Meet Our Agents

Joe Yager

Joseph Yager graduated from University of Texas in Austin in 2004 with Finance & Mathematics degrees. He worked briefly out of college for Goldman Sachs doing private wealth management but decided to pursue a career in real estate shortly thereafter. He began a small company in 2005 with 3 agents and grew Uptown Realty into the market leader in campus real estate...

Max Smirnoff

Max has been an Austin Realtor since 2006, and enjoys working with a variety of clients, from buyers and sellers to tenants and landlords. This broad experience has given him the opportunity to acquire in-depth knowledge of the sales and leasing markets in Austin, and he continuously keeps up with the latest market developments...

Marcus Federman

marcMarcus Federman has been a licensed Realtor since August 2003. He started his Real Estate career in San Marcos. Marcus is a senior agent at Uptown Realty since December of 2006. He lives in Kyle with his wife Brooke Federman. Marcus was born and raised in Houston, TX and moved to the Austin area in December or 2002 for school...

Jason Fuller

Having joined the Uptown Realty team in 2008, Jason has excelled in the central Austin, UT campus area for sales and leasing. After closing hundreds of transactions each year and establishing a solid client base in the central Austin area, Jason has first-hand experience on which properties in the UT campus area offer the best pricing and quality for tenants and produce the highest, consistent, reliable rental income for property owners...

Russell Cavin

Russell graduated from UT in 2008 with a Government degree and been practicing real estate with Uptown Realty since 2007. When he’s not working you can usually find him wakeboarding on Lake Austin, running Town Lake, listening to live music, or having a drink with friends somewhere in this great city...

Esmail Khalili

Esmail Khalili joined the Uptown Realty team in July of 2011. A Houston native, he brings a diverse background of experience to the real estate profession. Esmail graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Arts in Music in 2003 and earned his Masters degree in the same field in 2009...

Cara Johnson

Cara Johnson is a UT graduate whose clients are always her number one priority. Her expertise includes West Campus and Hyde Park area pre-leasing; as well as leasing properties in SoCo, the East side, downtown and Clarksville. She loves seeing her clients’ faces light up when they first step into their “perfect place...

Matthew Boettger

Matt is a current real estate finance major at The University of Texas. He started working as an apartment locator his freshman year of college. He lives in West campus and knows the area well…

Paul Djinov

Originally from Dallas, Paul graduated in 2010 from The University of Texas with a degree in Government and a minor in Business. Having spent the past 7 years in Austin, Paul is very familiar with the central Austin, UT Campus, and North Campus area. In the free time you would most likely find Paul at a concert at a random venue in Austin or out and about exploring this awesome city...

James Barrett

Laura Cochrane

Laura Cochrane has a B.A.from Arizona State and a M.A. from Chapman University and has been a owner/operator of her own real estate company for 15 years. She specializes in Leasing and Property Management and enjoys working with the UT students. Having two boys of her own she understands how important it is in helping her clients find their new home, weather it is a leased property of one she sells...

Andy Tsao

While attending University of Houston in 1996, Andy found a passion in the Internet/technology bubble and tech savvied his way up to a Sr. IT Support Analyst with AIG for 10 years and felt a need to escape the concrete jungle of Houston and moved to the hill country of Austin. While working a few years at Teacher’s retirement of Texas as a senior helpdesk analyst, Andy felt a fun passion helping people find and view luxury/beautiful homes so he decided to move into the apartment locating/real estate sales path.

Kyle Kristoferson

Kyle is graduating from The University of Texas at Austin in 2013 with a degree in Finance. As a student over the past 4 years, Kyle has become familiar with the West and North Campus area. When he’s not working, you can find him on the golf course, flying, having a drink with friends or running with his dog...

Stewart Anderson

• Over 5 years of experience in Mortgage Lending
• Top Mortgage producer in 2010
• Member of National Association of Mortgage Professionals
• Member of Austin Young Real Estate Professionals

Exceptional Service is Stewart Anderson’s top priority. He wants to help you explore your financing options and choose the mortgage product that’s right for you...

Vincent Tan Sun

Robert Abasolo

Raj Rao

Monica Clark

Monica brings years of customer service and sales experience as a previous owner of a furniture boutique. She holds a Texas real estate license and has an interior design degree from the University of Texas. Monica has lived in Austin for many years and is specialized in the central Austin area, including the student leasing market...

Jonathon Fong

James Beard

Since 2007 James Beard has been an online activist in connecting UT students and their parents to the wealth of information about west campus real estate. In the fall of 2007 he launched UTLuxuryApartments.com, an extension of the Uptown Luxury division, and since then it is arguably one the top online destinations for luxury west campus apartments...