We highly recommend working with Mahmut Altun for real estate in the Bay area and outside. We have been working on and off with Mahmut Altun, and his suggestions for the houses we are interested in have been spot on. He knows all areas we are interested in, knows quite a large radius in the Bay Area and outside. At the end of March 2026 end, a house in our street on a friday with an open house (and the deadline for the bid was wednesday), we went to see the house a second time the same weekend on sunday, we reached out to Mahmut Altun on monday, started pre-approval process that day and got it approved on tuesday, we talked about bidding strategy with Mahmut Altun on tuesday, we bid on wednesday, we were in the second place, and based on Mahmut Altun's suggestion, we increased our bid that day. Mahmut Altun also knew the seller agent (who was Mahmut Altun's intern), which proved how well-connected he is in Bay area real estate market. And we won the bid on that wednesday, April 1st. All happened in a matter of 5 days. We bid on a house the first time in our lives, and we won the bid the first time as well (which is rare, given the stories I hear from my friends about losing bids double-digit times). From April 1st to 22nd, the closing went on smoothly, and we closed the house before the deadline of April 22nd. We are honestly still in awe of how fast things happened, given that we didn't even have our pre-approval ready on the first business day after the open house, yet we still made it to the bid deadline on wednesday and won the bid. Throughout the closing period between April 1st-22nd, Mahmut Altun almost hand-holded us every step of the way, I was busy at work and so much work was done by Mahmut Altun and his team, which I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be able to do ourselves. From the first introduction call we had with Mahmut Altun back in 2022, to the time our relationship ended up us buying our house with our first-ever bid, Mahmut Altun has also been very helpful with information about home buying process overall, questions about some properties we were interested in (there were cases where we were interested in a house, and he just recommended us to avoid because the house had a lot of work to do, which saved us energy to not bid on houses that won't buy, which leads to Mahmut Altun's clients high bid-to-win rate), and many other ad-hoc questions we had about houses, house buying process, among others. And in times like the one we had when we bought our house in April 2026, when speed, bidding strategy, connections, knowing the area, knowing the house matters, Mahmut Altun's experience truly showed up when we won the bid and got the house. Highly recommended.