Las Vegas luxury Realtors have placed prominently in the 2022 national rankings of the top agents and their teams.
This year’s list that measures transactions in 2021 as released by RealTrends and Tom Ferry International, lists Henderson agent George Kypreos, the broker/owner of GK Properties in Henderson as No. 19 in the nation with $465.4 million in transactions. He works in partnership with Zillow in the Las Vegas market, which provides for a large volume of deals and is different from how most Realtors do business.
Kypreos ranked No. 1 in the state for most sales at 1,293 and in dollar amount.
Luxury Realtor Kristen Routh-Silberman, a partner with Corcoran Global Living, amassed $228 million in transactions, ranking No. 96 in the nation and second in Southern Nevada and first among luxury Realtors. She was No. 7 in the state with 90 transactions.
Routh-Silberman said that’s her highest-mark ever, beating 2021 when she was just under $200 million. Despite a slowdown in the Las Vegas market this summer in luxury sales overall, Routh-Silberman said she hasn’t felt that, except for clients taking summer vacations, and expects 2022 to be on pace with a year ago.
“This was my best year ever, and I almost don’t even remember it because it was such a blur,” Routh-Silberman said. “You have to rise to the occasion, and I’m happy that I did it and (went) through it. That’s the year I sold the $25 million home in MacDonald Highlands and represented the buyer and the seller, a career milestone and milestone for the city. Las Vegas and I did it together. And I think there’s greater things to come.”
Routh-Silberman said Realtors needed to work together to get as many people as possible so they didn’t go to Texas and Florida. The new luxury residents will add a lot to the city.
“All the clients I brought are hands down awesome and are going to contribute and help our city grow and keep moving forward in a good direction,” Routh-Silberman said. “Everything has to come together, the right developer, the right houses and right buyer to make a city great, and all the stars lined up for 2021. We were lucky to have a ton of people in Las Vegas in 2020 and 2021 because they couldn’t go anyplace else. Now they can go to the Mediterranean and elsewhere.”
Kypreos and Routh-Silberman were far removed from the top Realtor in the nation, Bob Caballero of Dallas with $1.97 billion in transactions. Jean Markelbach with Engel &Volker Lake Tahoe, was No. 18 in the nation and the top agent in Nevada with $488.2 million in transactions.
The Ivan Sher Group with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Nevada Properties ranked No. 31 in the nation and first in Nevada among mega groups, those with 21 agents and higher with $700.2 million. It did 359 transactions. Sher said he’s reaching out to the rankings firm to let them know that his volume was a record $759 million instead, which would move him up in the rankings to No. 25.
Sher said he should fall into the large category of 11 to 20 agents but the rankings count his administrative staff, which is licensed, even though they don’t do transactions. That would place him No. 5 in that category, nationally.
The $759 million is a 71 percent increase from the $444 million Sher said he did in 2020, a then record. He did $320 million in 2019.
“It was a hell of a year,” Sher said. “It’s a privilege (to be highly ranked), and it’s more than one person. You surround yourself with great people and greatness happens. We’re excited for the end of this year and next year. I’m optimistic about where 2023 is going to go.”
Sher said this year won’t match 2021 because of the slowdown in the market as luxury buyers monitor the stock market decline, but activity is starting to pick up and more homes are going into escrow.
“It was dead silent for a couple of months, but now we are transacting again,” Sher said. “High-value homes are still going to get the…
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