Brendan Malanga

Before Brendan Malanga became a real estate professional, he spent fifteen years teaching history in Boston. He taught eleventh and twelfth grade at TechBoston Academy, part of Boston Public Schools, where 97% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch, and his specialties included World War II, the Holocaust, human behavior, and post-Civil War African American history. His work also extended well beyond the classroom. For ten years he planned, fundraised for, and led a two-week trip through Central and Eastern Europe, taking between fifteen and twenty-five honors students each year to study the Holocaust and the Second World War firsthand. Funding those trips required raising more than $50,000 annually, on top of his teaching responsibilities. He also set up a Washington, D.C. trip that spanned three years, and he co-planned a trip to Puerto Rico. In 2006 he became the inaugural winner of the Margot Stern Strom Award from Facing History and Ourselves, an honor for excellence in teaching. His path to that career began outside Massachusetts. Born in New Jersey, he lived there until the age of twelve and then spent nine years in Hickory, North Carolina. He moved to Boston to attend Northeastern University, a choice influenced by his lifelong interest in basketball and the Boston Celtics and by the strength of the school's history program. He graduated summa cum laude in 2003 with a major in history and a minor in education. He entered real estate in 2016. Colleagues from similar backgrounds expected the move to full-time work to take at least three years, but he completed it within a single year. He built his business in the Boston area with William Raveis, where he received the Chairman's Club Award in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and again in 2024, placing him among the top 9% of the company. He has twice been named a Milton Neighbors' Choice Award winner, a community-voted recognition of the area's favorite local Realtor, and has earned Best of Zillow status multiple times. Of these honors, he is proudest that his percentage of repeat clients ranks among the best in the field. Today Brendan Malanga is a member of The Nancy Hulsman Group at Coldwell Banker in Ellicott City, Maryland, serving buyers and sellers across Howard, Baltimore, Carroll, and Anne Arundel counties. His work covers a wide array of property types and client needs, from luxury properties, relocations, and investment purchases to multi-family homes and condominiums, and he serves clients looking to upsize or downsize. His relocation experience, together with his own recent move, suits the many communities he now serves across Maryland. Whether the client is a first-time buyer, an experienced investor, or a family in transition, he offers deep market knowledge alongside a teacher's ability to make complex decisions clear, and the preparation, patience, and personal investment that guided his teaching continue to define his client-first approach. His personal history carries both achievement and hardship. In 2005 he married Casey Malanga, and they adopted two children, James in 2012 and Gabriella, known as Gabby, in 2015. He had earlier volunteered to donate a kidney as part of a chain donation for a former student, but that procedure was cancelled less than a week ahead of time, when Casey was facing cancer and would need chemotherapy and his full attention. Casey died in 2022. He guided his family through that loss, and in 2025 he married Toni Malanga, after which he relocated with his family to Ellicott City to open a new chapter with Coldwell Banker and The Nancy Hulsman Group. Philanthropy has been part of his life as steadily as his work. He gives thousands of dollars to charity each year, with a focus on cancer research, education, healthcare, and worldwide access to clean water. Once his real estate career gained momentum, he donated 10% of every commission check to Chris Long's Waterboys organization and continued doing so until his wife's illness made it impossible. For years he ranked as the top fundraising sponsor at his children's elementary school, helping fund the Milton Foundation for Education gala and the school's annual fair fundraiser, in addition to Glover Elementary School. He also gave his time, coaching his son's soccer team for two years, high school girls' basketball for three years and boys' basketball for two, and sponsoring several seasons of Milton recreational softball. Basketball has been a lifelong interest, one he plays, coaches, and watches. One of his favorite memories is being in the Garden when Kevin Garnett helped bring Boston its seventeenth championship, along with attending New York Giants playoff games. His travels have been extensive, undertaken first as a study-abroad student, then as a teacher, and later for pleasure, taking him to nearly every state in the continental United States as well as Canada, Mexico, and much of Europe, including England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Austria, the Netherlands, and Italy. Above all, he treasures time with his family, and that same care and attentiveness, developed over a lifetime of teaching, coaching, and serving others, is what clients across Maryland can rely on.