Featured on LIV Now: 2026 NAR 30 Under 30 Recognition

LIV Sotheby's International Realty featured the 2026 NAR 30 Under 30 recognition on LIV Now, the firm's internal news network. The segment ran company-wide across LIV Sotheby's offices throughout Colorado.

LIV Now segment, courtesy of LIV Sotheby's International Realty.

What the program recognizes

NAR 30 Under 30 is the National Association of REALTORS®' annual recognition program, now in its 26th year, identifying the rising agents and brokers shaping the future of the industry. Selection is run by REALTOR® Magazine and distributed across NAR's network of more than 1.5 million members. The program is rigorous by design, applicants are evaluated on production, leadership, innovation, and contribution to the broader profession, with judges narrowing a national applicant pool down to a single class of thirty.

This year, 280 agents applied. The judging panel reduced the field to fifty finalists, then opened a one-week public vote to determine the Web Choice Award recipient, a guaranteed seat in the final class of thirty. The 2026 vote drew 37,577 ballots. Of those, 10,822 went to a single finalist: the largest Web Choice margin in the program's twenty-five-year history. Read NAR's full announcement of the 2026 class.

Context for the recognition

The 2026 class makes this the first time a LIV Sotheby's International Realty broker has been named to NAR 30 Under 30 in the firm's history. It is also the only Colorado seat in this year's class, and one of only two Sotheby's-affiliated honorees globally, a meaningful signal in a brand network that spans more than a thousand offices across eighty-plus countries.

Recognition like this is useful as a proof point, but the more practical outcome is the network it compounds. NAR 30 Under 30 alumni form a cross-market broker community of past honorees in nearly every major U.S. metro, agents who refer at the top of their markets, who cooperate on relocation, second-home, and luxury transactions, and who share information that doesn't always surface in the MLS. For clients buying or selling a primary residence, mountain property, or estate-tier asset, the practical value is simple: better-connected representation tends to produce better outcomes at the table.

What this means for clients

The Summit County and Front Range markets I serve, Breckenridge, Keystone, Dillon, Silverthorne, Frisco, and Colorado Springs, continue to attract a buyer profile that is increasingly national and increasingly discerning. Recognition at this level is, in candid terms, a reason for that buyer to pick up the phone. It is also a reason for sellers evaluating representation to look closely at who is actually working their property, not just the brokerage on the sign.

The recognition does not change how I work. The work was already the point. What it does change is the surface area of the relationships and the depth of the network behind every transaction. That is what compounds, and that is what clients ultimately benefit from.