For South Florida Agent Denver Shiny, Investing in Folks Is Its Personal Reward
By Grace Cassidy
As any agent will let you know, success in actual property comes all the way down to the relationships one builds alongside the best way. For Fort Lauderdale-based Douglas Elliman agent Denver Bright, the prospect to attach with folks and assist them by pivotal moments of their lives is its personal reward.
“It’s thrilling for me to study folks’s tales,” stated Shiny, who serves as Director of Luxurious Gross sales for the Senada Adzem Team. “I really like the relationships it permits me to kind.”
A kind of relationships occurred to be with former Miami Warmth level guard Mario Chalmers, whom he helped to promote a house in South Florida in 2018. Now, as one among 60-some brokers in Elliman’s invite-only Sports & Entertainment Division, Shiny attracts on his curiosity and capability for connection to develop enduring relationships with the athletes, actors and different high-net-worth people who make up the division’s clientele.
“These athletes, for instance, are extraordinarily prosperous, however oftentimes all that wealth was created in a single lifetime,” he stated. “It’s necessary for me to study the issues that they went by and what they overcame to get there.”
Initially from Jamaica, Shiny credit his grandmother Daybreak, who helped to lift him, with inspiring that sense of empathy and respect for the life journeys of others.
“She at all times instructed me that no matter you will have in your head, no person can take out,” he recalled. “No matter ability you develop, nobody can take that away from you.”
Shiny went on to earn his B.S. in Finance at Quinnipiac College in Connecticut earlier than shifting to the Sunshine State, the place he labored for Internet Belief Mortgage in Boca Raton. Within the time since he first joined Douglas Elliman in 2013 (he rejoined in 2022, after an interim with one other brokerage), he has been within the thick of South Florida’s booming luxurious actual property market.
Traditionally thought to be a magnet for retirees and snowbirds, Florida has grow to be a luxurious vacation spot on par with the Hamptons and coastal areas of Southern California. With almost 450,000 people moving to the state between July 2021 and July 2022, Shiny has famous that many new arrivals have come from states between the coastal feeders of Los Angeles and New York Metropolis.
“South Florida—particularly Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Seashore—has solidified its place as a vacation spot for high- and ultra-high-net-worth people,” he stated. “Data are always being set after which damaged. We not too long ago had a sale within the space go for $175 million for a single property. That’s by no means occurred in South Florida. We now have seen large development per sq. foot by way of properties being bought, improve in gross sales quantity and a lift in greenback worth total.”
In tandem along with his actual property profession, Shiny has constructed a substantial portfolio of philanthropic endeavors. Alongside along with his involvement within the Cystic Fibrosis Basis and American Most cancers Society, he began the Bright Youth Foundation, which helps and promotes literacy in Jamaica by funding scholarships, books, computer systems, meals packages and extra. Most not too long ago, BYF has begun to supply full-ride scholarships to the College of Know-how in Jamaica, together with ongoing mentorship.
Whereas he was impressed to assist ACS and different charities after his sister died of breast most cancers at age 53, Shiny once more factors to his grandmother—who turns 83 this 12 months—because the supply of his dedication to charitable work.
“I’ve at all times believed within the energy of schooling as a result of I see what it has carried out for me,” he stated. “Giving again and beginning BYF has been a homage to my grandmother.”
Whether or not in philanthropy or in actual property, investing in folks and relationships has been a profitable technique for Shiny, who prides himself on offering shoppers with unparalleled service and a focus.
“The shoppers usually come again,” he stated. “It’s all concerning the belief issue.”
