Award-winning realtor Ilene Tessler has been one of Miami's premier agents specializing in the luxury market. She and Bonnie Brooks united to become the first-ever real estate team in Miami Beach, achieving recording-breaking prices in Bal Harbour Village, Bay Harbor Islands, the Venetian Islands, North Bay Road and Keystone Point. Bonnie and Ilene met at age 12 and later graduated Miami Beach Senior High School. Subsequently, they moved to the Northeast where they taught fourth grade together before settling back home and entering the real estate business.

First at Wimbish-Riteway and then at Coldwell Banker, Bonnie and Ilene were honored every year as members of the prestigious Legends Society which represents the top one quarter of one percent of all Coldwell Bankers Sales Associates. They also enjoyed nine successful years as part of Turnberry International Realty's family as Vice Presidents of Sales, where they managed the Bay Harbor Island office. Additionally, they belong to the elite Master Brokers Forum, are listed in the "Who's Who in Luxury Real Estate" and received the Award of Excellence. Over the past thirty years Ilene has not only seen astounding sales, but also many of the same clients who are drawn to her knowledge, uncompromising integrity, attention to detail and genuine concern for their interests and ultimate results.

Many of her clients are referred by others she has worked with. Ilene feels very blessed to have a long and successful real estate career, and because she has been able to work so closely with her talented daughters, Michele Tessler Berlowitz and Joanna Tessler, who both genuinely share her passion for the business. She loves her diverse, exciting and ever-changing community, and is proud to have witnessed and been part of its incredible growth—and most of all, to have been able to call it home all her life