Every "best agent in Las Vegas" list is built from a different source, and most of them never say so. This page explains which rankings are verified, what sides and volume actually measure, who is at the top of the 2026 lists for Nevada, Las Vegas and Henderson, and how to check any agent in ten minutes.
There is one production ranking in this market that is built from verified closed transactions: RealTrends Verified, published each July by HW Media. Brokerages submit each agent's closed sides and sales volume for the previous calendar year, RealTrends verifies the submission against the brokerage's records, and the result is ranked by state and by city. Submitting is free. RealTrends sells promotional badges and packages to ranked agents, but the ranking itself comes from the verified numbers, not from what anyone buys. The 2026 program, released July 10, 2026, reflects sales that closed in 2025.
Everything else you will find under "best real estate agent in Las Vegas" is a different kind of list. Zillow's badges reflect reviews and response times on Zillow. Expertise.com and ThreeBestRated are editorial picks scored on reviews, licensing and mystery-shop calls. Yelp, Google and Homes.com sort by their own review counts. FastExpert, HomeLight and U.S. News rank on production data that agents self-report to those platforms. And a growing number of "top agents in Las Vegas" articles are written by real estate teams about themselves. None of that makes those lists useless; it means you should know what each one is measuring before you trust it.
This is the statewide RealTrends Verified list of individual agents ranked by sides, as published on September 27, 2026. A side is one side of a closed transaction, so an agent who represented both the buyer and the seller on one sale is credited with two. Volume is the total sale price of those transactions. The city is where the agent closed most of their business, which is how RealTrends assigns agents to city lists.
| Rank | Agent and brokerage | Sides | Volume | City |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steve O'Brien, RE/MAX Professionals | 115 | $35.04M | Reno |
| 2 | Dan Mumm, huntington & ellis | 94 | $41.40M | Las Vegas |
| 3 | Justine Oros, LPT Realty | 93 | $37.31M | Spring Creek |
| 4 | John Sullivan, huntington & ellis | 88 | $61.17M | Las Vegas |
| 5 | Alexander Gutierrez, ERA Brokers Consolidated | 79 | $32.07M | Mesquite |
| 6 | Mike Roland, The Roland Team at LPT Realty | 74 | $31.70M | Henderson |
| 7 | Tony Espinoza, Excellence Fine Living Realty | 72 | $30.27M | Las Vegas |
| 8 | Robert Martin, huntington & ellis | 69 | $41.49M | Las Vegas |
| 9 | Katherine Gillespie, eXp Realty | 61 | $28.05M | Fernley |
| 10 | Adria Lawrence, huntington & ellis | 55 | $36.38M | Las Vegas |
Source: RealTrends Verified, 2026 Best Real Estate Agents in Nevada, individuals by sides. Six of the ten are in the Las Vegas valley; the rest are in Reno, Elko County, Mesquite and Fernley. The same list sorted by volume looks different, because volume rewards price point, and the luxury specialists who close fewer, larger sales move to the top of it.
RealTrends also ranks by city, and the city is assigned by where the agent closed the most business, not by where the office is. On the Las Vegas city list by sides, the top five for 2025 production were Dan Mumm (94 sides), John Sullivan (88), Tony Espinoza (72), Robert Martin (69) and Adria Lawrence (55). On the Henderson city list by sides, Mike Roland of The Roland Team is No. 1 with 74 sides and $31.70 million, and the No. 2 agent closed 52.
Two things to know when you read those city lists together. First, Henderson and Las Vegas are separate lists, so an agent who sells across the valley shows up on only one of them. Mike Roland's 74 sides would place third on the Las Vegas city list; he appears on the Henderson list because that is where the largest share of his closings were. Second, huntington & ellis has five agents in the Las Vegas top ten by sides, which tells you something about how that brokerage distributes leads, and nothing about which individual will be a good fit for your purchase or sale.
Sides count transactions. Volume counts dollars. Divide one by the other and you get the agent's average sale price, which is the number that tells you whether they work in your price range. Mike Roland's 74 sides on $31.70 million is an average of about $428,000, close to the valley's median. The No. 4 agent by sides closed $61.17 million on 88 sides, an average near $695,000. Neither is better; they are different businesses. If you are buying a $450,000 home in Henderson, the agent who closed 74 of them last year has more recent reps at your price than the agent who closed 88 at twice the price. If you are selling a $2 million home in The Ridges, reverse that logic.
Sides also measure something volume cannot: how many negotiations, inspections, appraisals and closings the agent personally handled in the last twelve months. For most buyers and sellers, that is the experience that matters.
RealTrends publishes separate lists for individuals and for teams, and the two are not comparable. A team's number is the sum of everyone on it, so a team of 150 agents will always out-count an individual, and a "No. 1 team in Nevada" claim usually means "the largest team." The individual list tells you what one person closed. When you hire a team, the individual ranking of the person who will actually handle your file is the number to ask about.
A team is not a worse choice. It is a different one. A well-run team gives you a listing specialist, a buyer specialist, a transaction coordinator and coverage when your agent is out. What you want to know is who on the team you will be working with, what that person closed last year, and who answers when they are unavailable. Any team that cannot answer those three questions in one sentence each is not well run.
Whether the agent knows your community. Whether they will tell you a house is overpriced. How they negotiate repairs. Whether they answer the phone at 7 PM on a Saturday. Rankings measure output, and output is worth measuring, but it is one input into a decision that should take you about a week. Here is the ten-minute check we recommend on any agent, including us.
Verify production. Search the agent's name on realtrends.com. If they are ranked, the profile shows sides, volume, and state and city rank. If they are not ranked, ask for their closed sides for the last twelve months and which communities those were in.
Verify the license. The Nevada Real Estate Division's public lookup at red.nv.gov shows the license number, the broker of record and any disciplinary history.
Read reviews in two places. Zillow and Google. Look for reviews that name the community and the situation, and look at how the agent responds to the ones that are not five stars.
Ask for the community record. How many homes have you closed in this community in the last two years, and can you show me? An agent who works your neighborhood can answer from memory.
Ask who you get. On a team, which person is yours, and who covers when they are out.
We are not the No. 1 agent in Las Vegas and we do not say we are. Mike Roland is the No. 1 individual agent in Henderson by homes sold in 2025 and the No. 6 individual agent in Nevada by homes sold in 2025, both RealTrends Verified. The team as a whole has closed more than 1,000 transactions, sells hundreds of homes a year across Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas and Boulder City, and holds 800+ five-star reviews. Every one of those claims, with the link to check it, is on our fact sheet. When you talk with us, you will be told which agent on the team you are working with and what they closed last year, before you sign anything.
Submitting production data is free and the numbers are verified with the brokerage. RealTrends does sell promotional packages and badges to agents who make the list; those are marketing, and they do not change where anyone ranks.
RealTrends names each program for the year it is published and ranks the previous calendar year's closed transactions. The 2026 program came out July 10, 2026, and covers January through December 2025.
No. Zillow badges are based on reviews, response time and activity on Zillow. They are a useful signal about service, and they say nothing about how many homes an agent closed.
No. It guarantees the agent closed a lot of business last year. Use it to build a short list, then run the ten-minute check above and talk to two or three of them before you choose.
Once a year, after the July RealTrends release. The tables above reflect the 2026 program as published on September 27, 2026.
Keep exploringTell us the community and the price range. We will send you the team's closed sales there for the last two years, the name of the agent who would handle your file and what they closed last year, and the links to verify all of it, before anyone asks you to sign anything.
Rankings and figures are published by RealTrends Verified from brokerage-reported 2025 closed transactions and were retrieved on September 27, 2026; they refresh annually and may be corrected by RealTrends. Other agents and brokerages are named as they appear in the public RealTrends rankings and are not affiliated with The Roland Team. Review totals are approximate and change daily. The Roland Team is committed to the letter and spirit of U.S. policy for equal housing opportunity. The Roland Team is brokered by LPT Realty. Nevada license S.0177048.