Gil Dezer - Developer & Visionary | From $500 Million Debt to Luxury Real Estate Empire
Success Story with Scott D. Clary
Success Story Media
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Gil Dezer is a powerhouse real estate developer behind over $5 billion in luxury property development and one of the largest oceanfront landowners in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, with over 27 acres of prime beachfront. As President of Dezer Development, he’s led iconic, record-shattering projects like the $560 million Porsche Design Tower—featuring the world’s first patented car elevator—and the $1.2 billion Bentley Residences, set to become the tallest residential tower on a U.S. beachfront. Renowned for pioneering branded real estate and redefining the skyline with engineering marvels and ultra-luxury experiences, Gil has become the go-to developer for the world’s elite. When it comes to blending luxury, lifestyle, and brand power—no one does it bigger or better.
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➡️ Talking Points
00:00 – Intro
01:24 – “I Won’t Sell What I Won’t Live In”
04:59 – How Gil Differs From His Dad
06:24 – What Luxury Really Means
08:26 – Crafting the Ultimate Luxury Experience
13:24 – Debt Advice for Young Entrepreneurs
18:09 – Sponsor Break
20:06 – Why Gil Doesn’t Sell to Investors
23:12 – Bringing Big Brands Into Real Estate
31:03 – Creating What’s Never Been Built
33:17 – Sponsor Break
34:54 – Investing in Real Estate 101
37:28 – How to Protect Your Big Ideas
39:32 – Future-Proofing Through Design
40:44 – New Tech in the Luxury World
44:49 – Why Gil Bets on South Florida
46:14 – Hot Real Estate Markets Beyond Florida
47:27 – Should You Invest Locally or Strategically?
48:25 – The Future of Luxury Buyers
51:11 – Where $100M+ Founders Invest
56:12 – Wisdom from Gil’s Signature Sayings
59:35 – The Best Lesson Gil Learned From His Dad
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | HubSpot is a success story partner. Now, if you're an entrepreneur, listen up because HubSpot |
| 0:06.1 | makes impossible growth, impossibly easy for their customers. If you are building a business, |
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| 0:21.6 | has. But with a 900 page website, even the tiniest update took 30 minutes to publish. Now, Breeze, |
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| 0:39.1 | views and visitors now spend 27% more time on their site. If you are ready for impossible |
| 0:45.5 | growth like this, visit HubSpot.com. I grew up in really humble means, three bedrooms and one |
| 0:51.6 | bathroom in the house in Queens. And then when I got into the real estate world, I said this is what some of it is overkill, some of it's absolutely needed, and |
| 0:58.1 | some of it is just right. Most developers build towers. Gildazer builds icons. He turned luxury |
| 1:03.5 | real estate into an art form, fusing innovation with brand storytelling through groundbreaking |
| 1:07.6 | projects like the Porsche design tower and the Bentley residences. But what sets Gil apart isn't just the skyline he's changed. It's the mindset he brings. |
| 1:15.4 | When you're the owner of the company, you have to do everything yourself. You can rely on some |
| 1:18.3 | people. I have great people working for me. You can't just expect everybody to do it. You got to do it |
| 1:21.7 | yourself. I didn't do anything that's never been done before. I just put components together in a way that's never been done before. |
| 1:27.7 | Everything's available today. Everything can be done today. I truly believe that there's always a |
| 1:31.6 | solution. A bold thinker from a family of visionaries. Gill's mission is to create spaces that |
| 1:36.6 | redefine how we live, move, and experience luxury. To him, a building isn't just glass and concrete. |
| 1:42.8 | It's culture. When I did the Porsche, nobody wanted to talk to me. |
| 1:45.6 | I was this crazy idea of putting a car elevator. |
| 1:47.8 | I finally found a guy who was able to build it for me. |
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