Luxury — Minnesota Real-Estate Agents

1. Joe Houghton

9.4/10

$127K–$1.9M

Joe Houghton operates Minnesota Property Group under RE/MAX Results in Plymouth. Minnesota Commerce showed resident-broker license 40503429 Active through June 30, 2028 when checked August 2, 2026. His biography claims 1,600-plus career sales since 2002, while Zillow separately displayed 1,597 team sales, 20 in the prior 12 months and 183 team reviews at a displayed 5.0.

2. Ellen DeHaven

9.2/10

$185K–$8.8M · 2 reviews

Ellen DeHaven leads a Coldwell Banker Global Luxury team in Wayzata and held an Active Minnesota resident-salesperson record when checked August 2, 2026. RealTrends reports 9 individual sides and $22.01M for 2025, while Homes.com displayed 82 closed sales and $170.9M over five years. Her $800M career-sales and 300-plus lakeshore-sales figures remain first-party claims, not independently reconciled career totals.

3. Valerie Berg

9.2/10

$170K–$800K · 11 reviews

A 28-year Cloquet-based veteran whose small team appears in the 2026 RealTrends Verified rankings with 49 sides and $15.17M in 2025 production, backed by a strong public review record.

4. Kim Ziton

9.0/10

$69K–$3.4M · 212 reviews

Kim Ziton is a Woodbury-based Keller Williams luxury agent whose first-party site lists extensive production recognition. Zillow independently displayed 212 reviews at 5.0, 81 sales in the trailing 12 months and 1,328 total recorded sales when reviewed. Zillow's profile-level figures are useful public evidence, but they are not an audited MLS production statement.

5. Leslie Prischmann Flugstad

9.0/10

$133K–$1.3M · 7 reviews

A Fergus Falls native with 212 closed sales in Homes.com's displayed five-year window, including 142 in Fergus Falls, plus a clearly published niche in lake, luxury and estate-related transactions.

6. Fritz Kroll

8.9/10

$70K–$2.9M · 159 reviews

A well-documented downtown Minneapolis specialist: Zillow displayed 159 reviews at 5.0 and 25 trailing-year sales, while Homes.com displayed 175 five-year closings with the largest neighborhood concentration in North Loop.

7. Candee Deichman

8.9/10

$68K–$2M · 16 reviews

A documented Mankato Century 21 agent with Minnesota license 40383097, a 16-review Zillow snapshot at 5.0 and 62 trailing-year platform sales across a broad $68K-to-$2M range.

8. Jeffrey Dewing

8.8/10

$263K–$7.6M · 24 reviews

Jeffrey Dewing is a Coldwell Banker Realty luxury agent in Wayzata with an Active Minnesota resident-salesperson record when checked August 2, 2026. RealTrends reports 46 individual sides and $134.10M in 2025 volume, ranking first in Minnesota by individual volume for that edition. Zillow's separate July 18 snapshot displayed 24 reviews, 35 trailing-12-month sales and 615 total recorded sales.

9. Kristi Weinstock

8.8/10

$475K–$3.9M · 9 reviews

Kristi Weinstock is a Coldwell Banker Realty agent in Excelsior with a first-party Lake Minnetonka and west-metro focus. Zillow displayed nine reviews at a 5.0 average, 53 sales in the trailing 12 months, 814 total recorded sales and a $130,000-to-$4.5 million sold-price range when this profile was reviewed. Coldwell Banker's experience and award statements remain attributed brokerage claims.

10. Jen Kyllonen

8.8/10

$86K–$2M · 23 reviews

A long-tenured Minneapolis Lakes specialist with 23 Zillow reviews at 5.0 and a current public sales record spanning condos through $2M homes; strongest for sellers and buyers who value historic-home judgment, staging, and close-in neighborhood experience.

11. Ryan Hanson

8.8/10

$84K–$1.3M

Ryan Hanson leads a Fergus Falls-based Keller Williams team with an Active Minnesota resident-broker record. Homes.com displayed 572 closed sales and $156.4 million over the prior five years, including 310 sales tagged to Fergus Falls; those are platform snapshots, not career totals or a standardized MLS ranking.

12. Daniel Gustafson

8.7/10

$150K–$3M · 1 reviews

Daniel Gustafson is a Coldwell Banker Realty agent in Wayzata. Minnesota Commerce showed salesperson license 40402029 Active through June 30, 2028 when checked August 2, 2026. A separate 2016 Commerce consent order imposed a $5,000 civil penalty, a 30-day suspension, ethics education and mortgage-satisfaction terms; that historical order is not a claim of current suspension.

13. Karissa White

8.7/10

$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.

14. Hyounsoo Lathrop

8.7/10

$275K+ · 53 reviews

A Woodbury-office Coldwell Banker luxury specialist with a genuinely perfect review record (53 reviews, 5.0 stars) and a top-1% local production ranking.

15. Corrine Hobbs

8.7/10

$58K–$1.1M · 4 reviews

Duluth's most explicit waterfront/lake specialist, backed by a two-decade track record and a former career as a licensed appraiser.

16. Mark Pietig

8.7/10

$12K–$4M · 121 reviews

Founder of a RE/MAX Platinum Club/Hall of Fame team focused squarely on Brainerd Lakes waterfront — the clear specialist pick if a lake home is the goal.

17. Amanda Lumley

8.7/10

$11K–$2.9M · 47 reviews

Amanda Lumley is a Crosslake-based Northland Sotheby's agent with current individual evidence: RealTrends reports 36 sides and $20.89M from 2025 sales data, while Zillow separately displayed 47 reviews at 5.0 and an $11K–$2.9M platform range. Current Minnesota license status still needs an official Commerce lookup before signing.

18. Regan Englund

8.6/10

$300K–$900K · 56 reviews

Regan Englund founded the Regan Englund Real Estate Group, a small team working out of Keller Williams Classic Realty NW in Maple Grove. She holds Minnesota real estate license #40370982 and has been active in the market for roughly a decade. Combined Zillow and Google reviews put her near a 4.9 average across 56 ratings, and third-party agent-ranking data credits her group with about 93 closed transactions in the trailing 12 months. She covers a wide range of transaction types rather than a single niche.

19. Melissa Johnson

8.6/10

$95K–$3M · 18 reviews

A 26-year Burnsville broker who partners with fellow agent Lisa Rieken, and the one agent on this list with an independently-verified 5-star review record.

20. Michael Boege

8.6/10

$225K–$2.9M · 10 reviews

A 21-year Coldwell Banker veteran whose Boege | Dean team focuses on the St. Croix Valley's higher end -- lake homes, legacy estates and acreage -- backed by a perfect but numerically thin Yelp record.

21. Sonja Zoet

8.5/10

$160K–$620K

Sonja Zoet has worked the Mankato-area market since 2013, a hometown return after starting her license in Florida and South Carolina. She spent seven years at True Real Estate, Mankato's largest local brokerage by sales volume, before moving her license to Real Broker, LLC in late 2024 while continuing to run her own team, The Zoet Group. Every review platform checked shows a perfect star rating, though aggregator sites disagree sharply on the exact review count, so no single figure here is treated as authoritative.

22. Lisa Endersbe

8.5/10

$250K–$900K · 24 reviews

A Coldwell Banker team with a verified 5.0-star, 24-review track record on Birdeye, praised for round-the-clock responsiveness and specialist certifications spanning new construction to distressed property.

23. Matt Wieber

8.5/10

$150K+

A top-1% Central Minnesota producer who left the corporate-brokerage track to build his own shop, working everything from starter homes to seven-figure listings.

24. Misty May

8.5/10

$25K–$699K · 5 reviews

A 27-year Coldwell Banker professional with recent Apple Valley seller activity and a broad two-state footprint. Zillow displayed 5 reviews at 5.0 and 8 sales in the prior year, while Realtor.com independently displayed 4 verified reviews at 5.0.

25. Kathy Madore

8.5/10

$161K–$3.2M

An Edina Realty broker running the highest average sale price of this Stillwater group on the strength of a genuine St. Croix/Mississippi River and Lake Minnetonka waterfront specialty.

26. Jon Perkins

8.5/10

$195K–$820K

A 40-year RE/MAX Results veteran whose team posts more closed Brooklyn Park sales than any other agent found in this research.

27. Monica Kaiser

8.5/10

$173K–$4.8M

A 26-year, born-and-raised lakes specialist whose documented sales record ($57.2M over 69 sales in five years, up to $4.8M) makes her the clearest waterfront/luxury pick of the group.

28. Scott Rodman

8.4/10

$77K–$680K · 28 reviews

A Blaine-office luxury and lakefront specialist with the strongest independently-verified review record in this batch — 4.9 stars across 28 reviews.

29. Jeff Scislow

8.4/10

$200K+

A high-volume RE/MAX veteran with a reported 25+ year career and nearly 3,000 home sales, working from the same Apple Valley office building as the Fiorella Group.

30. Gregg Larsen

8.3/10

$275K+

A 30-year Lake Minnetonka waterfront specialist — strong for lakefront or luxury business, less suited to a budget starter-home search.

31. Stu Wood

8.3/10

$185K–$2.3M

An Alexandria native and Edina Realty's top local producer, with the largest tracked sales volume of any agent we reviewed in this market.

32. Angela Thompson

8.3/10

$250K+

Winona's #1 agent by 2025 sales volume, positioned for luxury and move-up buyers.

33. Michael Hall

8.3/10

$350K+ · 58 reviews

A Chanhassen-office broker-owner with a genuine lake-property niche and real, verifiable reviews behind him.

Ben Ganje leads Ben Ganje + Partners at Lakes Sotheby's International Realty in Edina. Minnesota Commerce showed salesperson license 20513492 Active through June 30, 2028 when checked August 25, 2026. Zillow displayed 320 reviews at 5.0 and 82 sales in the trailing 12 months for the team, not for Ben individually.

35. Richard McDonough

8.2/10

$370K–$2.4M

Richard McDonough is a fourth-generation Stillwater resident who has worked as a real estate broker in the city for roughly three decades and holds dual licensure in Minnesota and Wisconsin. He practices as an associate broker with Lakes Sotheby's International Realty out of its downtown Stillwater office, with current and recent listings concentrated in the historic Main Street corridor. Third-party transaction data (homes.com) shows 84 closed sales over the past five years worth about $41.9 million; that figure, and the 238 sold listings shown on his own brokerage profile, are both well below the '450+ career transactions' cited in his marketing, a gap that is not explained anywhere public.

36. Steven Milkovich

8.2/10

$55K–$1.1M · 112 reviews

A NW-metro team lead with nearly a decade of top-5% production, explicitly built around trade-up buyers, first-timers, and luxury clients across Plymouth and its neighboring suburbs.

37. Lana Kalinowski

8.2/10

$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.

38. Kara Gyarmaty

8.2/10

$410K–$2M · 49 reviews

An Edina Realty agent well matched to move-up and higher-end Rochester buyers, backed by a perfect rating across a healthy review base.

39. Kerri DeBaere

7.9/10

$300K+

A Stillwater-based Lakes Sotheby's advisor with a clear, well-documented niche in Woodbury-area luxury sales and senior downsizing — but no public review count to independently verify her volume.

40. Mary Ettl

7.9/10

$130K–$3.2M

A 17-year Edina Realty veteran based directly in the White Bear Lake office, with an active book of business spanning starter condos to multimillion-dollar St. Croix River-area estates.

41. Janette Liddle

7.9/10

$300K+ · 1 reviews

A Keller Williams Classic Realty agent out of the Coon Rapids office with two decades of hands-on land-development and new-construction background alongside her licensed-contractor husband, and a self-described focus on luxury properties.

42. Andy and Teresa Mitchell

7.7/10

$285K–$1.7M

An Edina Realty husband-and-wife team with Minnetonka named explicitly as one of four core southwest-metro markets.

43. Kyle Furniss

7.5/10

$150K+

An Edina Realty agent active in both Owatonna and Faribault listings, with a notable tie to Edina Realty's Luxury Portfolio / Exceptional Properties division, though public bio detail on his track record is thin.