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Thomas Ma is the founder and CEO of Real a social network app for the real estate industry. Growing up in a real estate development family from Hong Kong, Thomas was exposed to every facet of the real estate business. He found his niche in Prop-tech and  with over 1 million subscribers he has positioned Real for an IPO. In this episode, Thomas joins us from the Nasdaq floor on the morning Real wen...

Carl Gambino is a hustler and a boss, but ontrary to popular belief, he is not the grandson of one of New York's most infamous crime bosses Carlo Gambino. Actually, Carl grew up in New York and New Jersey in a modest middle class home and cut his teeth in sales at 19 years old by making hundreds of cold calls in boiler rooms across New York. Facing constant rejection and working the phones all day...

Carrie McCormick has been crushing it in the windy city of Chicago for over 20 years selling over $2B of real estate in the City core.  Born and raised in Chicago, some would say her route into residential real estate was kismet.  One fateful afternoon sitting at her desk at eTrade she decided to leave and take a walk.  Her long walk ended as she wandered onto the site of a new building under cons...

For the past decade Erin Krueger has been one of the leading players in the explosive growth of the Nashville Tennessee residential real estate scene. Her team has sold over $2 Billion of Nashville real estate as Nashville has evolved and matured into one of the strongest, luxury housing markets the nation. As migration patterns shifted dramatically during COVID many highly educated, wealthy famil...

Nicholas Brown grew up in the UK and moved to Atlanta about 20 years ago.  He started his residential business from scratch in 2009 at the bottom of the great recession. For the first five years, he worked 7 days a week grinding to establish himself in a an ultra competitive market. As his business evolved over the course of 10 years, he started build out the Atlanta&Brown team, created a new deve...

Mark McLaughlin is a highly regarded real estate executive, and is currently the Chief Real Estate Strategist at Compass. McLaughlin previously led Compass' operations in California and served as CEO of Pacific Union and led the roll up and merger of several significant California brokerages under the Compass label.    In this episode recorded in the 4th quarter of 2024 we get his take on the resi...

Sam Kraemer is one of the greatest legal minds and thought leaders in the residential real estate industry. He is currently the head of legal for Compass in California and has held similar positions at John Aaroe & Associates, Prudential California Realty and Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. I have been fortunate in my career to have had Sam as my in-house general counsel for 20 out of the 23 year...

Liza Caminiti is a major player in the booming Charlotte, North Carolina real estate market. She is "married to real estate" and hustles and grinds in a blossoming luxury market which is attracting big city buyers from New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Liza has grown and matured professionally and personally as the Charlotte housing market has grown to new heights with sales on Lake Norman in the...

Matt Breitenbach grew up in the Hamptons watching his mom hustle to the top of the realtor food chain. Her Business was booming in the 80s and 90s and as technology evolved and the Hamptons luxury real estate market exploded in the early 2000s Matt joined his mother and brought their traditional brokerage business into the 21st century.    As Matt's network grew into a client book full of private...

This is a master class in brokerage for real estate agents! Aaron Kirman closed over $2 Billion dollars in residential real estate in 2023 and is the principal of Christie International Estates in Southern California. It was not always champagne and caviar for Kirman. He grew up modestly in the San Fernando Valley and struggled in school as a kid.  He always had a passion for homes and real estate...

Levi Meyer is an outside-the-box thinker, global networker, and Founding Agent for Compass Florida. A fifth-generation Floridian and Coral Gables resident, Levi offers a long history and deep-rooted knowledge of the landscape, lifestyle, and culture throughout Miami-Dade County. He is the host of Meyer on the Move podcast and represents luxury properties in Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, Pinecrest,...

Born & raised in Dallas, Jonathan has built an impressive book of business selling high-end luxury homes in Preston Hollow, University park, and Highland Park. One current listing is Highland Park listed at $27,995,000 and he works with many high end home builders. He spends a ton of time studying the inventory and data and has a deep understanding of the valuation nuances throughout Dallas which...

Steve Frankel is the consummate professional and one of the most consistently successful luxury brokers in the nation. Over a 30 year span he has sold some of the most prestigious estates in Bel-Air, Beverly Hills, and the Sunset Strip and has done it discreetly with class and sophistication. His book of business includes A list celebrities, titans of industry and some of the most significant publ...

Michelle Schwartz is a star on Selling Beverly Hills on Netflix and is the Managing Partner for the Sherman Oaks, Studio City, and Calabasas offices for The Agency.  She began her career working on Mauricio Umansky's team when he was a rising star at Hilton & Hyland. When Mau decided to leave Hilton & Hyland in 2011 and start his own brokerage, The Agency with co-founders Billy Rose and Blair Chan...

David Kramer is the President of Hilton and Hyland one of the most successful boutique luxury brokerages in the Nation. He sold the infamous Spelling Mansion for $119M in 2019 a record price at the time and had been consistently one of the top performing agents in Los Angeles for the past 3 decades. Hilton and Hyland was founded in Beverly Hills in 1993 by Rick Hilton (Nicky and Paris's dad) and J...

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 in between agent panels and symposiums at the ann...

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 and other metro areas. With so many upperly mobile...

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 has represented some of the most magnificent Brownst...

  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 and developed the "Immersion Theater" which is...

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 clear Jacque was an elite athlete with a future i...

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 was the Ivy League Baseball Player of the Year a...

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 homelessness and create affordable housing in Los...

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 world class brokerages. In her current role at Com...

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 been able to balance a family, a career and a big...

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 most pristine natural scenery in the world Jackso...