Buying in Trestle Glen or Crocker Highlands: A Guide for Tech and Corporate Buyers
Trestle Glen's median is running around $1.50M right now, sometimes higher depending on layout and square footage. Crocker Highlands sits even higher, $1.75M to $1.80M and up, some of the strongest price points in this part of Oakland.
I live just north of Park Blvd, in a small stretch of North Glenview built in the same era as both of these neighborhoods. As a buyer, what should actually matter to you when choosing who to work with here is real estate expertise, yes, but also someone who can tell you what it’s like to live, raise a family in and around these neighborhoods, and who knows how to advocate for you well beyond just at a real estate transactional level.
Before this, I spent years training salespeople and leading client success teams, work that comes down to one thing: making sure the people on the other side of a deal actually get ROI. That's the same standard I hold myself to here. If you're coming from a demanding career yourself, tech, corporate, or otherwise, that's probably the standard you already hold people to.
What changes once you're above $1.5M
The buyer pool looks different up here. You're not competing with first time buyers stretching every dollar, you're competing with people who can move fast, who usually have real cash reserves or strong existing equity, and who already know what they want.
That changes what actually wins an offer. A fully underwritten pre-approval carries more weight with an experienced listing agent than it did at a lower price point. Sellers have less patience for contingencies that could fall apart, so knowing which ones you can genuinely tighten, and which ones are worth keeping for your protection, is where real negotiation experience shows up. And a lot of these sellers are managing their own complicated next move, so an offer that can flex on timeline sometimes matters more than an extra ten thousand dollars on price.
Why I'm not going to sell you on "neighborhood insider"
Plenty of agents working Trestle Glen and Crocker Highlands will tell you about their decades selling in the area, and for some of them that's genuinely true and valuable. I'd rather just tell you what I actually bring, I'm close by, I analyze numbers, and more importantly I devise strategy from variables around risk and investment; I spent years negotiating at a high level in arguably one of the fastest paced industries before I ever sold a house. That's the combination I put to work for you here.
If you're thinking about a move into Trestle Glen or Crocker Highlands, let's talk through what the current market actually looks like for the kind of home you're after.
Fontaine Schaber is a Bay Area REALTOR® based in North Glenview, working with buyers and sellers throughout Glenview, Oakmore, Trestle Glen, and Crocker Highlands, as well as San Francisco and Berkeley. Start a conversation.
