Andrea Martinez works out of Willis Allen Real Estate — the 1914-founded La Jolla brokerage with six offices and more than 200 agents — at the Bankers Hill office on Fifth Avenue, having transitioned to full agent in 2022 after six years as assistant to Willis Allen agent Olga Minvielle Stevens. Her architecture and interior design background from the New School of Architecture & Design and the Design Institute of San Diego feeds into pre-listing staging decisions, and buyer clients looking at additional Hillcrest inventory are sometimes cross-referred to fellow Willis Allen agent Ken Baer, REALTOR — Willis Allen Real Estate at the same brokerage office. Born in San Diego and raised in Rosarito and Tijuana, Martinez works with cross-border Baja California buyers in Spanish on properties on both sides of the border. Homeowners-insurance binding required by lenders during the escrow contingency period is placed with State Farm agents including Brad Sund - State Farm Insurance Agent so the HO-3 policy effective date hits the recording timeline. Her listing preparation leans on architectural-detail staging rather than generic neutral-palette flips, a style that matches Hillcrest's craftsman and Spanish-revival housing stock. The heaviest transactions are architecturally significant Mission Hills and Bankers Hill historic homes where Mills Act contract transfers and San Diego Historic Resources Board review affect the disposition timeline.