Veteran Valley real estate agent launches new brokerage, lists hillside Phoenix luxury home


Valley real estate agent Jorge L. Quijada has teamed up with his brother-in-law to launch a new brokerage called Arizona Proper Real Estate.Quijada had been part owner of Next Generation Real Estate over the past seven years, where he started with 12 agents and grew it to 250.”It was exhausting but fun,” he said.Now he’s at a point where less is more.expandJorge L. Quijada, managing partner of Arizona Proper Real Estate.Arizona Proper Real EstateHis brother-in-law Matt Ghanem, co-founder and CEO of National Breathe Free Sinus & Allergy Centers, had moved the company’s headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Phoenix last year. They started brainstorming about how they would operate the new brokerage, and during that process Ghanem brought a different point of view from outside the industry.Quijada grew up in real estate — his mom was a real estate agent for Century 21. When he would explain the real estate industry to his new business partner, he would describe how things are generally done in the industry but would also find himself saying, “But this is the ‘proper’ way to do it.”As the word “proper” continued to find its way into his exp …

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