Drew Fenton

Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer, Carolwood Estates

Fenton likes to keep his head down and focus on selling. Press and features on the super agent, who helms L.A. County’s fastest-growing brokerage, aren’t appealing. Maybe that’s how he came to be behind the market’s two largest deals in 2025 — tied for first place at $110 million each. That would be the May closing of 630 Nimes Road in Bel-Air to Crown Resorts chair James Packer and the late July trade of Spelling Manor at 594 South Mapleton Drive. 

Fenton, who co-founded Beverly Hills-based Carolwood Estates in November 2022 after cutting his teeth at Hilton & Hyland, runs a brokerage that debuted on TRD’s 2024 ranking at No. 8 before shooting up four spaces in 2025 to No. 4 with $3.6 billion in on-market deals across 478 transactions. Fenton alone ranked fifth nationally and second in the state, based on volume of $750 million in 2024, according to RealTrends. All in, the super agent has over $7.2 billion in career sales, which includes closing nine residential deals in excess of $100 million. 

Whether 2026 presents hurdles for the brokerage remains to be seen, but Carolwood’s short history suggests it hasn’t stumbled yet, despite launching just as the impact of the Measure United to House L.A. tax was ramping and right before the Palisades and Eaton fires. 

 — Kari Hamanaka