Blake Roberts

Blake Roberts is Senior Sales Manager for Compass Austin, where he directly supports more than 200 agents and helps serve an extended community of more than 1,300 real estate professionals in one of the most competitive real estate markets in the country.

A California native, Silicon Valley refugee, and now proud Texas resident, Blake brings a rare mix of coastal market experience, technology-world discipline, and Austin-market perspective to his leadership role.

Licensed as a broker in Texas, California, and Wyoming, Blake brings rare credibility to leadership because he has actually done the work. He has built and operated a successful boutique brokerage, sold at a high level across multiple states, coached top producers, negotiated complex deals, and navigated market cycles where strategy mattered and wishful thinking did not.

Today, the agents Blake supports generate more than $1 billion in annual real estate sales, a production level that exceeds many successful brokerages across the country. That scale demands leadership that is practical, honest, and highly strategic. Blake’s coaching is never theoretical. It is rooted in real experience and focused on clarity, accountability, execution, and direct feedback.

Blake is also a trusted hub for in-state and out-of-state referrals, connecting agents, clients, and opportunities across markets with the judgment that comes from working in multiple states and understanding how real estate relationships actually move. In a business built on trust, timing, and follow-through, he helps make the right connections happen.

Before Compass, Blake co-founded Pier to Pier Brokers in Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach, California, with his wife, Diana Roberts, who is now a team principal at Compass Austin and a Certified General Appraiser. Together, Blake and Diana joined Compass in 2019 as founding members of Compass Manhattan Beach, bringing with them a rare combination of brokerage leadership, production experience, valuation expertise, market knowledge, and long-term commitment to the company’s agent-first culture.

After relocating to Austin in 2020, Blake moved fully into leadership, joining a strong team of sales leaders focused on agent growth, retention, and support. Together, that leadership team has helped Compass Austin maintain outstanding agent retention, a reflection of the trust, culture, and results-driven support created across the organization.

Prior to real estate, Blake spent a decade in marketing and communications with some of the most influential names in technology, including Apple, Silicon Graphics, Pinnacle Systems, and Ziff Davis. That background shaped one of his strongest beliefs: even inside a world-class company like Compass, agents are still entrepreneurs running their own businesses. Blake pushes agents to understand their personal brand, define what makes them different, and communicate why clients should choose them. He believes real estate rewards hard work, consistency, discipline, and the courage to keep showing up when the market gets difficult. Talent matters, but effort compounds.

Known for direct feedback, creative problem-solving, and an unfiltered commitment to agent growth, Blake helps agents move from busy to productive, from productive to consistent, and from consistent to truly exceptional. His mission is simple: help great agents build smarter businesses, make better decisions, and become significantly harder to compete against.

A global citizen with deep family roots in Budapest, Hungary, Blake brings an international perspective to people, markets, culture, and opportunity.