INTERNATIONAL: New kids on the block: A look at LA’s next tier of luxury brokers

PHOTO: Top row from left: Kevin Dees, Ignacio Rodriguez, John Kostrey, Mark Kitching, Darlene Hutton and Bryce Pennel.
Bottom row from left: Jason Hastings, Henriett Novak, Ryan Jancula, Donovan Healey, Mick Partridge and Justin Alexander.

At the highest end of the luxury residential market in Los Angeles an elite group of brokers, numbering about a dozen, routinely pull in sales in the tens of millions of dollars. Some score the occasional $100 million listing, with the true A-listers booking upwards of $500 million a year in sales.

Despite their prowess, these hotshots tend to have all the advantages at the ready, including a team of 10 or more people behind them, who are often arranging showings, postings on social media, or planning elaborate open houses with sushi and weed pens.

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