For over 22 years Heather Domi has had a phenomenal career specializing in selling new development condo projects in Manhattan. With over $1.6 Billion in career sales volume she has proven to be consistent, tenacious, sophisticated and focused in one of the most Competitive real estate markets in the world. In this episode, we sit down with Heather…

The Neuren-Speed team in Austin, Texas are crushing the game in one of the most explosive and dynamic housing markets and population growth centers in the nation. There has been a huge buzz around Austin for well over a decade with the arrival of Tesla, Oracle, Joe Rogan and tens of thousands of new residents migrating from California and New York …

Alexandra grew up in Boston and was a standout student athlete in high school. She was recruited to Harvard where she played 4 years of soccer and graduated with a dual degree in economics and psychology. It is no surprise that her competitiveness, work ethic and intelligence has propelled her way to top of the Boston real estate food chain. She ha…

You cannot discuss luxury real estate in Vail Colorado without mentioning Tye Stockton. Tye left a lucrative wall street career in New York City after falling in love with the rocky mountains and Vail’s magical outdoor lifestyle. For the past twenty years he has established himself as the go to broker for high end homes in Vail. He has also created…

Jacque Jones grew up in San Diego and spent endless hours on the baseball diamond learning the fundamentals of baseball and foundational life lessons weaved into the game. His uncle encouraged Jacque play with the older, bigger kids at his local park which forced Jacque to toughen up and improve his skills. By the time he entered high school it was…

Holly Meyer Lucas is a powerhouse in every sense of the word. In a short amount of time she has built one of the most dominating real estate teams in Jupiter Florida and Palm Beach county where she specializes in working with professional athletes and ultra high net worth clients. Her husband Ed Lucas knows a little something about athletics as he …

In late 2022 Los Angeles Voted in the ULA Mansion Tax to “force millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share” on all real estate transactions over $5M which includes all residential, commercial, retail, industrial, office, land and multifamily real estate. The ULA initiative was sold as a new “Homelessness and Housing Solutions” tax to end…

Wendy has had an impressive career trajectory from being a successful young agent showing homes in the frigid Nova Scotia winters to managing multiple offices and launching her own thriving brokerage. For over 2 decades Wendy has had a 50 yard line seat Managing the best of the best in the real estate game and holding C level positions at multiple …

A career in litigation was not in the cards for Lauren Forbes and after 8 years at a cut throat law firm she transitioned into a career in real estate. Over the past 20 years she has been one of the most prominent in Manhattan and Hermosa Beach which has been a hot bed for professional athletes in the Southern California region. Somehow Lauren has …

Matt Faupel is a founding partner of the Graham Faupel Mendenhall team in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. They are the longest-standing and most productive real estate team in the Teton region, with over $2.5 billion in cumulative sales, and are widely acknowledged as an authority regarding luxury marketing and mountain resort destinations. WIth some of the…

Gary Gold is one of the true legendary characters in the residential real estate world in Los Angeles. He was the man behind putting the complicated deal together to sell the playboy mansion for $100M to Darren Metropoulos, the young entrepreneur behind many iconic brands like Hostess, Pabst Brewing Company, Blue Triton, Mumm and Perrier Jouet amon…

Rayni and Branden Williams are one of a handful of elite residential real estate brokers worldwide who close $1 Billion of transactions annually. This is rarified air even by real estate mogul standards. In 2020 this power couple launched their own high end luxury brokerage The Beverly Hills Estates after being super star producers at Hilton & Hyla…

Spencer Rascoff is one of most prolific entrepreneurs of our generation. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Zillow and the co-founder of Hotwire which sold to Expedia in 2003 for $680M. He is currently the co-founder and Chairman of the board for Pacaso, a high end second home fractional home ownership start up, the executive chairman of dot.la…

When I had Scott Gibson, managing Director of Compass Southern California, on the podcast last May he said, “We are in a recession and no one knows about it yet.” A few months later it was clear we were in a real estate recession as interest rates climbed to 7% at the fastest pace in history. The housing market slowed to a halt in the 4th quarter o…

MIchael Nournand is the president of Nourmand & Associates a boutique family brokerage in Beverly Hills founded by his father Saeed Nourmand in 1976. His mother Myra has been a rain maker and top producing agent in Beverly Hills for over 30 years and many of their managers and agents have been loyal to the firm for decades which is a testament to t…

Skye Michiels ran a one of the most successful real estate team in Philadelphia before transitioning into a leadership role at Compass where he coaches and trains top agents in every market in the country. He travels the country meeting with top agents and helps them implement tactical strategies and life hacks to accelerate their personal and prof…

Anthony Marguleas is the principal of Amafli Estates a boutique brokerage founded in 1995 based out of the Pacific Palisades. His philosophy is to be very selective in hiring agents and to groom and nurture each agent at this company into becoming a 7 figure producer. He wants quality over quantity which bucks the current trend of many brokerages w…

This is the premiere of Season 6 of THE DEAL WITH DANNY BROWN. Our guest today is Stephen Shapiro, the co-founder of Westside Estates Agency which is a powerful high end boutique brokerage. He co-founded WEA with Kurt Rappaport, who is arguably the highest producing residential agent in the history of real estate. For the past 40 years Stephen has …

Skye Michaels is the head of agent development at Compass and has spent the past four years as the managing director of Compass Philadelphia. A few years ago he founded a small group called the 6AMERS who start their day off at 6AM with an inspiring conference call led by Skye. This group has exploded in popularity into a nationwide call of over 4,…

Steve Bram is a Managing Director & Principal of George Smith Partners, Inc. He (and his team) have arranged over $4 billion of financing in over 200 transactions during his 35 years at GSP, including all types of construction, bridge and permanent financing on commercial and residential properties along with highly complex structured financing inc…

Scott Gibson was born and raised in Los Angeles and jumped into the real estate industry right after graduating from UCLA. He became aone of the industries youngest sales manager at the Fred Sands brokerage and eventually went on to manage the Jon Douglas Company where he oversaw 23 branch offices and 1300 agents throughout California in the 1990s.…

Dana Green was born and raised in the Bay Area outside of San Francisco in the community of LaFayette. Today her Compass team has closed over $2B in real estate sales and continues to be the top team in the Lafayette area year after year after year. Dana is a home grown, local expert which can only be learned over a lifetime living in the same comm…

The Los Angeles West side market continues to flourish despite the war in Ukraine and the rapidly rising interest rates which have inched up to 5%. The luxury market over $5 million and certainly over $10 million do not seem to be impacted by either so far as many buyers are all cash and feel that real estate and Holmes are a safe shelter and hedge…

Bonneau Ansley became the king of Atlanta Real Estate the old fashioned way, he earned it. When he moved his young family to Atlanta in 2008, the market had crashed and there was a mass exodus of real agents who could not hack it any longer. Bonneau zigged when everyone zagged and rolled up his sleeves and focused on the work. He was the first in t…

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 a…

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 bui…

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 t…

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 ca…

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, fin…

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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…

The high end housing market on the Westside continues to churn with sales over $5M up 90% from this time in 2020. The highest priced sale on record just closed recently in Malibu where Marc Andreessen bought a seven acre estate in Paradise Cover for $177M. There’s been 939 sales this year vs 569 last year. 87 of these sales are over $20M which is u…

Buyers are running around in circles pulling their hair out in frustration in this frenetic housing market. They are making good offers and not getting the houses they want. Why does this happen? It all starts with who is the agent who is representing you and how are they received by the brokerage community and community at large. If you are not wo…

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 Steven…

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…

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 subs…

The state of California and governor Gavin Newsom signed into law SB8 and SB9 which will attempt to eliminate single family zoning in residential neighborhoods to increase density during a housing shortage crisis. The laws state that an owner can build up to 4 units on a Single family lot. Does this mean they can build 4 units in Beverly Hills and …

Neema Ahadian is the founder of the Neema group one of the most prolific multi family investment advisory groups in Southern California. With over a decade and a half of experience Neema sits in the eye of the storm of the tenant - landlord conflicts in the current landscape of eviction moratoriums, new zoning laws and a housing crisis in Los Angel…

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 emp…

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. Beyond tha…

The high end housing market in Los Angeles is still hot breaking price records in almost every neighborhood! 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 …

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 t…

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. He never anticipated when he landed in the wealthy town of Montecito, California to crash on a relatives couch, that this would be the humble beginnings of his lucrative real estate career. Santiago and …

Single family luxury home sales over $5M are way up in the Los Angeles housing market for the first half of 2021. Total homes sold is up over 200% compared to last year at this time and the total sales volume is up 100%. Average price remains steady at $11M and average price per square foot remains steady at $1,600 Per square foot. Some of this has…

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. He even helped launch and produce my podcast The Deal With Danny Brown and I ca…

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. dannybrown…

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 i…

Del grew up in South Central Los Angeles in the 1980’s which was like living in a war zone. As the crack epidemic exploded, the violent gang culture grew exponentially and Crips, Bloods and Latino gangs fought violent turf wars to control the drug distribution on the streets. Fortunately for Del, the Los Angeles Unified School District started busi…

Pooneh has lived the entrepreneur life for the past 25 years and has experienced the trials and tribulations of starting and scaling a business. She is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Tokidoki a sought after global lifestyle brand with a cult like following which has had partnerships with Hello Kitty, Karl Lagerfeld, LeSportsac, Barbie, Sephora…

The housing market over $5M in Los Angeles is thriving and active! There’s been 26% more single family sales units in 2020 compared to 2019. With interest rates hovering at records low around 3% and prime inventory remaining well below historical averages we expect 2021 to be another strong year in the Los Angeles luxury housing market. Here’s a qu…