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Mayi de la Vega

Cuban-American real estate powerhouse Mayi de la Vega is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ONE Sotheby’s International Realty (ONE SIR), a Sotheby’s International Realty affiliate and the leading luxury brokerage firm along Florida’s East Coast. A visionary leader, de la Vega founded the firm in 2008, during the depths of a global economic recession. Through her leadership, the company has flourished to thirty offices backed by a global network that spans 26,000 associates in 81 countries and territories. Recognized as the Top Real Estate Brokerage in Miami and across Florida’s East Coast, ONE SIR is one of the highest producing and fastest growing Sotheby’s International Realty affiliates worldwide.
Distinguished as an industry trailblazer, de la Vega along with her son, Daniel de la Vega, the President of ONE SIR, continue to expand across Florida’s East Coast and grow ONE SIR’s Development Division, representing a collection of the most prestigious new developments in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Treasure Coast counties.
De la Vega’s expertise has allowed her to harness the distinguished reputation of the historic Sotheby’s auction house to the benefit of ONE SIR agents and clients, leveraging the brand’s global network to position ONE SIR’s listings for maximum exposure among the brands elite clientele at events from New York to Hong Kong and throughout Europe.
With a wealth of experience in the industry and a series of record-breaking achievements, de la Vega prides herself in driving the evolution of real estate, with agent success as her #1 goal. She is consistently spearheading the launch of new technology, tools and campaigns that create a competitive edge for the company’s agents and have resulted in an award-winning website and a robust digital presence for increased productivity and impact. Her forward-thinking vision has fostered a company culture that redefines the industry standard through unwavering agent empowerment and support.
De la Vega is an avid art collector and dedicates time to traveling the globe as the company’s brand ambassador, while marketing Florida’s East Coast as an international, cultural mecca. She is a proud community supporter with years of philanthropic involvement that include her service as a Board Member of the Florida International University-Casa Cuba Initiative, Board Member of United Way, Board Member of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Board Member of Women Photographers International Archive, a Guardian Angel Society Member for Jackson Memorial Hospital, and part of The International Women’s Committee at the Perez Art Museum Miami. She also served as a Board Member of the Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Foundation, on the Board of Trustee for Florida International University, and has been honored with a Humanitarian Award from the American Red Cross. Most recently, she spearheaded the Love as One Campaign and worked with her team to tirelessly fundraise for various Miami-based charities to support local families in need.
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The Closing: Mayi de la Vega
The ONE Sotheby’s founder on Miami’s star turn, the power dynamics of development and agent winbacks.
“Luxury is not a price point — luxury evokes things in us,” Mayi de la Vega declares. Sure, I counter, but that evocation, in Miami, used to run you about $1,000 a foot. Now, developers can command up to $5,000 a foot for top-shelf product, prices that put Manhattan projects on blast. And de la Vega, as the founder of ONE Sotheby’s International Realty, has played no small part in that star turn. (Covid, and the subsequent influx of New Yorkers and Californians with different conceptions of what things should cost, helped too.)

Vero Beach team, Miami agent Michael Martinez nab top ONE Sotheby’s awards
A team from Vero Beach won the top award at ONE Sotheby’s International Realty for 2023, two years after joining the brokerage.
The O’Dare Boga Dobson Group of Vero Beach, led by Cindy O’Dare, Richard Boga and Kristin Dobson, ranked first among the brokerage’s large teams, with $184 million in sales last year, according to a press release. Marko Gojanovic and Reid Heidenry’s MR Luxury Group ranked second, and Albert Justo and Mirce Curkoski’s Waterfront Team placed third. Both are Miami-based groups. They closed $73.7 million and $95.9 million in on-market deals, respectively…

Meet the 2024 Power Brokers in Residential Real Estate
The future looks bright for ONE Sotheby’s International Realty founder Mayi de la Vega.
Having been in real estate for a quarter of a century, Mayi de la Vega (mayidelavega.com), founder and CEO of ONE Sotheby’s International Realty, has developed a sixth sense for success. So when she says the resale of luxury single-family and con markets in South Florida are on an upward trend, people listen. “We have experienced a bit of a slowdown due the the economic issues in Latin America,” she explains. “but we’re very bullish about 2019.” De la Vega established ONE SIR in 2008 during one of America’s worse recessions…