SERHANT. has expanded into Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio with 13 founding agents and six independent brokerages that collectively closed nearly $1.5 billion in sales volume over the past 12 months, the company announced Tuesday.
The move gives SERHANT. an immediate foothold in four of Texas’s largest housing markets. The Texas launch follows the firm’s entrance into Boston and California earlier this year and brings its footprint to 17 states since it began expanding beyond New York in 2023.
Texas operations and leadership
SERHANT. Texas will be led by managing director and broker of record Susana Sarvis, who is based in Houston. A 17-year industry veteran and Houston native, Sarvis previously served as vice president of brokerage operations at Real Brokerage and has held leadership roles at Compass and John Daugherty, Realtors, one of Houston’s legacy luxury firms.
“After spending more than 17 years helping agents grow their businesses and navigate an evolving industry, I couldn’t be more excited to join SERHANT. and lead our Texas expansion,” Sarvis said in a statement. “Texas is home to some of the most dynamic luxury markets in the country, and I look forward to helping our agents elevate their businesses while delivering exceptional experiences for buyers and sellers across the state.”
Independent brokerages align with SERHANT.
Rather than acquisitions, six established Texas independents are rebranding under SERHANT., bringing their existing agents and leadership into the firm’s platform. These firms include Houston-based Truss Real Estate and CitiQuest Properties, Evoke Realty, which serves Austin, San Antonia and the Coastal Bend region, Dallas-Fort Worth-based MRA Realtors and Austin-based KF Real Estate and Steele Portfolio Real Estate.
In Houston, Truss Real Estate founder Chris Phan is joining as a founding member, bringing a 15-person team. Phan has closed nearly $260 million in career sales, including $46.7 million in the last 12 months and was named to the 2024 RealTrends Verified list as the No. 31 agent in Houston by volume and No. 6 by sides.
Patrick Burbridge, the leader of CitiQuest Properties, will be joining SERHANT. in Houston along with 10 agents. Burbridge has spent 22 years in real estate, closing nearly $150 million in the past 12 months and more than $2 billion in career volume. The firm primarily focused on developments and new construction.
David Garcia Jr. and Alanna D’Antonio Garcia are joining SERHANT. as founding members through the affiliation of their firm Evoke Realty. At SERHANT. they will operate as evoke group. The San Antonio-based brokerage has more than $380 million in career sales and was named one of MySA’s Best Real Estate Companies less than two years after launching in 2022, the company said in the announcement.
In Dallas, the husband-and-wife team of Robert Alvarez Jr. and Lisa Martin are bringing MRA Realtors to SERHANT. The pair, named to the 2025 and 2026 Real Producers North Dallas Top 1000, have more than 40 years of combined experience and more than $65 million in residential and commercial sales over the past eight years, according to the release.
In Austin, SERHANT is gaining Kasey Fagan, the broker-owner of KF Real Estate and Ellen Steele, the leader of Steele Portfolio Real Estate. Her team will rebrand as The Ausperity Group at SERHANT.
Other teams and agents joining the firm include Eric and Erika Nelson’s Nelson Co., Nicole Lopez’s Marlowe Group and Michael Bass and the Bass Client Collective in Houston; Arion and Nicole Crenshaw’s Crenshaw Residential Group and Dustin Weiss, who is a founding member of Compass’s The Weiss Group, in Austin, Matt Keeton, Michael Petersen and Petersen Real Estate Group and Aaron Shockey and his seven-person team the Aaron Shockey Group in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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