Realtor by trade. Landlord, renovator and investor by habit.

The short version

John Lalezari is a licensed Florida Realtor with United Realty Group Inc, based in Coral Springs and serving Broward County. He represents home buyers and sellers, and he advises investors on small multifamily properties (two to twelve units) in Broward and southern Palm Beach counties. He has spent 30+ years on the buy and sell side of residential and multifamily real estate, and outside of brokerage he owns and operates a portfolio of investment property that he manages and renovates himself. He is of Persian/Iranian heritage and works with clients in both English and Farsi.

How I got here

I've been on both sides of residential and multifamily transactions for more than thirty years — representing buyers and sellers, and buying for my own account. Along the way I built a portfolio of investment real estate that I still manage and renovate myself, fixing what previous owners deferred and leasing to good tenants. Operating those properties taught me what no licensing course covers: what a 1970s cast-iron drain line costs to replace, how an insurance renewal can erase a year of rent growth, which permit delays are normal and which mean trouble.

Most of my clients come the same way they always have: someone I helped tells someone else. I'd like to keep it that way, which is why this site is built to answer the questions people actually ask me rather than to shout about rankings and awards.

What you get when we work together

• An owner's eye on every property. I walk a house the way I walk a building I'm about to buy: roof age, electrical panel, plumbing material, drainage, permits on the open-permit search, HOA financials and insurance exposure. Then I tell you plainly what matters and what doesn't.
• Pricing from evidence. For sellers, a price range built from closed and pending comps, current absorption in your subdivision and your home's actual condition — with a candid list of what prep pays back and what doesn't.
• A renovation bench. The roofers, plumbers, electricians, handymen and permit expediters I use on my own buildings. Clients get the same phone numbers I use.
• Investor-grade underwriting. Real Broward operating costs for taxes, insurance, utilities, turnover and reserves, lender requirements for 1–4 versus 5+ units, and a renovation scope that matches the rent the market will actually pay.
• Two languages, one standard. Farsi-speaking clients get the same contract-by-contract explanations in their language, with no extra fee and no translator in the middle.

Where I work

Coral Springs is home base: Heron Bay, Eagle Trace, Wyndham Lakes, Ramblewood, Kensington, Cypress Run, Turtle Run, Maplewood and the rest of ZIPs 33065, 33067, 33071 and 33076. I regularly work in Parkland, Tamarac, Coconut Creek, Margate, Weston, Pompano Beach and Fort Lauderdale, and I follow multifamily deals across Broward and southern Palm Beach counties — Fort Lauderdale, Oakland Park, Wilton Manors, Hollywood, Pompano Beach, Lauderhill, Lake Worth Beach and West Palm Beach among them.

Brokerage and credentials

Licensed Florida real estate sales associate with United Realty Group Inc (brokerage phone (954) 450-2000). Member of the National Association of REALTORS® and the local Realtor association and MLS. Equal Housing Opportunity.