Associate Broker · Keller Williams Integrity First Realty · Gilbert, Arizona
Ryan Harju
Buying or selling a home in the East Valley? You’ll get a straight answer on price and timing before you commit to anything.
- Where I work Gilbert · Chandler · Mesa · Queen Creek · Tempe · Scottsdale
- What I’ve done 500+ transactions closed · Former brokerage owner and Designated Broker
- Also Director of Operations & Finance, United Market Centers (six Keller Williams brokerages, AZ · CA · OR)
I sold homes first, more than five hundred of them. Then I owned a brokerage and ran it as Designated Broker. Now I run operations and finance for six Keller Williams offices, and I still work directly with buyers and sellers in the East Valley. You get someone who has done every job in the transaction.
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What I’ve Closed Myself
What I Run
Who I Help
Sellers, buyers, and investors in the East Valley.
Sellers
You want to know what your home would actually sell for, not what a website guesses. I’ll give you the number, what’s driving it, and what to fix before listing. If the timing is wrong, I’ll tell you.
Buyers
You want to know what it really costs, which neighborhoods fit, and how to write an offer that wins without overpaying. We go through all three before we look at a single home.
Investors
Rental math, off‑market opportunities, and portfolio sales. I’ve closed investor packages of sixty homes at a time and owned a property management company, so the numbers get read the way an owner reads them.
Where I Work
Gilbert and the East Valley.
Based at the Keller Williams Integrity First office on Higley Road in Gilbert. I sold in Northern Arizona for years before moving to the Valley, so if your move touches Flagstaff or the high country, ask.
How It Works
Three steps, and the first one is fifteen minutes.
Don’t take my word for it. Read what clients say on Zillow and Google.
Why Work With Me
I’ve sold the homes, and I’ve run the brokerages behind them.
Associate Broker
Keller Williams Integrity First Realty. Active Arizona license, working with buyers, sellers, and investors across the East Valley.
Brokerage Owner & Designated Broker
Flagstaff Real Estate Professionals, 2018–2023. Owned the compliance and the disputes as well as the production.
Director of Operations & Finance
United Market Centers. Multi‑state P&L, budgeting, systems, standards, and leadership accountability across six offices.
National Director of Sales
United Home Group. Expansion team growth across our operating markets.
Market Center Administrator
Administrator of record for three Arizona offices.
Property Management Oversight
Operational and financial oversight of the group’s in‑house division, plus years running a property management company of my own.
I’ve read the contracts that went sideways, carried the trust account as a Designated Broker, sat in the P&L when it didn’t balance, and recruited the agents who had to live with all three.
Capabilities
What I actually do.
Operations & Finance
Multi‑state P&L ownership. Budgeting and forecasting, month‑end close, consolidated financial reporting across six entities, profit share, vendor and contract negotiation, cost structure and margin work.
Broker Compliance & Risk
Designated Broker experience, including direct trust account responsibility. Advertising and licensing compliance, transaction file review and oversight, complaint and claims response, E&O and risk reduction, policy authorship, contracts and disclosures.
Systems & Data
CRM architecture and migration at scale, database segmentation and cleanup, lead routing and attribution, reporting infrastructure, marketing systems, and website architecture.
AI & Automation
Applied AI inside brokerage operations — automating reporting, data hygiene, lead follow‑up, and recruiting workflows. Building the systems that let a small operations team run six offices.
Recruiting & People
Agent and leadership recruiting, roster management and reconciliation, onboarding and retention, HR and personnel matters, performance accountability, coaching and leadership development.
Growth & Expansion
Expansion team operations across twenty‑one markets, market entry and market center launch support, referral network development, and sales leadership.
Biography
Ryan Harju
Ryan Harju is an Associate Broker with Keller Williams Integrity First Realty in Gilbert, Arizona, where he works with buyers, sellers, and investors across the East Valley. He has closed more than 500 transactions and over $100 million in volume across MLS, off‑market, and investor portfolio work.
He is also the Director of Operations and Finance for United Market Centers, which operates six Keller Williams brokerages across Arizona, California, and Oregon, supporting roughly 1,200 agents and approximately $2.9 billion in annual sales volume, and National Director of Sales for United Home Group, an expansion team operating in twenty‑one markets. Before that he bought a brokerage and ran it as Designated Broker, owning the compliance, the trust account, and the disputes as well as the production, and owned and operated a full‑service property management company.
That order, selling first, then owning and running a brokerage, then operations and finance at scale, is why he is usually the person in the room who can say what a decision will actually cost. It is also why his clients get a straight answer on price and timing instead of a pitch.
He is a licensed Arizona Associate Broker (#BR658901000) and oversees the group’s in‑house property management division. He is completing a Bachelor of Science in Management at Arizona State University, with graduate study in artificial intelligence and business to follow.
Originally from Michigan, Ryan Harju lives in Gilbert, Arizona. He is the father of four sons, has coached Little League, follows baseball and football closely, and is a constant reader.
For Agents
Built for agents who want to own a business.
Keller Williams was founded on the idea that an agent is a business owner, not an employee. That only means something if the office actually helps you build one. Here’s what that looks like with us.
The culture is collaborative, not competitive.
Agents here share what’s working. The top producer will sit down with a first‑year agent and walk through their listing presentation, their scripts, the deal that almost fell apart and how they saved it. That sounds ordinary until you’ve worked somewhere it doesn’t happen.
The training never stops, and it’s taught by people doing the work.
Not a week of onboarding and a login. Ongoing coaching, masterminds, and the full KW training system — alongside agents in the same room who are actively doing the thing you’re trying to learn. The people teaching it closed a deal last week.
You get someone who has actually built the business.
I sold first — more than 500 transactions. Then I bought a brokerage and ran it as Designated Broker. Now I run operations and finance for six market centers. So when you want to talk through pricing a listing, building a team, hiring your first assistant, or whether the numbers actually work — you’re talking to someone who has done it, not someone reading it off a slide.
There’s a model for whatever you’re building.
A strong solo business, a team, a career that eventually looks different from where it started — Keller Williams teaches the models for all of it, and you don’t have to invent the path yourself. I’ve run the numbers behind those models. If you want to know what a team actually costs before you build one, ask me and you’ll get a real answer.
This is a good place to be an entrepreneur. If that’s what you’re building, I’d like to hear about it.
Talk to RyanNational Sales
United Home Group.
I lead sales for a multi‑state expansion organization operating in twenty‑one markets across twelve states.
Start Here
Tell me about your move.
Whether you’re a month out or a year out, the best time to talk is before you’ve decided anything. Tell me a little about your situation and I’ll reply personally. Or skip the form and call or text (928) 707‑2686.
How I Work
I’d rather be judged on what got fixed
than on what got said.
Six offices, three states, and a P&L that has to balance every month. That’s a job where talk runs out fast — you either closed the books or you didn’t, and the agent either got what they were promised or they didn’t.
I’ve been the owner who had to make payroll and the broker who had to deliver the bad news. Both teach you the same thing: say the true thing early, and do the boring work consistently.
That’s the whole method. It isn’t complicated, and most people won’t do it.