To date, Eklund has sold over $20 billion worth of dream mansions and apartments.
The New York real estate market is a jungle where only a few will survive. Who knows a lot about this sector is Fredrik Eklund (46), a Swedish-born real estate entrepreneur who gained immense popularity thanks to the Netflix show Properties of millionaires. Eklund so far sold apartments and residences a dream home worth over $20,000 million.
Before coming to the Big Apple, he graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics, started his own internet company with 45 employees and worked at the investment bank SEB in Stockholm, London, Tokyo and Singapore. Plus, he made a name for himself in the gay porn industry and as an exotic dancer. She is no stranger to the artistic world as her paternal grandparents were actors Bengt Eklund and Fylgia Zadig and her father, economist Klas Eklund.
He settled in New York in 2004. He had no money, no friends, no home, he didn’t know the city. Just a bunch of dreams to come true. The first sale of the apartment took place through a small real estate agency owned by Robert de Niro’s uncle. Aware that he wasn’t bad at it, he obtained an official license and started digging through the streets of Manhattan until he became an international reference.
Her clients include well-known film and television names, including Sarah Jessica Parkerto whom he sold his townhouse for $20 million. He has also done business with Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez and Daniel Craig. “When I first showed the property to a celebrity, I was very nervous. I’ve shut down, but I’m not that person anymore,” he said. well done TV. came to to sell the penthouse for nearly $150 million and taking into account that the commission is 2.5%, this number rises to 37.5 million.
To navigate these environments, you need to look impeccable. already in 2015 spent $275 on a haircut every three weeks his tailor-made suits don’t go below $5,000, and a good coat starts at $4,000.
She has been happily married to Zimbabwean-born artist Derek Kaplan since 2013, with whom she has two children. twins born by surrogate, Milla and Fredrik, six years old. The family owns several properties on both sides of the US coast. At the moment in California, they rented their mansion something more than 500 square meters for $50,000 per month and just bought a new $7 million mansion in Miami. Until recently, his $150,000 summer residence in Connecticut.
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