week, many of those miles he's raising money for American Diabetes Association, Multiple Sclerosis and since the loss of his brother in-law in 1996 to AIDS, Herb has been riding from San Francisco to Los Angeles in the AIDS LifeCycle cycling event. Recently he has become involved in Jack & Jill a family organization that provides cultural, social, civic and recreational activities that stimulate and expand the mind of high school students to enhance life.