Michael Swift

Michael Swift is a Real Estate Broker with over 24 years of real estate counseling experience. He received his real estate license at the young age of 19. Michael read every book he could get on the subject or real estate and customer care and went to many real estate seminars in order to learn as much about the business of real estate sales as possible. Although real estate is a tough business to succeed in, especially for someone so young at the time, Michael flourished by focusing all of his effort on making sure his clients were more than satisfied with the real estate sales process. Currently Michael attributes 96% of his business to the referrals of his current and past clients.

Michael focused primarily on helping people out of foreclosure through forbearance agreements and short sales for his first 4-5 years in the business during the real estate down cycle of 1991-1995. Due to his overwhelming success with helping people negotiate these complicated scenarios, he was recruited (1993) to Re/Max Executive in the San Francisco Bay Area as an Associate Broker to help train the office agents on how to successfully negotiate forbearance agreements (the modifications of those days) and short sale transactions.

Currently, Michael is one of the top real estate brokers in the San Francisco Bay Area and is consistently in the top 1% of real estate sales nationwide. In 2013, Michael exceeded the $40 million mark in real estate sales for the year. This achievement placed him in the Pinnacle Category within the Bay East Association of Realtors. Of the 4,385 agents in the association only 102 agents received this prestigious award.

Michael attributes most of his business success to the systems he has in place to proactively manage every step in a real estate transaction. This ensures that no balls are dropped and client communication is constant so each client has a positive experience and an experience that they would want to refer others to.

Here are some of the many prestigious designations Michael holds: Real Estate Broker,Master Certified Negotiation Expert (MCNE) Certified Home Buying Advisor (CHBA), Certified Home Selling Advisor (CHSA) Certified Distressed Property Expert (CDPE), Accredited Staging professional (ASP), Certified Foreclosure Specialist (CFS), Certified Short Sale Professional (CSP)

Michael is often a guest speaker at real estate functions and most currently was a featured guest speaker at the 4th Annual Mortgage Servicing Convention in Dallas http://www.americanbanker.com/conferences/ms10/ and at the Best Practices in Short Sales/REO in San Diego http://www.nationalmortgagenews.com/conferences/ssr10/featured_speakers.html.