April 22, 2012
A Co-op With Elbow Room, The Times covers my work again!
The New York Times' The Hunt covers the often intense ups and downs of people searching for homes in New York City. For the second time this year, I'm privileged to have my clients profiled. It was an exhausting apartment hunt that I brokered, poetically culminating full circle, with my customers Evan and Natalie buying the apartment literally across the hallway from the one where I had met them months earlier, at an open house for one of my exclusives at 350 E 77th Street. It was a real roller-coaster of a search. Times writer Joyce Cohen tells the whole story in A Co-op With Elbow Room, in today's Real Estate section.
We saw over 50 Upper East Side apartments, had three accepted offers, with wrenching disappointments as two of them didn't work out. Throughout the process, I built a strong client relationship with Evan and Natalie. Few things motivate me to be on my best game more than the loyalty and sincere appreciation of customers like these. They relied heavily on my expertise as I helped to guide them through a fairly complex maze of available inventory. Helping to validate coop values, making strategically savvy offers, negotiating well, and closing on a great value for them. We encountered everything from difficult coops to sellers rescinding their acceptance. In the end we had a few laughs, and great satisfaction as we closed on their perfect, first, NYC home.
read the full article in The New York Times: A Co-op With Elbow Room
I received this note today from a couple, whom I had the privilege of helping buy their first coop apartment. A nice pre-war unit at 350 East 77th Street. I met them at an open house when I was listing a unit for sale there, which lead to a long search, all over the upper east side. It was a real roller-coaster ride, and a bit too long a story to tell here. In the end they found the perfect one bedroom home, directly across the hallway from the unit where I'd met them! I do deals in every price category, but there are no small deals. It is almost always the largest transactions in a person's lifetime. I never loose sight of that. Great customers deserve a great experience. I so appreciate the thoughtfulness of this note, thanks Evan & Natalie!
I'm pleased to announce my sale of this historic mixed-use loft building at 177 Franklin Street, in the heart of Tribeca. Built around 1920, this masonry building has been reinforced with structural steel, new elevator, and all new mechanical systems. The property is slated for redevelopment into a single family townhouse, or may be converted to a mixed-use condominium project. It is an ideal property for an end user that would like to create a home, operate a business, produce rental income, or any combination of the above; all in Manhattan's best neighborhood. I represented the new owners who are thrilled with their buy. It's been re-listed with Corcoran, and is available now for viewing. I'm familiar inside and out with every detail. Nothing would make me happier than to represent you as the next owner of this fine building, which embodies such enormous potential.
