The Deal with Danny Brown

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 Wit...

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 Brentwood park? It's not clear and convoluted at b...

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 Angeles. In this in depth interview Neema breaks down t...

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...

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 that Jeffrey used a negative, traumatic childhood as...

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 last year. ( UP 90%) There have been 52 sales of $...

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...

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 I came up in the real estate business together 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 to do with the slow 2nd quarter in 2020 when COVI...

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 can't tell you how much I appreciate Lee's guidanc...

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

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 th...

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 busing children from South Central, Watts and East Los...

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, Marvel and many others. She also cofounded Hard...

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 quick snap shot of the luxury sales over $5M in 2020...

Steve Levine may really be the most interesting man in the world. From a young age growing up on the Westside of Los Angeles he had a zest for adventure and was particularly lit up by his passion for surfing. This first led him to attend college in Santa Cruz where he charged infamous surf breaks like Mavericks with menacing waves in frigid waters littered with great white sharks. Coming from a pr...

The luxury market of homes over $5M have out paced the amount of closed sales over $5M in 2019 by 23%. On a year over year basis there are more sales in 2020 over $5M, $10M, $20M and $30M. The majority of these sales took place in the second half of 2020 as the luxury markets froze for a few months when Covid and shelter in place took hold. There were 50 sales over $20M so far this year and 40 of...

Jason is the Co-Founder/CEO of Comparably, the Entrepreneur in Residence for the City of LA, & host of "Startups Uncensored" where he's interviewed top CEOs from Zillow, Docusign, Task rabbit, Survey Monkey and many more. He founded Docstoc & sold it to Intuit and is a frequent contributor to WSJ & Forbes. He is in the eye of the storm when it comes to Silicon Beach and tech start ups and is very...

Bruce Smiley is one of the most prolific real estate attorneys in the country representing some of the biggest companies and institutions in the world. His law firm Freeman, Freeman and Smiley is a a nationally recognized full service real estate firm full of top tier litigators, expert negotiators, astute business advisors and savvy tax and estate planners. Even after all of his success he still...

Josh Booty is a Shreveport Louisiana Native with a long family blood line of athletic greatness which includes his father who was a football high school All-American and two out of his three brothers (John David "JD", Abram & Jack) played in the NFL. Josh was the 1993 High School National Football player of the year and shared many prestigous National player of the year awards with Peyton Manning....

In this special edition of "The Deal With Danny Brown" podcast Danny Brown (http://www.dannybrownla.com) moderates a timely real estate panel with some of the most influential names in commercial real estate. Don't miss this powerful discussion about tenants, landlords, brokers, attorneys and everything in between during this time of Covid-19. This is real talk about what is going on in the trench...

Marc and Brent Weiss have reinvented the summer day camp experience in Los Angeles. When they founded Iverbe Camp (named after Kobe Bryant & Allen Iverson) in 2004 they started with 20 kids, limited resources and a ton of spirit, passion and imagination. Now years sixteen years later they have over 700 children and 70 employees in 3 locations in Los Angeles each summer, and host winter camps and o...

Geoff Jenkins and I played ball together at USC and I often joke and tell people that Jenks put me into early retirement. It's not entirely true, but when I went to USC 9 guys on our baseball team ended up in the big leagues, including some guys that sat on the bench.   In this episode we rehash old college stories including losing to Cal State Fullerton in the 1995 National Championship game. Geo...

The entry level is still on fire in the $1m - $10m range. High end over $15m has slowed down to a halt with nothing going into escrow over the last few weeks. Election jitters have set in but sub 3% interest rates has kept the entry level and middle markets charging forward.

In this episode I get deep and personal with one of my life long close friends Jay Walker.  Jay and I have been friends since grade school and played ball Together first at Rancho park and in high school at University High in West Los Angeles where we both were standouts on the baseball and football teams.      After high school Jay was drafted by the Angels as a pitcher and played in their farm s...