DREW FENTON
Fenton’s 2024 sales hit $750 million, while his career sales volume reached $8 billion-plus, with high-profile clients including Miranda Kerr and Evan Spiegel, Cher, Eva Chow and Nick Candy. Last year, he represented the four highest residential sales in Beverly Hills, while Carolwood celebrated its second year of operation with $3.2 billion sales volume and 104 transactions over $10 million.
Walk on the West side: “Demand for homes in Santa Monica, the Beverly Hills Flats and other neighborhoods that are walkable and centrally located have increased dramatically since the wildfires,” says Fenton. “Higher-end markets remain resilient, with recent stock market volatility making prime real estate very attractive.”
LINDA MAY
Over the years, May has closed more than $4.5 billion in sales, repping notable properties such as the estate of the late Paramount chief Brad Grey ($70 million) and the onetime home of comedian Fanny Brice. Her $218 million worth of 2024 sales include “Cheers” co-creator James Burrows’ Bel Air estate ($21.5 million) and Castillo del Lago ($18.9 million), a Hollywood Hills home once owned by Madonna. She also repped the buyer in the $40 million purchase of a Bel Air estate designed by architect Richard Manion.
Uncertain economy equals opportunity: “Buyers who have been searching for the right home for a while are now seeing the chance to purchase at more strategic price points,”
she says.
JAMES HARRIS & DAVID PARNES
Parnes and Harris handled $940 million in sales last year, bringing their lifetime total to $4 billion. The past year saw the duo rep both the buyer (Afterpay co-founder Nick Molnar) and the seller (singer Robbie Williams) in the $67.5 million sale of the Holmby Hills estate once owned by comedian Fanny Brice, the inspiration for the musical “Funny Girl,” and broker the $24.95 million sale of Rihanna’s penthouse condo, which marked the highest such transaction of 2024 in Century City
The ultra-luxury market remains resilient: “Buyers are more mindful of insurance availability and fire safety, but demand for prime locations hasn’t slowed,” says Harris. “It’s more about due diligence than deterrence.”
COOPER MOUNT
Mount repped the buyer in 2024’s highest on-market sale in Malibu, the $70 million purchase of the Edge, an estate in Scott Gillen’s ultra-exclusive Unvarnished collection of California coastline properties. All told, he closed $323 million in deals in 2024, bringing him to a lifetime total of $1 billion, with other notable transactions that include handling the buy-side of the $20.8 million purchase of late music lawyer Abe Somer’s home in the Bird Streets neighborhood of the Hollywood Hills.
Avoid triggering sticker shock: “Aspirational pricing is deterring buyers from transacting, but when there is a great home that is priced appropriately, transactions are still taking place,” he says.
