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THR’s Los Angeles Power Broker Awards 2024 Full Winners

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“It’s actually not typically that you just get to see everybody in the identical place,” Jason Oppenheim of The Oppenheim Group stated Wednesday. “It’s just about simply The Hollywood Reporter Energy Dealer Awards that I get to see everybody in a single room. That’s actually cool. That makes this particular.”

Oppenheim was joined by colleague and Promoting Sundown co-star Mary Bonnet to current THR‘s fourth annual Energy Dealer Awards. Neither was apprehensive. As a substitute, they had been thrilled to have the ability to current awards of advantage to associates and associates. “I might say I’m far more nervous at another award reveals,” Oppenheim stated. “However I really feel snug in entrance of those folks. We do offers with them. I see them day by day.”

Eclectic brokers, wearing every part from night robes to well-worn denims, mingled outdoor on the serene and chic Swan Lake and the Resort Bel- Air, the place the awards ceremony was held. As with the earlier ceremonies, the occasion was offered by luxurious actual property PR agency The Society Group. Occasion companions included Fleetwood Home windows & Doorways and inside design and residential styling firm Vesta Dwelling.

Alexander Ali, Kimberly Koza, Alexis Lopez and Gary Gumbleton

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The honors had been held together with THR’s 2024 listing of Hollywood’s High 35 Actual Property Brokers, which celebrates the highest sellers within the higher Los Angeles space primarily based on MLS-listed gross sales to Hollywood shoppers, total deal quantity and media visibility.

Visitors included honorees like James Harris and David Parnes, Josh and Matt Altman, Cindy Ambuehl, Alexia Umansky, Tomer and Isidora Fridman, Carl Gambino, Michael Nourmand and Rochelle Atlas Maize. The heady grouping of business luminaires dazzled Chase Koplow, nominated for Apartment Sale of the 12 months.

“It’s very thrilling. It’s my first time being right here, and I hope for a lot of extra,” he stated. However even this younger newcomer knew that regardless of the bucolic setting, the delicate melodies of the violin gamers notes, and the well mannered chit-chat, electrical energy and ambition permeated the flower-scented air. “There’s plenty of hunters right here tonight,” he stated smiling. “A whole lot of wolves.”

Kurt Rappaport, Josh Altman, Brett Baer, Iris Loeffler and Jacob Greene

Jason Sean Weiss

For listing main-stay Juliette Hohnen of Douglas Elliman, a gathering of so many different heavy-hitters introduced out emotions akin to a household reunion of overachievers. “I actually do love them, and typically I actually hate them,” she joked. “It largely has to do with how a lot I’ve needed to drink. If I’ve a glass of champagne or a shot of tequila, they’re cute.”

Talking of champagne, the occasion kicked off with Bonnet and Oppenheim pouring a Coup Champagne tower, as swans glided throughout the lake. Visitors then discovered their seats, delighted to come back throughout matte black mini bottles of Coup Champagne with their names etched on them.

Over a meal of scrumptious steak and salmon (the rolls remained virtually universally untouched), brokers acquired remarkably private, chatting about every part from romances to selections about kids and favourite holidays spots. However the dialog all the time turned to the highest concern on everybody’s thoughts: the market.  “It’s inconceivable to not speak about actual property,” stated Heather T. Roy of Douglas Elliman, her companion Learka Bosnak enthusiastically agreeing. “We’ve been right here 5 minutes, and we have already got three addresses we have to have a look at.”

Brett Baer, Julian Buckner, Maggie Grillon and Kiel Wuellner

Jason Sean Weiss

Brokers and presenters alike had been sincere in regards to the difficult state of luxurious actual property over the previous 12 months, although a joke was by no means far behind.  “As brokers, we now have a lot extra to elucidate about 2024 to our shoppers,” Oppenheim stated on stage.  “First, it was the ULA tax, then the toughest factor to elucidate although is why are there two brokerages with the identify Hilton in it? However for me, the toughest factor to elucidate to anybody is why Million Greenback Itemizing remains to be on the air.”

Ex-couple Bonnet and Oppenheim additionally engaged in a good-natured spat onstage, with Workforce of the 12 months winner Aaron Kirman lastly heckling from the viewers that the 2 ought to get again collectively. A fast-witted Bonnet cheekily responded, “Have you ever seen my husband?”

Million Greenback Itemizing’s Josh Flagg acquired in on the enjoyable when he accepted the award for Media Maverick for launching Property Media, which brings collectively luxurious actual property’s greatest personalities to ship content material that entertains and informs. “Thanks guys. Though my present shouldn’t be on the air nonetheless, we’re going 20 years now on air. We made it longer than Knots Touchdown, which made it 13 seasons… I actually recognize it. I don’t have something to say however thanks. And that’s all I acquired to say.”

 “That’s the way you turn into a media maverick,” an amused Oppenheim joked. “You don’t put together a speech.” 

Regardless of the banter, there have been heartfelt moments of true camaraderie. Westside Property Company’s Kurt Rappaport gained the Stratospheric Sale Award (his third in a row) for the $210 million greenback sale of Oakley founder James Jannard’s Malibu property. “I simply really feel so fortunate and blessed to be right here and have fun us, have fun our business, which we don’t do sufficient,” he stated. “I’m very lucky to work with folks. I like to work with folks, and that’s what offers are about. It’s about working with folks.”

Jason Oppenheim and Linda Could

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Maybe probably the most touching speech of the night time got here when business luminary Linda Could of Carolwood accepted the Philanthropic Affect Award for her shut relationship with A Place Known as Dwelling, Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, The Wallis Middle for Performing Arts and the L.A. Philharmonic, amongst different charitable organizations. In her speech, she famous how philanthropy is usually woven into the true property enterprise.

“I cherished listening to that I used to be going to be honored,” she stated. “That is actually close to and expensive to my coronary heart. My husband and I actually care about philanthropy. A whole lot of instances after I’m working onerous on a deal and on the finish of the deal, I’m certain plenty of you will have performed it, you’ve despatched a verify into that shopper’s favourite charity as a substitute of going and shopping for a giant present — and so they cherished you for it.”

Different winners included Santiago Arana of The Company for Celeb Property Portfolio. His shopper roster contains Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck and Sofía Vergara. Jade Mills of Coldwell Banker was honored as an Agent of Historic Structure in celebration of her longtime dedication to promoting vital historic properties. The Company’s Mauricio Umansky, Taaseen Qureshi and Michelle Montany gained Apartment Sale of the 12 months, for the $24 million greenback sale of the penthouse at 8899 Beverly Boulevard.

Peter Owens of Douglas Elliman gained the Rising Star Award. “That is an unbelievable honor,” he stated. “I used to be telling some new associates tonight that I acquired my begin in residential actual property at an organization referred to as Purple Bricks…I used to be charging $3,000 per itemizing and couldn’t afford hire. So, to be right here tonight, incomes this award means a lot to me.”

Aaron Kirman

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Certainly, gratitude and a quiet hopefulness had been the order of the night time. Workforce of the 12 months went to Christie’s Worldwide Actual Property Southern California, which topped The Actual Deal’s 2023 rankings with $1.1 billion in on-market sales. Founder Aaron Kirman congratulated all of the attendees for persevering with to excel in a difficult market. “I understand how onerous all of us work,” Kirman stated. “It’s a very robust job. It’s getting tougher day by day. And on the finish of the day, everyone on this room must be tremendous pleased with themselves and preserve it rolling.”  

See the complete listing of winners beneath.

Workforce of the 12 months: Aaron Kirman

Philanthropic Affect Award: Linda Could

Agent of Historic Structure: 
Nominees: The Altman Brothers Workforce; Jade Mills; Smith & Berg Companions
Winner: Jade Mills

Apartment Sale of the 12 months: 
Nominees: James Harris & David Parnes (Carolwood) and Ginger Glass (Compass); Sally Forster Jones, Tomer Fridman & Amir Ensani (Compass);  Josh Altman & Chase Koplow (Douglas Elliman); Michelle Montany, Taaseen Qureshi & Mauricio Umansky (The Company)
Winner: Michelle Montany, Taaseen Qureshi & Mauricio Umansky

Media Maverick: 
Nominees: Josh Flagg; Jordan Cohen; Tracy Tutor
Winner: Josh Flagg

Stratospheric Sale: 
Nominees: James Harris & David Parnes; Kurt Rappaport; Kurt Rappaport & Andreas Elsenhans (Westside Property Company) and Helen Chong & Susanna Leung (Haylen Group)
Winner: Kurt Rappaport

Rising Star: 
Nominees: Brendan Brown (Plus); Ryan Jancula (Compass); Sasha Kaplan (Coldwell Banker); Peter Owens (Douglas Elliman); Jonathan Perez (Westside Property Company); Nick Sandler & Bennet Hirsch (The Company)
Winner: Peter Owens

Celeb Property Portfolio: 
Nominees: Cindy Ambuehl; Santiago Arana; Justin Paul Huchel
Winner: Santiago Arana

Entertainment

Series Explores U.K. Real Estate

The enterprise of actual property in London is characteristically British: reserved, unostentatious, conservative. Dealmaking is opaque and listings are sometimes bought off-market by way of unique contracts — thwarting competitors amongst brokers and businesses. The U.Okay.’s property brokers queue reasonably than showboat.

Worse nonetheless, lips stiffen on payday. In London, brokers typically obtain simply 1 to 2 % of their gross sales as fee, in comparison with as a lot as 6 % within the U.S.

It couldn’t final. On Could 22, Shopping for London bows on Netflix. The U.Okay.’s reply to actuality spectacles like Selling Sundown and Million Greenback Itemizing, the collection guarantees to take TV audiences the place they’ve by no means been earlier than: inside London’s most unique residences and the quietly cutthroat enterprise of promoting them.

“Count on to see lovely properties and folks with numerous character and persona,” the present’s star, Daniel Daggers, 44, tells THR. “I like the truth that folks get to see the best metropolis on the planet on their massive display. There’s numerous leisure.”

Daniel Daggers, the founding father of London’s DDRE actual property brokerage, stars on Netflix’s new actual property actuality present, Shopping for London.

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A London native who had ambitions of soccer stardom, Daggers has reached the highest of his metropolis’s actual property ladder after 12 years at Knight Frank, promoting the “super-prime” market; properties priced at 10 million-plus kilos ($12.5 million). In 2019, he was a part of the workforce that bought a Georgian mansion at 3 Carlton Gardens to billionaire Ken Griffin for roughly $122 million — the most important deal London had seen in a decade. Throughout his 26-year profession, he’s closed $5.5 billion in London property offers.

Now, Daggers is main the cost to push London’s property businesses towards the extra open, agent-friendly enterprise fashions seen in New York, Los Angeles and Dubai.

The 1st step occurred in 2020, when Daggers launched his personal company, DDRE. It eschewed the town’s conventional, bankerly method to actual property in favor of the sharkish, unbiased contractor system widespread within the States. “[The agents] pay to be a part of DDRE world, after which they preserve 70 % of their commissions,” says Daggers, who goes by “Mr Tremendous Prime” on Instagram. He provides that assembly brokers from in different elements of the world broadened his view. “In markets like New York and Miami, I witnessed what brokerage seemed like. I met the highest brokers. I began to see the affect of social media,” he says.

However Daggers isn’t alone. A relaunched London Sotheby’s franchise — owned by ex-Swiss banker George Azar — guarantees a lot the identical factor. It plans to demand larger charges for brokers and to share a bigger piece of the pie with them. “Within the outdated days, you had the large fish consuming the little fish. At present, you may have the quick fish consuming the sluggish fish. We’re the quick fish,” Azar, who additionally owns Sotheby’s in Dubai, informed the Monetary Occasions.

Freddie Mercury’s former residence, Backyard Lodge, in the marketplace for $38 million.

Barney Hindle

In the meantime, the arrival of branded residences is including recent luster to London. 5-star resort chains Raffles, Mandarin Oriental and The Peninsula are all promoting multimillion-dollar flats serviced by their namesake adjoining inns. The Peninsula, a brand new Peter Marino-designed constructing positioned in ultra-posh Belgravia, has 25 non-public residences asking about $12.6 million, or $7,360 per sq. foot, for a one-bedroom — roughly 3 times the typical per sq. foot for prime central London property. Not content material with merely one London property energy play, Griffin is reported to have purchased the penthouse for greater than $125 million.

On the identical time, Raffles has reworked the gargantuan Previous Conflict Workplace (OWO) in Whitehall — the place the likes of Winston Churchill, Ian Fleming and T.E. Lawrence as soon as toiled— right into a $1.4 billion luxurious playground. It has 120 visitor lodging and 85 residences, every with a novel format. The constructing is half bought, with the penthouse nonetheless out there for about $125 million, whereas one-bedroom residences begin at $5 million. Michael Bloomberg and Goldman Sachs Worldwide president Todd Leland are reported patrons. In truth, Individuals are the constructing’s largest boosters, brokers say, maybe drawn by the constructing’s cameos in The Crown and Bond flicks from Octopussy to Spectre.

Inside a residence at Raffles’ The OWO Residences.

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“London was late to the branded residences sport,” says Charlie Walsh, head of residential gross sales at Westminster Improvement Providers, together with these for the Raffles residences. That tardiness, he says, speaks to the sophistication of London’s purchaser pool. “They won’t be fobbed off with a 20 % premium since you slapped a model on the facet of a constructing. There must be justification as to why somebody’s doing it. It needs to be a model that understands hospitality and repair.”

Walsh says that Raffles’ 9 eating places, three bars and 24-hour service are proof of the resort model’s actual property hospitality know-how. And it’s already turn into a society gathering spot, with Prince William and Tom Cruise posing collectively in February at a gala fundraiser at The OWO, which has the third-largest ballroom in London.

The first bed room of the Portia Fox Penthouse at Southbank Place‘s One Casson Sq. seems to be out over the London Eye; it’s listed for round $16.45 million.

Southbank Place

Nonetheless, it hasn’t been a simple begin of the yr for the London property market. Costs for properties in prime neighborhoods — like Belgravia, Mayfair and Kensington — slumped 7.1 % in January, year-over-year. Linked to excessive borrowing prices, it was the most important decline in almost 5 years, in response to LonRes information. However there are indicators of a rebound, with roughly 1 / 4 of London properties promoting above their asking worth, in response to the brokerage Hamptons. One of many metropolis’s most enjoyable new listings is Freddie Mercury’s former residence in Kensington, a neo-Georgian mansion in the marketplace for the primary time since he purchased it in 1980. It’s listed with Knight Frank for $38 million.

However, in response to Daggers, the capital’s new growth sector is the place the motion is. He factors to buildings like 1 Mayfair — a $2.5 billion growth being constructed by cell phone tycoon John Caudwell. Already, 120 patrons reportedly have registered for simply 29 residences with costs round $87 million, in response to The Night Commonplace.

Present listings round London embody the previous Italian embassy in Belgravia, listed with Beauchamp Estates for about $27 million. “Throughout its time as an embassy residence, this illustrious townhouse-mansion was visited by notable company from the pages of historical past together with Diana Mitford, Lloyd George and Wallis Simpson,” says Charles Lloyd, head of Beauchamp Estates (Mayfair & Belgravia).

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One other instance of this new breed of London super-apartment will be discovered at The Whiteley, simply north of Hyde Park. It’s a change of a historic division retailer, with 139 non-public branded residences and the U.Okay.’s first Six Senses resort, on account of open in 2025.

“When a brand new constructing is constructed and a branded residence is in play, it entices lots of people, not simply within the UK, however everywhere in the world,” says Daggers. “They need to come and take a look at this new vacation spot constructing.”

Costs at The Whiteley, in typical London style, are elusive — simply know that if it’s a must to ask, you’ll be able to’t afford it. Even Daggers proudly touts that 60 % of his listings are off-market with no digital footprint. “There are a few excellent properties off-market for $160 million and $175 million. You simply don’t learn about it,” says Dagger, acknowledging that his new present is a step within the different path.

” ‘Eyeballs’ — that’s a time period used within the U.S. that we don’t actually use within the U.Okay., however we’re beginning to undertake it,” says Daggers. “I do know firsthand that TV sells actual property. So what higher platform to search out your property on than Netflix?”

Listings round London embody this loft-like four-bedroom residence, occupying two flooring of a Victorian warehouse, listed with Nest Seekers’ Solly Strickland for $11.97 million.

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A model of this story first appeared within the Could 8 problem of The Hollywood Reporter journal. Click on right here to subscribe.