I started a real estate brokerage at 26 and am nearing $1 billion in deals. I have no work-life balance and still knock on doors.

Jordan Karp founded his own brokerage in his 20s and is always working — even when he's off the clock.

Jordan Braun Jordan Karp launched his own brokerage at 26 and has a transaction volume of nearly $1 billion.

Karp goes above and beyond for clients by ensuring around-the-clock availability.

He works with celebrities and high-net-worth clients, but isn't too proud to still knock on doors.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jordan Karp, 30, founder and CEO of Jordan Karp LLC, a real estate brokerage in South Florida.

Karp started his own brokerage at 26 years old and has nearly reached $1 billion in transaction volume.

The following has been edited for length and clarity.

I started my business at the beginning of 2023.

Before, I was working on investing for my family and creating a portfolio of acquiring diverse assets from 2020 to 2022.

I was cold-calling for properties to acquire, invest, assemble, buy, lease, and manage across all asset classes.

I was doing it for industrial, commercial, retail, residential, single-family, development sites, creative, and opportunistic multidimensional strategic assets across Florida.

I was brokering deals for myself on the side where I saw value in the market, and did that until the end of 2022.

Then I started my business full-time.

My transaction volume is about $500 million from January until now, and about $1 billion lifetime.