Miami and Palm Beach’s Top 25 Real Estate Agents And How They Cater to Joe Jonas, Future, Sylvester Stallone and More

The Hollywood Reporter reveals its inaugural listing of the Hollywood-loved brokers to know within the sizzling market of South Florida, dwelling to the largest U.S. home sale of 2022, Larry Ellison’s $173 million buy.


The hurricane of money that flooded South Florida in the course of the pandemic might have slowed, however the actual property brokers who rule its pimped-out properties say the market remains to be flying excessive. Miami-Dade County brokers had a file yr in 2021 and already had posted their fourth-best yr ever by November 2021, in keeping with the Miami Affiliation of Realtors. Higher nonetheless, South Florida had three out of the nation’s prime 10 most costly dwelling gross sales of 2022. Celebrities who've purchased or rented within the space within the final couple years embrace Sylvester Stallone (who paid $35 million for a Palm Seaside property in late 2020), Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez (who briefly rented a $130k a month waterfront mansion in Miami Seaside final yr by way of Corcoran) and Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber (who spent $9.6 million on a Miami Seaside dwelling in 2021). And designer Tom Ford was just lately revealed as the customer of a $51 million property in Palm Seaside in a deal that closed final month.


“Prior to now yr and a half, folks began transferring not solely their households down, they began transferring their corporations down,” says Joseph Liguori, co-owner of Premier Property Properties. “So whether or not it’s from California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut or Chicago, they’re transferring lots of or 1000's of workers all the way down to this market.”


As low cost debt dries up and a recession looms, it’s not arduous to grasp why: “Taxes,” says Dora Puig of Luxe Dwelling Realty. “We’re very engaging to high-net-worth people as a result of we don’t have a state revenue tax — and our climate is totally gorgeous proper now.” And searching towards 2023, some Florida brokers predict elevated gross sales because of the just lately handed Measure ULA (United to Home L.A.) that will increase taxes on $5 million-plus properties in Los Angeles.


But when something is placing the brakes in the marketplace, it’s stock. Throughout Miami, the availability of luxurious single-family properties was down roughly 50 % within the third quarter from pre-pandemic ranges, in keeping with Douglas Elliman experiences. In the meantime, the variety of luxurious condos in the marketplace declined for the ninth straight quarter.


The brilliant aspect of a provide crunch? Surging costs. The common worth per sq. foot of a luxurious single-family dwelling hit a file excessive within the third quarter, and two offers in 2022 topped $100 million. (Right here’s you Ken Griffin and Larry Ellison.)


“I don’t assume we're going again to 2021 when there was that sense of urgency,” says Jill Eber of the Jills Zeder Group at Coldwell Banker. “Nevertheless it’s a wholesome market. Folks love the Miami way of life.”

THR scoured superstar gross sales, crunched numbers and peeped into the largest waterfront listings to anoint Miami’s and Palm Seaside’s prime brokers.

Senada Adzem
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Senada Adzem

DOUGLAS ELLIMAN

Senada Adzem, who escaped war-torn Bosnia to grow to be one in every of South Florida’s most seen brokers, is about to shut 2022 with greater than $350 million in gross sales. To get numbers like that, “Consumers must know that you're genuine,” says Adzem, who commonly seems on CNBC and Fox Enterprise and focuses on Fort Lauderdale, Delray Seaside and Boca Raton. “You need to have nice media and way of life connections, too.” Which means forging relationships with the world’s prime jewelers, yacht brokers and unique automotive sellers to ease the transition to Florida for her super-rich clientele. “Our shoppers transfer from New York or California, they usually don’t have the proper contacts right here,” says Adzem. “So if they need a $2 million automotive, being able to facilitate an introduction is essential.” It’s a successful technique. In October, she set a file within the city of Weston when she offered Chicago White Sox outfielder Luis Robert Moirán a $12.3 million waterfront mansion. “Each time that you just set the market, you’re doing one thing extraordinary that nobody has ever completed earlier than,” she says.

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The house in Weston, Florida, that Douglas Elliman’s Senada Adzem offered to Luis Robert Mioran for $12.3 million.Daniel Petroni
Lourdes Alatriste
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Lourdes Alatriste

DOUGLAS ELLIMAN


“I simply closed a deal proper this minute,” says an exuberant Lourdes Alatriste. “It was one in every of my infants, a penthouse on the Zaha Hadid constructing [One Thousand Museum] that I’ve been advertising for a yr and a half.” That deal was “solely” $18.25 million, she says. Alatriste banked round $210 million in offers final yr, with transactions that embrace co-brokering the sale of a $34 million Coral Gables mansion purchased by the dad and mom of Jeff Bezos, in keeping with public data. Her favourite deal of 2022? Promoting a four-acre waterfront Coral Gables property for $38 million. “To be primary, it's important to have information,” she says, noting that she began her profession within the title enterprise. “And it's important to have timing. You need to be out there. Your shoppers must know you’re working for them and giving them the service and the privateness they deserve.”

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Aerial view of the Coral Gables property offered by Douglas Elliman’s Lourdes Alatriste for $38 million.Legendary Productions
Oren and Tal Alexander
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Oren and Tal Alexander

OFFICIAL


The mega-selling Alexander brothers — who exceed $5 billion in profession gross sales and function in each New York (the place Tal lives) and Florida (Oren’s dwelling base) — rocked the trade in June once they decamped from Douglas Elliman after a decade to launch their very own brokerage, Official. (In 2021, their offers accounted for an estimated 3 % of Elliman’s complete gross sales.) Oren’s massive transactions in Florida in 2021 (whereas nonetheless at Elliman) included repping the customer of a $36 million condominium offered by Kayak CEO Steve Hafner and promoting billionaire Shari Arison’s Bal Harbour property for $41.5 million. “The important thing to our success in Miami is figuring out the intricacies of the market,” says Oren, who notes his work consists of serving to transition new residents to a distinct way of life. “I’m introducing them to board members at faculties, getting them every thing from their masseuses to non-public trainers to tennis execs, taking them spear fishing. I assist them really feel snug. I need them to really feel an element of the neighborhood and actually take pleasure in themselves.” Oren additionally shares that Official plans to subsequent develop to Aspen and Los Angeles.

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Official’s Oren Alexander offered billionaire Shari Arison’s Bal Harbour property for $41.5 million.Official Companions
Christian Angle
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Christian Angle

CHRISTIAN ANGLE REAL ESTATE


Palm Seaside isn’t the seasonal marketplace for suntanned socialites it was once. As we speak, it’s a polestar for major residences. “Consumers are asking me, ‘The place can we put our kids at school?’ ‘The place can I get workplace area?’ ” says Christian Angle. At the moment, he’s searching for a purchaser for 10 Tarpon Isle, Palm Seaside’s solely non-public island, the place a 21,406-square-foot mansion is underneath development and is asking an unimaginable $218 million. “Persons are spending $200 million for one-of-a-kind artworks. Persons are spending $100 million for a one-of-a-kind Mercedes. It is a one-of-a-kind island. As soon as it’s offered, it’s gone,” he says. Angle, who repped Sylvester Stallone in his buy of a $35 million mansion in Palm Seaside in 2020, banked greater than $850 million in closed or pending gross sales final yr. These offers embrace a $50 million spec mansion close to Mar-a-Lago; a $23.85 million mansion at 101 Gulfstream Highway offered by hedge funder Mark Massey; and a $56 million off-market mansion at 325 By way of Linda. “We learn about properties earlier than anyone else is aware of about them,” Angle says of his success since launching his agency in 2006. “We deliver a service that’s second to none.”

Billy Joel’s nine-bedroom oceanfront and lakefront home in Manalapan went on the market in November, listed with Christian Angle.
Billy Joel’s nine-bedroom oceanfront and lakefront dwelling in Manalapan went in the marketplace in November, listed with Christian Angle.Danny Petroni of Danny Petroni Images
Santiago Arana
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Santiago Arana

THE AGENCY


A mainstay on THR‘s prime 30 brokers in Hollywood listing, Santiago Arana — who has accomplished offers with such celebrities as Woman Gaga and LeBron James — led The Company’s enlargement into the Miami market final yr, launching the brokerage’s thirty fourth franchise in Bal Harbour. “We had companions and brokers from all over the world come to attend our launch and tour some superb actual property,” says Arana, who stars on Netflix’s new real-estate actuality present Shopping for Beverly Hills. Arana has discovered a robust Miami market the place streamlined, turn-key actual property in unique communities is at a premium for people across the globe. “Consumers and renters from across the U.S., Canada and Latin America,” he says, “are searching for a relaxed oceanside lifestyle-coastal contemporary-style properties, ample out of doors area, amenity-rich choices and the state’s famously low property tax charges.” 

Nancy Batchelor
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Nancy Batchelor

COMPASS


In 2022, Nancy Batchelor, whose profession gross sales prime $1 billion, represented the sellers of a $4.3 million Palm Island dwelling to Main Meals Group co-founder Mario Carbone and offered a four-bedroom oceanfront condominium at 4 Seasons Surf Membership for $21 million. “Actual property has grow to be all about concierge-style white glove service; you will need to have a well-equipped ‘black e book’ of prime designers, contractors, artwork consultants, authorized advisers, accountants, and so on., all accustomed to coping with high-net-worth people. Having stable vendor relationships that may assist their luxe way of life is crucial,” says Batchelor, who additionally is thought for her philanthropic work by way of The Batchelor Basis, run by her husband, Jon, which focuses on grants to assist kids, animals and the pure setting in South Florida.

Compass’ Nancy Batchelor repped the seller of this 1925 Palm Island residence, purchased by restaurateur Mario Carbone in September.
Compass’ Nancy Batchelor repped the vendor of this 1925 Palm Island residence, bought by restaurateur Mario Carbone in September.Courtesy of Zoltan Presents Luxhunters
Elena Bluntzer
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Elena Bluntzer

ONE SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY


Sky-high rates of interest don’t have Elena Bluntzer anxious. The CEOs and enterprise executives she makes a speciality of servicing don’t finance the $15 million-plus properties they snap up. “I haven’t had financing contingencies in my contracts for a lot of, a few years,” says Bluntzer, who began her profession in non-public banking. “If you wish to negotiate the very best deal you possibly can, be a money purchaser.” These money offers tallied as much as $90 million in gross sales in 2022, together with a penthouse on the 4 Seasons Residences Miami that included $2 million in paintings. That $15.9 million deal set the file for the Brickell Monetary District. She’s at present itemizing an eight-bedroom property in Coconut Grove for $48 million — $20 million greater than it was asking simply three years in the past. “We’ve had two presents very near asking,” she says. “My motto in Miami is figure like a New Yorker.”

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One Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty’s Elena Bluntzer offered this penthouse on the 4 Seasons Residences Miami for $15.9 million.Miami Actual Property Photographers
Eloy Carmenate and Mick Duchon
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Eloy Carmenate and Mick Duchon

CORCORAN GROUP


The founders of the Carmenate/Duchon Crew made waves in 2022 with a $93 million megadeal during which they repped the customer of three contiguous properties in Golden Seaside, Florida, serving to deliver their lifetime gross sales quantity to greater than $4 billion, together with $230 million in gross sales final yr. They're at present repping a $22 million fashionable dwelling in Miami Seaside owned by Brent Saunders, the previous CEO of Botox maker Allergan, and a double lot on Biscayne Bay owned by Full Home creator Jeff Franklin, listed for $26.5 million. “The truth that Mick and I are accessible 24/7 ensures our shoppers know that we're accessible to them no matter their busy schedules,” says Carmenate. “It makes them really feel essential and heard.”

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Eloy Carmenate and Mick Duchon’s listings embrace this Venetian Islands home owned by former Allergan CEO Brent Saunders, in the marketplace for $21.9 million.Corcoran Group
Chad Carroll
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Chad Carroll

COMPASS

Chad Carroll, a former star of Million Greenback Itemizing Miami, has closed upward of $4.5 billion in profession gross sales, with greater than $628 million in 2022. In 2022, he offered a penthouse for $23.5 million to billionaire Adam Weitsman, who noticed the property on Instagram (the place Carroll has 500,000 followers) and bought it with out bodily touring it. Says Carroll, “This deal speaks to the facility of social media and branding in actual property.”

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Compass’ Chad Caroll offered this penthouse on the oceanfront Jade Signature residences (designed by by Pritzker-Prize successful structure agency Herzog & de Meuron) for $23.5 million.The Caroll Group
Mirce Curkoski and Albert Justo
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Mirce Curkoski and Albert Justo, The Waterfront Crew

ONE SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALITY


“Be respectful. Know your market. Know the product you might be promoting and be discreet,” says Albert Justo, half of Sotheby’s The Waterfront Crew, of the duo’s recipe for fulfillment. Final yr, he and Mirce ‘Miki” Curkoski crushed $259 million in offers, together with promoting a $38.5 million Miami Seaside mansion as soon as owned by NBA star Chris Bosh. In 2021, additionally they repped the vendor of the home purchased by Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber. Present listings embrace the fifty fifth ground penthouse on the Marina Blue at 888 Biscayne Blvd. that was featured within the 2016 movie Warfare Canine, starring Jonah Hill.

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The Waterfront Crew offered this Miami Seaside dwelling previously owned by Chris Bosh for $38.5 million.The Waterfront Crew
Ashley Cusack
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Ashley Cusack

BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESERVICES EWM REALITY

Ashley Cusack broke data in 2022, in September promoting The Arsht Property — a two-home, 4-acre waterfront compound owned by businesswoman and philanthropist Adrienne Arsht, with earlier ties to Ziegfeld Follies star Peggy Hopkins and former Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan. The property went for $107 million (after itemizing at $150 million) to hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin, setting a single-family-home-sale file for Miami-Dade County and turning into the primary Miami dwelling to cross the nine-figure price ticket. Arsht has expressed plans to donate the proceeds to charity. “It underscored that record-breaking gross sales proceed to occur in Miami — and the world is watching,” says Cusack, a Miami native who totaled greater than $212 million in gross sales from November 2021 to October 2022.

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Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices EWM Realty’s Ashley Cusack was the itemizing agent within the $107 million sale of the Arsht Property in Coconut Grove.1 Oak Studios
Carmen DAngelo Gerard Liguori Joseph Liguori
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Carmen D’Angelo, Gerard Liguori and Joseph Liguori

PREMIER ESTATE PROPERTIES


When your small business focuses solely on $1 million-plus properties, the numbers add up quick. Over the previous three years, the three co-owners of Premier Property Properties — who began the agency three many years in the past — have stacked up gross sales in extra of $6 billion in South Florida. In 2022, they offered a mansion as soon as owned by race automotive driver Jeff Gordon for $36 million, a file worth for the city of Highland Seaside, in keeping with The Wall Avenue Journal. “Folks come to us as a result of we're the go-to guys which have the very best homes,” says D’Angelo. Their present listings embrace the Delray Seaside mansion of Kevin James, in the marketplace for $17.9 million.

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Premier Property Properties’ listings embrace the Carpenter Property in Boca Raton, designed in 1964 by mid-century Palm Seaside architect Byron Simonson. it’s in the marketplace for $41.5 million.Premier Property Properties
Jill Eber, Jill Hertzberg and Judy Zeder
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Jill Eber, Jill Hertzberg and Judy Zeder

THE JILLS ZEDER GROUP, COLDWELL BANKER


Hertzberg and longtime enterprise companion Eber already had closed billions in gross sales of their hometown of Miami underneath their iconic trademark, “The Jills,” earlier than becoming a member of forces with one other one in every of Miami’s finest brokers in 2019: Zeder. The result's gross sales of $6.6 billion since turning into The Jills Zeder Group and $1.6 billion in offers final yr — to not point out the founding of a multi-family realtor dynasty, with every member pulling appreciable monetary weight. In September, Hertzberg and Eber represented trophy home-obsessed hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin in his $107 million buy of the 12-bedroom Arsht Property. The group additionally saved the celebrities completely satisfied, promoting the Venetian Islands dwelling of Grammy winner Emilio Estefan in Could for $13.7 million. “There’s not precisely a secret sauce to those offers,” says Eber. “However they arrive to us as a result of we've got the collective information, we care and we shield their privateness.”

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Jill Eber, Jon Mann and Jill Hertzberg of The Jills Zeder Group maintain the $47 million itemizing on a property that boasts two new development French country-style estates sited on greater than 11 acres that embrace a non-public lake in Southwest Ranches, Florida.1 Oak Studios
Fredrik Eklund and John Gomes
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Fredrik Eklund and John Gomes

EKLUND | GOMES, DOUGLAS ELLIMAN


With greater than $20 billion in profession transactions, the facility duo of John Gomes and former Million Greenback Itemizing star Fredrik Eklund go to nice lengths for his or her shoppers. “There's nothing we wouldn’t do to safe our shoppers the deal they need, wanting breaking any legal guidelines or the code of ethics,” says Eklund. “I keep in mind a time after we despatched a helicopter for a shopper to fly in for a exhibiting.” Though the Eklund | Gomes Crew additionally has footholds in New York, California, Texas and Nevada (the workforce has been on each THR‘s New York and L.A. prime brokers lists), Gomes asserts there's something distinctive concerning the Miami/Palm Seaside market: “There should not many world-class cities that supply a bustling metropolis and a pristine seashore,” he says. They're at present representing condos within the Waldorf Astoria Residences Miami, a part of a 100-floor tower scheduled to be accomplished in 2025; 87 % of the items have already got offered.

Rendering of the super-tall Waldorf Astoria Residences Miami.
Suzanne Frisbie
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Suzanne Frisbie

CORCORAN GROUP

Suzanne Frisbie, who had $742 million in gross sales in 2021 and who's a part of a household that owns non-public actual property funding agency the Frisbie Group, is a Palm Seaside specialist. Her massive offers embrace promoting 10 Tarpon Isle in Palm Seaside for $85 million, whereas her present listings embrace a $79 million waterfront mansion.

Carl Gambino

Carl Gambino
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COMPASS


“In my view, Miami remains to be undervalued in comparison with the opposite main markets. It presents a improbable way of life: a no-tax state, a burgeoning restaurant and artwork scene, the power to dwell on the water, unimaginable seashores,” says Carl Gambino, who's licensed in New York, California and Florida and broke a price-per-square-foot file on Miami-Dade’s Fisher Island with the sale of a $21 million condominium (co-listed with Dora Puig). Gambino, an everyday on THR‘s listing of prime L.A. brokers, additionally holds the itemizing for Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner’s $17 million waterfront Miami mansion. However his massive offers come at a value. “I personally make myself out there to my shoppers always,” he jokes, “usually to the annoyance of my spouse!” 

Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner are selling this Bay Point house, which they bought in 2021 for $11 million. It’s listed with Compass’ Carl Gambino.
Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner are promoting this Bay Level home, which they purchased in 2021 for $11 million. It’s listed with Compass’ Carl Gambino.Courtesy of Michael Stavaridis
Dina Goldentayer
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Dina Goldentayer

DOUGLAS ELLIMAN

Dina Goldentayer has one thing massive to stay up for in 2023. “We have already got a suggestion,” she says of 355 Ocean Blvd., a 32,000-square-foot oceanfront manse in Golden Seaside that she is co-listing with Ryan Serhant for $100 million. “This worth level is the beginning of a brand new development in Miami, however it’s not going to be the norm,” she provides. Final yr, she did $750 million in gross sales after hitting the identical mark the earlier yr. Not dangerous for an immigrant from Moldova who received her actual property license at age 23. “I needed to grind my strategy to the highest … and this was my second-best yr ever,” says Goldentayer, who additionally offered a $16 million dwelling purchased by Future final yr and offered radio character Tom Joyner’s seashore home on Golden Seaside for $19 million. “It’s very uncommon to get an oceanfront single-family there, as a result of there mainly aren’t any,” she says of Joyner’s luxurious unfold. “It’s like a Malibu seashore home and I repped the customer and the vendor.”

Rapper Future purchased this modern Miami home in 2022. Jordan Karp repped Future; Elliman’s Dina Goldentayer represented the sellers.
Rapper Future bought this contemporary Miami dwelling in 2022. Jordan Karp repped Future; Elliman’s Dina Goldentayer represented the sellers.Courtesy of Legendary Productions
Nelson Gonzalez
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Nelson Gonzalez

BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESERVICES EWM REALITY

Nelson Gonzalez‘s bold-face shoppers over time have included Jimmy Web page, Billy Joel, Phil Collins and Cher. “I offered Cher 4 completely different properties in Miami,” says Gonzalez, who studied to be an architect. “She was probably the most great particular person and simply tremendous down-to-earth and tremendous cool.” In 2022, Gonzalez closed $178 million in gross sales (with greater than $3 billion over his profession) by transferring properties like 2608 Biarritz Drive, which offered for $15.5 million in October, shattering the gross sales file for Normandy Island. “The key to working with celebrities is to earn their belief,” he says. “Don’t be pushy, however educate your purchaser. Phil Collins didn’t need to spend a penny over $15 million. However I confirmed him [5800 North Bay Road] and mentioned, ‘Hear, what you’re paying is land worth. The home is nearly free.’ He ended up spending $33 million.”

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2608 Biarritz Drive, offered by Nelson Gonzalez for $15.5 million in October.Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices EWM Realty
Hillary Hertzberg Benson, Felise Eber, Danny Hertzberg, Kara Zeder Rosen and Nathan Zeder
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Hillary Hertzberg Benson, Felise Eber,Danny Hertzberg, Kara Zeder Rosen and Nathan Zeder

THE JILLS ZEDER GROUP, COLDWELL BANKER


This quintet of brokers could also be associated to the founders of the high-powered Jills Zeder Group, however don’t assume they're resting on any nepo laurels. Danny and Hillary (kids of co-founder Jill Hertzberg) deliver, amongst different issues, digital know-how to the enterprise, with Danny additionally concerned within the sale of two out of the three properties that comprised a $93 million transaction in Golden Seaside in June, a deal that took greater than a yr to place collectively. Nathan, a former professional tennis participant, co-founded the Zeder workforce together with his mother, Judy Zeder. Kara — who's married to non-public fairness govt Rick Rosen, of H.I.G. Capital — joined her brother Nathan and mom Judy in 2009 after working in industrial actual property growth. Felise is also a founding member of her sister Jill Eber’s workforce, bringing 25 years of actual property expertise to the sport in addition to experience in inside design, antiques and trend.

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This two-story penthouse at 17457 Collins Avenue within the Chateau Seaside Residences in Sunny Isles Seaside is listed with Danny Hertzberg, Jon Mann and Jill Hertzberg of The Jills Zeder Group for $35 million.The Jills Zeder Group
Liz Hogan
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Liz Hogan

COMPASS


A Miami native, Liz Hogan co-listed Christian Slater’s Miami dwelling final yr, promoting it in three days for $4.258 million (at 10 % above asking), in addition to represented a waterfront mansion in Hollywood, Florida, that offered to a agency led by worldwide soccer star Sergio Leonel Agüero, touchdown at a city-record $15 million. Relationships are a key to success, says Hogan, who has $1.5 billion in profession gross sales and introduced in additional than $159 million in 2022. Says Hogan (who counts previous shoppers in telenovela star Ana Karina Manco, NBA participant Victor Oladipo and musician Niles Rodgers), “Miami’s luxurious market continues to thrive with the inflow of rich consumers and company relocations.”

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LIz Hogan was the co-listing agent on the sale of Christian Slater’s dwelling in Miami; it offered in three days.1 Oak Studios
Julian Johnston
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Julian Johnston

CORCORAN GROUP

Julian Johnston, who moved from Australia to Miami in his early 20s to work in nightlife as a VIP concierge, has notched greater than $5 billion in lifetime gross sales and dealt with luxurious leases for such stars as Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, Jay-Z, Drake, Kylie Jenner and singer Maluma. His offers final yr included a $20 million condominium at Zaha Hadid’s One Thousand Museum and repping a purchaser who spent $29 million on a Tuscan property previously owned by Madonna. Johnston credit his “information and integrity” for his skill to offer shoppers trustworthy recommendation. “This enterprise isn't solely about actual property,” he provides. “There are individuals who have moved to Miami Seaside from different states they usually need assistance getting adjusted to the neighborhood. I join them with the very best architects and contractors within the metropolis, however I additionally make introductions to administrators at faculties and personal seashore golf equipment.”

In December 2021, Corcoran Group’s Julian Johnston repped the buyer of this 8,400-squarefoot Tuscan-style mansion once owned by Madonna.
In December 2021, Corcoran Group’s Julian Johnston repped the customer of this 8,400-squarefoot Tuscan-style mansion as soon as owned by Madonna.Courtesy of The Corcoran Group
Dana and Paulette Koch
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Dana and Paulette Koch

CORCORAN GROUP


This mother-son workforce, with greater than $5 billion in profession gross sales, is persistently behind a few of the largest offers in Palm Seaside, corresponding to repping the customer of an 18,000-square-foot dwelling at 901 N. Ocean Blvd. for $95.5 million final yr and promoting the historic El Solano property in 2020 for $36 million. In-built 1925 by iconic South Florida architect Addison Mizner, El Solano was beforehand owned by Harold Ok. Vanderbilt and later John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Earlier shoppers have included basketball nice Michael Jordan, drummer Max Weinberg and producer Sidney Kimmel. In 2023, “we hope that lots of the headwinds we’ve been coping with will begin to subside,” says Dana Koch. “For us, easy crusing implies that inflation goes down, mortgage charges grow to be somewhat extra affordable and the markets see much less volatility.” The pair additionally simply offered a $23.75 million condominium to New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft. “Having a second era with complementary talent units has allowed us to develop dramatically and improve our enterprise,” provides Dana. “Together with Corcoran, during the last 19 years we’ve grow to be a really profitable ‘model inside a model.’” Final yr, the workforce did $400 million in offers.

The Corcoran Group’s Dana Koch offered this oceanfront mansion in Palm Seaside for $95.5 million.
Chris Leavitt
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Chris Leavitt

DOUGLAS ELLIMAN


After proving his chops in New York and Miami actual property, Chris Leavitt discovered it took some time for Palm Seaside to heat as much as him. “In highschool I knew I wished to promote actual property, and it was my dream to promote in Palm Seaside. Later, I received on Bravo’s Million Greenback Itemizing Miami, and Palm Seaside didn't love that. It was like, ‘Who’s this flashy realtor on that silly actuality present?’ It wasn’t till I received gross sales underneath my belt that folks have been like, ‘All proper, this man is aware of what he’s doing,’ ” says Leavitt. His offers proceed to talk for themselves. Leavitt did greater than $600 million in gross sales in 2021 and greater than $550M in 2022. Whereas he gained’t touch upon it, Leavitt is reportedly one of many brokers itemizing Larry Ellison’s North Palm Seaside Property for $145 million — after simply promoting him that dwelling in 2021 for $80 million. In 2021, he set a file on the time for a Florida dwelling sale when he offered non-public fairness bigwig Scott Shleifer a mansion for $135 million. In March, he introduced the $45.4 million purchaser of the Palm Seaside mansion of Princess Alia bint Al Hussein — daughter of the late King Hussein of Jordan — in keeping with the New York Publish. “I understand how to psychologically deal with shoppers: when to push, when to drag again, when to not converse, when to not get my opinion,” he says. “I make them really feel snug. I’m knowledgeable they usually belief me.”

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Douglas Elliman’s Chris Leavitt repped the customer of the Palm Seaside mansion of Princess Alia bint Al Hussein.Dwelling Proof Actual Property Images

Lawrence Moens

LAWRENCE A. MOENS ASSOCIATES


When non-public fairness mogul Scot French determined to flip his “billionaire’s row” mansion in Could, he tapped Lawrence Moens. That South Ocean Boulevard unfold is now in the marketplace for $115 million — aiming for $51 million in revenue on French’s preliminary $64 million funding. Not each dealer can pull off that kind of economic magic trick, however many years of offers show Moens simply may. The proprietor of his eponymous agency because the Nineteen Eighties, Moens is one in every of Palm Seaside’s most prolific brokers. Regardless of — or because of — his well-known anonymity (he by no means has publicly launched a photograph of himself), he has labored with billionaires together with Donald Trump, Steve Wynn and Ken Griffin. Nevertheless it was his record-breaking $173 million deal for Larry Ellison in Manalapan in June — the largest residential property sale within the U.S. final yr — that put him on all people’s radar. Though his true gross sales quantity is unknown (Moens declined to remark for this story), The Actual Deal estimates his 2021 offers to exceed $1 billion.

Dora Puig
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Dora Puig

LUXE LIVING REALTY


“I had a terrific first 4 months, then, when the rate of interest hikes began with the Fed, it began to melt a bit. My shopper’s portfolios have been down $100 million, you recognize, that impacts folks’s buying choices,” says Dora Puig, who did $500 million in gross sales in 2022 and $970 million the prior yr. “However my largest yr previous to 2021 was $386 million,” she says. “So I believe $500 million is excellent.” She received there by setting data — together with the $40 million sale of a penthouse atop Palazzo Della Luna on unique Fisher Island. She repped the vendor of the unit, reaching the best worth and the best worth per sq. foot in Fisher Island historical past for her shopper. The customer was Kayak’s CEO Steve Hafner. However her favourite deal of the yr went down at 55 East San Marino Drive on one of many ritzy Venetian Islands. “Nobody thought that it might commerce at $20 million, and even $18 million on the time, as a result of it was a shell,” she says. “However I used to be capable of promote it to a Northeast household for $21.5 million.”

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Luxe Dwelling Realty’s Dora Puig repped the vendor the $40 million sale of a penthouse atop Palazzo Della Luna on Fisher Island.Luxe Dwelling Realty

Evan Nicole Brown, Kirsten Chuba and Hadley Meares contributed to this report.

A model of this story first appeared within the Jan. 11 situation of The Hollywood Reporter journal. Click on right here to subscribe.

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