Merle K Barash

A real estate authority and visionary with more than 25 plus years' experience Merle Barash, founder and president of Merle K. Barash Real Estate, Inc. has a unique combination of business acumen and artistic talent. The Merle K. Barash brand is tailored to each client’s needs in selling or acquiring a property. Targeted marketing and sales strategies combined with local, national and global marketing strength have earned Merle K. Barash Real Estate, Inc. an esteemed reputation in the industry. Clients include some of the most distinguished and highly celebrated people in the world. The company represents buyers and sellers throughout Manhattan. Merle was Director of Sales and Marketing for real estate developer Aaron Green Company who built Memphis Downtown at 140 Charles Street. Her marketing strategy was to highlight the buyers who were in the film, fashion, music and financial industry . Along with her natural ability for deal making she sold out the building. She was a leader in pioneering the West Village. Memphis Downtown is a 22- story luxury condominium of a post modernism design at 140 Charles Street in the West Village where Merle continues to represent buyers and sellers. Merle was promoted to Director of Sales and Marketing for the development team at Aaron Green Company on their new residential and commercial projects. She sold the American Railway Co. building c 1910 at 134 Charles Street with 12,000 SF of outdoor space to American painter Jennifer Bartlett. Merle founded the photography program at Horace Mann School in New York City where she taught black and white photography and darkroom printing. Her thesis exhibition for her Master’s degree was presented at the Horace Mann Gallery. Her artistic and business talents are matched by her philanthropic efforts. For over 25 years Merle has been an integral part of Strang, the oldest cancer prevention facility in the USA. She Secretary on the Board of Trustees of Strang Cancer Prevention Institute in New York. In 2014 she established the Dianne Zola Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. In 2024 Merle founded ALL TOGETHER SAVING WOMEN'S LIVES and is collaborating with Dr. Louis Diaz Jr., a physician -scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Merle holds a Masters of Art Education degree from the University of Hartford's Hartford Art School, West Hartford, Connecticut and a Master of Arts degree in Psychoanalysis from the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis.