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The Conversation: Selling Sunset: How I find homes for the rich and famous

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Zeina Khoury and Amanza Smith

01/02/2021 GMT

Selling Sunset: How I find homes for the rich and famous

BBC World Service - The Conversation, Selling Sunset: How I find homes for the rich and famous

Infinity pools and marble bathrooms – what does it take to sell homes to the super-rich?

Two women working in Dubai and LA talk to Kim Chakanetsa about the business of selling multi-million dollar homes.

The business of selling multi-million dollar homes: Kim Chakanetsa speaks to two women working in Dubai and LA's competitive real estate markets about what it takes to make it.
 
Amanza Smith is a real estate agent and interior designer. She's part of the team featured in the reality TV show Selling Sunset - a real estate agency for eye-popping high-end residential properties in Los Angeles. She says that while growing up poor 'sucks at the time', it's helped make her determined not to fail and has given her an ability to work really hard at everything she does.  
 
Lebanese born Zeina Khoury lives in Dubai and is the CEO of High Mark Real Estate Brokers, a specialist luxury property sales and management company in the United Arab Emirates. The agency buys and sells exclusive properties, including opulent apartments in the Versace Palazzo Dubai, for clients based around the world.  
 
Producer: Jane Thurlow 
 
(Photo: (L) Zeina Khoury (courtesy Zeina Khoury. (R): Amanza Smith. Credit Michael Bezjian/Getty Images)

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