With more than $340 million in sales, one of the Westside’s top brokers had to set aside the autobiography he’s been writing. “The market’s been on fire,” says Arana, who’s also two-for-two with his side hustle developing homes. He sold his first spec mansion to LeBron James in 2017 and in June sold another on Tigertail Road to heiress Petra Ecclestone for $23 million.
They’ll open their new Beverly Hills office this fall, but this pair — whose clients include Michael B. Jordan — scored their biggest 2019 trophies outside of L.A. In August, they sold the Razor house in La Jolla (the inspiration for Tony Stark’s home in the Iron Man films) to Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz for $20.8 million. With their team of 20, they also have the $41 million Residence 950 — the most expensive listing in San Francisco.
Leigh’s work for a pair of clients who started a high-profile dating app in 2018 snowballed into a bevy of referrals to tech clients in 2019. “It wasn’t a conscious move on my part, but it opened up a whole new world,” says Leigh, who sold $169 million in 2018. She’s since done work for the founder of a drone company, the creator of a food delivery app, a Pinterest founder and a Snapchat exec. “They have so much money that if they see something they like, they buy it,” she says of tech clients. “They don’t nickel and dime you.”
elling Johnny Carson’s former Malibu home for $40 million in June helped push May’s volume to a touch above $258 million. She was also the agent on the $33.5 million sale of a 1940 Georgian Regency by James E. Dolena in Brentwood.
Between takes on his Netflix show Selling Sunset, Oppenheim continued to service his A-list clients. In March, he listed Orlando Bloom’s remodel in Trousdale for $9 million and in August he sold Alex Rodriguez’s Hollywood Hills home (previously owned by Meryl Streep) for $4.4 million. He’s about to list a $44 million spec home — the most expensive above the Sunset Strip — and is also making a push into the San Fernando Valley.
