top nyc brokers 2009

I don't think you'll see residential brokers ranked by square footage. That metric is more meaningful for commercial deals. The usual measure for resi agents is dollar volume. I think the 2009 rankings will come out in the spring. For now, here are the 2008 figures:

http://online.wsj.com/ad/top100individualvolume.html

The lady in the top spot is a class act.

By the way, if you're looking for Dolly Lenz, here's Elliman's explanation of her absence:

“We didn’t respond to their surveys,” Howard Lorber, who co-owns Prudential Douglas Elliman, where Ms. Lenz is vice chairman, explained last year. “We think it’s ridiculous; no one checks anything, anyone can put whatever they want. ... I know people on that list, O.K.? You ask yourself, why do you even want to be on it? They were so off, it was laughable. Who wants to be involved on a stupid survey that’s not even accurate? We just made a company decision not to do it.”

http://www.observer.com/2009/real-estate/did-dolly-lenz-do-522473436-last-year-maybe-so-serena-boardman-no-1-updated

"We just made a company decision not to do it.”

Apparently Efraim Tessler, ranked #12 nationwide and #4 in NYC, didn't get the company memo...

I get mail very often from "Top Brokers". It seems that there are many of them.
I met Dolly, once at a social event. She was very nice.

What about the broker rating site www.rateyourbroker.com?

murphy, why dont you go on a few appointments with a few different brokers until you find one you like? there is so much useless info on the internet. cant you judge competency on your own without needing someone elses opinon?

lol, you met a broker and she was nice...

Thanks, I needed that chuckle... Obviously, you did not turn your back on her all night.

Oh and it sounds like the tobacco-man Lorber is complaining about misrepresentation of square footages!

Oh the Irony!

therealdeal does a weekly spot

http://therealdeal.com/tags/top-agents--6

@jim_hones10, I've used tons of brokers before...and you know how i find them? By finding a property online first, and then i am stuck with whatever broker is paired with it--many times horrible couple that with the fact that most listings I like are "already taken" or "just rented" and then i am in the awkward position of dealing with a broker who 1.) i dont know and 2.) doesnt have the place i like.

If i use a reccommendation, and word of mouth is the best way, i at least kknow i won't be stuck with some scrub telling me that "the market has seen an upturn this quarter".

murphyrw
1 day ago
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report abuse @jim_hones10, I've used tons of brokers before...and you know how i find them? By finding a property online first, and then i am stuck with whatever broker is paired with it--many times horrible couple that with the fact that most listings I like are "already taken" or "just rented" and then i am in the awkward position of dealing with a broker who 1.) i dont know and 2.) doesnt have the place i like.

If i use a reccommendation, and word of mouth is the best way, i at least kknow i won't be stuck with some scrub telling me that "the market has seen an upturn this quarter".

get something straight: the reason you find that property online is because someone like me put it there for you to look at.

Do NOT believe the top broker list.
I know one of them VERY WELL,actually I have known her ever since she came back to NYC to live after her divorce.
I have known her even before she became a realtor.
She sold a condo to a friend of mine without telling her the condo is only one block from a homeless shelter.
When my friend found out, she was really upset.

arthur1071
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report abuse Do NOT believe the top broker list.
I know one of them VERY WELL,actually I have known her ever since she came back to NYC to live after her divorce.
I have known her even before she became a realtor.
She sold a condo to a friend of mine without telling her the condo is only one block from a homeless shelter.
When my friend found out, she was really upset.

i can't believe the shit we get blamed for. your friend ever think of walking the neighborhood a bit?

jim_hones10,

Please enlighten me, does " homelss shelter " has a sign outside the building?
I am dealing with a bunch of real estate crooks now,they didn't tell me the so called " custom made " shades is NOT included in the condo offer, until I SIGNED and WROTE A 10% PURCHASE CONTRACT DEPOSIT!
When I asked one of the crocks why didn't she mention the above during my viewing and oral bid, she said
"YOU NEVER ASKED ".
I am sure there are competant realtors, but,I have seen and heard enough FACTS to warn other people.

arthur1071
about 4 hours ago
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report abuse jim_hones10,

Please enlighten me, does " homelss shelter " has a sign outside the building?
I am dealing with a bunch of real estate crooks now,they didn't tell me the so called " custom made " shades is NOT included in the condo offer, until I SIGNED and WROTE A 10% PURCHASE CONTRACT DEPOSIT!
When I asked one of the crocks why didn't she mention the above during my viewing and oral bid, she said
"YOU NEVER ASKED ".
I am sure there are competant realtors, but,I have seen and heard enough FACTS to warn other people.

sounds like both you and your friend need a lesson in DUE DILIGENCE!

jim, maybe an honest realtor would help as well. it seems that arthur did do his due diligence and found out about it when they tried to alter the contract after it was sent to the seller to sign with a 10% down payment.

now who's looking like a low life??????

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report abuse jim, maybe an honest realtor would help as well. it seems that arthur did do his due diligence and found out about it when they tried to alter the contract after it was sent to the seller to sign with a 10% down payment.

now who's looking like a low life??????

where do you see any of that written? he could have asked a very simple question "are these included in the purchase price?"
obviously he did not
his friend could have googled the address of the propety she bought or walked around to see if the neighborhood had something undesierable
obviously she did not

it is very easy to blame others for our mistakes.

and further, to think the realtor has anything to gain to include or not include window treatments in the purchase price is absolutely foolish

I agree with jim! if you put an address in google you can search the whole neighborhood without leaving your office. Also I would never invest hundreds of thousands of dollars into my neighborhood and home without walking around and knowing the neighborhood. Also shades are an item that are never included in a sale and if they were, they would have been listed on the contract as an incidental. You and your lawyer went over the contract and if you wanted them you should have asked for them. Did you think the model couch came too?
Just because people are dense doesn't mean it's the brokers fault. Yeah there are a lot of bad brokers out there but there are some really great ones too! Just like lawyers! they all don't fit some stereotype that you have created. Stop profiling people based on their career choice!

Just one more post to answer all you broker's question,
During viewing, the broker said to me " the funitures are for sale ".
If the realtors were not crooks, how come she neglet to say " the furnitures are for sale, SO ARE THE SHADES.".
The seller's lawyer provided the condo purchse contract, and under appliances, the shades were NOT CROSSED OUT!
It porves, there are bunch of crooks in this business.
By the way, when my friend bought her condo,GOOGLE wasn't even existed :)

The most honest broker in NYC and the smartest is Trevor Moran of the Truss Group. If more realtors were like him, then the industry would have a far better reputation.

Really? Trevor Moran?

Years ago (2006 or 2007), my wife wanted to arrange to see one of his condos that was listed for rent. During the phone call, she got an earful of "Why are you renting? You should be buying, you don't want to throw your money away do you? It's a great time to buy!" This continued for a long time with my wife trying to deflect the issue (not interested in explaining herself or debating buy vs. sell with a complete stranger) and move on to simply scheduling a viewing, but Trevor wouldn't let it go. Eventually, she gave up and didn't even see the apartment.

Now this story is so colorful and one-of-a-kind that it etched the name "Trevor Moran" and the Truss Group forever in my mind. Putting aside the the arguably bad advice, the certainly bad outcome of his advice, and the inappropriateness of his playing financial advisor, here's a guy who is so interested on pushing buying that he actively pushes away a potential client for a product that he has been charged with marketing.

What was your experience with him, bds?

My experience is so the opposite. I found him to be honest to the point that he would lose his own commission in order to alert this client of potential problems with a bldg that I was interested in. He saved us from making a HORRIBLE MISTAKE. He is to be applauded. He did not have to do that.

Well hopefully, my experience was an outlier. Perhaps in his mind, Trevor was trying to keep us from a horrible mistake too...

Yes I am sure of that. Just from my experience. I personally would not use another realtor. He has really proven himself to us.

arthur1071 sounds like your lawyer is really the one to blame, not the real estate agent! Just because google didn't exist that doesn't excuse your friend from not walking around the neighborhood.

FYI - my broker accidentally logged in to SE using my handle and posted the above diatribe. I agree with her, for the most part, but it should be noted nonetheless.
Tina
(Brooklyn broker)

Inonada, this is Trevor Moran. I honestly have no recollection of this, but will certainly say that from the detail with which you write, it certainly sounds like this conversation with your wife really did take place. If it did, then I would say the following to you now. If I am engaged in a discussion of "buy vs. rent" with a client, I always try to give that client my honest and best opinion. That said, it would certainly never be my intention "to play financial advisor." If I made your wife feel this way, well then here's my opportunity to say I'm sorry.

Funny, Tina--When I read that I thought that it didn't sound like you--lol

arthur1071
about 16 hours ago
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report abuse Just one more post to answer all you broker's question,
During viewing, the broker said to me " the funitures are for sale ".
If the realtors were not crooks, how come she neglet to say " the furnitures are for sale, SO ARE THE SHADES.".
The seller's lawyer provided the condo purchse contract, and under appliances, the shades were NOT CROSSED OUT!
It porves, there are bunch of crooks in this business.
By the way, when my friend bought her condo,GOOGLE wasn't even existed :)

Arthur, I'm not one to pick on peoples spelling or syntax, but I find it far more likely given the way you write here that you very simply misunderstood what you read. And I am sure, if google hadn't been invented yet, that your friend had other means at her disposal to find out the skinny on her potentially new neighborhood. Again, due diligence. If you are going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on something you should do a bit of homework.

Trevor, that's very big of you to offer an apology for something you don't even remember. As I said, the experience was hopefully an outlier, and I have no doubt you were giving your honest opinion that was being interpreted in a way that was not your intention.

Obviously, bds's ringing endorsement of you is more indicative of your relationship with your clients. I would hope anybody here would weigh that endorsement infinitely more strongly than my quirky story about a second-hand few-minute phone conversation. Both his response and yours have certainly shifted my perception, and I apologize to you for previously having had such a strong impression that was based on such little actual interaction.

Inonada, thank you very much. Certainly, just as big of you to respond this way. If I can ever be of help to you and your wife, don't hesitate to call - (917) 495-7632. Tell her I promise to let her do all the talking this time :)

inonada, I was delighted to hear that Trevor reached out to you. This is the Trevor Moran that I know. He is a class act and heads above any realtor that I have ever worked with.