Source: New York Post —
“I remember in 2008, during that recession, if I had the opportunity to be buying a bunch of real estate, I would have a lot of money right now,” Mauricio Umansky, wearing casual jeans, a gray blazer and a white dress shirt told The Post from his new office space in New York City, off of Union Square.
Umansky, who had mostly earned a reputation as the loyal and charismatic husband of Kyle Richards from the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” was in town to attend two events: the largest real estate conference in the country — the Inman Real Estate Conference — and to fête his new Manhattan headquarters.
But while the 52-year-old may not yet have retire-in-Monaco money, he has been building a real-estate empire in the last decade, with a global sales volume of $57.4 billion since its founding in 2011.
By 2013, in two short years, the Wall Street Journal ranked him the No. 3 residential broker in the country and the No. 1 seller in California with nearly $380 million in transaction volume the prior year.
Umansky credited his success to what he was doing a few years prior to launching his firm, known as The Agency, working as a real estate agent for his brother-in-law, Rick Hilton, at the luxury real estate company Hilton & Hyland.
He was earning more than $200,000 in commissions and was known as their No. 1 agent for more than eight years straight.
