The most hospitable agent in Los Angeles.
Real estate is a service business before it's a sales business. I learned that in New York restaurants long before I sold a house, and it's how I run every deal: I listen closely, I prepare harder than anyone expects, and you hear the truth from me first.
Revel Real Estate, Beverly Hills / CA DRE #02112336
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Homes sold since 2020, plus 6 leases, every one on the record
Bird Streets to the beach
Sold in Doheny Estates, Santa Monica, the Valley, Culver City, Venice and the South Bay
New York trained
Beverage director at Harlow and Ellabess before real estate; recipes in The New York Times
Licensed at 19
The same day as my father, after growing up around his real estate career in Boston
Bylines and press
- The Wall Street JournalQuoted on One Beverly Hills
- The New York TimesCocktail recipe, created at Dell'anima in the West Village
- Edible ManhattanAs beverage director at Harlow, Midtown
- Arizona Foothills MagazineThe Rose Petal, created at Ellabess in the Nolitan Hotel
- Rolling StoneGear and audio guides, 2020 to 2022
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Service is the floor. Hospitality is the whole house.
Here's the part almost everyone in this business gets wrong. Service is the easy half: the contract, the comps, the timeline, the lockbox. Table stakes. Any licensed person can do it, and most of them stop right there.
Hospitality is the other half. It's whether you feel handled or processed. Whether the person across the table is on your side, or just waiting on the commission to clear.
I spent years in New York restaurants before I ever sold a house, and I learned it the way you learn it in a great dining room. You notice what someone needs before they ask. You remember the details nobody else bothers with. You never once let a person feel like a transaction.
Then I brought all of it here. Same standard, higher stakes.
02
On the market now.
03
Demand before the sign goes up.
LAUNCH is how I take a home to market. It's a sequence, not a checklist, and it starts weeks before anyone sees a listing. The point is simple: by the time your home is available, the right buyers already know about it and already want it.
- 01
Price
We set the number from the comps, the condition and the week we're launching into, with a plan for what we do if the market doesn't agree. You see every input. No guessing and no gaming it.
- 02
Prepare
The home gets ready the way a room gets ready before service. Repairs that matter, staging that fits the house, and a photo and film day that treats it like the lead story, because it is.
- 03
Preview
Before it's public, the home goes to the agents and buyers most likely to want it: my own network, the neighborhood, and the people already looking in that price range. Quiet first, loud second.
- 04
Broadcast
Its own website, film, mail to the neighborhood, open houses run like a dinner service, and placement everywhere buyers look. Every piece points back to one number to text and one person who answers it: me.
- 05
Negotiate and close
Offers come through me with the context behind each one, and you decide. From acceptance to keys I handle the inspections, the appraisal and the hard conversations, and you hear about every one of them first.
04
The record, address by address.
- 2505 Carman Crest DriveHollywood Hills / 2026$4,600,000
- 357 N Harper AvenueBeverly Grove / 2026$2,695,000
- 10750 Wilshire Boulevard #1101Wilshire Corridor / 2026$2,015,000
- 8951 Olin StreetBeverlywood / 2026$1,541,128
- 901 10th Street #307Santa Monica / 2026$650,000
- 1307 Raintree CircleCulver City / 2026$530,000
The homes, the city, and how a deal really goes.
Listing films, open house days, and the honest version of this business, posted most days.
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Three things I believe, on the record.
Offer whatever you want.
You don't know if you don't ask. A purchase offer is a business proposal on a piece of paper, not a statement about who you are. The seller says yes, no, or counter. That's the whole risk. I've watched buyers talk themselves out of a home over a number that felt rude.
I remember what you'd expect me to forget.
The wine you ordered. The house that fell through last year and why it still stings. The way you like to get updates. I write it down, and it comes back in ways that make you feel like the only client I have. That's the whole job.
You hear the bad news from me first.
Inspections blow up. Financing gets weird. The other side digs in. I can't stop all of it and I won't pretend to. What I promise is you find out from me, early, straight, with a plan already attached.