Leslie’s sales achievements were recently recognized by McGuire Real Estate, as she was named a McGuire Partner Plan participant; one of only 11 associates to earn this designation.

Traditions through generations are important. The tall, elegant real estate agent is herself 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 neighborhood, she’s turned into a top real estate producer selling everything from cozy one-bedroom condos to mansions on the far side of $3 million. She also helps clients buy and sell elegant co-ops.

In addition to extraordinary properties, de Bretteville collects 18th and 19th Century porcelain boxes, good golf scores and all-in-the-family customers – generations of them. “I’ve been in this business 17 years now and it makes me 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.”