If you’ve already binged “Selling Sunset” and “Selling the OC,” you can keep calm and carry on watching Netflix’s next foray into real estate reality TV, “Buying London.”
The United Kingdom–based series, premiering on Wednesday, stars real estate adviser Daniel Daggers and a team of agents from his DDRE Global real estate firm.
Over the course of his career, Daggers has racked up more than $5.5 billion in home sales in the U.K.’s luxury real estate market, which is referred to as the “super prime market” across the pond.
“It’s been a marketplace that I’m an expert in and have been for over 15 years now, so I called myself Mr. Super Prime,” Daggers tells Realtor.com®.
Eager to get to know Mr. Super Prime, we got Daggers to spill the tea on how he got started in the industry, the biggest sale he’s ever closed, and what his own London home is like. Plus, he breaks down the differences between the U.K. and U.S. housing markets. So take note of his advice for any buyer or seller looking to land a deal stateside or abroad.
How did you first get into real estate and eventually start your luxury real estate business, DDRE Global?
I fell over and I broke my collarbone wanting to be a professional footballer—I mean football as in soccer. I didn’t succeed at university. I didn’t do well there at all. I fell into real estate literally when I was 17, and I worked for 10 years in a small company in the window as a spotty teenager. Then I went to a big firm and scaled that big, corporate business.
[I] spent a lot of time in the U.S. [I] love the way real estate agents or brokers in the U.S. attack business. I think they’re super passionate, super driven, and they’re much more focused on service than we are here in the U.K.
I was really inspired, traveled the world, and then set up DDRE from…