Luis D. Ortiz is a licensed real estate agent and reality TV personality, almost certainly best known for his role in Bravo’s reality TV series ‘Million Dollar Listing: New York”. He was born on 13 November 1986 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
So, how rich is Luis D. Ortiz? What’s his net worth, as of early 2016? According to various sources, Ortiz is a successful man with a net worth estimated to be over $15 million. He has earned most of his wealth from his career as a real estate agent, working for management companies and building owners. His work with Synergy NYC saw him gross about $75 million in a year, before joining Keller Williams as the vice-president. Reports also indicate that he is paid well for working for Douglas Elliman and ‘Million Dollar Listing: New York’ show.
Luis D. Ortiz Net Worth $15 Million
Luis D. Ortiz grew up in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, but left the country when he was just 16 with his destination being New York City, USA. He joined St. Francis College located in Brooklyn Heights, New York before enrolling at New York Film Academy in 2006 to study film direction. He successfully completed the program, and at just 19 he produced and directed his first film, ‘Amalia,’ which was selected in 2007 as the Best Direction in his home country. In 2008, Ortiz returned to New York to make another film, raising $15,000 from a number of New York restaurants to finance the film, ‘The Theatre of the Absurd.’
As a real estate agent, Luis D. Ortiz began his career marketing rentals. In his first year, he managed to regularly rent about 30 apartments, which made him highly sought after by management companies and building owners. In 2009, he moved from rental contracts into sales, clearing over $20 million within a few months. With time, major sales and boutique rental firms were calling him, and he chose to work with a high-end firm called Synergy NYC.
The career or Luis D. Ortiz took an interesting turn when he was hired by Douglas Elliman, where he began his own real estate agency called Ortiz & Co. To date, he has managed to sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of real estate, making him one of the richest in the industry, and adding his net worth significantly.
In his personal life, Luis D. Ortiz is a secretive man when it comes to relationships. However, in 2015, reports surfaced that he was dating Carly Aquilino, a fellow comedian. He is neither married nor does he have children. He continues to run his real estate firm, and also appear in the TV show ‘Million Dollar Listing: New York’, now in its fourth season and proving a useful advertising method for Ortiz, through which he insists that he has learned a great deal. He has even been listed as one of the most stylish New Yorkers by US Weekly magazine.
