Broker team hire in luxury market

RE/MAX said on April 13 that Sharon Rizzo and The Rizzo Group joined RE/MAX Premier’s Lake Forest office, adding a veteran luxury team to its Chicago-area network. (housingwire.com) The team will keep focusing on luxury homes and investment properties in Chicago and on the North Shore, according to HousingWire and Chicago Agent. Rizzo has worked in Chicago real estate for more than 40 years. (housingwire.com) (chicagoagentmagazine.com) HousingWire reported that Rizzo once closed more than $114 million in residential sales in a single year as a sole agent. NewsBreak’s summary of the announcement said The Rizzo Group produced more than $25 million in volume last year. (housingwire.com) (newsbreak.com) The hire lands after RE/MAX Premier spent the past year building out its North Shore presence. In September 2025, the brokerage said it acquired and rebranded five former Compass offices in Glencoe, Glenview, Highland Park, Lake Forest and Winnetka. (news.remax.com) (realestatenews.com) That expansion put RE/MAX back into one of the Chicago area’s wealthiest housing corridors after Compass reshaped its own local footprint. Crain’s Chicago Business reported that the North Shore office sale came after Compass’s acquisition of @properties Christie’s International Real Estate created overlap in suburban locations. (chicagobusiness.com) In luxury brokerage, teams often bring repeat clients, referral pipelines and neighborhood-level listing relationships with them when they switch brands. RE/MAX’s own announcement on the 2025 North Shore acquisition said the company was using The RE/MAX Collection brand to deepen its foothold in that market. (news.remax.com) Rizzo’s move also follows other brand reshuffling in Chicago-area residential brokerage this year. In February 2026, Chicago Agent reported that Luxe Group Real Estate left RE/MAX Legends to operate independently. (chicagoagentmagazine.com) RE/MAX Premier founder and chief executive Janice Corley said in March that Rizzo’s “long-standing relationships across the market” fit the firm’s Luxury Collection offices on the North Shore. The bet now is that those relationships travel with the team. (chicagoagentmagazine.com)