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The elite of LA’s luxury Real Estate brokers crowded into the plush screening room of The London West Hollywood in Beverly Hills on Monday to view the hottest upcoming developments and sumptuous off-market properties. Quickly becoming a real estate rite of spring, The Upfronts, presented by The Society Group and the Wall Street Journal, gives high-powered brokers the opportunity to learn about the latest projects around the world.

On a panel featuring Christie’s International’s Cindy Ambuhel and Tomer Fridman, and Re Socal’s Scott Moore, the power agents presented three current off-market homes. One stand-out was the 9000+ square-foot estate at 717 Moreno Avenue in Brentwood, designed by noted architect Michael Kovac.

The panel also discussed the importance of off-market sales, particularly after the devastating January fires. Off-market transactions have skyrocketed in recent years, with many celebrities and high-net-worth sellers wary of making real estate transactions public. It’s so prevalent,...

After two decades, luxury realtor Adi Livyatan is leaving Rodeo Realty and heading over to Christie’s International Real Estate Southern California.

In her new role, Livyatan will remain focused on high-end residential properties, particularly in the San Fernando Valley. She began her real estate career flipping houses alongside her husband before turning to selling real estate across Encino, Brentwood, West Hollywood and Hidden Hills. She often collaborates with top developers in the Valley to identify ideal areas for construction and to secure deals, and with an average of over $100 million in sales each year, she was ranked as the No. 1 agent across all of Rodeo Realty’s offices.

“Adi’s relentless work ethic and unwavering drive make it easy to see why she is consistently ranked as one of the top-producing agents in Los Angeles,” Aaron Kirman, CEO of Christie’s International Real Estate Southern California, said in a statement.

“It’s really not often that you get to see everyone in the same place,” Jason Oppenheim of The Oppenheim Group said Wednesday. “It’s pretty much just The Hollywood Reporter Power Broker Awards that I get to see everyone in one room. That’s really cool. That makes this special.”

Oppenheim was joined by colleague and Selling Sunset co-star Mary Bonnet to present THR‘s fourth annual Power Broker Awards. Neither was apprehensive. Instead, they were thrilled to be able to present awards of merit to friends and associates. “I would say I’m way more nervous at some other award shows,” Oppenheim said. “But I feel comfortable in front of these people. We do deals with them. I see them every day.”

Eclectic brokers, dressed in everything from evening gowns to well-worn jeans, mingled outdoors at the serene and elegant Swan Lake and the Hotel Bel- Air, where the awards ceremony was held.

Jason Oppenheim and Mary Bonnet, stars of Selling Sunset as well as top agents at The Oppenheim Group, will once again host The Hollywood Reporter‘s annual L.A. Power Broker Awards.

The event — presented by luxury real estate PR firm The Society Group — will take place on Sept. 17 at Hotel Bel-Air and toast the powerhouse sellers on THR‘s Top 35 List, followed by an awards presentation. The honors are sponsored by Fleetwood Windows & Doors and interior design and home styling company Vesta Home.

Oppenheim and Bonnet previously hosted the event, now in its fourth year, in 2022; Mauricio Umansky emceed in 2023. Nominees for six categories are presented below, with the pair announcing the winners at the dinner. Aaron Kirman of Akg Christie’s International Real Estate is also the winner of THR‘s L.A. Team of the Year Award, and Linda May will be recognized with the Philanthropic Impact Award.

Ryan Murphy is looking to part ways with a historic mid-century home designed by iconic architect Richard Neutra — to the tune of $33.9 million.

The clean-lined house in Bel Air, California is known as The Brown House and was built in 1955 by the late architect, who was known for pioneering the idea of indoor-outdoor California living and whose houses have since been owned and prized by such entertainment names as Flea, Mitch Glazer and Kelly Lynch, stylist Jeanne Yang, and directors Josef von Sternberg and Marc Forster.

Feud and American Horror Story creator Murphy purchased the Brown House in 2022 and set about renovating it and decorating it in an eclectic style that wasn’t slavish to its mid-century roots. As he wrote in Architectural Digest earlier this year, “Instead of surrounding ourselves in one particular midcentury style that had long gone out of fashion (and was actually uncomfortable), why not invite...

“You’ve transformed a room full of enemies into a room full of friends,” Aaron Kirman, of Akg | Christie’s International, quipped. He was surveying the scene at The Hollywood Reporter’s third annual L.A. Power Broker Awards, presented by The Society Group and hosted by The Agency’s Mauricio Umansky. This fairy-tale feeling of camaraderie hung in the air all evening, no doubt enhanced by the enchanting setting of the legendary Castillo Del Lago estate, formerly owned by Madonna. The home is currently co-listed (for $18.9 million) by Linda May and Brett Lawyer of Carolwood Estates.

The honors were held in conjunction with THR’s 2023 list of Hollywood’s Top 35 Real Estate Agents, which honors top sellers in the greater Los Angeles area based on Mls-listed sales to Hollywood clients, overall deal volume and media visibility.

Looking out over views of Lake Hollywood, agents sipped on cocktails to the...

“We had a 13-year run of a robust market and are experiencing a necessary cycle change,” says Rayni Williams of The Beverly Hills Estates, reflecting on the 36 percent drop in luxury home sales that hit L.A. in the second quarter. Meanwhile, the median price of a home in Los Angeles hovered at $963,000, down 1 percent from the previous year. The decline can be attributed to a combination of high interest rates, the dual strikes that hit Hollywood and the new Ula mansion tax, in which home sellers in the city of Los Angeles must pay at least a 4 percent transfer on any sales above $5 million. “Sellers are hesitant to sell given these barriers,” says Akg’s Aaron Kirman.

Despite the challenges, L.A.’s agents (chosen based on total sales volume, Hollywood clients and media visibility) continued to smash records, led by the most expensive sale in California history — Beyoncé and...

Mauricio Umansky, the co-founder of real-estate brokerage The Agency — who also stars on Netflix’s Buying Beverly Hills and is a contestant on the new season of Dancing with the Stars premiering on Tuesday — is set to follow up his dancing debut by hosting The Hollywood Reporter‘s annual L.A. Power Broker Awards. The evening will take place Wednesday, Sept. 27, at the famed Castillo Del Lago estate in Lake Hollywood, a grand 1920s Spanish-style mansion once owned by Madonna.

Presented by premier luxury real estate PR company The Society Group, the awards evening celebrates the powerhouse sellers on THR‘s annual list of Hollywood’s Top Real Estate Agents and includes an awards presentation in eight categories. Nominees for six categories — including Stratospheric Sale of the Year, Agent of Historic Architecture and Rising Star — are presented below, with Umansky announcing the winners at the dinner.

Drew Fenton — the CEO of Carolwood Estates,...

There’s another big move afoot in Los Angeles’ elite luxury real estate world: Top-selling Compass agent Cindy Ambuehl is going to join Akg | Christie’s International Real Estate.

She’ll be the executive director of luxury estates of the Brentwood office of Akg, which was formed last year when Aaron Kirman of Aaron Kirman Group himself left Compass to start the new brokerage.

Ambuehl’s high-profile sales have included selling David E. Kelley and Michelle Pfeiffer’s Pacific Palisades property for $25 million in 2021, repping Kevin Nealon in the purchase of a $4.35 million house in the Palisades, and representing the seller of a Frank Gehry-designed house in Santa Monica, which sold to producer Jason Blum in 2021.

“I’m extremely excited about the role and about being part of building something I truly believe in. It’s all just the right movement in the right direction. I’ll still be...

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L.A.’s ultra-luxe real estate landscape is shifting in dramatic ways.

This fall, Drew Fenton, one of Hilton & Hyland’s marquee names, veteran real estate exec Nick Segal and Hilton & Hyland marketing chief Ed Leyson struck out on their own to launch a new Beverly Hills-based brokerage, Carolwood. Fenton tells THR that after the death this year of Hilton & Hyland co-founder Jeff Hyland, “It felt like a natural progression to put all that I had learned in my 15 years at Hilton & Hyland into my own firm.”

In recent weeks, Carolwood has lured more than 35 agents from Hilton & Hyland, including power sellers Linda May (winner of the Agent of Historic Architecture Award at The Hollywood Reporter’s 2022 L.A. Power Broker Awards), Brett Lawyer, Jonah Wilson, Susan Smith, the team of Jonathan Nash and Stephen Resnick, Justin Paul Huchel, Bjorn Farrugia, Michael Lamontagna and Gordon MacGeachy.

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On Sept. 20, The Hollywood Reporter will hold the second annual Los Angeles Power Broker Awards at members-only fitness and social club Heimat.

The night, presented by luxury real estate PR firm The Society Group, will include a dinner honoring the powerhouse sellers on THR‘s Top 30 List, followed by an awards presentation. The honors are sponsored by spatial styling company Ash Staging and the real estate social app Real Messenger. Said Angel Salvador last year, a winner at the 2021 inaugural awards, “To get the recognition amongst your peers is special.”

2021’s winners also included Westside Estate Agency’s Kurt Rappaport, The Oppenheim Group’s Jason Oppenheim, Compass’ Sally Forster Jones, Tomer Fridman, Tyrone McKillen and Dalton Gomez, The Agency’s Santiago Arana, Hilton & Hyland’s Drew Fenton, and The Beverly Hills Estates’ Branden and Rayni Williams.

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One of the world’s largest homes is set to hit the auction block in early February, amid bankruptcy proceedings, asking $295 million. Known since its inception by colorful and controversial developer Nile Niami simply as “The One,” the monstrous and still-incomplete Los Angeles structure is 10 years in the making. Originally, the place had been expected to list for around $500 million, so you could be scoring a sweet deal, depending on how one looks at it. Ahem.

Should the place get anywhere near the discounted ask, it will easily rank as the most expensive home ever sold at auction, well ahead of the storied Hearst Estate (now known as the Beverly House), which was auctioned off in September for $63.1 million.

Per Aaron Kirman of Compass, who is co-listing the property with Branden Williams and Rayni Williams of The Beverly Hills Estates, The One was created for today’s billionaire seeking a one-of-a-kind asset.

Ariana Grande has sold a luxurious Los Angeles home, about one year after she bought it. The 28-year-old The Voice coach and singer sold a Hollywood Hills mansion for $14 million on Wednesday, Oct. 27, according to public records obtained by E! News. She was represented by real estate agent Aaron Kirman in both the sale and when she purchased the property in June 2020 for $13.7 million. Ariana's husband of five months, Dalton Gomez is a real estate agent at his company, the Aaron Kirman Group. The 10,000-square-foot home has four bedrooms and seven bathrooms. It rests on one-third of an acre of land and boasts sweeping views of the city and Pacific...