F. Ron Smith & David Berg

F. Ron Smith and David Berg are the founding partners of Smith & Berg Property Group at Compass, a boutique luxury residential team headquartered in Brentwood with a second office in Beverly Hills. The practice has recorded more than $7.5 billion in residential sales since its founding, a decade-plus partnership built on Smith’s earlier run as co-founder of Partners Trust — the independent Beverly Hills brokerage that grossed over $10 billion in sales before its 2018 acquisition by Pacific Union, later folded into Compass.

The team’s territory is the Westside at its most architectural: Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, Bel Air, and the canyon streets between them. Smith & Berg have built a reputation as the go-to brokers for the city’s spec developers, representing new-construction and architectural estates from groundbreaking to close. The Wall Street Journal and RealTrends have repeatedly ranked Smith & Berg the No. 1 medium-sized team in Los Angeles, and The Real Deal placed the team fourth among Los Angeles County’s top residential producers by transaction volume for the twelve months ending July 2026, on $467.5 million in on-market sales.