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What does a typical day as a real-estate agent look like? Most of the country’s all-star brokers will say such a thing doesn’t exist, but what’s clear is that many of the pros at the top of their game share a handful of similar daily habits. 

Insider scoured the archives to glean what some of the best, from Ryan Serhant and Kirsten Jordan in New York to Mauricio Umansky and Mary Fitzgerald in Los Angeles, do on the daily to get ahead. 

Whether you’re an up-and-coming agent or just an ambitious professional, read on to live like the pros. 

They caffeinate

Nest Seekers agent Erin Sykes, whose listings and sales totaled $150 million 2021, starts her day in Florida with two nitro cold brews on an empty stomach, for the extra jolt of energy. 

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Austin, Texas-based agent Kumara Wilcoxon with Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty has a morning Earl Grey tea with almond milk, though that comes after two large glasses of lemon water and a celery juice. The morning ritual has helped her sell over $1 billion in her career.

And Mary Fitzgerald, the Los Angeles agent who stars on “Selling Sunset” and sells multi-million dollar mansions with The Oppenheim Group, can’t get moving without at least two cups of coffee — she’s a self-avowed non-morning person.

They stay on top of their fitness

 

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