Christie’s International Real Estate Strengthens Position in California With Addition of a New Affiliate

San Mateo, California —Christie’s International Real Estate, the world’s leading luxury real estate network, has awarded Affiliate status to Oliver Luxury Real Estate Peninsula. The newly established firm will exclusively represent the Christie’s brand in California’s San Mateo County, including the upscale communities of Atherton, Woodside, Hillsborough, Portola Valley, Burlingame, and Menlo Park. This boutique brokerage is lead by long-standing luxury real estate expert Michael Oliver and his company, Oliver Luxury Real Estate, which joined the Christie's International Real Estate network earlier this year with its Lake Tahoe office. Michael has joined forces with third-generation Peninsula property specialist Kristin Cashin. 

Wholly owned by Christie’s, the world’s leading art business, Christie’s International Real Estate is represented in more than 40 countries. Oliver Luxury Real Estate Peninsula joins this carefully selected organization of brokerages with proven records of success in both high-end property sales and exemplary client service. 

“We are pleased to welcome Oliver Luxury Real Estate Peninsula to the Christie’s International Real Estate network,” says Zackary Wright, Senior Vice President of Christie’s International Real Estate. “Oliver Luxury Real Estate and its new partner in San Mateo County share the highest standards of professionalism and strong core values of exceptional client service. Oliver Luxury Real Estate Peninsula will be an excellent addition to our global network.” 

"We are delighted to bring the exclusive Christie's brand to this unique world-class market,” says Michael Oliver of Oliver Luxury Real Estate. “We will be providing the highest standard of representation to the very special buyers and sellers of the Bay Area Peninsula.”

“Our team of top-tier real estate specialists is dedicated to providing our clients with the very best local knowledge and the finest international exposure for their homes,“ says Kristin Cashin of Oliver Luxury Real Estate Peninsula. “The Christie’s International Real Estate network and its exclusive marketing services offer an unrivalled global platform for presenting luxury properties to an international buying audience.”

Headquartered in Menlo Park, the firm offers clients with expert local knowledge of high-value real estate on the Peninsula, located south of San Francisco. Through Oliver Luxury Real Estate Peninsula, buyers and sellers of luxury properties in the area now have access to the combined marketing efforts of Christie’s and Christie’s International Real Estate.

ABOUT CHRISTIE’S INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE

Christie’s, originally founded in 1766 by James Christie, pursued an innovative real estate venture in 1995 by acquiring Great Estates, a luxury real estate network founded in 1987. Christie’s International Real Estate is an invitation-only Affiliate network composed of the world’s most proven and qualified real estate specialists. The company has central hubs in London and New York; field offices in Beverly Hills, California, and Palm Beach, Florida; an operations centre in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and circa 130 Affiliates in Europe; North, Central, and South America; and the Caribbean as well as Asia, Africa, and Oceania. In 2011, new Affiliates were signed in Dallas, Texas; Pyrénes-Atlantiques, France; Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa; Highlands, North Carolina; Maui, Hawaii; Lake Tahoe, California; Phoenix, Arizona; the Turks & Caicos; and Toronto, Niagara-on-the-Lake, and Ottawa’s Rockcliffe Park, all in Ontario, Canada.

 ABOUT OLIVER LUXURY REAL ESTATE PENINSULA

With hundreds of millions in sales over recent years, including luxury, new construction, and re-development waterfront, lake view, and forest setting properties, Oliver Luxury Real Estate has established itself as a top luxury sales force in Lake Tahoe. Building upon the firm’s sterling reputation and long-standing success, company founder Michael Oliver—who was born and raised on the Peninsula—partnered with a team of the Peninsula’s top tier brokers in late 2011 to establish a new name in luxury estate in Silicon Valley. 

Led by third generation local real estate specialist Kristin Cashin, Oliver Luxury Real Estate Peninsula is comprised of a select group of top luxury producers and is headquartered in Menlo Park. The boutique firm offers clients with expert local knowledge as well as a unique international platform to showcase properties through its exclusive affiliation with Christie’s International Real Estate, the world’s leading luxury real estate network. The Oliver Luxury Real Estate Peninsula team prides itself on a vast knowledge of the market, invaluable connections, impeccable ethics, exceptional client service, and extensive resources outside of the area.