A path into established business in Orange County's luxury market. Built for agents joining Surterre Properties. Taught and mentored by the brokers and experienced producers who have shaped this market for decades.
Submit your application. Elizabeth, our Academy Director, will meet with you to understand your goals and confirm fit.
Complete the license transfer to Surterre. Our broker of record John guides you through compliance and onboarding.
Two to three live classes per week across four offices, hybrid in person and remote. Self-paced modules in the member portal.
Take jobs from SurTaskRabbit, our private board where experienced agents post real work. Open houses, listing prep, social, CRM. Get taught and get paid.
A private job board for the Surterre family. Experienced agents post the real work of their business. Rise agents take it on, get taught how it's done, and get paid directly for it. The work is how you learn the craft, build relationships with producers, and earn while you find your footing.
Think of it this way. When you join any luxury brokerage, your first months are spent learning the market, watching open houses, helping with listing prep, and showing up wherever an experienced agent will let you. At most firms, that's unpaid time, and that financial pressure is exactly what pushes most new agents out of the industry before they can build a pipeline. SurTaskRabbit changes that. The work you'd be doing anyway now comes with real project pay, set by the agent who posts it, paid directly to you.
Experienced Surterre agents post jobs they need done, each with a flat fee they're offering for the work. Open houses, listing prep, showings, content, and more.
Browse the board, take on the jobs that fit your schedule and goals. The agent who posted it walks you through how it's done. This is the apprenticeship.
Do the work well, mark it complete, and the posting agent pays you directly at the agreed fee. No middleman, no waiting on the firm.
Every job type comes with a suggested fee range, so postings stay fair to both sides without anyone having to negotiate from scratch. The posting agent sets the final number.
The board logs each job and its completion, confirmed by both agents. Payment is arranged privately between you and the posting agent. The log simply confirms the work was done.
Postings go live freely so you can move fast. If anything is ever unclear or unfair, the Academy Director is the backstop and steps in to resolve it.
SurTaskRabbit is an open board. You decide which jobs to take and when, around your classes and your own growing business. There's no schedule to keep and no quota to hit. You take what fits.
Every job is more than a paycheck. The agent who posts it teaches you how it's done, so each one builds your skills and your standing inside the firm. The experienced agents you work alongside become the network that refers you business for years to come.
Fees are set by the posting agent and paid directly to you. Surterre runs the board, not the payments.
Not busywork. The actual tasks that move a luxury transaction forward.
The posting agent walks you through the why, not just the what.
Take the jobs that fit. No quotas, no obligations, no pressure.
The agents you help today refer you business for years to come.
Surterre agents represent some of the most coveted properties in Orange County. Rise prepares the next generation to take a place in this market with confidence, craft, and the support of the firm behind them.
You are not learning in a classroom while the firm's business happens somewhere else. You are paired with an experienced Surterre agent and working alongside them. Their listings, their clients, their broker previews, their day. You co-list on real transactions, your name appears alongside theirs, and your first deals are built on the credibility of someone who has done this for decades.
The lenders, escrow officers, photographers, designers, attorneys, and partner relationships that took experienced agents years to cultivate are introduced to you in your first months. You inherit access to a network rather than building one from cold outreach.
Every luxury brokerage in OC has experienced agents with decades of business. Surterre is the one with the structure for the next generation to learn alongside them, contribute meaningfully, and earn a real place in the market.
Which streets in Newport Coast hold value through downturns. Which Laguna pockets are appreciating. How Palm Desert seasonality shapes a listing timeline. This is the kind of knowledge that doesn't live in books or classes. It lives in the heads of people who have practiced here for thirty years. Rise gets you in the room with them.
Most new agents wash out within two years because they're trying to build everything from zero. Rise is built differently. The foundation is already here. When you are introduced to a client as working alongside a respected Surterre name, the room treats you differently. That credibility is borrowed at first, earned over time, and becomes the foundation of a career that lasts.
The franchises spend their resources on logos and licensing fees. Surterre invests in agents and infrastructure. Four advantages other Orange County brokerages cannot match.
One of OC's last truly independent luxury brokerages. Decisions made locally. No franchise overhead. Founded in 2006.
An in-house marketing production studio. Print, social, video, and digital, all designed and produced for you by a dedicated team.
Nearly twenty years of established presence in Newport, Laguna, Dana Point, and the Desert. A reputation built one transaction at a time.
Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, Dana Point, and Palm Desert. From the coast to the desert, where OC luxury lives.
The people teaching Rise are the people who built their careers in this market. Not outside trainers reading scripts. The brokers, experienced producers, and partner experts whose names move rooms in Newport, Laguna, Dana Point, and the Desert.
The Surterre Way. Working with HNW clients. The Surterre Network. Mindset for the first 12 months.
Onboarding, operations, program flow, and the day-to-day experience of a Surterre agent.
Compliance, agency, fair housing, supervision, risk management, the NAR settlement landscape.
Marketing operations, the Rechat platform, brand standards, the Surterre listing launch playbook.
MLS systems, transaction documentation flow, listing launch coordination from contract to close.
The Surterre Studio production process. Listing graphics, brochures, and custom design at the level our market expects.
Email lists, Cloud CMAs, CRM management. How to build a database that actually produces business.
Jumbo and luxury financing for OC buyers. The lender's view of a clean transaction. What to send your buyers and when.
Opening escrow, the timeline, common holds, and how to keep a luxury transaction moving from contract to close.
Rise classes rotate between Surterre's four office locations. One office hosts in person each week, the others join live via Teams. Every session is recorded and added to your member portal.
"Rise is the program I wish existed when I started. A structured way to learn the craft, the market, and what it actually means to work in luxury real estate, taught by the people who do it every day at the highest level."
If you're newly licensed, ready to begin a career in Orange County luxury real estate, Rise is your starting point.
If you're an experienced agent considering a move to Surterre, the Immersion Track welcomes you with a structured introduction to the Surterre Way.