Dina Goldentayer

Goldentayer headed to Miami after graduating from college a year early. She planned to take a gap year before law school and instead fell into real estate. 

Then 21, Goldentayer waitressed at the now-shuttered nightclub Mint. That’s when she bought her first property, a $323,000 condo in South Beach. It was 2004. Her agent was Jeff Miller, a longtime broker in Miami Beach (he was also her manager at Mint). 

That’s when she decided to get her own real estate license. She joined Carson Realty Group, a boutique brokerage that was later acquired by Douglas Elliman, and partnered with Sladja Stantic. At 26, she brokered a $3.2 million deal. It was a big sale for her, but she lingered at that price point for a while. 

Goldentayer and Stantic worked together for 12 years before they split. Goldentayer continued to build her business and it skyrocketed during the pandemic. She’s now one of the top brokers in Miami-Dade, focusing her business on Miami Beach and nearby towns. She closed $460.2 million in on-market deals in 2025, according to The Real Deal’s broker ranking. 

Goldentayer’s not without controversy. Some of her deals have sparked lawsuits over commissions, including a 2020 complaint that alleged another brokerage was cut out of the nearly $24 million sale of a waterfront Bal Harbour mansion, which Douglas Elliman received a full 5 percent commission for.