Dino Monteverde
Managing Director, The Hokuten Group | Keller Williams Commercial
Los Angeles, CA 90004
Founder at The Hokuten Group | Keller Williams Commercial | Hotel Brokerage & Advisory · Capital Markets · M&A | US · Territories · Japan
Phone (650) 720-6995
Founder at The Hokuten Group | Keller Williams Commercial | Hotel Brokerage & Advisory · Capital Markets · M&A | US · Territories · Japan
Specialties
Investment Sales Broker
Property Types
Hospitality, Sports & Entertainment
Markets
Austin, Chicago, Dallas/Ft Worth, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle/Puget Sound, Washington, DC, Hawaii, New Orleans/Metairie/Kenner
Languages
English, Filipino, Japanese
Bio
Dino Monteverde is Founder and Managing Director of The Hokuten Group at
Keller Williams Commercial, a hotel brokerage and advisory practice serving
owners, operators and capital across the United States, its Caribbean and
Pacific territories, and Japan.
$200M+ in career transaction volume across 12 hotel and hospitality
transactions since 2022, spanning current and prior affiliations. In all but
one or two, the buyer came from inside the practice — represented directly,
or sourced from the database and brought to the table, rather than found on
the open market.
Brokerage, capital markets and M&A. Single-asset and portfolio. Assignments
have included joint-venture and equity-capital work, the M&A sale of a hotel
management company carrying 40+ management contracts, a lease-to-purchase
structure, a disposition negotiated directly with the lender out of distress,
and a fully off-market sale. Hotels lead; multifamily, mixed-use and
development work follows the relationship.
A growing share of the work is cross-border: Asian capital looking at US
hotel assets and US capital looking at Japan, with family offices on both
sides. Family offices move on conviction rather than committee and want the
person who did the analysis on the phone — which a practice this size can do
and a national platform cannot. Japan-side transactions are executed by
locally licensed professionals.
CoStar Power Broker — 2025 Annual Top Broker, 2025 Annual Top Firm, and
Quarterly Deals for Q3 2025, Q1 2026 and Q2 2026, earned through a period of
rising rates in which US hotel transaction count fell by half.
The route in was not the usual one. A first-generation immigrant and the
first in his family to finish college, he served eight years in the U.S.
Marine Corps, then built and sold Hiddensound Hostels — four locations, as an
owner-operator — before entering commercial brokerage in 2022 at Starboard
and taking the hotel specialisation at Sarhan Hotel Group. The hostels are
also where the longer thesis comes from: extended-stay hospitality that sits
between a hotel and a home, which is what this brokerage practice is
ultimately building toward.
Time is split between Asia and the United States. The United States is where
the transactions are and where the practice is licensed and accountable; Asia
is where the Japan relationship is maintained in person rather than by
correspondence.
Cornell EMHM candidate. B.A., UC San Diego.
CA DRE #01948432
SPECIALTIES / PROPERTY TYPES
Hospitality — limited-service, select-service, full-service, resort,
extended-stay. Single-asset and portfolio. Related multifamily, mixed-use and
development work.
MARKETS
United States · Puerto Rico · Japan
Education
