Team Lotte & Sarah I Toftdahl Kowalczyk

Lotte and Sarah are a super dynamic team of world-class realtors® with a deep knowledge of the unique, high-stakes luxury market in San Francisco and Marin County. Longtime San Francisco-Marin residents, the team has fantastic resources and connections within the Bay Area community. With extensive backgrounds in business before beginning respective careers in real estate and an international perspective, they pride themselves on working tirelessly for their clients, with a unique blend of light-hearted humor and fierce negotiating strategy.

Team Lotte and Sarah are members of Top Agent Network and were Partners and Top Producers at McGuire Real Estate. We recently made the move and joined Compass in 2020, a technology-driven real estate company. Fusing the best of a brokerage and startup, it will allow us to elevate our business and provide you with the best service possible.

Ranked #1 Team Compass Marin in 2021

Leading 100 Wall Street Journal

Top 8 Team between SF and Marin

$158M plus in Sales in 2021

Sarah's strong family background of builders, architects, artists and project managers play a large role in her love of real estate and all its facets. With over 18 years in real estate, Sarah has been incredibly successful establishing herself in the San Francisco and Marin real estate community. Dividing her time between her property in San Francisco and Marin, her business mirrors her own personal real estate holdings. She built a custom craftsman home in Marin, managing the entire project from raw land to planning, permitting, and construction; she brings this experience in making her dream home a reality to her clients. Sarah has a wide range of strong contacts with many of the Bay Area's most reputable architects, green builders, designers, and general contractors to match your every need with the best quality professional. Whether staging your home, finding land to build new construction, or renovating to bring a higher price, she draws the best professionals together on your behalf. HGTV producers of Curb Appeal featured Lotte and Sarah in their show Road Test That House and BrokerAgent Magazine featured Lotte and Sarah on the cover story.

Sarah is a long-time resident of Marin and San Francisco. A mother and wife. Sarah has previously served on the board of the Cutting Ball Theater and the vestry at St Johns in Ross. Her younger son attends Stuart Hall for Boys and her older son SHB, Stuart Hall High School recently graduating from the University of Puget Sound with a BA in Theater.

Sarah's business spans the Bay between San Francisco and Marin County. Dividing her time between her home in Pacific Heights of San Francisco and West Marin. She designed and built a custom home that sits on over 2 acres that back up to open space, stretching all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge. As you can imagine, Sarah values her time on the fire roads either hiking with her family, trail running or riding her mountain bike. Sarah enjoys Ashtanga yoga, cycling, running, hiking and surfing.

Growing up in a home her parents built in Edina Minnesota, Sarah has 5 brothers, 4 sisters, and 22 nieces and nephews. She attended Edina High School and Uskudar Academy for girls in Istanbul, Turkey. Always an athlete, Sarah competed in swimming, gymnastics, and track; lettering in all sports in addition to her teams winning State Championships. While in school, Sarah taught windsurfing and participated in Youth in Government.

While growing up, Sarah was also active in her church, Christ Presbyterian Church, where her father, Rev. Dr. Roger Anderson, was the Senior Minister. During the summer she led white water canoe trips in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Sarah attended University of Wisconsin Madison, where she was on the crew team. She has a BA in English from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. While at St. Olaf, Sarah was the Executive Editor of the newspaper and received an All-American award for excellence in journalism. Sarah was also Honor House President and received the President's Award for Outstanding Leadership.

Wanting to broaden her horizons after college, Sarah traveled extensively. Including spending time teaching English to 100 students a week in Hamamatsu, Japan. She also taught skiing at Pepe Stegler's Ski School in Jackson Hole Wyoming. She was an editorial intern for Windsurf Magazine in Dana Point, CA and an executive intern at Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis, MN.

Sarah was the studio director for Rod Walker Photography, a sports and recreation photographer in Boulder, Colorado. She was responsible for organizing photo shots, sales, and running the studio.

As VP of Sales and Marketing for Sky Chairs, Sarah brings incredible depth in business to real estate. During her career with Sky Chairs, Sarah developed a marketing strategy that built the firm into a globally recognized brand. Creating new markets in Europe and opening a retail store in Hawaii.

Sarah believes strongly in supporting charities. In addition to volunteering her time, she financially contributes to Daystar University in Nairobi, Kenya that supports education in Africa, Global Aids Interfaith Alliance, GAIA, MALT, CLAM, University of Puget Sound, Schools of the Sacred Heart, Bolinas Community Land Trust, CAF, Bolinas Museum, and Habitat for Humanity.

A native of Denmark, Lotte has been living in San Francisco and Marin for the past 30 or so years. She has a strong background in sales and spent her first 13 years in United States setting up sales and sales distribution throughout most of the United States for a luxury Danish wholesale company. She has a solid and proven track record and has been a consistent top producer throughout her sales career.

With her European background, she brings a strong sense of commitment, passion, and loyalty to everything with which she becomes involved. Her extensive sales experience has helped her develop an excellent sense of service and negotiations - she knows how to listen, follow through, and deliver results. She is a natural dealmaker, and has a personable approach to negotiation, without ever losing sight of the desired end result.

Lotte lived in Sausalito, Pacific Heights, Mill Valley, Sonoma and San Rafael. She understands all the different aspects of selecting beautiful and family friendly environment to call home whether it is a Pacific Heights mansion or a casual chic Marin home. Owning property in both Copenhagen and the Bay Area Lotte brings an international sense of style and design to real estate.

Lotte is very social and outgoing, and she is an avid runner and road cyclist. She loves the outdoors and can give you updated information on any trail in Marin County. With her light-hearted sense of humor, she will guide you through your transactions with comfort and solid guidance and make your real estate transaction a surprisingly pleasant and rewarding experience. Lotte serves on the board of the Challenged Athletes Foundation.