Testimonials

My husband and I were going to go it alone in terms of buying a home. However, our broker recommended Nikki as someone who is well networked and excellent to work with. I'm so glad that we decided to go with Nikki. Here are some of the reasons why: Respected our time while driving timelines. My husband and I work long hours and weekends at times. Nikki respected our time and accommodated what worked for us in terms of communication. At the same time, she held us accountable to timelines and set our expectations early so extremely valuable when you're a busy professional. We met our timelines and Nikki really helped, not only driving us but driving the Seller's agent, inspectors, broker, and escrow agent to make things happen. As a note, she leverages electronic solutions like DocuSign, email, and texting things that saved us a lot of time. We felt like family. Nikki introduced us to grea…

My husband and I were going to go it alone in terms of buying a home. However, our broker recommended Nikki as someone who is well networked and excellent to work with. I'm so glad that we decided to go with Nikki. Here are some of the reasons why: Respected our time while driving timelines. My husband and I work long hours and weekends at times. Nikki respected our time and accommodated what worked for us in terms of communication. At the same time, she held us accountable to timelines and set our expectations early so extremely valuable when you're a busy professional. We met our timelines and Nikki really helped, not only driving us but driving the Seller's agent, inspectors, broker, and escrow agent to make things happen. As a note, she leverages electronic solutions like DocuSign, email, and texting things that saved us a lot of time. We felt like family. Nikki introduced us to great contractors and inspectors. She also gave us a lot of helpful advice at all stages (searching, bidding, inspecting, negotiating, signing). It was great being able to rely on her expertise and experience. She also proactively (and respectfully) advised us on our blind spots. Well networked and great relationships. At many of the houses we visited, the agents knew Nikki. In our case, we went with a house where she had never met the seller's agent before but she quickly grew rapport. In fact, the Seller's agent took me aside once and told me that we had a great agent. Anyway, Nikki also knows many inspectors and contractors, who show up on time for her and can turnaround quickly. timely. Incidentally, many of her contractors are contractors that my friends have recommended to me as well. She's not going to set you up with phony guys. Professional. Nikki is a great person to know and easy to like. More than that, I felt like she represented us well as our agent. I've seen and heard of the behaviors of other agents and felt bad for who they were representing. As our representative, Nikki was assertive but respectful and I had the sense that everyone appreciated working with her. I have a lot of great things to say about Nikki, but the 4 things above really stood out to me as reasons why I would recommend her to my friends and family.

With Nikki, we bought our dream home in Los Angeles under 30 days and did it from New York City! Nikki Hochstein is the top agent to have on your side anywhere in the Los Angeles area. Even though her offices are on the other side of town, she spent hours helping us for the our dream home in West Hollywood! We got everything on our wish list and on budget as well. On top of her dedication to us, her wonderful advice and amazing market insight, Nikki negotiated there best deal for us! We saved so much and came in under our max budget - which was such a wonderful part of the process of working with Nikki and such a welcome to know we did not go over our budget. Once we were in Escrow, Nikki was there every step for the way - weekday or weekend - days and nights. She even arranged for us to meet with inspectors just 2 days after we made our offer since she wanted us to have it done while we…

With Nikki, we bought our dream home in Los Angeles under 30 days and did it from New York City! Nikki Hochstein is the top agent to have on your side anywhere in the Los Angeles area. Even though her offices are on the other side of town, she spent hours helping us for the our dream home in West Hollywood! We got everything on our wish list and on budget as well. On top of her dedication to us, her wonderful advice and amazing market insight, Nikki negotiated there best deal for us! We saved so much and came in under our max budget - which was such a wonderful part of the process of working with Nikki and such a welcome to know we did not go over our budget. Once we were in Escrow, Nikki was there every step for the way - weekday or weekend - days and nights. She even arranged for us to meet with inspectors just 2 days after we made our offer since she wanted us to have it done while we were in town - that alone saved us so thousands in money and so much time, since we did not have to fly back to Los Angeles to do the inspections later. Also, her network of inspection experts for the home, deck and fireplace inspections were some of the best in Los Angeles. I cannot recommend Nikki enough. She really cares about her clients, knows the market so well and is a total professional in every sense. She is personally invested in all of her clients and in helping them achieve and find their dream home.

Our Real Estate Agent and therapist! I highly recommend Nikki for her experience, knowledge and expertise of the Westside Real Estate market. It helps when your agent is immersed in a specific area, especially a tough coveted market like Santa Monica. She has relationships that run deep and because of that when we lost our 2nd bid on a place she knew of a potential listing coming up and was able to let us know ahead of time so that we could adjust our schedules for a viewing. Once our offer was accepted, we had a very quick 45-day escrow process in which our lender relentlessly required many verification documents, repeatedly (everyone has a lender like that right?) She handled our lender professionally while under pressure - many times dealing with them directly on their requirements and only bringing us into the conversation when needed, knowing that both my husband and I were working …

Our Real Estate Agent and therapist! I highly recommend Nikki for her experience, knowledge and expertise of the Westside Real Estate market. It helps when your agent is immersed in a specific area, especially a tough coveted market like Santa Monica. She has relationships that run deep and because of that when we lost our 2nd bid on a place she knew of a potential listing coming up and was able to let us know ahead of time so that we could adjust our schedules for a viewing. Once our offer was accepted, we had a very quick 45-day escrow process in which our lender relentlessly required many verification documents, repeatedly (everyone has a lender like that right?) She handled our lender professionally while under pressure - many times dealing with them directly on their requirements and only bringing us into the conversation when needed, knowing that both my husband and I were working around the clock. There were a couple of times when we almost lost our home due to deadlines and lender hold-ups and Nikki was certainly calm under pressure, talking to all involved parties to clear up the misunderstandings. See, part-time therapist! In the end, we could not be happier in our new home and we thank Nikki for making our first home-buying process as easy as possible.

Nikki is the master of client service and focus. She is a pleasure to work with. Her real estate knowledge across the board is unmatched. She is very knowledgeable about properties in many different areas of Los Angeles. She is patient and sticks with her clients until they find what works for them (whether as buyers or sellers). She is also a master of the complex. We were looking for a home from New York City before we even decided to move here. We were coming out from time to time and seeing rentals and sale properties with Nikki. She was patient. She communicated with us regularly from afar and then gave us her focus when were were here. She quickly learned what worked for us, and what didn't. She never wasted our time. When buying our dream home became hairy (for a variety of reasons - including bank issues and the sale of 2 properties in New York at the time of our Los Angeles purc…

Nikki is the master of client service and focus. She is a pleasure to work with. Her real estate knowledge across the board is unmatched. She is very knowledgeable about properties in many different areas of Los Angeles. She is patient and sticks with her clients until they find what works for them (whether as buyers or sellers). She is also a master of the complex. We were looking for a home from New York City before we even decided to move here. We were coming out from time to time and seeing rentals and sale properties with Nikki. She was patient. She communicated with us regularly from afar and then gave us her focus when were were here. She quickly learned what worked for us, and what didn't. She never wasted our time. When buying our dream home became hairy (for a variety of reasons - including bank issues and the sale of 2 properties in New York at the time of our Los Angeles purchase), she kept her cool and looked for solutions. She definitely earned her fee and become a good friend too. She's terrific. We can't recommend her highly enough.

My husband and I were super lucky to have Nikki as our agent. She was referred to us by friends who also purchased a home with her. Having worked with and talked to other agents prior to Nikki, we can truly say that Nikki's expertise, attentiveness, and negotiation abilities are like no other. Especially in this competitive market. She guided us through the bidding process on a condo that had 23 bids! It didn't matter what time it was, Nikki was there to make sure the deal closed in our favor. After we won the bid, Nikki had a team of experienced inspectors come to look at every nook and cranny and we received a detail report on our potential new home. If anything comes up in the inspection, you can trust that Nikki is on top of it and will work it out with the seller and agent. Nikki really understands the market and is an expert at bidding and negotiations. Her remarkable communication…

My husband and I were super lucky to have Nikki as our agent. She was referred to us by friends who also purchased a home with her. Having worked with and talked to other agents prior to Nikki, we can truly say that Nikki's expertise, attentiveness, and negotiation abilities are like no other. Especially in this competitive market. She guided us through the bidding process on a condo that had 23 bids! It didn't matter what time it was, Nikki was there to make sure the deal closed in our favor. After we won the bid, Nikki had a team of experienced inspectors come to look at every nook and cranny and we received a detail report on our potential new home. If anything comes up in the inspection, you can trust that Nikki is on top of it and will work it out with the seller and agent. Nikki really understands the market and is an expert at bidding and negotiations. Her remarkable communication and relationship building skills with the other agents and her clients really make her special. We thoroughly enjoyed working with Nikki.

We were living in a house in Sunset Park, Santa Monica which, while it had its "charms", was a teardown in today's market. For various reasons we wanted to do the sale off-market, yet we obviously also wanted to get top dollar and knew the number we wanted to hit. I had never met Nikki, but she was the listing agent on a similar tear-down that had just sold a couple of streets over, on 30th, so I figured if she had any "leftover" bidders from that house, maybe she'd have a buyer for ours. (Due to privacy concerns and already being in escrow on a new house, we needed to unload our old house quickly to a known buyer rather than risking a protracted escrow on our old house.) I don't know if the developer who she found for us had bid on the other property or not, but within a couple days of signing the contract she had lined up our buyer and were in escrow at the number we were hoping to hit…

We were living in a house in Sunset Park, Santa Monica which, while it had its "charms", was a teardown in today's market. For various reasons we wanted to do the sale off-market, yet we obviously also wanted to get top dollar and knew the number we wanted to hit. I had never met Nikki, but she was the listing agent on a similar tear-down that had just sold a couple of streets over, on 30th, so I figured if she had any "leftover" bidders from that house, maybe she'd have a buyer for ours. (Due to privacy concerns and already being in escrow on a new house, we needed to unload our old house quickly to a known buyer rather than risking a protracted escrow on our old house.) I don't know if the developer who she found for us had bid on the other property or not, but within a couple days of signing the contract she had lined up our buyer and were in escrow at the number we were hoping to hit, setting a new comp for 40-foot lots at the east end of Sunset Park.

I Deborah Ortega have worked with Nikki Hochstein on numerous real estate transactions, Nikki has represented my colleague and boss Patrick Wachsberger (Co-Chairman and CEO of Summit Entertainment) in the past, as successfully closed escrow deals for him. After searching for nearly 3-4 yrs, recently, Nikki helped me find my dream home. It was a very challenging escrow with numerous demands and obstacles were thrown our way. Nikki proved to have a sixth sense and a daily intuition as she always had us prepared and ready to overcome any obstacle put in our path. There were several other offers put in on this property and I now know I would not have gotten the house had it not been for Nikki’s negotiating skills. I am also fairly confident it would not have closed had I had any other agent representing me. I will always use her whether buying or selling and have referred her to many colleag…

I Deborah Ortega have worked with Nikki Hochstein on numerous real estate transactions, Nikki has represented my colleague and boss Patrick Wachsberger (Co-Chairman and CEO of Summit Entertainment) in the past, as successfully closed escrow deals for him. After searching for nearly 3-4 yrs, recently, Nikki helped me find my dream home. It was a very challenging escrow with numerous demands and obstacles were thrown our way. Nikki proved to have a sixth sense and a daily intuition as she always had us prepared and ready to overcome any obstacle put in our path. There were several other offers put in on this property and I now know I would not have gotten the house had it not been for Nikki’s negotiating skills. I am also fairly confident it would not have closed had I had any other agent representing me. I will always use her whether buying or selling and have referred her to many colleagues and friends. Thank you Nikki!