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Strategic representation for buyers, sellers, property owners, and investors. Whether the assignment involves a residence, commercial asset, investment opportunity, or complex transaction, Christopher provides direct guidance from initial evaluation through closing.
Purchases, sales, luxury and estate properties, relocation, and investment residences—handled with discretion, market intelligence, and disciplined negotiation.
View Residential Representation →Acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, development opportunities, and income-producing property—evaluated through both a real estate and business lens.
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Christopher advises buyers, sellers, property owners, and investors across residential, commercial, and income-producing real estate throughout Southern California. He holds an MBA from USC Marshall and brings an analytical, client-first approach to each assignment—beginning with the objective, evaluating the opportunity, and building the right path forward.
His experience spans buying, selling, redesigning, developing, financing, and marketing property. Christopher has represented clients in multimillion-dollar residential and commercial transactions, worked in mortgage banking, and served as Executive Vice President for a major Southern California commercial builder and prefabrication company. That breadth allows him to see the transaction from the perspectives of ownership, construction, capital, positioning, and execution. His broader network also includes institutional capital sources and senior brokerage relationships that can be brought into larger commercial assignments when appropriate.
Christopher previously worked with Christie's International Real Estate and Christie's in Beverly Hills. His service philosophy was also shaped through work with hospitality and luxury-brand leaders, including Horst Schulze of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company and Tom Yeardye of Jimmy Choo. The result is straightforward advice, disciplined representation, and a high standard of personal service—regardless of property type.
Every engagement begins with a thorough understanding of your goals — financial, lifestyle, and legacy. We listen first, advise second.
Whether the objective involves a residence, commercial asset, or investment property, the strategy is built around current market evidence, leverage, timing, and risk.
Christopher draws on public opportunities, private relationships, and a broad professional network to identify the strongest available path—not simply the most obvious one.
From negotiation and due diligence through escrow and closing, Christopher coordinates the details, keeps decisions clear, and protects the client's objective.
An extraordinary contemporary compound in the Malibu Mountains, adjacent to the Rosenthal Winery along a shared property line — the Malibu Orchard Estate was listed by Christopher Lakkees, who represented the sellers while working closely with their architect over a six-month period as the property completed its final phase of construction. This 32-acre sanctuary is built to the highest fire and seismic safety standards, featuring a fortified concrete moment frame, an all-glass elevator, and cascading water features throughout. The three-story main residence spans 8,182 SF with 3,100 SF of exterior terraces, a resort-style pool, persimmon orchard, guest house, pool house, and cottage. The estate sold off-market for an undisclosed amount.
Inquire About Similar Properties±75,000+ SF of institutional-grade big-box retail occupying a fortress position within the dominant regional shopping destination for a multi-county primary trade area of 150,000+ residents. Ownership is structurally independent of the center — fee-simple title with dedicated access, separate utilities, and a fully autonomous loading court.
Offered as a stabilized redevelopment opportunity featuring a 30-Year Absolute NNN lease currently in the final stages of execution, with zero ongoing landlord obligations upon commencement. The asset benefits from a significant eight-figure institutional infrastructure overhaul — including an institutional-grade loading court, dedicated dock separation, and heavy-power electrical build-out — creating a virtually irreplicable replacement cost moat at acquisition pricing of approximately 54% of replacement cost.
The trade area benefits from a large, stable federal military presence providing a reliable, non-cyclical demand layer — insulating NOI from recessionary pressure. ±25,000 SF of Junior Anchor retail upside adjacent to the primary asset creates a clear path to estimated stabilized yield of 7.5–7.9% upon lease-up. An ideal 1031 exchange vehicle with bond-like, passive NNN cash flow upon commencement.
Request Offering MemorandumChristopher has produced award-winning documentary films addressing human trafficking and the global exploitation of women and children — work that has been screened before the United States Congress, the United Nations, and parliamentary bodies across multiple continents, collectively raising over $15 million for survivors and prevention efforts worldwide.
Christopher has spent nearly a year guiding our search, methodically, patiently, and without ever once pushing us toward a deal that wasn't right. He's talked us out of more properties than he's recommended, each time with a clear-eyed explanation of why the presentation didn't match the reality. That level of of honest counsel is extraordinarily rare.
After losing our home in the fires, Christopher helped us navigate one of the most emotional searches of our lives. When negotiations reached a critical point, he made a selfless decision that most agents would never make. Because of it, we got the home. He chose us over himself.
What sets Christopher apart isn't just his track record; it's the sheer breadth of his institutional knowledge. Because he has sat on every side of the table: from development and construction to mortgage banking and high-end brokerage. He sees the variables in a commercial deal that most agents simply miss. He approaches a property not just as an asset to be sold, but as a financial vehicle to be optimized. Having worked with him on a complex acquisition, I found his ability to marry sophisticated financial modeling with the white-glove service of a luxury consultant to be a rare, high-value combination. He is a strategist, not just a broker.
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Tell Christopher what you are looking to accomplish—residential, commercial, or investment—and receive direct, strategic guidance on the next step.
