Paul Kolbusz

Paul Kolbusz is a highly accomplished real estate broker with over 25 years of experience in the business and an impeccable reputation among his clients and colleagues. A member of Corcoran’s Multi-Million-Dollar Club, Gold Council and Platinum Circle, he also consistently ranks in the Top 1% of more than 45,000 NRT agents nationwide. Specializing in luxury real estate in Manhattan, Paul is known in the industry as a townhouse expert with over 250 such property sales to date; plus he’s closed hundreds of condo and coop sales.

Alongside his business partner Sara Gelbard, he has helped catapult The Gelbard-Kolbusz Team to great success. This powerhouse sales team has sold more than a billion dollars in real estate to date and received such prestigious honors as Corcoran’s repeated Union Square Team of the Year, The Wall Street Journal’s Top Teams in the Country, Top 1% Nationwide Producers, and Real Deal’s Top 75 Highest Annual Listing Brokers in Manhattan. Among many other press accolades, Paul was recognized by The New York Times as well for representing the most expensive sale of the week, a $25.49M penthouse.

Assisting with someone’s greatest asset, their home, is extremely rewarding to Paul, who fully devotes himself to providing personalized service and exceptional results. He serves a sophisticated and international clientele with discretion, a thorough market knowledge, and keen ability to smoothly close complex transactions. Clients appreciate his attentiveness and honesty in guiding them through the process, and often consider him part of their family after the deal is done. A testament to Paul, he often works with clients generationally, finding apartments for clients’ adult children, many years after helping them buy or sell a home.

Further setting him apart is his prowess as a skilled negotiator with a proven record for getting the best value for his buyers, and maximizing his sellers’ return on investment. Paul honed his savvy negotiating early on in his profession as a restaurant owner. A talented entrepreneur from a young age, he was a leader in the NYC hospitality industry who, before age 31, owned a building in the Upper East Side and ran a thriving culinary destination.