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Co-Founder of The Movement Group, voted by Real Trends & Wall Street Journal’s top 1.5% of real estate professionals in the country. Graduated from Quinnipiac University, Dante has a combination of business savvy and street smarts.
Formally from the North Shore of Massachusetts, Dante has called downtown Boston his home for the past three years. As a property owner and real estate investor himself, Dante understands the landscape of The Greater Boston real estate landscape and can match prospective owners with not only the living space, but also to the neighborhood of their dreams. Dante is here to make your next move enjoyable with no added stress.
The Movement Group is a top-tier real estate team that is dedicated to providing unrivaled service to those looking to buy or sell homes in Boston or the Greater Boston area – regardless of the price point.
This knowledgeable team of Boston natives have received national attention from Wall Street Journal & RealTrends ranked top 1.5% team in country, along with tech companies such as Curaytor and BombBomb for their innovative approach to real estate.Their innovative approach is centered around The Movement Group’s ability to utilize cutting edge technology-as well as a dynamic and far-reaching social media presence-to provide their buyers and sellers an experience like no other.
Partnered with Compass, The Movement Group is able to leverage their own innovative approach to selling homes with the industry’s most prominent and sophisticated marketing team-thus generating extraordinary results for sellers when listing their largest asset.
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I grew up north of Boston. I attended prep school in St John’s Prep high school and I ended up as a Benjamin Quinnipiac University graduate in 2015. Throughout that course and lifetime being there throughout my educational journey, I really sort of was able to really be good at networking. I had a lot of different friend groups, a lot of connections and during that point in time I was also working at my family business, which is a privately owned transportation freight delivery business based out of New England. They are one of the largest independent surveyors right now. It was awesome because I got to sort of be in the grid of things, but I was also sent off to have an amazing education and environment and background where I could get an education through the books and also be working since I was 15 years old. So I had sort of that balance between the two. Growing up in that family business was amazing because I didn’t just start off working in an office at all, but I was loading trucks, being on the dock, and then I would put on my khakis and go to my prep school. So it was a cool mix. From there, basically I just grew into the family business, as in my college career. Eventually, I had to make a decision on what I wanted to do. At that point in time, my father passed away. So it was kind of a crossroads for me on what I wanted to do personally and in my career, but I knew where I fell into and it was more along the lines of networking and trying to provide value to people. I made a venture into real estate not too long after I graduated from college. – Dante Bruzzese
So there was a point when I graduated and went back to my family business for about a year. I made the tough decision at that time to pretty much leave something that was going to be sustainable for the rest of my life, building off of my family business, leaving a legacy behind, leaving a lot of questions unanswered. However, in the back of my mind, I knew I could do something that was more catered to myself, whether it was bigger and something that I felt like I was more passionate about and driven towards. So, there was a point in time where I was at my family business. I had to make a decision with my family members to leave the business. They wholeheartedly supported me on that because they knew that I had specific skill sets that I currently pretty much bring to life. So, I went to a startup company. It was a very small company, and I learned a ton there. I was pretty much going through an old school business for my whole life. I didn’t know anything outside the cut and dry, picking up the phone, making a business deal happen with a big company and I got put into something that was within the realm of Amazon. It had a lot to do with cloud based services. So then I got a taste of something completely new-school and it just hit me and thought it was great, but I still felt like I got a taste of this and then things just progressed over. In year one I was with the family company, got back, went to a tech startup company and decided to leave there after a year or two. Then, I’ve been in real estate for about eight years or so and am now a broker. – Dante Bruzzese
So, I made a jump from corporate to real estate. That was interesting. Most people would be scared, afraid, and wouldn’t want to do it or do it partially. At the time, I had a comfort zone where I could go back and If I felt it wasn’t going anywhere, I could go back to my family business. I decided I wasn’t going to let that stop me. What I did was that I pretty much just acted like I had no other assets, no other revenues and this was my last hope, my last chance. This was it. At the time I was 24 years old but I had that mindset of not being content with the money I was making. I was not where I needed to be, but I asked myself how I could get there. I was not going to let my safety net deter me away from that. That was the most important aspect, I had this vision and I continue to do that. If I didn’t have that vision and I had that as a fallback, I wouldn’t be back there but I went through so much adversity to get where I am and I continue to build but yeah, that was super important to me. A lot of people want to get into a career, a full time job, and want to make that transition but it’s not like that. It’s cut and dry and either you want in or you’re out, there’s no middle ground in real estate. There’s no part time real estate, you’re in or you’re out. Any type of large production broker out there nationwide can agree and attest to the fact that if you’re not full time, you’re not giving your client enough of your time and effort and that’s what you need to do in a service backed industry. So there’s a lot of different moving parts with that but all in all, you have to just dive in. – Dante Bruzzese
Well, something that I took over from my previous family business was that you need to know the entire business inside out. My father didn’t let me work in an office environment until I had to get into a truck and drive a truck or learn how to load the freight properly. So I pretty much aligned those sort of skill sets with the real estate industry. I have what an attorney does on a daily basis, what the loan officer does on a daily basis, our consumer values and looks at specific aspects. Once I kind of sort of absorbed all that and just choked it up as I was continuing to work making some money on the side, I felt more confident in my conversations because I already had that trust. I had that inherited trust from my previous relationships, from education and sports, all that. So, people trusted me. Now was my time since I had the knowledge to provide value to them and that didn’t come until probably year two or three. Realistically, you have to implement, you can do this only by knowing the business inside out before you can actually get your feet wet in the business. I think that a lot of people say that it’s an instant gratification business because of what they see on television or media as you mentioned prior but it’s not certain like that whatsoever. – Dante Bruzzese
It’s about where you start and who you’re working with. Real estate isn’t an independent contractor business, but when my team members are working with me, they’re able to leverage my advertising, my skill sets, my knowledge, my capabilities. You have to be able to trust people, your broker, your colleagues, collaborate with your colleagues, build a brand not only for your clients, but also for the industry because industry relationships matter just as much as client relationships do. Clients’ relationships come and go, they’re hopefully going to be cultivated for a lifelong eternity with your client but they’re not in the field all day. They’re buying a home, selling a home, they’re consumers. You give them the best services possible, but your industry peers are going to be there forever. So, when you do bring a client to a property or you are in a negotiation and you have a good relationship with that broker, they’re more than likely going to be more open. So it’s important to build your network based on who’s in the industry as well. I made a presence for myself in the industry before I made a presence for myself and that’s something that I don’t see a lot of people doing on a daily basis. – Dante Bruzzese
So, I was lucky enough to have a really good broker when I started, to educate me. I noticed that there was something wrong with real estate, and it was about how people market themselves. In real estate, there’s obviously a lot of legacies involved with that. So, if somebody has been in the industry for ten plus years, they have bragging rights. However, I realized that word of mouth only spreads so fast. In social media, with a click of a button, anyone can go viral in a moment. At that point in time, I identified that there wasn’t much of a presence with social media marketing for real estate. However, being familiar with e-commerce and other industries such as fitness, I knew that those were very prominent with marketing, with media and collaboration. So I said to myself: How can I stand out? What I started doing was building an education platform with videos, putting them on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. I had the early skill sets in education from my broker who helped me and answered questions for me when I needed to. I started myself as an educator before I became a producer, and that helped me a ton to get into the industry. Before you know it, a year or two later I’m up on stage talking in front of thousands of real estate agents on how to use social media. So, I worked it from the top down whereas most people work from the bottom up, I made myself a presence in the industry. My industry peers trusted me. Therefore, it gave me the confidence that I can go out there and really do some business. – Dante Bruzzese
The educational pieces I started with my business partners at the time consisted of us just rolling film for an hour, a couple of hours a day. We would just make content, shoot it and we’d sit there and just come up with ideas and do two or three videos a week and really just put them out there to everybody and anybody. Then we just essentially built a library and built trust. I started building sort of what I like to call now is an ecosystem. So, if somebody is out there viewing one of my videos, I’m not begging them to buy real estate like you see with most people. I’m advising them and helping them and educating them. The educational content has caught on in the past couple of years, pretty much around the country with real estate advertisements but I was doing this seven years ago, and we continued to do those types of videos up until today. I’ve built just such a big interweb of trust and communication, that ecosystem. That’s so much more important to me than doing a deal, in my opinion. – Dante Bruzzese
“The movement group” came together about four years ago, I should say. We were accelerating at a very fast pace. I was at a great brokerage at the time with a great leadership job and skill sets but at the end of the day, I left corporate for a reason. I left corporate because I wanted to be my own leader and I wanted to be my own entrepreneur and the only way I could really do that is if I break the chain even more and say that I was ready to go. At that point I was 26 years old and Compass came in, trusted me and gave us an incredible opportunity to be a part of their organization at a young age. They told us we could start our routine there, they believed in us and they still do. Basically we started off with three people and we now have an eight person team. We’re very selective on our processes because we like to build out the actual systems before we actually build out this huge, robust team that doesn’t usually last unless you have scalability. So for us, it’s about our personal environment internally and how we can all collaborate and produce at the highest levels possible. That’s my goal. Fortunately we have an amazing team with an amazing camaraderie. I’m just excited to see where these guys are going to go. – Dante Bruzzese
Yeah, we look for a social media presence. I mean, in today’s day and age, if you don’t have a social media presence, unfortunately in this industry, you’re not going to last long if you’re just starting off. There’s a lot of great brokers out there that don’t even know how to click a button on social media but they’ve been around the industry for many years and they’ve built up a great reputation and that’s amazing. However, if you’re a new entrant within the market and you’re going to be a real estate agent for people in the future, you need to not only have social media, but you need to have the right presence and the right mindset. We are very selective with that process. Of course, personality plays into it. I think a lot of people enter this industry for probably not the best reasons, but during the interview process, I ask very specific questions that I can get a yes or no from. – Dante Bruzzese
In a few different ways. I think everybody has their own specific characteristics and you have to really dig in their minds. Not everyone is built the same. Not everybody has the same capabilities, but everybody has their own personal skill sets and I’ll figure out what those are. Real estate is such a versatile industry. You see people who are great with mathematics, so they’re very good with algorithms and therefore they’re able to do things and expedite and people gravitate towards that. Then you have people who are people’s person and are out all day having those conversations. So there’s all these like little different niches that you can have within the industry. In order to really bring the fullest potential out of people, honestly, you just have to figure each other out. What I have for skill sets, everybody might not gravitate towards but if I can get two of my team members to do specific tasks that I perform, two of them are going to do really well at that and four of them might not. Now I have to figure out where those other four can really come in and bring their value. So it’s really just trial and error and figuring out what works best for each individual team member. I’ve learned that throughout my business too, you have to look at it from a client’s perspective because not every client is the same. So, I can have somebody that’s a CEO at a large corporation or at a large bank, and they’re not looking at the property the same as one of my first time homebuyers. Maybe they’re looking at it as an investment. So, it’s all these different people and personas, and you have to be versatile with that. That’s something I tell my team all the time and that’s great. – Dante Bruzzese
Have to have a long term goal in mind. Real estate has so many different variables to it and the paths you can take. You have to, at the beginning, understand your past. I knew that sales was my path. People would ask me all the time: Why aren’t you investing in real estate? Why are you doing this? Why are you doing that? I have my personal assets but that’s not that’s not at the forefront of my business. My business is sales. So, if you’re an aspiring agent, you have to know your reason as to why you are using your license, because there’s so many different avenues you can go down and different brokerages. So, my best advice would be that where you start is going to dictate and determine the remainder of your career and how successful you are. – Dante Bruzzese
The natural progression of real estate is interesting because typically you just based off of age demographics. So I was fortunate to start so early that I sort of grew organically with my own network. So, a lot of those guys and girls were renting at the time. I was also aspiring to be in sales. I did multiple deals my first year, close to eight, which is pretty high of sales for year one. In the background, I was doing a lot of rentals to stay afloat but with those rentals, I was building and creating my own personal network. I didn’t necessarily care about sales in year one, but I did it because I just wanted to build my brand, build my network with the people who were with me. That was very important. So that’s kind of how things accelerated in that sense. – Dante Bruzzese
We’re a hybrid dynamic team. So when you talk about geographic locations in real estate, it’s important to understand where you’re selling and why you’re selling that product. However, given the fact that we’re a hybrid team and we span from Boston, North and South of the city, we provide a lot more value to sellers. So, we’re able to bring buyers from all different walks of life and all different areas and not just hyper locally, also nationally, just within our reach with social media and our social media presence, we’ve drawn hundreds of thousands of eyeballs on us, probably monthly of people looking at our media, watching it, telling their friends, telling their family. So we’re drawing so much attention now and when we do list properties for our clients, when we’re selling homes, we get so much more exposure than the average person might just because of our social media presence alone. Then, with social media also comes hard work. So we’re also on the ground all day and we’re doing a lot of other things in the background that separate us and make us that full, well-rounded team that we are going to continue to execute and do. That’s what separates us, the hard work we put in when we are selling property. When we work with our buyers, we’re helping them make the best decisions possible and we’ll work with any client. We’re at the forefront of education as well. So not only do we have the media side, the education side, but we also have that work ethic that sort of ties things in together. – Dante Bruzzese
So it’s still two separate entities. There’s layers to everything. You have your personal brand, which is myself, you have your team brand and then you also have the Compass brand. So if you look at it in layers, you’ll know when and where and why to market and advertise the way you do. Unfortunately, all three of those layers come into effect at different times. So I’m obviously selling real estate. You have to have a personality, you have to have a team and assets. You want a second opinion? I have seven other agents. Then you also have Compass, which is the number one brokerage in the country, in the state for sales. So I have them as well. So there’s different layers to it and if you have the notion of understanding that from a seller’s point of view or a buyer and consumer, you have a full package. The way I brand and I don’t necessarily stay outside of the cohesiveness of the Compass brand, we have our branding. We are very cohesive concepts. We embody what the Compass environment does and promotes and we’re proud to have Compass on it on all of our, you know, advertisements and logos, it’s a powerhouse of a brand. The best part about Compass is not locally, it’s nationally. We have so many amazing relationships with different colleagues in different states that we’re collaborating, talking about the market, talking about trends and changes throughout the market, seeing things come from the West Coast to the East Coast. So, there’s different ways and there’s different levels to marketing depending on who you’re talking to and that helps me a lot. – Dante Bruzzese
That’s a good question. We’re very systematic and every step that we take, we have a thought process behind it in logic, whether we fail or not, we’re going to learn but essentially the growth model comes internally. We want to build out our team to our fullest potential as people, just having a quality of life, seeing everybody and then building out from there. However, we’re incorporating a lot of different systems within the team, whether that be technological or bringing on a little bit more in the back end for our transactional side of things. Fortunately we have a great agent on our team who also assists us. I have an amazing transaction coordinator, so we’re building out the team as a business, we’re building out the team as a brand. We are not doing things as your prototypical real estate agency. What’s next? We are a brand, we’re a business and that’s something that we take pride in ourselves with. So as long as we build around a business and everybody is doing well and everyone continues to build, the next steps for us are just going to be to work to our maximum potential and capacity until we’re ready to take on bigger challenges. – Dante Bruzzese
Creativity is everything. If you’re not creative and you’re not acting outside the box, just going to be filing a pack and you have to be the leader. However, if you’re not willing to break outside that box at some point in time, you’re going to be complacent. Creativity goes from working with your clients and building on it something that’s most effective for your clients. What do all your clients have in common? Are you able to spend your time wisely working with your clients? How are you going to be creative? That goes past Instagram trends, you have to be a creator in yourself and put yourself in the shoes of a marketer in any industry, in my opinion. The best CEOs and the best leaders who can sell are the best marketers but if you treat real estate as a business and you’re an actual creator, you’re going to do really well. – Dante Bruzzese
There’s a lot of amazing companies out there, just as a side note. I mean, you can do this, just about anywhere. That’s a great question. I think you have to break that down and you have to ask yourself: Do I have a network? Do I have no beginning network? My family, people who trust me and know me and love me, do I have that too to an extent or to a level? If I don’t, how do I build on that? You have to attract people, not chase them. So just absorbing it and then building out a content library catering around who you’ve identified within that network and then going in to really market to that network and show them your values because you have to be valuable in this industry in order to survive. If you’re 25 years old, graduating college and you aspire to be a real estate agent, most of your friends are going to be 25 to 28 years old. That’s just how it is. So what are you marketing towards? Are you going to sell your second home? Do you want an investment property? You have to take three steps back and ask: Are you ready to buy the first property? Are you ready to lease your first property? Then you can get your client into a property to own. So, you have to identify who that specific geographic and demographic target is and then you can go in. – Dante Bruzzese
I wish I could tell you that you can set a time. If you want to be successful, you have to do anything and you have to have the right people around you to support you as well. The right cast of people, whether it’s your partner, your friends or your family. If you don’t have the right people supporting you and believing in you, it’s never going to happen. You can’t count the hours of the day. You can’t count the success. You just have to look back at certain points and see how far you’ve come. It is a seven day a week business. I think I have many friends in other industries and they could also agree that if you want it that badly, there’s no time set. You have to set a personal time for yourself, and you should have a schedule that caters to your health, your wellness, your well-being and your family and your friends. but when it comes down to it, you work 24/77365. Real estate is integrated with your life. You can’t put real estate to the side, it’s integrated with your life. – Dante Bruzzese
So if you’re a Compass agent, on a team and you’re starting off, Compass Academy is amazing. It’s basically like a real estate university for new agents. If you’re just simply diving in the business, the National Association of Realtors offers many education courses that are awesome. I believe they also do them online and it’s great to learn from. I also think just linking up with somebody that you trust in the industry, especially loan officers who are going to be working with the majority of your clients to give them mortgages, as well as real estate attorneys or title and escrow companies, depending on the state that you’re in, work with them. If you can stay with them, you’ll know the business inside out. Just know that trying, hoping and praying that you’re going to get a deal just from posting “Are you looking to buy/sell/lease?” is not going to happen. You need to build the relationships and have those strong, everlasting relationships. – Dante Bruzzese
The biggest thing is that there’s a lot of people who see but don’t do. There’s a lot of webinars, there’s a lot of seminars, there’s a lot of growth coaches, there’s a lot of coaches, and they do phenomenal work But if you just continue to sit at conferences and don’t implement and execute and just absorb and read and read and you never do it, it’s pointless. I’m a doer. We get in there, we do it right. So there’s a lot of great advice out there, but take that advice and execute it. Don’t just keep absorbing and observing and reading and this and that. So, if you have all this knowledge stored in your head, go do it right. That’s what I tell my team. Just go do it. There’s just a lot of visual auditory conferences and that’s all well and fine. I do that too and I enjoy that but you’ve got to put the work in and I just don’t see that too much. You can’t get caught up in other people’s lives. I think that’s the issue with social media. You can use it as a positive platform or a negative platform. If you continue to absorb knowledge, that’s amazing because I’m on social media all the time, too but you have to implement things that you see as well. There’s so many amazing coaches. We have a personal coach, I have a personal coach and they do such a great job but they always say to me that I can listen to them all day, but without actually executing some of these things that they’re telling me, what’s the point of having me as a coach? So, it just goes back to the point that you have to actually put in the work. You have to work smarter and harder. You can’t just work smarter, not harder. – Dante Bruzzese
Learn how to pivot when times change, follow the trends in the economy and know that nothing is ever going to stay the same and have a backup plan, not a backup plan outside of real estate, but a real estate backup plan. So, if the market changes and something happens, how are you going to provide the most value and real time knowledge for your clients and show them the value of why they need to move, why they need to sell, but also help them make the best decisions possible during that point in time as well. We just want our clients’ best interests. That’s the most important part. – Dante Bruzzese
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