Joelle Uzyel is the designer brokers and developers in Beverly Hills, Bel Air, and Malibu call when the property has to perform. Her family has been in real estate since the 1980s; she grew up on job sites and learned what buildings cost, how contractors think, and why decisions made in early planning determine everything at the finish line. Her practice is full-service design-build across Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Miami Beach, and Manhattan, with $250M+ in completed residential work. For listing agents, the property reads immediately and justifies its price before the first showing. For buyer's agents, a gut renovation or unfinished build becomes a legible future home the client can decide on. For developers, she joins during planning, not after, so material, structural, and finish-out budget decisions happen at the same table before anything is locked. Design serves the deal, not just the room.
Nothing. The consultation is complimentary, for the client and for you. It is an introduction. What follows is their decision.
Every listing engagement is scoped to the property and quoted after the first conversation. The scope determines the number.
Joelle's firm comes from the development side of the industry, not the decorator side. Her family has been in real estate since the 1980s, and she spent years on job sites before launching her practice. She understands what buildings cost, how contractors operate, and why early-phase decisions in a project determine everything that follows. That context changes how she works: design serves the property's structure, budget, and performance, not just its aesthetics.
Yes, and the engagement looks different on each side. Listing agents typically bring Joelle in for pre-sale design and presentation work, shaping how the property reads in the first ninety seconds of a showing. Buyer's agents connect clients with Joelle when they are purchasing a renovation or new build and need to understand the full scope and potential of the property before or immediately after closing.
Full gut renovations, new construction finish-out packages, and estate-scale redesigns, scoped to the property. The firm also works on spec homes and developer-owned inventory on a defined timeline, with finish selection, model unit design, and pre-sale presentation as the deliverables. Every engagement is scoped individually and quoted after the first conversation.
Yes. The firm works with established contractor relationships and can integrate into an existing construction team without requiring a full vendor swap. Joelle's design-build background means she can have direct conversations with GCs. She reads construction drawings, understands permitting timelines, and knows where finish costs can be managed without compromising the result.
She enters projects during planning, not at the end. Material selections, structural decisions, and finish-out budget allocations happen alongside construction planning, not after it. That means no redesigns when the framing is already done. No finish choices that do not match the building's bones. No budget surprises at handoff. The finished product is what was projected from the beginning, not a corrected version of it.
The firm is based in Beverly Hills and works primarily across Los Angeles (Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Holmby Hills), Miami Beach, and Manhattan. Projects outside these markets are considered case by case based on scope and timeline.
Timeline is determined by scope and scale, not price point. A full gut renovation of a large estate typically runs 18 to 24 months from design approval to occupancy. A targeted finish-out or pre-sale package on a smaller property can move in 3 to 6 months. Every proposal includes a realistic project timeline with major milestones named and sequenced before work begins.
Every property the firm finishes is designed with the sale in mind from the first drawing. Plan decisions, material choices, and finish-out allocations are made alongside construction planning, not after it. The work is on the site to judge: the $28M Beverly Hills residence, the $35M Bel Air estate, and the $42M Malibu oceanfront villa. Sale results for individual properties are shared in conversation, not published. Joelle's work has been featured in Architectural Digest and the Wall Street Journal.
Two ways. After a sale closes, the buyer's agent recommends Joelle to the new homeowner for the renovation or buildout. Or before a listing goes live, the listing agent brings her in to get the property performing at showing. No formal program. No paperwork. The broker makes the introduction. Joelle handles the rest.