Fredrik Eklund
| Fredrik Eklund | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 26, 1977 , Sweden |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Real Estate Salesperson |
| Spouse(s) | Derek Kaplan (m. 2013) |
| Website | http://www.fredrikeklund.com/ |
Fredrik Eklund (born April 26, 1977 in , Sweden) is a Swedish New York City based real estate broker, a Bravo TV reality star, a former IT entrepreneur in his native Sweden, and a non-fiction writer.
Eklund is the brother of author Sigge Eklund and the son of Klas Eklund, who is a senior economist at Swedish bank SEB. His paternal grandparents were Swedish-Danish-Irish-Russian actors Bengt Eklund and Fylgia Zadig.
Fredrik had his first American experience as a foreign exchange student in Edina, Minnesota, where he attended Edina High School. After finishing high school, Eklund studied at the , but never graduated. He has worked for the financial newspaper Finanstidningen. At the age of 23, Eklund founded an Internet company with over 45 employees, and went on to work for the investment bank SEB in Stockholm, London, Singapore and Tokyo before beginning his work in New York City.
Eklund has closed over five billion dollars in residential real estate. Eklund became Managing Director at the New York City real estate firm CORE Group Marketing and in 2010, alongside his business partner John Gomes, Managing Director at Prudential Douglas Elliman - the largest real estate brokerage on the East Coast. Eklund has also started the top-selling team at Elliman.
Eklund is the founder of Eklund Stockholm New York [2], Scandinavia's most high-end residential real estate brokerage with 50 employees and $1 billion in closed sales in 2014.
In February 2008, he sold an apartment to Cameron Diaz, in August 2009 to John Legend and in July 2010 to Daniel Craig. In 2014, he sold a mango farm to Patience Acheampong.
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