An L.A. native, Hyland opened Hilton & Hyland with hotel scion Rick Hilton in 1993, and over the past three decades, the firm has grown into one of the top luxury brokerages in Southern California, overseeing billions of dollars' worth of sales for iconic estates across the region.
"Thirty years ago, Jeff and I started on this journey,” Rick Hilton wrote in the post. “Throughout, a great partnership and a deep friendship were forged and Hilton & Hyland emerged as a force in the industry. Jeff was a legend. His knowledge about real estate and architecture was unparalleled.”
When Hyland started selling homes at age 28, real estate agents were seen as staid professionals who handled complex transactions with little fanfare for big-name brokerages that got all the cachet.
But Hyland has been credited with helping to transform the industry with the broker-celebrity. Hilton & Hyland agents become famous on their own in the exploding world of real estate reality TV, such as Bravo's "Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles."
Over the years, he listed and sold some of L.A.’s most notable estates. In 2019, he engineered the record-shattering sale of Chartwell, the Bel-Air mansion featured in “The Beverly Hillbillies,” for $150 million. It was the most expensive home sale in California history, although it has been topped multiple times since.
Never short on ambition, Hyland made headlines in 2019 when he listed the legendary 40,000-square-foot Bel-Air mansion of financier Gary Winnick for $225 million — the priciest publicly listed home in the country at the time.
In 2020, he sold LeBron James a Mediterranean-style compound in the Beverly Hills Post Office area for $36.75 million. Last week, he listed the Manor, a 56,000-square-foot chateau in Holmby Hills, for $165 million.
