Christa Huffstickler, the EZ Referral Community at Keller Williams Citywide and PorchLight Realty Group have topped the Alliance’s LGBTQ+ Actual Property Prime Producers checklist for gross sales quantity and transaction sides accomplished in 2023.
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Christa Huffstickler, the EZ Referral Community at Keller Williams Citywide and PorchLight Realty Group have topped the LGBTQ+ Actual Property Alliance’s LGBTQ+ Actual Property Prime Producers checklist for enterprise accomplished in 2023, a press launch introduced on Wednesday.
The checklist acknowledges Alliance members who had been high earners by transaction quantity and sides in 2023. This yr marks the fourth yr that the Alliance has tracked and launched its high producers checklist, which represents members who generated a mixed $5.95 billion in gross sales quantity throughout 10,776 transaction sides final yr.
The LGBTQ+ Actual Property Prime Producers checklist is created in partnership with RealTrends Verified and with help from Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty. The announcement was made upfront of the Alliance’s annual Expertise: The Alliance convention, which kicks off in Las Vegas on Wednesday evening.
For the second consecutive yr, The EZ Referral Community at Keller Williams Citywide in Westlake, Ohio, led by Michael Zinicola, landed the highest staff for transaction sides with 1,035 sides. In second place by transaction sides was the Process Workforce at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Skilled Realty in Moreland Hills, Ohio, led by Seth Process, with 950 sides. PorchLight Realty Group at eXp Realty in San Diego, California, led by Mark Pattison, netted third place with 496 sides.
By gross sales quantity, PorchLight Realty Group ranked highest for the second yr in a row with $376.7 million. The EZ Referral Community got here in second with $283 million in gross sales quantity, and the Brady Sandahl Actual Property Group at Keller Williams in Palm Springs, California, led by Brady Sandahl, got here in third with $204.6 million.
Christa Huffstickler of Engel & Völkers in Atlanta, Georgia, led people by sides and gross sales quantity with $89.9 million throughout 116 sides. Christina Asbury of Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Benefit in Holly Ridge, North Carolina, got here in second for sides with 58 sides and Bobby West of Coldwell Banker Realty in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, got here in third with 57.9 sides.
Zar Zanganeh of The Company in Las Vegas, Nevada, got here in second for people by quantity with $68.7 million closed. In third place was Wendy Storch of Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty in San Francisco, California, who closed $57.1 million.
“While the numbers that our members generate on our yearly top producers list are certainly cause for excitement, they only represent half the story of the impact the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance has on the real estate industry,” Anita Legacy Blue, president of the LGBTQ+ Actual Property Alliance, stated in a press release.
“Not only does it show that LGBTQ+ and ally real estate professionals are powerful forces in the real estate industry, but [it] confirms that those in our community, when afforded the opportunity, can and will excel. We also should take pride in knowing those on the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Top Producers list play a leadership role in ensuring that members of the LGBTQ+ community have equal opportunity to gain the American Dream of homeownership without the barriers of discrimination.”
Alliance member particular person brokers certified to be ranked on the highest producers checklist by closing at the least 15 transaction sides or $6 million in gross sales quantity in 2023. Groups needed to be led by an Alliance member and needed to meet a minimal of 25 transaction sides or $9 million in gross sales quantity.
The LGBTQ+ Actual Property Alliance launched within the fall of 2020 and now consists of greater than 4,000 members throughout the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.
View the total 2024 LGBTQ+ Actual Property Prime Producers checklist right here.