Everywhere Ryan Schneider on Luxury Market, M&A Growth in 2025
After a short opening question about leadership philosophy, the conversation dives everywhere Focus on luxury real estate.
Ryan Schneider: If you think about our strategic strengths and focus, our luxury companies are at the top. We invest disproportionately in luxury markets. We love our companies that cut brands such as Sotheby’s International Realty. The fact that we could considerably surpass the market in 2024 was great.
If you can find something where you can control meaningful growth above the market, it is definitely worth it to continue.
Tracey Velt: You were strategically focused on mergers and acquisitions, and many people have stopped from the big mergers and acquisitions in recent years. They really focused on more local acquisitions or mergers. Do you view that as a possibility as one of your levers of growth that is progressing?
Schneider: We went through this cycle where brochure makers and M&A was less attractive economically. While I was talking about my last win, I think M&A will be back here. 2025 will be a large year for mergers and acquisitions and we are here to do good deals.
They must be economically logical. We are not going to do deals to do them.
Subsequently, the conversation turns into a discussion about the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
Velt: How do these innovations change their way somewhere? And tell me a bit about your investment in AI and technology.
Schneider: We deliver our company with around 8,000 employees. Much of that is because we can digitize a lot and automate how we do our company. But this generative AI opportunity is huge. We see it in both customer -oriented products that we can give to our agents and franchisees to make them more successful or more efficient.
To end the conversation, Schneider discusses important lessons that he has learned in his life and career before taking over the leader of one of the largest companies of real estate.
Velt: You had a trip to leading one of the world’s largest real estate companies that did not take place overnight. Looking back, what were some of your determining experiences?
Schneider: I come from outside the industry and I have been in the industry for about seven years now. It was about making the leap in this exciting industry in which I want to work. At the end of the day there is a real chance in this industry to constantly re -find out how things happen.
