The Keyes Company, an independent real estate brokerage firm, continued its expansion into Palm Beach County with Mizner Grande Realty joining the firm’s Boca Raton office. Broker-Owner Ari Albinder leads Mizner Grande Realty, founded in 2001. The company specializes in luxury residential real estate, focusing on beachfront properties in its home base of Boca Raton and surrounding high-end areas, as well as Miami-Dade and Broward counties. The firm’s lifetime sales exceed $2.7 billion.
“I have been approached by many different real estate companies over the last few years,” Albinder says. “The local and global network of Keyes is unsurpassed, and its technology is the newest and finest in the real estate industry. We knew that this was the right fit, culture and partner that we have been looking for.”
In January, Christina Pappas was promoted to president of Keyes, while Mike Pappas remains CEO. The firm remains committed to the continued statewide expansion of the firm in a time of substantial brokerage industry consolidation.
In 2022, Keyes completed multiple acquisitions of boutique brokerages, including Miramar-based Novus Realty and Coral Springs-based Skye Louis Realty, which added more than 170 agents and $240 million in annual volume to the firm’s output in Broward and Palm Beach counties.
“Mizner Grande is a tremendous firm and shares many qualities with the firms we added in 2022 and previous years,” Keyes Senior Vice President Steven Reibel says. “We are proud that our core values emphasizing customer service, integrity, family and philanthropy shine through when speaking with the owners of boutique firms that are frequently courted by our competitors. We remain in active discussions with potential strategic partners in South Florida and throughout the state.”
