Yesterday, august real estate brokerage Prudential Douglas Elliman celebrated its 100th birthday. By order of the mayor, yesterday was declared Douglas Elliman day, in honor of the broker who founded the firm at 412 Madison Avenue and is often credited with making uptown chic. Firm owners Dottie Herman, Howard Lorber, even the ghost of Elliman Read More
In a profile two years ago, The Observer wrote that Prudential Douglas Elliman agente di tutti agenti Dolly Lenz would win the firm’s top broker award in perpetuity. “Just as it’s been since Dottie Herman and Howard Lorber bought the company in 2003, and as it will be until the day onyx bathrooms and Read More
Jacky Teplitzky, who was a sergeant in the Israeli army before she became a top broker at Prudential Douglas Elliman, was on the phone with an Upper East Side seller earlier this year. “Without going to the apartment, my opening statement was, ‘Do you understand you’re going to lose money?’”
Manhattan brokers, who used to Read More
Curbed hosts a rental panel with Dottie Herman and Jonathan Miller. Their advice to tenants? Buy now! Read More
When brokers from the most posh Manhattan brokerages filed into a penthouse at 133 East 64th Street for a secret meeting earlier this month, the fact that the place had been seized two weeks earlier by U.S. marshals from contemporary America’s greatest financial villain was not the only thing on their minds.
What must have Read More
For the last 15 years, Jonathan Miller has produced the Prudential Douglas Elliman sales reports that hold the New York real estate world in thrall. Thursday, for the first time, he released a rental report. He was excited.
“To me, this is fun,” Mr. Miller said. “I don’t do something unless it’s fun. Read More
The only thing more exciting than today’s news about the upcoming sale of Bob Guccione’s townhouse (or about Sharon Baum’s Vespa), is Prudential Douglas Elliman’s annual awards ceremony, taking place right this moment, until noon, at Cipriani 42nd Street.
It’s the stuff real estate dreams are made of! Annual broker awards, especially Read More
After double digit increases following the 2nd Quarter of 2005, there were headlines forecasting an immediate real estate collapse. And while that hasn’t happened, the relatively small increases or decreases –depending on which market report you’re looking at–show a more stable, if not cooling, market.
Today, three major brokerages released their market reports. Similar Read More
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While we still love the last issue of Haute Living, there is already a new one out. This issue features some of the most powerful women in Manhattan real estate.
Find out all you’ve ever wanted to know about Pam Liebman, Dottie Herman, Louise Sunshine, and Read More
At midnight on Feb. 8, the mysterious new Web site created by the swashbuckling Web entrepreneur Richard Barton was scheduled to go live. If all goes as planned—at press time, it appeared it would—it’s going to be a weird moment.
The story of Zillow.com has been, from start to finish, an anachronism: a stealth start-up Read More
