The Deal with Danny Brown

Cindy Ambuehl is one of the most successful luxury home real estate brokers in the nation and ranks highly in the Realtrends/Wall Street Journal top 250 agents in the country.  She is also a mom to 7 boys who are all major athletes, and a wife to a Don Diamont AKA "Sign Bitch" one of the most famous international televison soap stars in the world.  In this epiode we dive deep into Cindy's first ca...

The Los Angeles luxury housing market is on fire right now. There's a broad scope of buyers at every price point which is a dramatic shift from March and April. We are still dealing with Covid, Divisive politics and civil unrest in our nation but it's a relief to report on some good news.   Great insights into the luxury Los Angeles market: * There have been 280 closed sales of $5+ million so far...

Velocity is strong at all price points even the ultra high end.  Interest rates, limited inventory and buyers desire to Improve their personal space during quarantine are levers pushing the market forward.   Single family home sales in the MLS for June 2019 Vs. June 2020 From Santa Monica to Los Feliz are as follows:   Number of homes sold are down -25%  442 sales in 2019 and 312 in 2020.   Sales...

In this State of the Housing Market, Danny Brown leads a panel of industry icons Tommy Beadel, CEO & Founder of Thomas James Home, the largest urban single lot homebuilder in the United States, and Mark Cohen, CEO of Cohen Financial the top mortgage loan originator in the nation funding over $10B and over 18,000 loans closed.    We are in unprecedented times and these real estate heavy weights bre...

Todd Richards is legend in professional snowboarding and took the world by storm in the 1990s championing the underground sport into the mainstream culture.  He cemented its legitimacy as a professional sport in the Winter Olympics in 1998 and paved the way for Shawn White and so many other elite professional athletes who have taken the sport to an entirely different level.  Today the professional...

9 weeks into shelter in place and  summer is right around the corner.  Are we are seeing some signs of normalcy and green shoots in the housing market?   Well, it depends on the price point, the location and the condition of the home.     The single family market under $3M is strong on the westside of Los Angeles and SFR under $2M is very competitive.   We are still seeing multiple offers when an...

When Kevin Millar predicted the Boston Red Sox would come back from a 3-0 deficit in the 2004 ALCS to beat the powerhouse Yankees in "Four Days in October" it sparked perhaps the greatest comeback in sports history.  Kevin Millar is one of the most inspirational sports stories of our generation and played a pivotal role for the Boston Red Sox first world championship since 1918, ending the infamou...

Long before Ray launched Huntington Estate Properties (  https://www. huntingtonestateproperties. com/ ) and built 20,000 square foot architectural estates with cannabis Lounges and in-door basketball courts, Ray was a young high school kid selling mobile phone activation contracts. After a few years of hustling his way to  become the top Salesman at the company,  Ray started his own mobile operat...

In this covid -19 special episode Danny gives a summary of the westside Los Angeles housing market and he brings two seasoned real estate veterans  to discuss the multi-family apartment sector and the lending/banking sector to discuss how tenants, landlords, borrowers and lenders are navigating the crisis.   Top multi-family broker Kenny Stevens, Principal of the Kenny Stevens Team at Compass spea...

The Leonard Steinberg Team has consistently been one of the top ten teams in the nation based out of New York City.  But Leonard, Chief Evangelist at Compass, is so much more than a powerhouse luxury broker in the big Apple.  He is a sage and a source of wisdom, taste, kindness and knowledge in an industry that has been drowning in slick, gimmicky, unscrupulous brokers fueled by ridiculous reality...

Danny Brown hosts a zoom call to discuss the new normal during the time of Corona and how it's impacting the westside L.A. housing market.  He covers how properties are being shown and sold and how sales volume has dropped dramatically over the past few weeks.  Danny also breaks down the housing market in 2008 before the great recession housing crash compared to the housing market in 2019 leading...

Bradley Goldenberg (@bradley.goldenberg) is the Co-Founder of Square Dial Real Estate Capital Partners in London where he and his partner David Adler invest and develop commercial real estate and partner with Sovereign Wealth Funds and family offices.  He grew up in Hampstead North London and entered the family business, Goldenberg & Company, which was the leading High Street luxury retail broker...

Chris Rising is the co-founder and CEO of Rising Realty  https://risingrp.com/  w ho own and operate over 5,000,000 SF of office towers which have redefined the explosive resurgence of Downtown Los Angeles.  He has been through multiple recessions and downturns and has been mentored and counseled by some of commercial real estates biggest legends including Robert Maguire, John Cushman and his fath...

Robert Reffkin @robertreffkin was raised by a single Jewish mother who was disowned from her family because Roberts father was African American.   Her entrepreneurial ethos and hustle as a real estate agent impacted Robert deeply and was ingrained in him at an early age.   Receiving his BA and MBA from Columbia set Robert on a path to career success at McKinsey, Goldman Sachs and as a White House...

The residential real estate market has screeched to a halt over the past week.  The buyers have hit pause and many sellers have withdrawn their listings from the MLS.   There's been no new transactions except for a few exceptions. The closed sales over the past 30 days have been robust but that's a trailing indicator.   Of the deals that have closed on average there's been a 5-7 percent discount f...

Richard Shamooilian is an expert in adaptive reuse real estate and transforming old historic buildings from Santa Monica to Downtown LA into cool, modern, creative office space.  He is also one of my best friends making this a very personal conversation.  Richie along with his Brother Allen and father Jack have turned their family business Kings Arch into one of the most dynamic and creative devel...

Josh Levine is an influential taste maker and marketer who cut his teeth in the early hay days of hip-hop and street culture.  After being a journalist for many well known hip-hop Magazines such as Source, Vibe, XXL and Urb. He pivoted into Artist management and played an instrumental  role in building brand partnerships for Urb magazine. This led to a flouring career in brand marketing with a foc...

When the Playboy mansion traded hands in 2016 to 33 year Darren Metropoulos the infamous 7 acre estate blew the doors off of all previous Los Angeles home sales records.  Here we are a few years later and there has been six recent sales over $100M in Los Angeles including Jeff Bezos $165M purchase of David Geffen's house, the original Jack Warner estate.  It appears generational estate homes with...

Tommy Beadel is the CEO of Thomas James Homes, the largest urban single lot homebuilder in the United States. This means he has about 200 custom homes being built throughout the Westside of Los Angeles at any given time in neighborhoods such as Brentwood, Palisades, Santa Monica, Westwood, Cheviot Hills, Beverlywood, Beverly Hills Post Office, Mar Vista and Culver City. These properties are genera...

This is a common question I get from sellers on a daily basis.  The quick answer is to disclose anything and everything that you would want to know if you were the buyer.  If this does not resonate with you, then how about disclosing all current issues, and all past issues that have been repaired.  When you disclose everything you have no disclosure liability after you sell your home.     The big...

Jon Orlando is the creator and host of the Action Junkeez podcast and Vegas Junkeez podcast based out of Las Vegas.  He is also Hollywood royalty and the son of Tony Orlando.  Growing up in Los Angeles, Jon, like many of us, was all about playing baseball and watching the Dodgers win under Tommy Lasorda.     His career started as a young stand-up comedian where he opened up for his father and othe...

After getting his PHD in statistics from Stanford Fred has gone on to start and exit 9 successful companies in the technology space including iwin, Tagworld, trafficmarketplace and many others. His new venture EOS LYNX ( www.lynxchain.io ) is a block chain platform with a wallet which just launched in 2020 gaining over 50,000 users in the first seven days.  They are the first mass market crypto wa...

Stryker and I grew up together playing baseball at West L.A. little league and then played against each other at rival high schools (me at University vs. he at Palisades).  When I was in the music industry, we spent a lot of time together going to shows, festivals and recording studios. In the late 90's, Stryker turned the alternative rock genre on its head and influenced a massive shift in music...

It's important to take time off to recharge and clear your mind...  We work in a 24-7 world and if we do not take time off of the grind we will inevitably burn out.  To optimize your performance take a step back, rest your body and mind, spend some quality time with your family and friends, explore new places, have fun, and  know your clients and deals will still be there when you get back.  Happy...

As a professional real estate agent, there is no excuse to not know the contract inside and out.  Doctors and lawyers spend years studying their trade before they're allowed to work in their field.  Have you spent years studying the contract and all the other fundamental elements you need to know to be an expert real estate agent?  Drop what you're doing and sit down and study every line of the co...