In the press
From a false start at 18 to $1 million at 30.
How Rohin came back from an early setback to reach $1 million in gross commission income in a single year, as profiled by Elite Agent.
As featured in Elite Agent, 4 September 2026. Read the original
Rohin Arora reached $1 million in gross commission income in a single financial year by the age of 30. Elite Agent’s profile of him is less about the number, though, than about how nearly he didn’t stay in the industry at all.
His first job in real estate, at 18, lasted six months. It didn’t work out, but it wasn’t wasted: he spent most of it on the phone prospecting, with open homes at the weekend, and that habit stuck. He then spent four years in part-time work before coming back at 24, first to an agency in Boronia, where he learned to work with buyers, then to Wantirna for broader training.
Running his own business had always been the plan, just not so soon. The Area Specialist model changed the timing. He spent what he calls an incubation year building a database from scratch under Michael Choi, the founder of Area Specialist, at Keysborough, then went out on his own.
His first listing was in Upper Ferntree Gully, for a young couple who had interviewed four agents, one of whom they had sold with before, and chose him because they believed he would work hardest for them. The home sold $350,000 above reserve. By his count, that one campaign went on to generate around 50 more sales.
“Take the plunge while you’re still young.”
It is still a family business run from home, with his sister now working alongside him, across Ferntree Gully, Upper Ferntree Gully, Boronia, The Basin and Bayswater. The profile notes his recognition this year as a top 100 agent in Australia and as Agent of the Year for four suburbs, Upper Ferntree Gully three years running, and that the team are the only independents in the top 25 for Knox.
He puts the growth down to honesty with vendors. Sellers with unrealistic expectations are encouraged to go elsewhere rather than be won with a number that will later need walking back, and he credits the five-star reviews and referrals that follow for how quickly the business has grown.
He is just as deliberate about the rest of his life. Working for himself leaves room for holidays, friends, family and his hobbies, and he doesn’t feel he needs to be number one to have that. His advice to anyone weighing up the same move is not to overthink it. As for what’s next, he’d be happy if the business stayed exactly as it is.