Top ranked real estate agents in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs revealed
It’s one of the richest real estate markets in the world – Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs – and these are its greatest deal makers.
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Sydney’s prestige property market has been firing over the past year as cashed up expats and foreign buyers return to Australia following nearly two years of Covid restrictions.
And real estate agents in Sydney’s eastern suburbs have reaped the rewards of this demand surge, with exclusive realestate.com.au figures showing many agents in the east achieved average prices of over $7m per property over the past year.
It’s followed a crunch in property listings. PropTrack figures showed new listings have dropped by about 28 per cent over the past year, with the supply of available homes in exclusive Harbour locales has been even more strained.
It’s an environment that’s sent prices for luxury homes skyward – and behind each deal has been an ambitious agent pulling the strings.
The realestate.com.au analysis considered declared sales over the year to March and excluded private sales or results where the date of settlement was not known.
These were the east’s biggest dealmarkers:
1. ASHLEY BIERMAN
Agency: Ray White Double Bay
Average sale price: $11.8m
Ray White Double Bay director Ashley Bierman was behind the recent $20.5 million sale of a luxury, five-bedroom house in Bellevue Hill, along with the $14.8 million sale of a nearby house on Carrington St.
The year prior he sold F45 gym founder Rob Deutsch’s then Bronte beachfront home for $17.7 million – one of the highest prices ever paid at auction.
His “discreet” style is what sets him apart, he says.
Ms Bierman has been with Ray White for the past 15 years, having previously worked in the fashion industry in New York.
He has enjoyed remarkable success over the years including a recent $40m sale in Bellevue Hill. “I really enjoy the advisory role and being entrusted with a sale is a real privilege,” he said.
2. BILL MALOUF
Agency: Highland Double Bay
Average sale price: $10m
A recent Elite Agent report named Bill Malouf as the “godfather” of eastern suburbs real estate – and it’s easy to see why.
The former publican, turned agent, who set up his LJ Hooker Double Bay office 37 years ago before rebranding to Highland Double Bay, has been a mainstay in Sydney’s ultra-prestige suburbs such as Point Piper.
The 67-year-old has set numerous real estate records over his decades in the industry. He now works alongside son David who has also become a real estate agent.
3. ELLIOTT PLACKS
Agency: Ray White Double Bay
Average sale price: $9.7m
It was Elliott Placks’ mother who inspired him to join real estate more than 20 year ago.
The managing director of Ray White Double Bay said it was “a right of passage” and he enjoyed a career that allowed him to be creative in looking at ways to bring deals together.
“I also enjoy meeting interesting people along the way,” he said.
Over the past 12 months Mr Placks, who works across the eastern suburbs, recorded a sale of $68m in Point Piper.
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4. STEVEN CHEN
Agency: The Agency
Average sale price: $8.6m
Steven Chen heads The Agency Projects division. He has been in the industry for more than 20 years. Most the properties he has sold were within Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Through The Agency Projects division, he leads a specialist national team for local and international clients.
5. BEN COLLIER
Agency: The Agency
Average sale price: $8.08m
Co-founder of The Agency Ben Collier has been selling real estate for more than a quarter of a century. Some of his career highlights include selling the historic mansion Rona in Bellevue Hill for $58m in 2018.
He told The Daily Telegraph last year that competing in the industry required “a lot of hard work”.
6. WILLIAM MANNING
Agency: Highland Double Bay
Average home price: $7.6m
Agent William Manning has sold houses that have, at various times, set price records in Woollahra, Potts Point, Bondi Beach, Tamarama and Paddington.
Mr Manning has been in the industry for more than 20 years and has often sold properties alongside mother Sally, also an agent.
Ms Manning told the Wentworth Courier in 2016 that she always knew her son would be a success and admired his “entrepreneurial flair”.
“As a kid he used to come into my real estate office a lot after school. He liked to ask questions and was always excited,” she said.
His recent sales included a Woollahra house on Rosemont Ave sold for $15.5 million and a four-bedroom Tamarama house sold for $10.85 million.
7. DI BAKER
Agency: Di Baker Prestige Property Darling Point
Average sale price: $7.04m
Prior to becoming an agent, Di Baker worked in business, retail, design and the arts.
She got her start alongside her father Paul Baker in 1988, when she ran the Woollahra
Antiques Centre for a number of years prior to its development into a penthouse.
During her career, she has worked with McGrath Real Estate, Place Estate Agents and
Network Real Estate, and currently sells properties via her prestige agency across Sydney.
8. D’LEANNE LEWIS
Agency: Laing + Simmons Double Bay
Average sale price: $6.92m
Principal of Laing and Simmons Double Bay and the star of the recent Prime Video series Luxe Listings, D’Leanne Lewis was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and moved to the Blacktown area of Sydney when she was 10.
She got her start in real estate as the PA for a sales director at Laing and Simmons before moving into sales. She’s now one of the country’s top agents.
9. JULIAN HASEMAR
Agency: 1st City-Double Bay
Average sale price: $6.54m
Julian Hasemer founded and developed 1st CITY Group with three offices in the Eastern
Suburbs in 1998.
Since then, Mr Hasemer has at various time held records for the highest apartment prices in Darling Point, Edgecliff, Point Piper and Bellevue Hill.
“I am not seeing a significant drop in the number of genuine buyers in the market to purchase. I am seeing a particular spike in inquiry for properties with harbour views, proximity to shops, villages and schools,” he said.
10. GAVIN RUBINSTEIN
Agency: TRG (The Rubinstein Group)
Average sale price: $6.45m
Gavin Rubinstein has built a powerful brand via a prodigious entrepreneurial streak, natural showmanship and a relentlessly glamorous — sometimes flashy — Instagram account.
He’d been the best performer in Australia for Ray White for residential sales for much of the past decade and recently started a spinoff of the real estate franchise called TRG.
It’s a meteoric rise after roughly 10 years in the business for the agent born and bred in the east. He grew up in a two-bedroom apartment in the then-working class suburb of North Bondi and worked various jobs before moving into real estate.
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