The Hollywood Reporter Honors Top Realtors at Inaugural New York Power Broker Awards

Some of the most prestigious real estate agents gathered in New York hollywood reporterOpening of the New York Power Broker Awards. The private event, held on May 25 at chef Angie Mar’s Les Trois Chevaux restaurant in the West Village, awarded real estate agents in seven categories.

The evening, hosted by luxury real estate public relations firm The Society Group and funded by interior design and home construction firm Vesta Home, began with a cocktail party that allowed competitors to mingle before sitting down to dinner.

Guest list, which included Douglas Eliman’s agent and New York millionaire listing star Kirstenjordan, Kendra sells Hollywood Eliman’s Lisa Simonson, Corcoran Group’s Cathy Franklin and Elliman’s Noble Black were the elite salespeople who made THRList of the best New York real estate agents in 2022.

Despite competing against each other, the runners had nothing more to say about their peers. “It is a great honor for me to be in the room. It’s wonderful to have all these conversations with some really talented riders. Brokers who were trying to get on your team,” said John Gomez when Douglas Eliman’s Eklund | The Gomes team. “Early in my career I was getting better and I was doing my best to join Tamir Shemesh’s team.” Shemesh, who had just moved to Serhant Broker, jokingly added from her desk, “I’m still giving up on you.”

“You all know how difficult it has been to succeed in this industry and it is a great honor for me to be in this room where you all share this wonderful honor,” continued Gómez. “Thank you so much hollywood reporter. You guys make everything fun and it really is. I love your magazine, flipping through these pages and living this life.

Except Eklund | Gomez, the night’s winners included Douglas Eliman’s Alexander team (which received an award for a billionaire power broker); Adam Modlin of the Historical Architecture Group; Compass Nick Gavin (portfolio of celebrity properties); Corcoran Deborah Kern (stratospheric sale) and Compass Ian Slater (rising star). Three agents shared the Penthouse Sales of the Year award: Carrie Chiang of Corcoran, Ryan Stenta of Douglas Elliman and Jason Haber of Compass, co-owners of agents in a recent $70.5 million sale at 432 Park Avenue, the biggest house in record time. The city so far in 2022.

A popular topic all night was the historically competitive real estate market in New York. “I’ve been doing this for 20 years and I’ve seen a lot of good markets, I’m sorry, but never what we had. We broke all kinds of records. We have doubled our record year, ”Eklund | I told Gomez to Frederick Eklund THR. “New York is back with a bang. He spins.”

Eklund then shared his predictions about what the market will look like in the near future. “You can continue? I don’t believe in the same rhythm and the same speed. However, I see this as a fairy tale for three markets. Less than $3 million will be a bidding war. “The big central section is slowing down, crumbling and softening,” he said. “But I feel like the high level is really burning.”

After looking back on a successful year in the real estate industry, Eklund revealed what he hopes to accomplish before moving forward in his career. “We’re going to Vegas, so we’re starting in June,” he said. “I really want to create this SWAT team. We don’t want to be the biggest, we don’t want to be the smallest, but we want to be the best. We’ve always sold to celebrities and we’ve had a lot of celebrity names and lately we’ve increased the price. We’re always on new developments, but what we know now are these megatrophs, high-priced apartments. So it’s really exciting.”

Serhant Shemesh credited the thriving market to people who returned to the city to work in his offices. “The market is very strong. I think a lot of people come back. “Fortunately and unfortunately for them, because now they have to go back to working in offices, work from home is reduced and so the market returns to the city,” she said.

million dollar listCorcoran Group’s Steve Gold called 2021 an “amazing” year for the New York real estate market, but said there were multiple ways forward for homeowners in 2022. “There were strong sales,” he said. “Geopolitical issues and rising interest rates are turning the volume down a bit. I don’t think it’s as strong as it was last year, but we’re still seeing a lot of sales. I was very busy personally.”

Although Gold said that home sales are slowing, he noted that “the rental market is on fire, which means a lot of people are coming back.”

Sergeant Maggie Wu, who was nominated for the New York Rising Star category with Douglas Eliman’s McKenzie Davis, also shared her thoughts on the market. “It was pretty crazy,” he said. Noting that the coronavirus pandemic “ended it all,” Wu said things started to look up in 2021. However, he acknowledged that stock market uncertainty has made it difficult to predict the future of New York’s real estate sector. “I have clients who tell me, ‘Take all your money out of the markets.’ He will fall. And then there are people who look like, “Okay.”

The New York Power Brokers Awards were the East Coast counterpart of the first annual Los Angeles Power Broker Awards, debuting in 2021.

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