Realtor selected as the new leader of a local business organization
PICO NEIGHBORHOOD It was a modestly-sized apartment building, $58,000 and the wise words of his father that jump-started Robert Kronovet’s long career in real estate.
It was 1984 and the budding filmmak-er had invested in an apartment building in Columbus, Ohio, taking the advice of his father Saul Kronovet, an established New York attorney who developed properties in Houston, Silver Springs and Manhattan.
“He helped me understand the value in developing good quality housing,” the younger Kronovet said last week.
Though Kronovet would go on to sell the Columbus building only three years later, the brief period of ownership was enough to spawn a 24-year career in real estate.
Today, as the proprietor of Kronovet Realty Co. in Santa Monica, the native New Yorker-turned-Santa Monican manages and leases both his own and private apartment units on the Westside.
Now, as the newly-appointed chairman of the Pico Improvement Organization (PIO) — a merchants association that oversees eco-
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 21, 2008. Read the original PDF.