About Michael
Michael Opyd is an entrepreneur based in Chicago. His entrepreneurial journey took him into real estate during the Great Recession in 2009 with no safety net. After becoming a top-producing Realtor in 2018, he turned his attention to building a real estate brokerage he started from scratch in 2016. In 2024 he sold his brokerage after growing it to two offices, 66 agents, and averaging $200M in annual production.
Achieving everything he set out to in real estate sales and as a brokerage owner, he is now focused on his next venture, transforming the real estate industry through education and sharing his over a decade of knowledge on personal growth and development with people outside of the real estate industry.
Michael’s unique perspective into the real estate industry's inner workings has featured him in 13 online articles, including Forbes, Inman, US News, The Chicago Tribune, and The Chicago Sun-Times. At the same time, he has also been featured numerous times in the Chicago publication Chicago Agent Magazine, both on the cover and as a contributor to articles, along with being featured in the Chicago Real Producers magazine.
