First milestone
2011
San Francisco
Pacific Heights office opens in a restored carriage house on Fillmore. Theo takes the West Coast practice.
[ About us ]
a practice,
not a platform
[ VISION & MISSION ]
our path
We exist to make residential real estate slow, considered,and intergenerational again.
vision
To be the residential brokerage that families return to for three generations — the one a daughter calls, twenty years after her mother bought her first home through us.
mission
To represent people who treat their home as a long-term decision — and to give them, every time, a standard of work the industry has spent two decades trying to forget.
[ FOREWORD ]
Marby was founded in 2009 to represent residential real estate the way it deserves to be — slowly, attentively, and only for as many clients as we can know by name. Seventeen years later, that has not changed. The list has grown. The standard has not.
First milestone
2014
London
Pacific Heights office opens in a restored carriage house on Fillmore. Theo takes the West Coast practice.
First milestone
2018
The Journal
Pacific Heights office opens in a restored carriage house on Fillmore. Theo takes the West Coast practice.
First milestone
2022
Now
Pacific Heights office opens in a restored carriage house on Fillmore. Theo takes the West Coast practice.
First milestone
2026
Pacific Heights office opens in a restored carriage house on Fillmore. Theo takes the West Coast practice.
[ A MANIFESTO ]
what we believe
[ 01 ]
a home is not a transaction
It is a decade-long decision, and it should be made by people, not by algorithms or alerts. Our job is to slow the decision down, not to speed it up.
[ 02 ]
discretion is a practice, not a favour
Roughly half of what changes hands at Marby never reaches a public portal. We don’t talk about closings unless asked, and we don’t ask to be quoted in the press.
[ 03 ]
marketing is the last thing, not the first
We start with the building. Then the photographs. Then the words. We market least and tend to sell closest to ask — because the work was done before the listing went live.
[ FAQ ]
questions & answers
The questions we are asked most often, answered honestly. If yours isn't here, write directly to the partners — we read every note.
[ OUR TEAM ]
the people behind the practice
Seventy advisors across New York, San Francisco, and London. Architects, designers, lawyers, and a few former editors — the kind of people you might already know.
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[01]
Theo Marchetti
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[02]
Imogen Hart
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[03]
Julian Okafor
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[04]
Sasha Reinhardt
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[05]
Henry Tant
[ CONTACT]
find a home worth keeping
No questionnaires. No automated funnels. A first conversation with a partner, at no cost and no obligation.