About

About

Long-term wealth is shaped by better real estate decisions. For over four decades, Glenn and Therese Mendell have helped Bay Area buyers, sellers, and homeowners navigate real estate through experience, preparation, market insight, and disciplined property strategy.

Their experience spans fixer properties, renovations, seller preparation, long-term investment analysis, and navigating multiple Bay Area market cycles.

Today, Glenn & Therese combine traditional real estate judgment with modern analytics to help clients approach important property decisions with greater clarity and confidence.

The HomeFox Approach

HomeFox evaluates real estate through a long-term perspective focused on value, opportunity, preparation, and market positioning.

Every property decision is approached strategically — balancing practical experience, buyer psychology, improvement potential, and future market desirability.

Experience & Background

History

When Glenn’s father, a school teacher, bought his first home, that modest purchase became the foundation for something much bigger.  Combined with thoughtful improvements and guidance from a trusted Realtor, over time, Glenn’s father built a portfolio of rental homes that created enough real estate wealth to retire at just 45 years old.

Watching this journey unfold inspired Glenn early on. Just two years out of college, he purchased a fixer-upper through a creative seller-financed opportunity. Glenn and his wife, Therese, lived modestly, managed apartments, renovated homes themselves, and gradually reinvested profits into additional properties. What began with one rundown rental became a lifelong passion for buying wisely, improving with purpose, and helping others do the same.

Over the next four decades, Glenn and Therese continued renovating, building, and investing in real estate while helping more than 1,200 clients buy and sell homes throughout the Bay Area. Along the way, they built a brokerage focused not simply on transactions, but on helping people create long-term real estate wealth through smart decisions, patience, and practical experience.

Today, that same philosophy continues to guide everything they do: helping others buy right, improve thoughtfully, maximize value, and create lasting real estate wealth for themselves and future generations.

The Right Strategy Changes Everything.

Whether you are buying, selling, improving, or planning ahead, Glenn & Therese help clients approach real estate with greater clarity and confidence.

Glenn Mendell
Founder & Property Wealth Advisor
Therese Mendell
Co-Founder & Real Estate Advisor