Top Real Estate Agents in California: Elliman's 2026 GCI Leaders

Born and raised in London, she studied interior design at the Inchbald School of Art and Design and worked for years in television, including at MTV, before moving into real estate. She began buying and renovating houses around 2001 and has held a California license since 2006. The Hollywood Reporter named her to its Top L.A. Real Estate Brokers of 2026, and in 2016 reported her sale of Don Mischer's Beverly Hills home to Adele for $9.5 million.

Her practice covers Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Brentwood, Hancock Park, the Hollywood Hills, Los Feliz, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica and Venice. She uses her design background to prepare homes for sale, and her Elliman profile notes her experience with off-market transactions.

His sales practice centers on the high-end Los Angeles market, for buyers and for sellers of significant properties, and he has worked on the firm's new development platform in California. He has held a California license since 2001.

His website lists single-family homes, condominiums and investment properties as his specialties, with a focus on Cheviot Hills, Rancho Park and Westwood; his Elliman profile adds estate, land-value and income property sales. Before residential sales he worked in property management, commercial leasing and asset management. He volunteers at Westwood Charter School and Emerson Middle School and lives on the Westside.

Licensed since 1986, he works across Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Holmby Hills, Trousdale Estates, the Bird Streets, the Hollywood Hills and Century City. His profile reports more than 100 closings at The Century in Century City, including six of the building's nine penthouses. He speaks Arabic and English.

His Elliman profile credits him with more than $500 million in real estate sales along the Orange County coast. He earned his sales license at 20 while in college, studied finance, real estate and law, and spent five years managing projects for a commercial developer before starting the Stavros Group. He has held a California broker license since 2009.

A graduate of USC's Marshall School of Business, he began as an investment manager at Morgan Stanley, flipped homes in Los Angeles and co-founded a residential development firm before moving into residential brokerage full time in 2017. He works with art and staging firms when preparing homes for market. He is most active in Brentwood, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Hancock Park, Los Feliz and the Bird Streets above the Sunset Strip.

His practice focuses on exclusive representation of tenants, buyers and sellers of commercial property. Before commercial real estate he spent eighteen years with Jon Douglas Company and Coldwell Banker, where he headed the Entertainment and Business Division within The Carswell Collection.

His work centers on Coronado and other coastal communities, where he represents sellers, investors and developers. Raised in Coronado and a Coronado High School graduate, he served on the Coronado City Council and as Mayor Pro Tem, and he advises a statewide rental housing trade association. He holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and Pepperdine University.

His clients range from luxury sellers and buyers to international investors and first-time buyers. He has appeared on Million Dollar Listing, House Hunters and Open House and sits on the Forbes Real Estate Council. The Los Angeles Business Journal has named him a Leader of Influence in residential real estate. He works in English and Spanish.

Born and raised in south Orange County, she has lived in Laguna Niguel, Monarch Beach, Newport Beach and Laguna Beach. Her territory takes in Newport Beach, Newport Coast, Corona del Mar, Laguna Beach, Dana Point and San Clemente, as well as Irvine, Laguna Niguel and Ladera Ranch. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Irvine, and has held a California license since 2007.

The DRE record now lists her with The Beverly Hills Estates in West Hollywood. She works with Mike Udem, and The Hollywood Reporter's 2026 list of top Los Angeles brokers named the two among its Condo Sale of the Year nominees. State records show her salesperson license dating to 1986 and her broker license to 1991.

Much of her business comes from CPA, business manager and past-client referrals. She works in Beverlywood, Crestview, Faircrest Heights, Pico-Robertson, Century City, Beverly Hills and Carthay Circle, and has been voted a Nextdoor Neighborhood Favorite and named a Los Angeles Magazine Real Estate All-Star. Before real estate she was an advertising copywriter at agencies including Ogilvy and Mather.

Before real estate she spent years in luxury retail with Asprey, first at its Fifth Avenue store in New York and then opening and managing its Beverly Hills store inside the Beverly Hills Hotel. Originally from the north of England, she has lived in Santa Monica since 1998.

A Newport Beach native raised in the area's beach communities, she worked for a Hollywood film director and in the mortgage industry before real estate, and holds a communications degree from Cal State Fullerton. Recent sales on her website are in Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Corona del Mar and Huntington Beach. She lives in Costa Mesa.

She has worked in real estate since 1975, rising to senior vice president of marketing and operations at a local firm before moving into sales. Her practice covers the Westside from the beach communities to downtown Los Angeles, and she uses referral networks to help clients buying or selling elsewhere in the country and abroad.

Licensed since 1989, she was recognized among Coldwell Banker's top 100 agents in Southern California from 1998, and has sold homes from the beaches of Santa Monica to the Hollywood Hills. Before real estate she taught English in Guatemala and owned an import company and a restaurant. She contributes a portion of every sale to Habitat for Humanity.

She lives in the community she serves and keeps her business focused on fewer, high-value transactions, with access to off-market properties. Her profile cites more than twenty years in real estate and a background in psychology. She works with longtime residents and out-of-area buyers, speaks English and Spanish, and volunteers at the local school.

She is a state-level trustee of the California Association of REALTORS and a past president of the Burbank Association of REALTORS, and she was named REALTOR of the Year for 2014 and a Nextdoor Neighborhood Favorite from 2017 to 2023. Her clients include entertainment industry figures, equestrians and studio employees, most referred by past clients. She supports City of Hope, the Burbank Animal Shelter and Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

She began her Los Angeles career at Coldwell Banker after selling real estate in Asia, and has held a California license since 2007. Her website lists homes in Beverly Hills, the Hollywood Hills and Malibu and condominiums on the Wilshire Corridor as her main focus, for both buyers and sellers. She raised her family in the Beverly Hills area and knows its schools and surrounding communities.

Born in Los Angeles and raised largely in Malibu, he grew up around his family's home building and renovation projects on the Westside. After graduating from USC in 2007 with a degree in political science and business, he worked for a green-energy development firm. His practice covers luxury homes, architectural estates, coastal property, land and development opportunities in Malibu, Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades and Bel Air.

She studied art and architecture in Paris and has renovated and resold her own properties. Her website lists sales in Hancock Park, including a restored Paul Revere Williams house, and in Brentwood, where 12855 Parkyns Street sold for $12,550,000. Her listings and clients have been covered in Architectural Digest, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, and she works with a select number of clients, mostly by referral.

She works with buyers and sellers across San Diego, with particular experience helping clients who must sell and buy at the same time, first-time buyers, relocation clients and VA military clients. A Walnut Creek native, she holds a communication degree from California State University San Marcos.

She has held a California salesperson license since 2003, recorded under the name Caroline Claire Lewis, with Douglas Elliman of California as her responsible broker and no disciplinary action on record. She works with buyers and sellers in Beverly Hills and the surrounding Los Angeles area, and can be reached through her Elliman profile or directly by phone.

Her group handles residential and luxury property throughout San Diego, and her profile lists home valuations, listing strategy, relocation, first-time buyers and investment properties among its specialties. She co-wrote a children's book, When the Night Turns Bright, with her daughter and supports the San Diego Humane Society. She has held a California license since 2015.

She has sold real estate for nearly 30 years and has lived and worked in coastal Orange County for more than 50, which her profile credits for her knowledge of its individual communities. A background in marketing and interior design shapes how she presents listings. She is a certified relocation specialist and a luxury property specialist, a past national president of Women's American ORT and a mentor at Newport Harbor High School.