Traditions through generations are important. She is not only the third generation of her family in Pacific Heights, but bearer of a name etched into some of San Francisco’s most beloved places, including the Legion of Honor.

As a native who knows the neighborhoods, she is a top real estate producer selling everything from one-bedroom condominiums to mansions on the far side of $5 million. She also sells in all of the best cooperative buildings.

In addition to extraordinary properties, de Bretteville collects all-in-the-family customers – generations of them. “I’ve been in this business 23 years now and it makes me very happy,” she says, “when the children who grew up in the house I sold for their parents come to me to buy a house. Or when the parents to whom I sold that house ask me to sell it for them and move them to someplace different, an apartment or a smaller house.”