With annual production in the top 1% of all agents nationwide, Bret Parsons is an award-winning real estate professional who often represents buyers and sellers of exceptional homes, often termed “architectural," throughout greater Los Angeles. In addition, he's the founder and executive director of the Beverly Hills-based Compass Architectural Division where Real Estate Agent colleagues and the general public are educated about notable contemporary and traditional homes.
In 2016, with architect Marc Appleton, Bret created the “Master Architects of Southern California” book series, which has compiled monographs about architects Gerard Colcord, Gordon Kaufmann, Roland Coate, Wallace Neff, and Paul Williams. Twelve volumes total are anticipated to profile the finest residential architects in the region’s history.
For the past three decades, Bret has enjoyed delivering innovative presentations about famous homes and their cultural impact, frequently to standing-room-only crowds, and now online audiences. His comments often appear on social media and in newspapers and magazines across the United States.
He’s renovated and sold three-period homes, all featured in the popular Los Angeles Times column, “Hot Properties.” Bret also spent a decade as a mortgage broker and before that was vice president of Business Development at Pacific Design Center. He’s a former board member of Imagine LA, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending the cycle of family homelessness and chronic poverty.
Bret resides in Windsor Village, adjacent to Hancock Park, and is currently a trustee for the Windsor Square Hancock Park Historical Society.
