In what might be the largest numbers acquired by any type of realty group in the USA in 2023– a tough year for household sales throughout the nation– the Eklund Gomes Group at Douglas Elliman informs The Hollywood Press reporter specifically that it acquired $3.77 billion in bargains in 2015.
The group, co-founded by Fredrik Eklund (previous celebrity of Bravo’s fact collection Million Buck Listing) and John Gomes, counts about 80 representatives on its lineup that function in celebrity-heavy markets in 4 states: New york city, Florida, The Golden State and Texas.
Adding to that $3.77 billion number is the reality that around 25 of Eklund Gomes Group’s representatives made greater than $1 million in compensations in 2015 and “13 of our agents had better years in 2023 than they did in 2022,” claims Eklund Gomes Group Chief Executive Officer Julia Spillman. Includes Eklund,“We’re proud.”
The group likewise stood out, real to create, in its sales of brand-new advancement, consisting of at such top-level buildings as the Edison Gramercy at 250 East 21st Road (which Eklund calls “the fastest-selling project in New York last spring”) and 64 College Location in Greenwich Town. At the last, “John [Gomes] and I bought [there] ourselves and it sold out with record pricing in a record amount of time completely off market,” claimsEklund
The representative– that relocated to Miami full time in 2015 where he claims, “the demand is really roaring right now”– likewise heralds Eklund Gomes’ work with such in- advancement tasks in Florida as the Coast Club in Miami Coastline, the Houses at Covering Bay by Auberge Resorts Collection, the 100-story Waldorf Astoria Residences and the Ritz-Carlton Residences South Coastline. “We’ve been lucky to have some of the best, best addresses and the most iconic new development projects,” he claims, in a phone meeting over the weekend break from Tulum, where he, Gomes and Spillman were organizing a three-day hideaway for the group’s representatives.
In 2023, also as rates climbed generally, the variety of united state homes sales went down a spectacular 18.3 percent from January to November, according to Redfin, with 4.59 million homes offered, contrasted to 5.62 million in the very same duration in 2022. The Eklund Gomes Group saw its very own decrease from its all-time document of $4.6 billion in sales in 2022 (with $4.5 billion in sales in 2021.).
Eklund credit histories the group’s capability to still acquire incredible numbers with the reality that it has actually increased to crucial markets. “We’re nationwide,” he claims.“All the markets had same challenges because of the interest rates, but they all performed differently. Florida of course was very strong, New York is starting to come back with a vengeance, L.A. is defrosting and becoming very, very active in the last two weeks alone, the same with Texas, we’re seeing a lot of activity there. We expanded for quite some time into these markets, which was very costly and took a lot of resources and energy for us, and now we’re done with our geographical expansion and we’re building up in each of these markets.”
Includes Gomes,“By being nationwide, it really allows us to hedge because if the market is not doing so well in California, as it was not, then we focus our business in Florida, where it was raging. We’re also diversified because we’re in many different sectors across the country. We’re not all working super prime although many of us are. Some people are focused on high-end rentals, some people are focused on $1-3 million homes, some on 3-5 million, some people do 5-20 million. It’s a balanced mix and that to me is intentional and strategic.”
Not counted in Eklund Gomes’ $3.77 billion sales haul for 2023 is their mega-sale in Manhattan: a penthouse at Central Park Tower that is readied to cost about $115 million, according to the Wall surface Road Journal. “That sale will count toward 2024, but we did sign that deal in 2023,” claims Gomes, that in addition to Eklund and the group’s Kent Wu, stand for the customer of the apartment. “When it closes it will be the fourth most expensive sale in the history of New York real estate, which is pretty epic.”
Eklund likewise show THR that he’s discovering a go back to tv after leaving Bravo’s Million Buck Noting fact program in 2022. He claims he invested time in the advancement of a brand-new program yet has actually junked that in support of a brand-new principle.
“There was a format that didn’t happen and that was a disappointment to me and now I feel like everything happens for a reason. There’s a new format that’s being discussed. I’m taking my time and I feel like that real-estate reality corner that we did [on Million Dollar Listing New York] was the best I think still to this day and it was epic and a moment in time in reality TV. It was so exciting. I don’t want to do that again. I want to do something that is epic again and something that feels really different. That’s my answer: to be continued.”