The Agency Real Estate

Worked with Michelle S. To sell a home during divorce. She was rude and unpleasant in a very sensitive situation. Would stay away from them in the future.

The agency is one of the premier real estate companies in Los Angeles. They employ some of the most sophisticated realtors in the city with amazing marketing tools and a wide array of technologies to showcase their real estate expertise. Highly recommend them

I had the pleasure of working with Natasha Barrett recently on a real estate transaction. Having just sold a property in Santa Barbara, I had been looking for awhile for the perfect replacement that satisfied my many requirements for a new living arrangement. Natasha found the place and helped negotiate my offer and transition seamlessly into a new place which is just right for me. She and the Agency are highly professional and met my needs al throughout the process and I would highly recommend them to anyone.

As the interior architectural designer for luxury condominiums, I have to say how impressed I am with the team of Lisa Rubel and Kim Hartley of The Agency. They go above-​and-​beyond brokering deals. They have been involved in the early stages of the design process on several luxury properties, providing guidance to the design team on what buyers will expect, and various ways in which we can exceed those expectations. They leverage relationships and find resources for Developers, saving them tens-​of-​thousands of dollars (i.e. model unit staging at no cost). They are involved with every aspect to ensure that the clients will get the best bang for their buck. I hope to continue collaborating with Lisa and Kim. They are the best!
–Deb Longua-​Zamero, DLZ | interiors

As a complete neophyte in the real estate world, I was incredibly fortunate to find Jeffrey Sandorf through a strong recommendation from a co-​worker who knew him personally and professionally. Jeff took the time to get to know me, to better appreciate what I would like and to make suggestions on properties that were coming on the market – even though I would not have given those properties a second look without his guidance. In Jeff, you will find someone extraordinarily patient, intelligent, quick and savvy, able to speak the language of real estate as his mother tongue, an excellent negotiator and someone who placed my interests above making a sale each and every time. It was clear from the get-​go that this guy had my back and I could relax with him. When we finally did find «the» property, Jeff handled all the heavy lifting, out-​maneuvering and out-​thinking everyone on the other side of the table. But that is not all this agent did for me. He guided me through to several loan officers, helped me interview each and every contractor who placed a bid on the property I purchased (and there were a lot), he made brilliant decorating/​renovating suggestions, and he gave me such sound, well thought-​out and common sense advice that it stopped me in my tracks every time. «Of course,» I would end up saying, «why didn’t I think of that?» He works very much like I do. It was not uncommon for us to be emailing back and forth at 10:30 p.m. or 8:00 a.m. He was always, always, there for me. He was a tireless advocate, making sure every «t» was crossed and every «i» was dotted. Without him, I would not own this property today, and I would have quit early on to remain a renter for the rest of my life. I owe him substantially more than mere thanks. If you are looking for an agent who is interested in getting you in the home of your dreams, this agent is for you.

I’ve previously worked with agents from The Agency and have been impressed until today. I was driving past a duplex in my neighborhood and noticed that it was recently listed for lease. I looked on The Agency’s site, as well as Zillow and reviewed the listing. This morning I was headed out to the Hollywood Farmer’s Market and noticed that the unit was open and possibly being shown. I pulled in front and spoke with a really nice guy who happened to be the owner and asked if it was being shown. He said the agent, Ninkey, was inside doing a showing and could show me the unit. I parked my car and walked into the unit. I asked if she was Ninkey and said that the owner said that she might be able to show me the unit. Here’s where it went completely sideways. The first thing out of her mouth (in a very unfriendly tone) was, «It’s $ 4250 p/​month, are you ok with that?» Not «Hello, I’m Ninkey Dalton the listing agent for the lease, how are you?» And to really seal the deal she had that sourcreamface that the Beverly Hills shopgirls from Pretty Woman had when they told Julia Roberts, «It’s very expensive! You’re obviously in the wrong place.» (Sidenote-​look her photo up on their website-​she actually looks like the older sister of one of the shopgirls in the movie-​no joke). I had a copy of the listing in my hand and according to both UC Berkeley and the State Bar Association of California can actually read higher than 3^rd grade level. More importantly, I can read and write well enough to compose this review. I also own a home in the neighborhood Ninkey. You’d think I’d stumbled into a 47M showing in Beverly Park or taken a time machine back to 1961’s Clybourne Park from A Raisin In the Sun. If she’d bothered to be polite, I would have explained that I was looking at the unit for my brother who is relocating from SF and would actually find it the deal of the century based on the rent he pays in SF (the unit has a lovely 900 sq ft outdoor space and garage parking). It pains me to say it, but NINKEY DALTON judged the wrong book by the cover. She saw a Black woman in sweatpants stroll into the unit and thought for no other viable reason than racism, that I needed to be told «this unit is really expensive, can you afford that?» As Julia Roberts told the shopgirls after her spree w/​Richard Gere, «You work on commission right? Big mistake! Huge!»
It’s a complete shame because the owner is a lovely human being (who’s done a great job renovating the property btw) but is being represented by a wackass racist twit! The Agency can do better and needs to give Ninkey Dalton mandatory racial sensitivity training or drop her from their roster. She is a not a good look for you!

I met Sam Plouchart working as a manager at a night club he was promoting at. I was in my office one day when he came in to pick up his pay check and he noticed me searching for homes on the MLS and he informed me he was an agent and asked me what I was searching for. I told him my boyfriend was searching for a home and he asked if I had an agent and I told him I was working with a friend of mine who was going to kick me back a commission. I told him I didn’t mind working with him as well as my other agent was leaving town and I needed to be shown a few homes. He told me that he would give me 20% of his commission if i was to use him which was the same amount that my other friend/​agent had promised me. Then the search began, I was searching the MLS and sending the properties I found to Sam and we were setting up times to view. I was the middle man and doing all the work and sometimes showing up alone to see homes that the photos were deceiving knowing that my boyfriend wouldn’t want to check it out, but I figured I would do the dirty work. Sam never once had contact with my boyfriend throughout the search of the home. He would always contact me and then I would forward the message on. I felt as though I was the agent and not Sam at all. After finding a house that he liked, which was one we found on MLS, nothing that Sam had even sent us, my boyfriend put in an offer. Once the house went into escrow I texted Sam about the commission and he IGNORED me. Finally after emails and phone calls he told me that it was «illegal» to give me a commission. After doing my research it is also illegal to make false promises to a client. He could of very well given me a gift that was not in the form of cash but possibly a gift card or pre paid credit card in the amount that we agreed for him to kick me back for bringing him my boyfriend who he did not know before I introduced him. He later quit his job where he worked as a promoter. After that nice commission check he got I would assume so. The house my boyfriend purchased was 2.1 million dollars, so 3 percent of that he collected as commission. I am writing this email to make you all aware of the false promises Sam Plouchart will give you. He also was very pressuring to purchase homes my boyfriend did not like and was very annoyed it was taking him so long to find something he liked. I can not speak on this agency as a whole, but the fact they could employee agents like this one is very disappointing. My experience was awful. I felt very used and betrayed by this «nice agent». So please people BEWARE. Do not go to an agency who makes false promises. They just want to make money!!! Be careful!!!

Received a spam from The Agency in a bilingual format soliciting properties in Korea Town. It should do its homework when sending out marketing materials to the mass.