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Craig Knizek

The Agency
Los Angeles

Craig Knizek is Director of the Estates Division at The Agency and managing partner of the brokerage’s San Fernando Valley offices in Sherman Oaks, Studio City, and Calabasas, where he has worked since The Agency’s founding in 2011. He has recorded more than $1.12 billion in career sales, according to The Agency, with the Valley offices under his leadership generating roughly $1.6 billion in annual volume. The Wall Street Journal has named Knizek to its Top 250 Brokers in the U.S. list for six consecutive years.

Before real estate, Knizek spent twenty years in film and television, working as a producer on “Mad About You” and as the original associate producer of “The Simpsons.” He founded Prescott Properties, a design and development firm, and has represented estates for a client roster spanning the San Fernando Valley and Westside markets, with a focus on new development and celebrity-owned properties.

TOP RECORDED DEAL
NOTABLE ACQUISITION · BEVERLY HILLS POST OFFICE (THE SUMMIT)
11951 Crest Place
$21,650,000 · 2019
On-market sale of the guard-gated Beverly Hills Post Office-area compound known as The Summit, first listed at $35 million following Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale’s 2016 divorce and re-priced to $24.995 million under Knizek’s representation before selling to comedian and actor Sebastian Maniscalco. The sale was first reported by Variety on October 1, 2019, with the buyer’s identity confirmed through property records days later, and is cited by the Los Angeles Business Journal as Knizek’s highest price ever recorded in The Summit. Jade Mills of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage and Craig Knizek of The Agency held the listing for the seller; Jonathan Nash and Stephen Resnick of Hilton & Hyland represented the buyer.
PRESS ARCHIVE
20201 placement
Los Angeles Business Journal
Who’s Brokering Los Angeles: Craig Knizek
The Los Angeles Business Journal profiled Knizek’s Valley practice and cited the 11951 Crest Place sale as his highest price ever recorded in The Summit, at $21.65 million.
August 2020
20191 placement
Dirt (Variety)
Sebastian Maniscalco Buys Gwen Stefani’s Bananas Mansion
Dirt confirmed the $21.6 million sale of the Beverly Hills Post Office-area estate to Sebastian Maniscalco and named Jade Mills and Craig Knizek as the listing agents, with Jonathan Nash and Stephen Resnick of Hilton & Hyland representing the buyer.
October 2019
RECORD
Who is Craig Knizek?
Craig Knizek is Director of the Estates Division at The Agency and managing partner of the brokerage’s San Fernando Valley offices in Sherman Oaks, Studio City, and Calabasas, where he has worked since The Agency’s founding in 2011.
What is Craig Knizek’s most expensive documented sale?
Knizek’s largest press-verified transaction is the $21.65 million on-market sale of 11951 Crest Place, the Beverly Hills Post Office-area estate known as The Summit, sold by Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale to Sebastian Maniscalco in 2019 and confirmed by Dirt (Variety) and the Los Angeles Business Journal.
What brokerage is Craig Knizek with?
Knizek is Director of the Estates Division at The Agency, where he has served as managing partner of the firm’s San Fernando Valley offices since its founding in 2011.
What awards and recognition has Craig Knizek received from The Hollywood Reporter?
No Hollywood Reporter Power Broker Award nominations or wins are documented for Knizek individually. He has appeared within The Hollywood Reporter’s broader real estate coverage as a listing or co-listing agent, including its 2025 “Top L.A. Real Estate Agents” feature and prior Real Estate Roundup items, but does not carry his own entry on THR’s agent rosters or awards lists.