Steven Shane is consistently one of the top agents in the Aspen/the Roaring Fork Valley and one of the top power brokers in the nation. He sells some of the most premiere luxury ski estates in the world. His Rolodex of high profile C level executives and billionaires who rely on him for market insights, sage wisdom and off market opportunities is as impressive as anyone in the business.  Moving from New York City to Aspen 25 years changed his life forever as he got married, started a family...

Ben Moss was born and raised in the Miami area and went to the University of Miami “The U”. His impressive real estate career has taken him to the heights of the brokerage world where he is the national director of the Sports and entertainment division at Compass. He handles the real estate for several high profile professional athletes and has built one of the most power teams in the South Florida area. In this episode we hear how he built his business and how he pivoted into sports and...

Doug Leibinger is one of the top 125 real estate agents in the world selling some of the most significant homes in Aspen and Snowmass. A native Coloradian he has been able to blend his passion for skiing, fly-fishing and luxury mountain resort living into a lucrative real estate career. He was the founding agent for Compass Aspen and has lived in the Aspen Valley for over 30 years. On any given winter day you may find Doug having a listing appointment at the AJAX Tavern at the top of the hill...

Stephen Ferrara is the co-founder of Hudson Advisory. In this episode we take a deep dive into the NYC booming housing market with one of the top players in New York.  Hudson advisory closed over $1.3B in sales in 2021 and their team is continuing to gain market share. Stephen grew up in New Jersey about 10 miles outside of the city. He pursued a career in hospitality and worked at the Peninsula Hotel and then ran one of NYC’s hottest night clubs for a few years before pivoting to luxury real...

Michael Arnold is the Executive Vice President, Founder of the Tenant Consulting Group for NAI Capital Commercial in Southern California as well as the Vice Chairman of Global Corporate Services with NAI Global. With over 24 years of experience, Michael provides a consultative and holistic approach in assisting companies address their cultural, financial and operational issues with a specific focus on reducing their real estate spend.  He’s been named Top 500 Business Leaders In Los Angeles...

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F Ron Smith and David Berg, principals of the Smith & Berg partners at Compass are one of the top residential broker teams in the country with over $500M in sales volume in 2021. With a team of 9 agents and 6 support staff they cover most of the Los Angeles housing market. They work their asses off to consistently produce positive results for their clients and they have a lot of fun doing it. You should check out their Tacos and Tequila events at their broker open houses on most Tuesdays.

The high end housing market on the Westside continues to churn with sales over $5M up 90% from this time in 2020. There’s been 939 sales this year vs 569 last year. 87 of these sales are over $20M which is up 89% from last year. 28 of these sales are over $30M which is up 115% from last year. 16 of these sales are over $40M which is up 166% over last.

Saving 1% on the commission which is the standard discount a buyer receives from the listing agent is a drop in the bucket compared to over paying by 3-5% and not having an arsenal of the best inspectors, contractors and specialists picking a part the house, and a strong agent who has your best interests at heart negotiating another 1-2% back in repairs and discovering nuanced repair disclosures that were not presented clearly and will cost buyers hundreds of thousands down the road. DON’T BE...

Kenny Steven's is the founder of the Kenny Stevens team at compass in Beverly Hills and one of the premiere apartment brokers in the nation. In this deep dive into the investment real estate world, during COVID we explore what it takes to help navigate clients through uncharted waters in a world full of unknowns . School is in session. Kenny Stevens http://Www.Kennystevensteam.com https://linktr.ee/kennystevensteam Danny Brown http://instagram.com/dannybrownla ...

Mark Cohen is the number one mortgage originator in the nation for the past two decades. He closed over 35,000 deals!!!! He has a relentless work ethic and passion for what he does: in this in-depth interview he discusses how involved he gets in each file no matter how large or small the loan is and his keys to time management and trying to balance a big career with his family, travel, USC games, and work outs. School is in session.

The high end housing market is on fire at every price point including the ultra high end over $20M. - Sales over $5M up 75% - Sales Over 10M up 85% - Sales over $20M up 73% - Sales over $30M up 100% - Sales over $40m up 133% There’s also 52 pending sales in escrow over $20M which is remarkable! If you like my State of the Market updates please subscribe, like and comment to my Podcast The Deal With Danny Brown, the blueprint for success in real estate and life now streaming in over 40...

CA & gov Gavin Newsom signed into law SB8 and SB9 which will attempt to eliminate single family zoning in residential neighborhoods. You can expect significant legal conflicts to jam up the court system as developers, residents, activists and politicians will battle it out in the months and years to come to establish legal precedents in different communities and which will clearly create mass confusion and more obstacles and loop holes to contend with.

Eric Lavey has been one of the nations top producing Realtors for over a decade. Like many real estate agents Eric cut his teeth in the talent agency world and transitioned into real estate brokerage in 2005. He has built a strong, nimble team in Los Angeles and is a true student of the game and big believer in the Chris Voss school of tactical empathy. By the way, for those of you who are not in the know this an effective approach to cut through the road blocs and B.S. that we all face every...

Jeffrey Saad has been a successful real estate agent in Los Angeles for 20 years. This is not the typical interview with a top producing real estate agent. Jeffrey Saad is not the typical real estate agent. He has been la world renowned chef and restaurateur since the 1990s and has stared in shows on the Food Channel and Cooking Channel.

There have been 553 closed sales of $5 plus million so far this year compared to 339 last year at the same time ( UP 63%). There have been 209 sales of $10 plus million this year and there were 110 $10 plus million-dollar sales at this time last year. ( UP 90%) There have been 52 sales of $20 million plus this year compare to 26 closed last year at this time. (UP 100%). There have been 15 sales of $30 plus million this year, versus 11 last year. 8 were $40 plus million versus 5 last year.

Over the past few years Jonathan Spears has exploded onto the Florida real estate scene building a young, powerful group of agents that have closed over $1Billion in sales including over $250M in sales volume in 2020 and almost $250M in sales volume at the midway point of 2021. These numbers are astonishing to say the least but Jonathan is a down to earth family man and takes it all in stride. As ultra high net worth urbanites have run for the exits in big cities like New York, Boston,...

Santiago Arana was born and raised in a humble middle class family in Bolivia and came to United States after graduating college to learn English. In the dark days of the great real estate recession we were both under extreme stress and duress as we bought our first homes and had families we were supporting and it seemed like we would never sell a home again.

Single family luxury home sales over $5M are way up in the Los Angeles housing market for the first half of 2021. We expect to see the velocity continue at all price points in the second half of 2021 as the supply side is low and the demand at every price point is robust and screaming hot at the entry level price points. 

Lee Syatt is one of the early pioneers in the podcasting industry co-hosting and producing numerous ground breaking podcasts including The Church of What’s Happening Now with Joey Diaz, and his current podcasts. Lee Syatt's What Was I Thinking and The Waistline Podcast. Lee is calm and cool, although he doesn’t think so, and he is an all around fantastic dude. He is definitely one of the good guys and an easy person to route for.

Single-family home sales in Los Angeles Priced from $3 million to $150,000,000. Sales unites are up to 40% at 337 units compared to the same time last year. Sales volume is up 35% at 1.9 billion. Price per square foot has remain the same with a median price of $1000 per square foot and average price has remain similar around 5.5 million. dannybrownla.com IG dannybrownla

Brett Baer has bridged the gap between art and commerce in the luxury housing space quite well. After getting his MBA, Brett joined his aunt’s staging company Meredith Baer Homes and helped build it into a global staging juggernaut which was the first of it’s kind serving clients all over the nation.

Coming from a working class family and growing up on the south side of Chicago most of Mark’s friends and family were not expected to go to the University Michigan, let alone North Western Law School. Mark Pieper took the road less traveled and used his intelligence, work ethic and people skills to earn an elite education before starting a career in representing professional athletes. Mark is the CEO of ISE Baseball and was named #20 sports agent in the world by Forbes magazine in 2020. He...