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Content is loading, please wait.Urban Core · Hennepin County
Rankings updated July 2026
Minneapolis is the region's urban core, with a median list price around $375,000 spanning everything from downtown condos to lakeside single-family homes near the Chain of Lakes. Neighborhood variation is enormous, so the right agent is one who specializes in your target area rather than the city as a whole.
| # | Agent | Score | Focus | Brokerage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeffrey Dewing | 8.8 | Luxury | Coldwell Banker Realty |
| 2 | Ben Ganje | 9.5 | Luxury | Ben Ganje Group · Lakes Sotheby's International Realty |
| 3 | Graham Smith | 9.1 | First-Time Buyers | The Graham Smith Team · Keller Williams Integrity Lakes |
| 4 | Jim Dropps | 9.1 | First-Time Buyers | Northeast Real Estate Group |
| 5 | Fritz Kroll | 8.9 | New Construction | Edina Realty |
| 6 | Jen Kyllonen | 8.8 | Luxury | Edina Realty |
| 7 | Karissa White | 8.7 | Luxury | RE/MAX Advantage Plus |
| 8 | Tom Nicklow | 8.6 | Waterfront | Minnetonka Realty, Inc. |
| 9 | Beth Reilly | 8.4 | First-Time Buyers | eXp Realty |
| 10 | Dan Schneider | 8.4 | First-Time Buyers | VIBE Realty |
| 11 | Bob Reidell | 8.3 | First-Time Buyers | RE/MAX Results (Reidell-Estey & Associates) |
| 12 | David Chase | 8.3 | First-Time Buyers | Chasing Dreams Real Estate |
| 13 | Ryan Haagenson | 8.2 | Investment | RE/MAX Results |
| 14 | Lana Kalinowski | 8.2 | Luxury | Edina Realty |
| 15 | Heidi Swanson | 8.2 | First-Time Buyers | Lynden Realty, Ltd. |
| 16 | Katie Fears | 8.1 | First-Time Buyers | Leicht Fears Group · Edina Realty |
| 17 | Jaclyn Gavzy | 8.1 | New Construction | Compass |
| 18 | Gary Metchnek | 8.0 | First-Time Buyers | Edina Realty |
| 19 | Chad Anderson | 7.9 | Investment | Orange House Realty |
| 20 | Aaron Argent | 7.9 | Relocation | Real Estate Masters |
| 21 | Eda Rivers | 7.8 | Relocation | Compass Minnesota |
$500K+ · 5 reviews
Jeffrey Dewing is a 28-plus-year Coldwell Banker Realty veteran working luxury across Edina, Wayzata, Lake Minnetonka and Minneapolis. With a range that runs from the mid-$300Ks past $22M, he pairs a long track record with big-brand marketing reach — a credible choice for luxury sellers who want an experienced hand and a recognizable name.
$800K+ · 181 reviews
Ben Ganje leads one of Minnesota's top-producing teams — the Ben Ganje Group at Lakes Sotheby's International Realty in Edina — with more than $1.5B in career sales, 1,500-plus homes closed, and 181 reviews at a perfect 5.0. Across roughly 24 years he's ranked among the top three agents in the state by volume. He's the choice for luxury and new-construction buyers and sellers who want a proven, high-powered team.
$150K–$2.8M · 100 reviews
Graham Smith has run The Graham Smith Team at Keller Williams Integrity Lakes since 2002, building $125M+ in career volume and 100 Zillow reviews at 5.0 (172 across platforms). He's the deeply-reviewed choice for Minneapolis city neighborhoods — from first-time buyers to investment — backed by a full team and two decades in the market.
$240K–$1.2M · 33 reviews
Jim Dropps has lived in the Sheridan neighborhood of Northeast Minneapolis since the mid-2000s and founded Northeast Real Estate Group, an independent two-agent brokerage, in 2012. His recorded sales cluster almost entirely in Northeast and North Minneapolis neighborhoods — Audubon Park, Waite Park, Windom Park, Holland, Sheridan, and Near North — and his firm markets itself specifically around neighborhood duplexes and starter homes. Public reviews are limited in number but uniformly five-star, and a construction-and-building background in the family gives him a practical angle on the area's older housing stock.
$140K–$2.9M · 145 reviews
The downtown Minneapolis condo specialist: 27 years in the business, lives in the North Loop neighborhood he sells, and holds Edina Realty's top Chairman's Circle distinction.
$180K–$3M · 23 reviews
A 20-plus-year Chairman's Circle veteran specializing in luxury and historic homes around Minneapolis's Chain of Lakes -- the agent to call for an older or architecturally significant house.
$250K–$890K · 5 reviews
Karissa White has sold real estate in the Bloomington market for close to two decades, working as an associate with RE/MAX Advantage Plus. Her production is heavily concentrated in Bloomington itself, and trailing five-year transaction data shows a roughly even split between buyer- and seller-side closings. Public reviews are uniformly five stars, but the verified count is small — five on RateMyAgent — thin for a career this long.
$250K–$1.5M
Tom Nicklow has run Minnetonka Realty, a brokerage carrying the city's name, as broker/owner for the past 14 years, inside a firm with more than three decades of history there. He has sold Twin Cities residential real estate since 1984, holds the NAR's GRI designation, and was named a Mpls/St Paul Magazine "Super Agent" in 2023 and 2024. He works alone rather than leading a team, and covers a broad mix of property types — lakeshore, distressed, land — rather than one narrow niche.
$225K–$2.1M
A hyper-local West Bloomington specialist who, with husband-and-wife partner Dan Burling, has built a 13-year practice concentrated almost entirely in one submarket.
$200K–$1.2M
A Dale/Grand-neighborhood local whose design-and-staging partnership with his husband is a genuine, uncommon differentiator.
$150K–$900K
A 46-year Twin Cities veteran whose Grand Avenue team runs almost entirely on repeat clients and referrals.
$184K–$1.4M
A two-decade Twin Cities Realtor and Bloomington broker-owner who has lived in the area since 1982, running his own small independent brokerage rather than a large franchise team.
$244K–$1.6M
A RE/MAX Hall-of-Famer with 16-plus years and a broad Twin Cities book of business, best for clients who want an experienced generalist rather than one narrow specialty.
$350K–$2.4M
A relocation and move-up/downsize specialist ranked in Edina Realty's top 10% company-wide, best suited to luxury and life-transition clients in the $350K-$2.4M range.
$172K–$913K
A boutique Grand Avenue agent whose Old Home Certification is a genuine edge for Saint Paul's historic housing stock.
$180K–$1.2M · 6 reviews
Katie Fears is an active Edina Realty agent in Eden Prairie (part of the Leicht Fears Group) with a fast-growing practice — 61 homes sold and 21 in the last year, at a perfect 5.0 across her reviews. She's a strong, responsive choice for mid-market buyers and sellers across Eden Prairie and the west metro, from first purchases up to about $1.2M.
$450K–$1.8M
A marketing-background Compass agent posting real $10M-plus annual volume across Minneapolis and the West Metro, verified by RealTrends rather than just self-reported.
$100K–$860K · 87 reviews
A steady, full-service Edina Realty solo agent with a perfect 5-star record and verified buyer-side experience in Plymouth.
$200K–$1.6M
A Bloomington-headquartered brokerage co-founder whose interest in real estate started young at his grandfather's rental properties, and who now runs his own small local firm.
$145K–$630K
A solo agent headquartered in Blaine with a decade-plus track record and a 4.8-star Redfin rating, covering an unusually wide swath of the metro.
$60K–$1.6M
Eda Rivers is an individual Realtor with Compass Minnesota, based out of the brokerage's office in Edina. Zillow attributes roughly 70 career sales to her, about 14 in the past year, across a price range from around $60,000 to $1.6 million and an average near $409,000. Client accounts on Zillow and her brokerage bio consistently describe her as responsive and patient, particularly with first-time buyers. She works as a solo agent rather than leading a team, so the person a client hires is the person handling the transaction.
In Minneapolis, neighborhood specialization is everything — the market for a Linden Hills single-family home is nothing like a North Loop condo. Match the agent to the neighborhood and property type.
Jeffrey Dewing (8.8) and Nate Thompson (7.9) appear in our Minneapolis rankings; the city rewards neighborhood-specific specialists.