Aragon, Baywood, and Baywood Knolls — for more than twenty-five years, Maria Scott has represented sellers and buyers in these San Mateo neighborhoods with the discretion and precision her clients have come to expect. Sixty-one of her transactions have closed within this corridor; across her career she has closed 217, totaling more than $417 million. Recognized among Coldwell Banker's International President's Elite and named to RealTrends Verified year after year — a distinction reserved for the top 1.5 percent of agents nationwide — she has built her practice almost entirely on repeat clients and their referrals.

A home in these neighborhoods is, for most of her clients, among the largest assets they hold, and she treats it accordingly: with the discipline, discretion, and calculus one would expect of a wealth advisor. An exceptional result is rarely a matter of chance. It is the product of precise pricing, thoughtful preparation, and negotiation conducted with restraint. She advises each seller on which improvements will earn their return and which will not, and treats preparation as an investment rather than an expense.

The record reflects it. Of the 113 homes she has listed, 81 percent sold at or above the asking price, at a median of seven days on the market. Fourteen of her sales have been on Seville Way and eleven on Avila Road; roughly two-thirds of her career has been on streets she had already sold on, a pattern that comes from clients who return, and from neighbors who ask them whom to call.

She has also represented 102 buyers, 58 of them in San Mateo. That experience shapes how she prices a listing: she knows what buyers in these neighborhoods will pay, and why, because she has negotiated on their side of the table.

Much of her work is done quietly. She lives in Baywood Knolls, and through relationships built over more than twenty-five years across San Mateo, Hillsborough, Burlingame, and the mid-Peninsula, she often introduces a home to the right buyer before it reaches the open market — the private sale her clients value most. What began as a love of homes has become a practice defined by judgment, privacy, and results.

Maria Scott · REALTOR® · DRE #01281152 · Coldwell Banker Realty
Production figures from MLSListings records through August 2026.