Meet Karen

Co-founder, President, and CFO Karen Weinberg provides key financial management and growth vision for the only locally owned global real estate brokerage, EQTY Forbes Global Properties, which retains exclusive rights to the Orange County and Greater Palm Springs, CA marketplaces.

Karen’s an accomplished, strategic, and results-driven leader with a demonstrated history in the financial, consumer goods, entertainment, technology, and residential real estate industries. Along with CEO Mike Shapiro, her financial, tax, management, operational, business, branding, product development, design, negotiation, and analytical skills helped to turn around a failing real estate company, HOM Real Estate Group, during the “Great Recession”. As the company’s new leadership team, they secured the Sotheby’s International Realty affiliation within a year for their revitalized brokerage. Within a decade, the company’s annual sales increased from $200 million to more than $3 billion before they sold it in a move that created the world’s second-largest Sotheby’s brokerage with 1,200 agents and annual sales exceeding $7 billion.

Karen’s passionate about growing businesses and disrupting industries with the goal of maximizing profits and streamlining operations, skills that she honed early in her financial career, which includes 20 years in the National Tax Practice at Deloitte and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. She’s also involved in multiple startups in various industries, including property/technology startups.  

She’s equally passionate about mentoring, animal advocacy and rescue, and spending time outdoors, all of which she prioritizes along with her entrepreneurial endeavors.