Former Wall Street banker Rubens Brotto has been promoted to Managing Partner at property brokerage Nest Seekers International after just two years with the firm.

Brotto, who joined Nest Seekers during the first lockdown, will be leading a team of agents at its London headquarters and driving global expansion plans across Europe.

CROSSROADS

He says that after 15 years working on the crossroads of sales, investment banking and financial services in Rio, New York City and London he has a lot to offer the brokerage.

“My priority is taking my international experience in business development in identifying and acquiring suppliers’ services in order to enhance the firm’s offering and making us more competitive and attractive to other top and experienced agents.

“Already, I have introduced new tech support to assist with legal and lead generation for all our business partners and set up a lettings management company as a proposition for new revenue stream opportunities for our brokers.”

I will also continue to grow my own team to work on the trenches as a broker myself.”

“Going forward, the recruitment of independent agents will be greater from the managing directors. I will also continue to grow my own team to work on the trenches as a broker myself.

GROWTH

“To continue our rapid growth here at Nest Seekers, we need to focus on recruiting top agents as well as entrepreneurs from different professional backgrounds, bringing together a mix of skills and perspectives that will contribute with challenging the business to grow and help us become more malleable to any market changes.”

Daniel McPeake, managing director of Nest Seekers in Europe, adds: “Rubens is a fantastic example of hard work, skill and dedication to the firm.

“We are going through a period of intense growth at Nest Seekers, becoming more involved in UK mainstream media with our two new TV shows, the unveiling of our Portugal head office as well as the announcement of our new luxury yacht brokerage.”