Anna May

After being part of and owning her own real estate brokerage for 19 years, Anna May joined Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty due to its pristine reputation, international recognition, and high level of service at all price points. True to her down-to-earth roots, Anna continues to live, invest, and conduct business in the San Francisco Bay Area, venturing beyond for long-time clients or referrals from those she knows and trusts or tapping into her nationwide or international network to assist. A colorful outlook allows her an incredibly diverse clientele drawing upon her background as a former elected official, world traveler in her work and philanthropic endeavors, along with the unique perspective of owning several brick & mortar businesses. While she enjoys doing business with clients in any stage of life from first-time homebuyers to selling challenging properties with tenants, code violations, IRS liens, probate, multi-party trust sales, out-of-area sellers and delicately handles divorce real estate sales.

Born “Anna Laveria May” at the U.S. military hospital in Taipei and known locally simply as 'Anna May', she has traveled internationally for her work and as a member of Rotary International. She's spent decades helping strengthen the interrelation of business, government, community, and charity. Anna's real estate professional journey started as a loan officer when interest rates were above 10% while she earned top producer status within a few months. Consistently recognized as a top award-winning professional, Anna was featured in the coveted East Bay Business Times “40 Under 40” shortly after being voted “Best Real Estate Agent” in the Daily Review reader’s choice poll. Regularly interviewed for industry magazines and local news outlets, Anna often serves as an irreverent top producer panelist or moderator at real estate conferences and leads training sessions for fellow agents. As a business owner from the age of 20, she has built out, owned and operated multiple restaurants, was elected and served as a history-making elected City Council Member, former Commissioner for her local Housing Authority, and former school bond oversight committee member. As a long-time member of Rotary International she's a past Rotary Club President and was presented with a “Rotarian of the Year Award”. Currently, she serves as President & Founder of her high school alumni association, a non-profit that supports the endeavors of high performing but bored high school students. In 2012, she started SantaCon in her hometown and continues to organize and promote this annual venue-crawl on the 1st Saturday each December to raise money and awareness to sponsor pet adoptions at her local animal shelter.

Anna May's leadership has extended to her presidency of a Women's Council of Realtors chapter, as Professional Standards Committee Member for the National Association of Realtors, Director/Vice President of her historic Prospect Hill Neighborhood Associat