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Ben Lee

Broker Associate, The Agency · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ben Lee is a luxury residential real estate broker and investor in West Los Angeles with over $1 billion in career sales. A former practicing real estate attorney, he founded Ben Lee Properties and operates as a Broker Associate at The Agency.

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0 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted how the 1 claim stands · each chip opens the sources

1 assertion · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ben argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Lee: Beverly Hills Property Bought for $1.2M in 2010 Sold for $12M
“That house just sold for like, I don't know, twelve million dollars. We got that for 1.2 million dollars.”
Ben Lee Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 17:51 Why Real Estate Isn’t Fair and Why That’s an Advantage?!

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Opinion
Lee: Financing fix-and-flips with 90% hard money loans invites failure
“There's a lot of people who will buy these deals because they are super, they're optimistic and they're excited and they take a hard money loan for a 90%. And I feel like that is setting, they're setting themselves up for failure. And I also feel like they may…”
Ben Lee Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 30:09 Why Real Estate Isn’t Fair and Why That’s an Advantage?!
Disclosure
Lee: $17M in Floating Construction Debt Jumped From 4% to 10.5%
“Okay. So I, and they were on construction loans and construction loans are adjustable. They're floating loans. They went from four percent and I almost It was about seventeen million in debt. It went from four percent to 10 and a half percent very, very quickl…”
Ben Lee Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 29:20 Why Real Estate Isn’t Fair and Why That’s an Advantage?!
Disclosure
Ben Lee: First Investment Was a $50K Distressed Note in Law School
“The debtor, the owner owed her 90,000 dollars and my dad and she wanted out of it. So my dad said, Hey Ben, I think I could try to kind of make this deal for you. You're in law school. I think I can get a few for 50. And I was like, 90, wait, 50 for 90? That s…”
Ben Lee Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 1:33 Why Real Estate Isn’t Fair and Why That’s an Advantage?!
Disclosure
Ben Lee Deposited $606,000 from First Major Real Estate Flip
“My first big flip I deposited a 600,000 dollar check. 606,000 dollars.”
Ben Lee Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 6:36 Why Real Estate Isn’t Fair and Why That’s an Advantage?!
Insight
Lee: Representing Builders Is The Holy Grail for Real Estate Agents
“When I started selling real estate as an agent, I would represent some builders cause that's kind of a, one of the holy grails of being a real estate agent is you get the listing up front, you get the listing on the second time when they go to sell it.”
Ben Lee Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 7:43 Why Real Estate Isn’t Fair and Why That’s an Advantage?!
Assertion Contradicted
Lee: Beverly Hills Property Bought for $1.2M in 2010 Sold for $12M
“That house just sold for like, I don't know, twelve million dollars. We got that for 1.2 million dollars.”
Ben Lee Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 17:51 Why Real Estate Isn’t Fair and Why That’s an Advantage?!

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Why Real Estate Isn’t Fair and Why That’s an Advantage?! Dec 22, 2025 25m
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