For the last decade, Ian Batra has established himself as one of Silicon Valley’s top selling agents. The Batra Team closed over 120 million in residential sales in 2021, with notable proportions in the high-end market. His service-forward team management style develops newer agents’ skill sets to realize their potential, while supporting more experienced agents, ultimately helping team partners reach their goals. Fusing traditional real estate skill sets with tech-forward tools has ensured that Ian and his team stand out and perform in a fast paced, diverse, and globally-driven market.
I met Zaharra at open house of this same home we purchased in Milpitas. From the very first conversation, we felt much confident working with her. Being first time home buyer we were not sure how its going to work out, but she guided through out this transaction. Be price negotiation or clauses to be included in contract, she provides required inputs, but same time respects our decision. She is resourceful and tries to go out of a way to help home buyers, including arranging contractors so that house is ready for our moving date.
Zaharra is very knowledgeable about different neighborhoods in the bay area. We got good advice from her regarding real estate purchase. She joined in all the open houses and house visits with us. She prepared a good summary of all the property inspection and termite inspection report for us that we considered. It saved us a lot of time.
We bought our house with help of Zaharra the process took only 3 weeks. She joined us in all the open houses and arranged showing in the evening. She is very good at keeping the communication channel.
My wife and I recently sold a house in Cupertino and purchased two replacement investment properties in Seattle, Washington and Danville, CA using the 1031 Exchange process. We originally planned to buy a property in the Santa Clara area and contacted Zaharra. She was extremely knowledgeable with the neighborhoods, property values, market conditions and the 1031 strategy. We eventually decided to buy in Danville and could have changed to a local Danville agent but didn't because we were so impressed with Zaharra. She researched the market in Danville and we quickly succeeded in finding and purchasing a great Danville property. The transaction involved offers, counter offers, home inspections and negotiating addition credit from the sellers to correct property issues. Zaharra identified the issues, communicated clearly and offered solutions that were accepted by both parties. Zaharra was very responsive to all parties resulting in a smooth transaction with minimal stress. We had three agents while transacting the three properties and Zaharra is the one we would prefer to use in the future. We would give her SIX STARS if it was possible!
Our family used Ian to both sell and buy our new home. As you can imagine this is somewhat of a stressful process. Not only was Ian very personable, he listened to our requirements for both selling and buying our new home, this avoided multiple weekends and late evenings viewing homes that did not meet our criteria. He was/is very knowledgeable of the bay area fast-pace competitive marketplace, ensuring that we avoided any pit-falls during the process. Ian is well organized efficient and always available. Even post-sale purchase of our home we can rely on Ian to be very responsive. Our family highly recommends Ian and will undoubtedly use Ian for any future real estate endeavors. Cheers, the Bush and Williams Family?
Zaharra helped us from the beginning of the process of buying a home all the way through moving into our dream home in Evergreen neighborhood of San Jose. The process of buying a home is frankly long and frustrating because its so competitive around here, but Zaharra was always responsive to our questions and knowledgeable about the current market and listings. Importantly, she was patient with us as we changed our opinion frequently and figured out our preferences about the neighborhoods and home designs. We ended up making more than 5 offers with Zaharra before our sixth offer was accepted. That means we became proficient at searching for listings, viewing properties, vetting the disclosures, resolving any issues, and finally making the strongest possible offers. Zaharra kept up with a pretty fast pace search. After the offers were made, Zaharra always did her best to give us the leg up with the sellers agent - which was INCREDIBLY challenging for any agent because we were competing with up to 25 offers per house with other motivated buyers. After a few disappointing results in a competitive market, we began to get creative and simultaneously pursued both the "hot" properties as well as some "colder" properties up for auction or that were not being marketed well. It was this 2nd strategy that led us to our dream home with a motivated seller, that we were able to negotiate a great deal that was only $50 above asking price. Finally, I just want to give extra credit to Zaharra's team led by Ian and Laura Batra for providing some extra muscle whenever it was needed. They acted quickly on our behalf to resolve a few small contract issues that appeared during the closing process, with a favorable outcome for us. Thank you!
Ian was extremely helpful and assisted me through each step of the process of purchasing my first home. He is very knowledgeable about the area and was a great asset to have in evaluating my potential home purchase as well as negotiating with the seller. Ian was extremely responsive throughout. I would not hesitate to recommend him.
Zaharra Wong helped us buy a property in downtown San Jose this year, she was so professional and effective that we were able to close our purchase in 15 days. I strongly recommend her!
Zaharra has been very helpful and resourceful in the daunting search to find housing in the South Bay. She knows the area and is very responsive to our needs/feedback. Would highly recommend her to those looking to become homeowners in the South Bay.
Zaharra is extremely helpful and proactive. She was available to answer questions promptly. She made an intinmidating experience as painless as I could hope for. Thanks to her, my wife and I now own a home we love, in the neighborhood we wanted. I would recommend anyone to use her for their real estate needs.
