Dave Hobson

Profile

• Lifelong career in real estate


• Over 20+ years in real estate management


• Over 20 years in real estate sales


• Former Director and Regional Chair, California Association of Realtors


• Former President, local Board of Realtors


• Lifelong resident of Palo Alto, Atherton, and Menlo Park

Background

Learning the business at an early age in his family’s real estate company, Dave has had a long career in marketing and sales of fine properties. Raised on the Peninsula from infancy, Dave intimately knows his hometowns of Menlo Park, Atherton, and Palo Alto – and what it takes to buy and sell real estate here and in the surrounding communities. After a very successful career in real estate sales at Grubb & Ellis and Fox & Carskadon, Dave moved into management positions at these companies and most recently at Coldwell Banker - Menlo Park, Mcguire - Burlingame, and now manages Intero offices in San Mateo, San Carlos, and Half Moon Bay. With his management experience, Dave has an unmatched insight into the industry while overseeing the details of thousands of listings and sales transactions through his career, along with providing extensive training, mentoring, coaching, and continuing education for his agents.

Strengths

Dave’s combined experience of real estate and management provides an outstanding level of knowledge to his buyers and sellers – a credential that few in this industry can match. His personal negotiation skills – critical for a successful transaction – were honed at an early age and sharpened over the years as he assisted his agents in closing sales in a very competitive, complex and high-profile marketplace. His extensive knowledge of the sales contract, executing it personally for his own clients and training others in its