Kurt Rappaport Co - Founder
Kurt was born and raised in Los Angeles. He started his real estate career at Merrill Lynch in Los Angeles. His career quickly ascended and in 1999 he co-founded Westside Estate Agency, one of the largest privately held residential brokerage firms in the country with annual sales in excess of $4B USD. Kurt has been close counsel and carefully guided clients including Larry Ellison, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ellen DeGeneres, Sean Combs, Bono, Dr. Dre, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Adele, Tom Brady, Ryan Seacrest, Tom Ford, Maverick Carter, Rich Paul and Lebron James. Daily Variety columnist Army Archerd once wrote, “Kurt is the real estate guru, the best at making a deal and trusted by the most powerful.”
Kurt is a true real estate mogul and entrepreneur and is well known for owning, building, and restoring the “best in class” residential and commercial properties. In 2018, he sold his concrete and glass home in Malibu for $120M, a Malibu record (which Kurt has since broken). He’s also owned over 30 homes in LA and Malibu and several ultra-prime buildings in the center of Beverly Hills. Many of these have been published in Architectural Digest and other leading design publications. Tom Ford used his home to shoot his film Nocturnal Animals.
Kurt has been included in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 500 Annual Most Powerful Leaders in Los Angeles every year since 2015.
In 2017, at The Friars Club in NYC, Kurt, along with Martin Scorsese, received the Friars Club Icon Award for extraordinary accomplishments in business and philanthropy presented by Ryan Seacrest. The Icon Award is an award given to top entertainment and business leaders. Previous recipients include Frank Sinatra and Carlos Slim.
In 2018, Kurt received the Dave Winfield Humanitarian Award in a ceremony produced and televised by Major League Baseball.
Kurt lives in Brentwood and Malibu.
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TRD: Beverly Hills manse snags $24M after less than a month on market
Westside Estate Agency nabbed the priciest resi contract in Los Angeles County last week with a manse asking $25 million. The home at 703 North Arden Drive in the coveted Beverly Hills’ 90210 zip code, which spans more than 10,000 square feet, went into contract last week, topping all other local contracts — based on […]
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TRD Data: $23M Santa Monica home sale tops seaside city’s charts
It took until nearly the end of the year, but Santa Monica has a new market leader in 2025. A home at 2555 La Mesa Drive sold for just shy of $23 million on Dec. 11, knocking two single-family homes, which each went for $14.6 million, off their perch. On La Mesa Drive, the recent […]
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TRD: Rappaport flips ranking script, claims top median price in 2025
For some of L.A.’s top residential brokers, less is more. Kurt Rappaport was the agent with the highest median sale price in 2025 and the smallest number of deals, according to an analysis of The Real Deal’s annual broker ranking data for L.A. County over the past year. Rappaport, co-founder of Westside Estate Agency, notched […]
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LABJ: The Business Journal’s 10th Edition of The LA500
LA500 2025: Kurt Rappaport, Cofounder, Chief Executive Westside Estate Agency Inc. The Business Journal’s 10th edition of the LA500 celebrates the most influential leaders and impactful executives in Los Angeles. Many of these individuals have stepped up to help L.A. recover from the devastating wildfires earlier this year, and all are pillars of the community. […]
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TRD: WEA, Beverly Hills Estates Cut Deal on $27M Malibu Colony Home
Closing comes at discount from $33M list price A Cape Cod-style home in Malibu Colony sold this month for $26.8 million, making it the priciest on-market residential deal so far this year in the ritzy coastal city. The six-bed, five-bath home at 23736 Malibu Colony Road hit the market in March last year for $38.5 […]
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Westside Estate Agency’s Kurt Rappaport Named the #1 Real Estate Agent in Los Angeles
Westside Estate Agency is thrilled to celebrate our esteemed team member, Kurt Rappaport’s achievement as the #1 Real Estate Agent in Los Angeles. Kurt has been recognized as the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Top Residential Real Estate Agent for 2025. Based on Kurt’s 2024 sales volume across Los Angeles County, this ranking is a testament […]
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LA Times: Kurt Rappaport – Real Estate Agent to The Stars
When Jay-Z and Beyoncé broke a California record by dropping $200 million on a Malibu mansion last year, a familiar name was front and center on the deal: Kurt Rappaport. The 53-year-old real estate power broker represented both the buyers and the sellers in the historic sale — an accomplishment in itself that likely pocketed […]
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WSJ: Beyoncé & Jay-Z Are Clients, so Too Larry Ellison: How A Superbroker Operates
If you’re Kurt Rappaport—a real-estate agent to the stars, with billionaires on speed dial and $100 million home sales under your belt—there’s really only one way to throw yourself a housewarming party, and that’s by inviting Snoop Dogg to DJ. The 2022 event, at Rappaport’s old Hollywood-style compound in Los Angeles, was the culmination of […]
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TRD: LA’s Top-Ranked Resi Brokers Find Their Rhythm
The Beat Goes on Even as Market Conditions Disrupt the Party When Kurt Rappaport closed the sale of a Malibu estate to Jay-Z and Beyoncé for $200 million in May, the Los Angeles real estate business cheered a new record for the priciest home in California history. Much of the rest of the past 12 […]
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TRD: Top Agents From WEA, Carolwood Estates Partner to Create Escrow Firm
In an unusual move, top agents from Westside Estate Agency and Carolwood Estates, two of Beverly Hills’ most successful luxury boutique agencies, have partnered to open a new business called Private Escrow, The Real Deal has learned. It opened in mid-July in Beverly Hills, helmed by Gail Hershowitz, a veteran escrow officer who has been […]
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AD: Tour the Sprawling Brentwood Compound That’s Home to A Hollywood Real Estate Investor and A Model
The Family Home Is the Private Oasis for An Agent Trusted by The Likes of Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen and Ellen De Generes A few months ago, real estate investor (and listing agent to stars such as tom brady and gisele bündchen and ellen de generes) kurt rappaport and his wife, model zorana kuzmanovic […]
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TRD: LA’s Market Makers – a Ranking of Top Resi Agents by On-Market Deals
TRD analysis features both high-end brokers and those who play the volume game Stephen Shapiro and Ron Wynn each brokered $68 million in luxury sales across Los Angeles from late January through July. But they took very different paths to get there. Shapiro, of Westside Estate Agency, closed just one on-market deal in that period. […]
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