Since we are the Irvine Housing Blog, and since we can be unbiased (we don’t take advertising dollars from realtors), we are the perfect conduit for information regarding the performance of local realtors. We are strictly acting as an information conduit — with our own interpretation, of course. The source data can be found at OC Home Review. The OC Home Review’s list of Irvine Realtors provides a ranking of realtors based on the number of active listings they currently have on the market. Since it is my opinion that this is a completely meaningless statistic, I have downloaded their information and sorted it on different criteria.
I have compiled 4 different categories of agent rankings:
- Largest Number of Sales
- Highest Sales Rate
- Lowest Sales Rate
- Dishonorable Mention
The largest number of sales is self-explanatory. The agents who are closing deals, particularly in this market environment, are doing a great job, and I wish to recognize their accomplishment here. If you want to sell your house in Irvine, these are the people you should be seeking out.
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The Highest Sales Rate is another way of looking at performance. These realtors may not take as many listings and sell as many houses, but if they take a listing, they get the job done. These are the realtors who will be able to focus more attention on your listing and make sure it sells. To make this list, the realtor must have had at least 4 listings, and sold at least 3 of those.
These final two categories are something you will only find on a website like ours. These are the lists of realtors who are not doing a good job.
There are plenty of starving realtors out there who are doing no job at all, but these lists do not include those. To make either of these lists, you have to be actively listing properties. The one thing both of these lists have in common is that the realtors are not acting in their clients best interest. These are the realtors who pandered to their clients fantasies and wishing prices and put properties on the market at prices that simply will not sell. When these sellers most needed a dose of market reality, these realtors served them kool aid.
The Lowest Sales Rate list is composed of realtors who had at least 3 market listings and less than a 25% sales rate. Basically, these people did not get the job done. A realtor’s job is not to make a homeowner feel good about their property values by stroking their egos with ridiculous asking prices. A realtor’s job is to sell houses — period. Unless they are getting paid as psychologists or emotional hookers by pretend sellers, they are simply wasting everyone’s time. Which leads us to our last category: Dishonorable Mention.
Dishonerable Mention is our WTF Hall of Fame — or Hall of Infamy if you prefer. Any realtor with a listing that makes our WTF list is featured here. A realtor can be removed from the list in three ways:
- Make the Largest Number of Sales list.
- Make the Highest Sales Rate list.
- Sell the house for a purchase price within 5% of the asking price. If this occurs, we will admit we were wrong and apologize.
Other than that, they are blacklisted for life.
If you click on the agent’s name in the lists below, it will lead you to a complete listing of the properties these agents represent. I clicked on some of these, particularly the poor performers, to see what was — or wasn’t — going on. Two things jumped out at me: first, John McMonigle and Rodney Sudbeck have almost all of their listings in Turtle Ridge, and nothing is selling there; second, Lee Ann Canaday (the Sunday Morning TV Show) took on a bunch of listings in the Marquee towers, and nothing is selling there either.
Largest Number of Sales
| Agent Name | Sold | Expired | Sold Rate | Active | Total Listings |
| 1 | Todd Muradian | 62 | 20 | 75.61% | 15 | 97 |
| 2 | Roula Fawaz | 25 | 9 | 73.53% | 0 | 34 |
| 3 | Frank Agahi | 17 | 12 | 58.62% | 13 | 42 |
| 4 | Fred Stepanian | 17 | 12 | 58.62% | 0 | 29 |
| 5 | Mike Dunn | 16 | 8 | 66.67% | 0 | 24 |
| 6 | Matthew Ingalls | 15 | 6 | 71.43% | 0 | 21 |
| 7 | Doris Lipscomb | 15 | 4 | 78.95% | 0 | 19 |
| 8 | Ali Atri | 14 | 8 | 63.64% | 3 | 25 |
| 9 | Donna Gillespie | 14 | 4 | 77.78% | 0 | 18 |
| 10 | Hanu Reddy | 13 | 7 | 65% | 0 | 20 |
Highest Sales Rate
| Agent Name | Sold | Expired | Sold Rate | Active | Total Listings |
| 1 | Ryan Kashanchi | 11 | 1 | 91.67% | 0 | 12 |
| 2 | Tom Nash | 7 | 1 | 87.50% | 3 | 11 |
| 3 | Chris Merritt | 11 | 2 | 84.62% | 4 | 17 |
| 4 | Amy Farrell-Caves | 5 | 1 | 83.33% | 0 | 6 |
| 5 | Dale Cheema | 5 | 1 | 83.33% | 0 | 6 |
| 6 | Lynn & Gina Yang | 5 | 1 | 83.33% | 0 | 6 |
| 7 | Sherman Smith | 4 | 1 | 80% | 3 | 8 |
| 8 | Maurice Sousse | 4 | 1 | 80% | 0 | 5 |
| 9 | Mehri Borhani | 4 | 1 | 80% | 0 | 5 |
| 10 | Kevin Tolan | 4 | 1 | 80% | 0 | 5 |
Lowest Sales Rate
| Agent Name | Sold | Expired | Sold Rate | Active | Total Listings |
| 1 | John Mcmonigle | 0 | 8 | 0% | 0 | 8 |
| 2 | Rodney S. Sudbeck | 0 | 5 | 0% | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | Michael Lowary | 0 | 4 | 0% | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | Janto Hariyanto | 0 | 3 | 0% | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Connie Chung | 0 | 3 | 0% | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Olga Matthews | 0 | 3 | 0% | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Hannah Lim | 0 | 2 | 0% | 10 | 12 |
| 8 | Kerianne Waldrop | 1 | 5 | 16.67% | 3 | 9 |
| 9 | Nancy Keeley-Campbell | 1 | 5 | 16.67% | 1 | 7 |
| 10 | Lee Ann Canaday | 3 | 12 | 20% | 0 | 15 |
Dishonorable Mention
Paula Allen – WTF-Were-You-Thinking Prices
Mija Kim – LOL, OMG, WTF?
Marcus Garcia – Insulting Asking Prices
Brian Righetti – Edington Terrace Trifecta
Kathy Kudray – Turtle Ridge Dreamers
Joanne Chivers – Turtle Ridge Dreamers
Sheila Mayers – Turtle Ridge Dreamers
Dale Cheema – Birds of a Feather (will be removed for making highest sales rate list)
Sally Anne Sheridan – Birds of a Feather
Susan Lombardi – Happy Birthday
Michael Pickell – New Mountain High
Final Thoughts
As many of you have probably speculated, we have a number of realtors who read this blog regularly. The vast majority are lurkers who just want to be aware of what the bears are saying. Some of them may not be happy about being called out here.
Too bad.
Realtors who are doing a poor job should be called out. A spotlight should be shined on them until they perform better or get out of the profession. Perhaps a little public humiliation will cause them to change their ways. They should be happy this isn’t medieval Europe. They had effective ways of dealing with problem behavior.
Bring back the stocks…
