THE AGENCY
ARRIVES
THE GAME-
CHANGING
REAL ESTATE
COMPANY
LANDS IN THE
SOUTH BAY
A D B | O N T H E R I S E
British Columbia. Boca Raton. Pasadena. Park
Ci. ese locations are part of e Agency's 2018
expansion into new domestic and international
markets. Now with a half dozen agents currently
doing business from El Segundo and the Beach
Cities to Palos Verdes and Long Beach, agent
Sharon Umansky Benton, real estate agent and
sibling of firm co-founder and CEO Mauricio
Umansky, tells DIGS: "We are committed to being
a real estate force in the South Bay."
"We had looked at expanding into the South Bay a
few different times, but then got pulled in different
directions," she explains. With the South Bay's profile
ascending higher and higher in luxury, celebri
and global real estate realms, the time was right for
the Beverly Hills-based firm to make its move.
e Agency is a glossy real estate success story that,
since its founding in 2011, includes a steady march
into high-profile real estate markets, predominately
in California, and over $12 billion of real estate
transactions. ere's also a development company,
a strong media presence and, for the last three years,
inclusion in the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing
private companies in the nation. "e Agency is
only 7 years old," Umansky Benton muses. "It hasn't
taken us that long to get to the South Bay."
Its extensive celebri Rolodex and growing global
presence (aided by an exclusive partnership with
global real estate firm Savills) are helpful assets
for e Agency in their new territory, given the
increasing lure of the Beach Cities and Palos
Verdes among athletes, celebrities and buyers from
around the nation and the globe. "It's evolving
without a lot of impetus by the company," Kristin
Regan, real estate agent at e Agency, says of the
expansion. "ere are more agents coming to us
and wanting to get the South Bay going, and we've
got a lot of clients that are wanting to purchase
down here." e growth, she points out, is natural.
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