About Us
The seeds of HSM were sown nearly fifty years ago when Ms. Georgia Ann Edwards, a recent widow with ten children, moved to San Francisco in the 1940’s from Moss Point, Mississippi and purchased property. Her eldest daughter, Bertha Flemming, the maternal grandmother of the owners, also realized the value of property ownership and began buying real estate in the neighborhood near Haight and Fillmore. Bertha’s first mission was to purchase apartments and rent the units to African Americans who were experiencing difficulties in obtaining housing from existing landlords.
In the late 1950’s the mission expanded with the establishment of Flemming Realty, a real estate company that enabled many families, from various ethnic backgrounds who had been shut out from property ownership, to become first time homeowners. In order to further facilitate the mission, she also began a home loan program to ensure those families would have the capital to purchase property and would not be shut out from the realizing the dream of home ownership. As many of these property owners decided to expand their ownership portfolios they would need a real estate professional to manage their apartments and other income producing property. Since the mid 1960’s, HSM has always provided a full range of real estate services for the community and it has always been a family run business.
The two members of HSM’s executive, President and CEO Tracy Dearman and Senior Vice-President of Sales and Marketing Jerald Joseph are direct descendants of Bertha E. Fleming and all spent high school and post graduate time working for and learning from her. In 1995 Tracy, along with her sister Kelly Dearman, purchased the company from Bertha ensuring that the legacy continued.
Today HSM offers a wide range of real estate service to clients in need of home ownership services, finance services or property management services ranging from rental units to condominium Home Owners Associations. Using customer service as the beacon for our company core values, HSM continues to build on and provide a high level of service to all of our customers. Located in the heart of San Francisco for over 60 years we are here providing life-long relationships for all our customers’ real estate needs.