Exceptional Service for Exceptional Clients

Welcome to Aethos Real Estate! Founded by John Woodruff, a third-generation realtor with over 35 years of experience as a top-producing agent in San Francisco, Aethos is a boutique brokerage dedicated to providing exceptional, concierge service to homeowners and investors in and around San Francisco.

We make buying and selling a successful pleasure. And with Aethos you get a team of agents supporting each other and you. If you are looking to buy or sell a property, we want to help. We are your Realtors in Shining Armor. And with the backing of the real estate technology company, Side, we can offer state of the art marketing and exposure while still retaining the intimacy of a small, family-run company. And we provide an array of cutting edge tools and services to help you, including our Aethos Revive programs that allow us to help our sellers maximize their profits and our buyers to achieve their goals in competitive markets. 

Of course, we represent buyers and sellers. Our agents do not write offers on their own listings, representing both sides in a transaction is not good for anyone.  Please see our For Buyers and For Sellers sections for more information on how we can give you our best representation.  

Aethos was recognized in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023 by RealTrends as one of America’s Best Real Estate Teams. We have sold over $1 Billion in properties and are in the top 1% of Agents in San Francisco.

And introducing the new Aethos Property Search App with Real Scout, just click HERE. Now you can search for properties throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area right on your smart phone.  And and unlike Redfin or Zillow or so many others, we do not sell your info to other agents or vendors. Promise. (Or you can capture the app with the QR code below).

In the Press
Our listings and agents have been featured in the following: Curbed, CurbedSF, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Examiner, The Wall Street Journal, The Week, HGTV, The New York Times, and Mansionglobal.com