Max Nelson

Max Nelson has worked successfully for the past thirteen years representing buyers and sellers in the market of architecturally significant homes, historic estates and design-centric properties. Max boasts a keen understanding of contract language, powerful negotiating skills and a well-honed craft of identifying a property's assets, liabilities and potential upside regardless of location and price point. His distinctive philosophy and approach are defined by a firm and clear understanding of his clients' needs and the creation of a strategy that enables him to meet their goals. He has extensive experience with both seven and eight figure negotiations, along with a skill set that makes him a natural match for high-net-worth clients with equally high expectations and standards. His repeat clientele are a testament to his success; approximately 70% of Max's practice, which was started from scratch, consists of repeat clients. Max relies on his tremendous amount of knowledge and experience as well as his vast network when it comes to representing sellers in multiple areas of the city. With a network of approximately 75,000 real estate professionals from 85 different countries, he is able to ensure the global reach that may be required in the marketing and advertising of certain homes. Max's representation of buyers revolves around his unique approach to their property search coupled with his extensive network of influential brokers, which enables him to creatively locate properties not on the market and put off-market deals together. In fact, nearly 50% of the transactions Max represented last year were properties that were not actively listed. He is on the cutting-edge of the fast-paced luxury market here in LA. Max is also a regularly quoted expert for the Los Angeles Times, and was recently featured in a series of interviews dealing with celebrity real estate here. His client base consists of architects, designers, hedge fund managers, professional athletes and a wide range of show business professionals. Max is an alumnus of Webb, the prestigious boarding school located in Claremont, CA, and he earned his BA from Davidson College, a top 10 liberal arts school known for its honor code and academic excellence (where he also played varsity football). He loves the style, design and architecture of Los Angeles, as well as running, meditating, playing tennis and spending time with his son Rivers.