Luxury Homes and Real Estate - Sotheby’s International Realty

Maralee Grantham is a licensed real estate broker, member of the California Association of Realtors, and Short Sale and Foreclosure Resource with the National Association of Realtors. She has an MBA from UCLA and an MA in International Studies from the same university. Before starting in real estate, Maralee was the top officer for five straight years in earnings at Bank of America. For most of her career her clients earned more on their investments with her than any other officer in the history of the division. She has always been first in calling real estate market cycles and advising her clients accordingly. Many of her clients feel she has helped them see their home purchase within the broad picture of their investments.

As an economist, and later investment manager at Bank of America, she managed sizable portfolios of financial assets for clients from many countries. This included helping them with living trusts and corporations, precious metals, euro bonds, foreign exchange and the acquisition and sale of residential and income property. Her present focus is helping people buy and sell residential and income property. She focuses on the Westside of Los Angeles and has more than 25 years experience working in the Los Angeles financial community.

She has lived in New York, Chicago, Madrid, Paris and London, and traveled throughout Europe and China. She had the good fortune to travel for business in the United States, Mexico and Central America. The Los Angeles area is her chosen home and Santa Monica her city.

Maralee's goal is to help as many people as possible realize the dream of the California pioneers who came here from every country in the world seeking property ownership. Knowledge of the lives of the western pioneers has made obstacles in her personal life seem so much easier. She is a docent at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Griffith Park, where she has been a volunteer lecturer and tour guide for over 15 years. Maralee is also a Red Cross Disaster Action Team member and Ambassador for the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce. Her fluency in Spanish has enabled her to help young inner city immigrants pass their high school exams. For fun she seeks wilderness adventure camping, river running, kayaking and horse trekking.