About Me

Michael Craighead is the Managing Broker, well rounded Real Estate Expert in Real Estate Sales and Property Management. He started his career in 1989 with Loans and Mortgage. In 1990 he received his license as an California State Licensed Appraiser and eventually opened up his own Appraisal Company, ACE Appraisal. He has performed over 1,100 appraisals from San Jose to San Francisco and all of East Bay. He joined Century 21 in 1994 as Real Estate Agent and in 1997 he received his license as Real Estate Broker and launched First National Real Estate in 2001. First National Real Estate offers Services to Clients from all walks of life from Buying to Selling to Investing. .


In 2010, Michael Craighead launched First National Property Management which offers affordable and flexible services for Residential and Commercial Property owners. We help Property owners who have issues with vacancies, difficult tenants and low revenue.



Michael and his staff have a proven track record of helping clients with real estate needs for more than 20 years. Our Goal is to understand the needs of our clients and to customize our service to that end, working extra mile to get our job done.


Our Company is committed to provide excellent customer service, meet and exceed the expectations of our Clients from Sellers, Buyers, Property Owners to Tenants. As many of our clients are saying, with First National Real Estate you are in good hands.


Serving Our Clients, the way they want to be served...because we care!
First National Real Estate Inc.

First National Real Estate Inc.

Michael Craighead - Broker

DRE#: 01088656

560 S Winchester BLVD
San Jose, CA 95128

Email: mike@mikecc.com