Boston’s Biggest Luxury Brokers Just Switched Firms
After 11 years at Sotheby’s, Michael Carucci is making only his third career move—to team up with a Netflix celebrity broker, along with a coterie of other top local agents.
Left to Right: Ryan Serhant / Courtesy; Michael Carucci / photo by Cheryl Richards
Boston’s world of luxury real estate has just gotten a whole lot more interesting. One of the city’s most prominent high-end real-estate brokers, Michael Carucci, is leaving Sotheby’s. The 40-year veteran with $3 billion in career sales—one of the 150 Most Influential Bostonians of 2025, with a client list that include boldfacers like Céline Dion, Michael Dell, Herb Chambers, Ernie Boch, Jr., and the estate of Larry Lucchino—is joining Netflix reality star Ryan Serhant’s expansion into Boston as SERHANT’s executive vice-president in Massachusetts. The man has sold homes to almost everyone in the region who matters.
Carucci isn’t the kind of guy that moves around for no reason—he has made precisely two career shifts in just four decades, running his own firm for 28 years before spending 11 years at Sotheby’s. “Ryan and I’d been discussing it for several months now,” Carucci tells Boston. “I don’t typically like change. But SERHANT is not just a brokerage—it is a media, technology and advisory platform. I’m not joining Ryan Serhant, I’m joining SERHANT.” He says his role will be to help shape the firm’s strategic direction in Massachusetts. “Boston is a global city, and SERHANT gives us a global stage. This is a growth move—not just for me, but for my clients and the city.”
And he’s not the only one making moves. Antonio Khoury—Compass’s No. 1 agent in sales volume in Boston, generating $130 million in profits last year (one billion dollars lifetime)—is a founding member of SERHANT, too.
The man behind it all, Ryan Serhant, is the Brooklyn-based star of Netflix’s Owning Manhattan with deep Massachusetts roots. The 41-year-old property mogul grew up in Topsfield, has a brother in Walpole, and is a huge Patriots fan. Last year, his firm repped Dave Portnoy’s purchase of a Florida mansion. When Serhant announced last month that his namesake brokerage would expand into Boston, the question was not if he’d shake up the local luxury market. It was who he’d bring on to help him. Now we know.
The other founding crew members are Jorge Sariego (a 21-year vet who operated his own brokerage) and “Prop Cousins” (yes, that’s their nom de sales) Kyle Farrell and Joe Albano: They had career sales of $200 million. In summary, the launch roster is 30-plus agents to serve $600 million in volume for 2025 alone.
Serhant’s playbook has always been the same: Acquire talent, not brokerages. Let the old firms keep their lawn signs—he just wants their best people. And now arguably, he has at least some of them.
