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Meet Mark Ehlers
Mark is a Real Estate Negotiation Expert, Coastal & Palos Verdes Specialist, Commercial & Income Property Consultant, and Small Business Advisor. Mark’s residential practice spans the coastal Los Angeles region; and his Multifamily, Office, Retail, and Industrial practice covers the entirety of Southern California.
A lifelong South Bay resident, Mark grew up in San Pedro, studied at the University of Southern California, worked in Manhattan Beach (for a decade), and lives in Rancho Palos Verdes with his wife, their nine-year-old son, their German Shepherd and their Maine Coon cat.
Full-time in real estate for fifteen years, Mark's career began with brokerage risk management, where he was responsible for researching, analyzing, and designing solutions for challenging real estate matters in support of top residential, multifamily, and commercial brokers. In doing so, Mark developed a wealth of specialized knowledge in varied real estate settings, and gained an intimate understanding of what can go wrong and how to hedge against it.
In 2017, Mark founded an independent investment real estate brokerage that leverages his risk management background while exploring what can go right for his clients. Drawing experience from thousands of unique real estate transactions over the course of his career, it is both second nature and job one for Mark to help people “do more with real estate”.
An expert communicator, Mark exhibits natural comfort at the negotiating table and works to position his clients for success. Merging expertise with instinct and empathy, Mark’s approach to advocacy embraces solutions-based thinking to advance client interests, diffuse any undue transactional tensions, and usher the parties toward mutually beneficial results.
Indeed, the guiding principle of Mark’s business model is a dedication to helping others and to adding value whenever possible and wherever necessary. Inspired and driven by the thrill of unlocking potential otherwise unseen, Mark has helped thousands of principals, brokers, and agents gain the confidence to successfully navigate their own adventures in real estate.
Contact
Direct Dial: 310-667-1469
Licensing
California Department of Real Estate Broker License No. 01955008
OUR APPROACH TO UNDERWRITING INVESTMENTS
"It’s easy to be taken in by 2-dimensional investment metrics written on the back of a napkin. But the exercise of underwriting is really about looking at all of the angles and constructing a 4D context. To make the best investment decisions, you need to have as clear an image of what the investment really is, how it will perform over a period of time, and how the return looks under different acquisition and operational scenarios. The resolution of those images depends on the confidence we have in our assumptions and our ability to forecast using data and critical thinking. And in the end, the prices our clients can justify depend on the clarity of our vision: the easier it is to see the path to the upside, the more competitive we can be; and the fuzzier the image, the bigger the risk premium needs to be" — Mark Ehlers