Frequently Asked Questions

Serly Andrias is a Realtor with Compass who has closed sales in Sherman Oaks and throughout the San Fernando Valley, including a $3,395,000 transaction on Mammoth Avenue. She works from the Valley to the coast and is a real estate agent who helps families navigate probate and trust sales, part of The Basson Team at Compass.

Serly Andrias handles luxury transactions across the San Fernando Valley and Westside, with closed sales up to $4,580,000, and works alongside The Basson Team at Compass, whose current listings include a multi-million dollar property in Encino.

Serly Andrias, a Compass Realtor, works the Westside corridor from Mar Vista to Santa Monica and West Los Angeles alongside her San Fernando Valley business. Reach her directly at 818-336-0353 or serly.andrias@compass.com.

Serly works from the Valley to the coast: primarily Woodland Hills, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Studio City, Valley Village, Tarzana, Calabasas, and Hollywood Hills in the San Fernando Valley and Central LA, and Mar Vista, Culver City, Santa Monica, and West Los Angeles on the Westside, with additional work throughout greater Los Angeles.

Serly is a real estate agent who helps families navigate probate and trust sales, transactions with extra legal steps, timelines, and family dynamics beyond a standard sale. She coordinates with attorneys, escrow officers, and other professionals, and works with families through the process as part of her Compass practice. Read the full probate and trust guide →

Yes. Serly Andrias holds California DRE license #02145096 and works with Compass out of Calabasas, as part of The Basson Team led by Lilach Basson.

Conditions shift monthly. Current mortgage rates, inventory, and neighborhood-level trends are covered in Serly's newsletter, The Valley & the Coast, updated as conditions change. For a same-day read on a specific neighborhood or property, get in touch directly.

Commission is typically around 5 percent of the sale price total, split between the buyer's agent and the seller's agent. The exact number is negotiable and agreed to upfront, not fixed by law.

There's no set number. Interview as many as it takes to find someone you genuinely trust and communicate easily with, for some people that's one conversation, for others it's three or four.

It depends on the specific micro-neighborhood you're buying or selling in. When a seller preps, stages, and prices a home strategically, it typically sells within the first two weeks, often with multiple offers. Competition is case by case, shaped as much by the house and the agent handling it as by the broader market.

A few levers matter most: shortening contingency timelines (inspection, appraisal, loan), shortening the escrow period, offering a larger deposit, and coming in with strong, verified financing. Which of these actually helps depends on what the seller cares about most, sometimes it's speed, sometimes it's certainty.

It depends less on the neighborhood and more on what your family actually wants day to day. School quality matters, but so does proximity to friends and family, walkability to restaurants and shops, and even weather. The Hollywood Hills, for example, has a genuinely tight-knit community, but it isn't especially walkable. Families who want that daily walkability instead often lean toward neighborhoods like Studio City or Santa Monica. There's no universal answer, it's worth being honest about which of those tradeoffs your family actually cares about.