Joseph Jungermann

Ask a top Miami real estate agent what their biggest deal was in the last year, and most will not be able to answer. But it’s not for lack of a great deal. It’s because they signed nondisclosure agreements. The Great Wealth Boom was revived, thanks in part to the noise generated by the proposed wealth tax in California. California residents will vote on proposition 40, which would enact a one-time, 5 percent wealth tax on billionaires, come November.

Even in a down market, the residential brokerages that rule Los Angeles County outdid themselves over the last year. The top 20 brokerages claimed 20,089 transactions totaling $52.2 billion in the 12 months before July 1, 2026, according to The Real Deal’s annual rankings of Los Angeles County firms. That’s $1.6 billion more in volume from last year’s rankings and 542 more deals.

Subscribe to TRD Data to see this content! Cannabis dispensaries were once a risky proposition for New York landlords. Three years into the state’s rocky rollout of legal weed, they’re increasingly regaining their status as a retail lifeline. The Real Deal analyzed more than 230 currently operating dispensaries tracked by storefront directory database Live XYZ.