Josh Flagg Biography
Josh Flagg is a real estate agent in the United States, as well as a television personality, author, and contributor to various real estate journals and news channels. At the age of 18, Flagg began working as a real estate salesperson, making home sales in high-end neighborhoods such as Beverly Hills and the Sunset Strip.
Josh Flagg Age
He was born Joshua Daniel Flagg on August 20, 1985, in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. Josh is 37 years old as of August 2022.
Josh Flagg Education
He went to Brentwood School, an elite school in Los Angeles’ Brentwood neighborhood. Flagg left Brentwood in 2003 and enrolled in Beverly Hills High School, where he graduated.
Josh Flagg Height
Josh Flagg Family-Siblings
Flagg was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of Los Angeles residents Michael and Cindy (Platt) Flagg. He is the grandson of Herman Platt, philanthropist, electronics industry businessman, and Jewish leader, and the great-grandson of Benjamin Platt, founder and proprietor of the Platt Music Corporation chain of stores. Flagg is the grandson of American (Austrian-born) fashion industry executive and designer Edith Flagg, who was one of the first designers in the United States to import polyester as a fashion cloth.
Josh Flagg Partner- Spouse
Flagg is openly gay. During a flash mob at the Four Seasons Hotel George V, Flagg proposed to his fiancée, Bobby Boyd. On September 10, 2017, the pair married at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. In March 2022, the couple announced their divorce.
Josh Flagg Career
Flagg began his career in real estate while still in high school, working for real estate broker Bruce Nelson at the John Bruce Nelson firm in Bel Air, Maryland. Throughout his real estate career, Flagg has set numerous records, including the largest transaction in Brentwood Park history and a $25 million home sale in Beverly Hills. He has also served as the listing agent for prestigious houses such as Merv Griffin’s Bel Air estate and Dorothy Chandler’s Hancock Park estate. He has also sold residences to celebrities such as Adam Levine. Flagg began working at Keller Williams Westside in Los Angeles, California, in 2009, where he established “Josh Flagg Estates.” According to Forbes, Flagg has sold over $1 billion in real estate.
Flagg and two other agents, Madison Hildebrand, and Chad Rogers, were chosen to star in a reality TV series about their real estate businesses in 2006. They began production for Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, which premiered on Bravo in August 2006. The sitcom continued with the original cast until Season 4, when Josh Altman joined Flagg and Hildebrand on the show. Hildebrand quit the program after Season 6 ended in 2013, leaving Flagg as the only original cast member remaining. For Season 7, Flagg and Altman were joined by James Harris and David Parnes. The show’s tenth season premiered in 2017, with Flagg, Harris, Hildebrand, and Parnes returning and realtor Tracy Tutor joining the group.
Flagg began writing a book on his grandmother, Edith Flagg when he was 14 years old. Flagg grew close to his grandmother, a Holocaust survivor and later a fashion business executive, as her only grandson. A Simple Girl: Stories My Grandmother Told Me was released in 2009. The book’s revenues benefit the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. In 2011, Flagg released his second book, Million Dollar Agent: Brokering the Dream. The book is an autobiography that chronicles his life from his childhood in Los Angeles to his rise to the position of top real estate agent in the city.
In 2012, Flagg launched ‘Star Maps,’ a mobile app that has a list of hundreds of homes affiliated with celebrities in the Los Angeles area. The app uses GPS to guide users and tourists to well-known estates or celebrity residences, providing information about the home and its celebrity ownership that is cross-referenced with research from the city’s public records. In 2013, Melissa Rivers honored Flagg with the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust’s Next Generation award. Flagg is a collector of fine art, and rare automobiles, and one of the country’s largest collectors of Billy Haines furniture. He has visited over sixty countries and has a passion for architecture and interior design.
Flagg lives in Beverly Hills, California, and bought a micro-estate above the Sunset Strip from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s son, writer/producer David Katzenberg, in January 2013. In 2015, he sold the home to Nicolas Pakzad, the son of designer Bijan Pakzad. Flagg purchased the estate of Tony Award-winning producer Michael Filerman in June 2015. The estate is a few houses down the street from Paul McCartney’s home, which he purchased from Courtney Love, and is on a street lined with previous and present celebrity owners such as Don Johnson, Prince, and Ozzy Osbourne. Flagg also owns his late grandmother’s penthouse in Century City’s Century Towers building. Flagg is a member of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. In 2016, he co-chaired the “Rock for Research” event for Cedars-Sinai.
Josh Flagg’s Net Worth
Josh has an estimated net worth of 37 million dollars.