I continue to be so grateful that my husband and I worked with Diane to purchase our first home. We've never been more thankful than during the pandemic when having a yard and our own safe haven was more meaningful than ever. Diane is a true professional who has kept in touch over the years. Recently, she, and her partner Jonathan Klein, were generous enough to drop in and provide us with a market assessment of our property so we could be aware of our home's current value and comparable local sales. Thank you!!! read more

What a pleasure it is to work with Diane. She is a consummate professional, extremely knowledgeable with years of experience, and great connections. Plus, she is a wonderful and caring human being. Just great to work with. I highly recommend Diane to anyone looking for a realtor in East Los Angeles. read more

Diane Evans is a brilliant realtor and an exceptional human being. Diane loves her work, she loves people, she clearly relishes the infinite problem-solving in the rollercoaster process of real estate, and she loves nothing more than seeing her clients happy. I recommend her to you absolutely. Diane is incredibly knowledgeable and authentically friendly. My husband and I relied on Diane's advice throughout the process of selling our Los Feliz home of 22 years. She guided us through every step of preparing the house for sale. She had clear suggestions for what to focus on---and what not to. Her decades of experience as a realtor allowed her to connect us to the best painter, gardener, floor refinisher, home stager, and more. Her design background made her an incomparable advisor---no detail escaped her eye. She listened to us, and we valued her insights and opinions...and she was always right! With Diane's exceptional guidance, by the time we put our house on the market, it looked incredible. After one weekend of open houses we received more than 20 significant offers over the asking price. We were, of course, overjoyed. Diane was also our buyer's agent for our new home. With her depth of knowledge about Los Angeles' unique neighborhoods, she led us through the process of finding a home in Mt Washington, making an offer, negotiations, and escrow. She guided us through all of the details of the inspection process with a hawk's eye. Now, we wake up every day in a new house with an amazing view of Elysian Park, downtown Los Angeles, and the sky. I am ecstatically enthusiastic about Diane Evans. We have recommended her to many friends, who never stop thanking us. I would never work with anyone else. We recommend her wholeheartedly to you. Thank you, Diane. Janie Geiser Mt. Washington, CA read more

We were referred to Diane by a professor friend of ours. We started looking at houses in the fall and immediately got along. She has great taste and knows everything about houses, especially all the invisible stuff that can cost you tons of money down the road. In our first attempt to buy, we weren't successful and ended up leasing. A year and half later, we got back in touch with Diane and started again. She was an amazing resource throughout the process, from shopping to offers, financing, inspections, repairs, the whole nine yards. And beyond being a total pro she's a lovely person who we enjoy spending time with. Highly recommended! read more

As first time home buyers and LA-transplants, my wife and I are so grateful to have met Diane Evans. We found Diane's insider knowledge and first-hand familiarity with the various neighborhoods we were looking in to be absolutely invaluable. Her years of experience, warm personality and caring advice made us feel so much more confident in the process and with all the decision we made along the way. We're so happy in our new home and are very grateful to have had Diane's help with everything - from search, to closing, and everything in between ... including introducing us to our new go-to ice cream spot! We would definitely recommend Diane to anyone buying or selling in the LA area! read more

Jonathan and Diane guided us through the daunting process of buying our first home. Aside from being wonderful people to hang out with, they are also highly detail-oriented, very specific in going forward with an offer and honest. They complement each other incredibly well. Jon is the scrappy, detail-loving, contract finagling guy you want on your side, while Diane brings an overall sense of strategy and lots of experience and relationships. Together this makes for a powerful team that we had the pleasure to work with. We looked at a few houses together and put in one offer with them and that's now our home. Jon and Diane spent day and night on this offer, strategizing between themselves, discussing vital details and then submitting it for us. Even though we weren't the highest offer, we still got the house. Our escrow process had its challenges because of the sellers, and Diane and Jonathan guided us through it and never let us get overwhelmed. They were there to answer our questions day and night. They never made us feel stupid as first-time buyers with lots of questions and we felt protected having them in our corner. I can say with confidence that without them we would not have gotten our dream home and having them on your side with their knowledge of over 15 years selling homes in LA was invaluable. read more

Diane worked with us to find and buy our first home and she has been a friend and trusted resource ever since. She was patient with us as first timers and had great advice that helped us get a house we loved in a very competitive market. She's smart, personable, experienced, authentic and honest. Diane is a keeper! read more

We can't say enough great things about Diane! She helped us find our dream house in Silver Lake, which was no small feat. She held our hand through every step of the way and is still checking in regularly even after closing. Diane was available to us whenever we needed her. She gave us great advice in a daunting process and answered tons of questions, as we are first time buyers. She is fun, kind, knowledgeable and very professional. Her expertise in strategizing and negotiating throughout the overwhelming process was exceptional. read more

Diane is extremely thoughtful, and a total pleasure to work with. She is readily available to her clients, which is so assuring among all the stresses of home buying. She's full of knowledge about LA neighborhoods, and gives wonderful guidance through the buying process. So glad to have found her! read more

A long overdue review for a Diane. We could not have bought our first house without her! When my wife and I were first house hunting in 2011 we met Diane at an open house. She called us and showed us houses. She helped us through every step of the process of finding and buying a home. Even years later, Diane gives us advice about refinancing and other matters. Highly recommended! read more

Diane is an amazing Realtor. I've worked with her as a preferred lender for a little over 5 years. She takes great care of her clients. She is knowledgeable, quick to respond and truly cares about her client's best interest. I work with a lot of realtors and I can say without hesitation that she's one of my favorite to work with. read more

If I could give Dianne Evans 10 stars, I would. Last year, I helped my parents put our family home on the market. It was a very emotional experience for us because I grew up in the home and my family spent the past thirty years living there. The sale was also key to funding my parent's retirement and I didn't want to lead them astray. We had a few different real estate agents to choose from and went through a bit of an interview process. It was clear from the beginning how organized, caring, and savvy Dianne was and she easily stood out from other agents. I am so glad we found her and ended up working with her. She had great ideas on staging the property and doing some minor alterations that really made the difference to marketing our home to buyers. We ended up selling for $200,000 over our asking price. We couldn't have done it without Dianne's expertise. She went above and beyond our expectations and was so involved in every step of the process. My parents were finally able to retire and the home went to a great family that will build a lot of wonderful memories just like we did. read more

Diane was the listing agent on a home we purchased. She is fantastic! Since we basically stalked the home we ended up purchasing by going to every single open house for it, we got to know Diane pretty well at the open houses and eventually during the home inspections and other aspects of the buying process. She always represented her clients really well while also being very respectful and kind with us and our agent. I had to email her a few times with some questions and speak with her on the phone about a few details, and she is a wealth of information on local real estate. She is also a good source of referrals to local service providers. She's as knowledgable as she is charming, and you won't go wrong with her. read more

I really can't say enough good things about Diane Evans. I've known Diane for six years and have been through a home purchase and sale with her. She helped my husband and I buy our first house and helped us through the process every step of the way. Then she became our friend and neighbor! When it came time to sell our house five years later, Diane worked tirelessly on helping us stage it and market it to potential buyers. We ended up with 14 offers and it sold way over asking price, largely thanks to Diane's hard work. I would recommend Diane as a realtor to anyone. She is not only super savvy about the real estate market and L.A. neighborhoods and schools, she is also just a really great person who you will enjoy spending time with. read more

Diane seriously is the best of the best. She helped us find a house in highland park that we are now in the midst of fixing up. During the search, she was so great at honing in on what was fixable in homes that needed TLC and what was too far gone (like a cracked foundation). It was a very nerve wracking time and I am so glad I had Diane on my team. She spent hours explaining every detail of the buying process as I was a first time buyer. I love my home so much and 100% have Diane to thank for that. read more

Diane was fabulous before we met her we had given up looking for a home. We made several offers on homes and kept getting out bid. We were so frustrated we figured it just wasn't the time for us. Then that all changed when Diane helped us she is such a warm and wonderful person who took The time to listen to what we wanted and we are forever grateful. read more

Diane Evans helped my son get his first apartment when he moved to LA from NYC. It was a stressful situation, with many obstacles. The deal probably would have fallen through, if it weren't for Diane's persistence, dedication and skill at negotiating. She never gave up .She is a warm, empathic person and she really took care of my son and his two roommates, who were brand new to the city. They were so lucky to have Diane in their corner. She's truly the best. I recommend her highly. read more

Diane Evans sold our house in Los Angeles and referred an excellent Realtor in New York to help us find another dream home. Throughout the process her communication was excellent, she always responded quickly and answered all our questions, helping us through a process that was very challenging. We wouldn't have been able to do it without her support and guidance. If you want a real professional and some good laughs during a stressful time, she is one to work with. We highly recommended her! read more

Diane is an exceptional realtor. She knows the LA market incredibly well and also the latest information on seemingly every school too. She listened to our requests very carefully and every property she showed us was a viable option as a result. Can't recommend her more highly. read more

Never have I ever met a realtor (let alone, anyone!) who knew more about the Los Angeles area as Diane. Finding one's 'dream home' can be ridiculously stressful and time consuming. Not only was she extremely insightful (she's has amazing tastes), she was a pleasure to be around. Thanks to Diane, the chaos of home buying was relieved by her professionalism; I never felt I was not of top priority. I highly recommend her to anyone and everyone who is in need of a realtor in Los Angeles! read more

Five stars are not enough for Diane Evans; she is absolutely the best. I had been looking for a home in Silver Lake for my parents, both in their 80s, for a couple of years, when I had the tremendous fortune of popping into an open house that Diane was showing. I explained what I was looking for and how challenging it was to find a home for my parents, as they wanted to be walking distance from me but did not want too many stairs (we live in a hilly part of Silver Lake and most houses have multiple staircases), and that it was extra difficult because my parents would be moving from Chicago, and it was hard to "act fast", as has been necessary in the tight Silver Lake housing market. Over the next few months, Diane let me know whenever anything was coming on the market that fit our criteria. She was always gracious and kind, and never, ever pushy. One day, she let me know that the perfect house for my parents had just come on the market - a beautiful Spanish house, less than 3/4 of a mile from me, all on one level. She got me into the house right away for a tour and provided truly expert advise on how to bid. There was very little inventory on the market at the time and there were many, many offers on this house, but with Diane's guidance, we were ultimately able to purchase the house. It was nerve-racking to be spending a lot of my parents' retirement savings on a house that they had only seen in pictures, and Diane was ever supportive, compassionate and just plain wonderful. I will be forever grateful to Diane for helping me secure this home for my parents. Her terrific work did not end there, however. My parents needed some time to take care of various personal matters and sell their home in Chicago before moving to their new home, and we needed to rent the house for the interim period. Diane represented us in leasing in the house and worked extremely hard throughout that process. Truly, to make sure that the house always looked its best whenever someone was coming to take a look, she went above and beyond what I would have expected a realtor to do. Since then, I have stopped in at some other houses that Diane had staged for showing, and they are always exquisite. In her life before becoming a realtor, she was an artist; perhaps that is why she is so good at making homes look so very, very appealing. With all sincerity, whether you are looking to buy or looking to sell a home, you cannot go wrong with Diane. read more

Working with Diane Evans on our recent home purchase in the Hollywood Hills was a great experience. She was so helpful in finding the perfect house for us in a great location, and provided useful advice on how to navigate a competitive market. She is also fun and pleasant to work with, and was available whenever we needed her throughout the process. I highly recommend her! read more

Diane is the best! We closed on our house last July after 6 months of intense searching. Diane is so friendly and easy to talk to, and she is not in any way pushy - she genuinely cares about finding you home you want. She listened to what we wanted and was always on the ball coming up with properties to see and checking in on us even in the weeks when the inventory was running low. We were outbid on two homes before we found our place, so after three times going through the process of signing a million different forms with her, I can say with confidence that you can't find anyone better to guide you thru the whole process. If you're looking for a realtor who really takes care of you, look no further. read more

I can't say enough about Diane. She has been with us since we bought our first home in 2009. She is very knowledgable about the different neighborhoods in Los Angeles and always remains perfectly calm in the face of emotional home buyers/sellers (us). She leads you through the process with grace, style and an ease that is hard to come by. We recently sold our first house and bought a new one. Since we bought our first house before we had kids, when it was time to move into a better school district, she immediately took charge as schools are her specialty. We ended up with a house in a great area, walking distance to all the schools our children will be going to! All this with basically nothing on the market in the area! She even guided us through writing a letter to the home owner that ended up making the deal for us! We feel blessed that Diane Evans is our realtor. And since we've now known her for almost ten years, we consider her part of our family. read more

My relationship with Diane began two years before she helped me buy my dream house. I was going through a divorce and had a very young child and to say that I was scattered, scared and confused is an understatement. Diane, being the kind, gracious and loving person that she is couldn't have been more sensitive and understanding about my situation. At the time I thought I wanted to buy a condo in a certain school district and she showed me some great options but for a lot of reasons I wasn't ready to pull the trigger. Diane couldn't have been sweeter or more professional about my decision to take a break in order to regroup about re-asses my real estate needs. For years she sent me appropriate and updated listings that fell within all of my previous criteria. She also checked in on me every couple of months just to touch base and say a friendly hello. She never pushed me and never made me feel panicked about the quickly changing market. Fast forward two years and I was finally ready to start looking to buy again and lo and behold the market was a vastly changed beast from what I remembered. Inventory was at an all time low as well as interest rates. Open houses were packed with crazed, aggressive buyers all shooting each other hostile and paranoid looks. Other realtors were cagey and tight-lipped about information. Every single potential property was getting not just a couple of multiple offers but dozens of multiple offers. I lost one house that had over a dozen offers and ended up selling for $81K over the asking. And yet, Diane never let me lose faith. We would have very realistic but optimistic conversations about our strategy to proceed. We started re-visiting homes that had for one reason or another been on the market for a long time or had been in and out escrow. I fell in love with one such house and was going back and forth on the price with the buyer when Diane - in her infinite wisdom! - decided to check it out on a weekday and quickly informed me that it was right next to a noisy pre-school! Since I'd only seen the house on the weekend I didn't know this and the buyers hadn't disclosed this information. I quickly pulled my offer and thankfully, kept looking. Within the next couple of months I found my dream house. Not only had it just fallen out of escrow which made for a motivated seller, but it was within the boundaries of one of the best elementary schools in the state. After some back and forth our offer was accepted but as most sales go, that was just the beginning. Escrow was bumpy and difficult but Diane was like a bulldog in making sure I received the credits I deserved to make the house safe and livable. She wouldn't let the sellers cut corners on anything and ended up negotiating way more credit then I ever thought I'd receive. On the 11th hour we lost out initial loan and Diane - always calm, cool and collected - couldn't have been more supportive during those incredibly stressful days when the broker (thankfully!) was able to secure a new lender. I could go on for paragraphs about the things that Diane did for me that went above and beyond her responsibilities. She was always there to listen, laugh, commiserate and encourage. She drove me around neighborhoods that I never considered because she thought it would be a good match for me. She was always thoughtful and discreet about sensitive and private information. If anyone is looking to buy in LA Diane will fight for you, laugh with you and make sure the deal gets closed. I give her my highest and most earnest recommendation! read more