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Luxury broker Tomer Fridman is starting 2021 off with a bang, taking his 11-person team from Compass to Beverly Hills-based Hilton & Hyland, according to The Dirt.
Fridman, who is perhaps best known as broker to well-known celebrities like the Kardashian-Jenner family, Britney Spears and Jennifer Lopez, among others, moved to Compass from Sotheby’s International Realty in 2017 with his high-earning client list in tow.
Comprised of five staffers and six agents, including Fridman, The Fridman Group closed a team record of $539 million in sales in 2020, according to Forbes. Some of the more noteworthy transactions included Kylie Jenner’s purchase of a record-setting land deal and representation of Viewpoint Collection in the sale of L.A.’s historic Owlwood Estate. The group is also currently representing fashion designer Eva Chow’s South Mapleton Drive estate, which is listed at $65 million.
Let’s speak the truth about Jack Knox and the “Karen” fiasco. Who cares and so what if some miscreants on the almighty social media network decided at some point to select the name Karen to stand for a “rude, arrogant, and offensive” female? That’s slander, pure and simple. Anyone with half a brain and one iota of maturity should have learned long ago to ignore and/or defy slander as nothing more than subversive name-calling and mob rule. Schoolyard stuff. Let’s hope that the time will come for all those whose lives are now filled with and ruled by their allegiance to social media, when they realize the hollow rhetoric which apparently rules their lives.
The past 12 months have been unlike any other period people living today have seen. Thanks to a global pandemic, economic chaos and a presidential election, 2020 has seen an onslaught of news that no one could have anticipated.
This news spanned the gamut, from tragic to uplifting, from frightening to novel. But overall the stories that Inman readers gravitated to this year tended to focus on big shifts. Several stories on plummeting interest rates, for example, were among Inman’s most-read in 2020. A handful of items on unexpected turns from Keller Williams also struck a cord. Politics, regulation and the National Association of Realtors (NAR) were popular topics this year as well.