Dennis and Yana Chernov have packed up and left The Agency for new digs at Equity Union Real Estate.
The move comes after a little over three years at The Agency.
The Sherman Oaks-based couple counts nine agents and 10 staffers on their team. They generated sales volume of $329.6 million across 124 transactions last year, according to RealTrends. That volume placed the team fifth in the state and 13th nationally in RealTrends’ rankings.
Equity Union CEO Harma Hartouni called out Dennis Chernov in a statement as “humble” and said he “works hard and is well respected within our community.”
Team Chernov has racked up more than $3 billion in career sales with its business encompassing luxury homes, new construction and condos.
The addition for the Sherman Oaks-headquartered brokerage is the latest growth spurt for Equity Union. It opened a Calabasas office earlier this year and is slated to open a Westside outpost next month.
Elsewhere around Southern California, here’s a look at who else padded their brokerage rosters over the past month.
➤ Revel Real Estate landed DBL Realtors founder Alan Long as sales manager.
With almost five decades of industry experience under Long’s belt, Revel founder Ben Bacal is looking to the brokerage’s latest addition to help mentor and coach the group’s agents.
Long got his start in the industry at Bob Crane and Associates and is known for scaling DBL to an 800-agent brokerage with $5 billion in annual sales. Sotheby’s International Realty acquired the business in 2004 for an undisclosed sum, while Long went on to serve as the brokerage’s Southern California region president until his retirement in 2008. After that, he founded the brokerage Rising Star Realtors and sold that to Windmere Realty in 2018 before moving on to Avenue 8 in 2021 as L.A. managing director.
Long described his new role as not so much about “reinventing the wheel” as it is about “sharpening it.”
➤ Carolwood Estates snapped up Jeremy Greenberg, who joined the Beverly Hills-based brokerage in another departure from The Agency.
Among Greenberg’s recent deals is a Hollywood Hills home that sold for $3.5 million and a Sherman Oaks property for $2.3 million last month. Those deals came on the heels of a $2.6 million Beverly Hills trade.
➤ In brokerage office activity, Sotheby’s International Realty’s Pacific Palisades office, which had been closed for renovations following the Palisades Fire, is officially back open.
The recently reopened space is located on Sunset Boulevard.
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