From left: Stephen Ross, chairman of the Related Companies, Robby Browne, senior vice president of the Corcoran Group, Bruce Mosler, chairman of Cushman & Wakefield, Jeff Blau, president at Related, and Jack Cayre, a found of Core.

[Updated 12:50 p.m., on Feb. 2, with chart of New York City's top donors to 2011 presidential campaigns] Professionals from the residential brokerage firm the Corcoran Group were the most generous among employees of real estate companies in New York to give directly to the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and other contenders in 2011, an analysis of election finance data by The Real Deal shows (see chart of New York City’s top donors to 2011 presidential campaigns).

A total of 18 brokers and agents from the Corcoran Group gave $30,920 in 2011 to presidential candidates, the most from any industry firm, residential or commercial. They sent $20,920 to Obama and $10,000 to Romney, the records show. The top contributor from Corcoran was Robert Browne, known as Robby, a company senior vice president who donated the $5,000 maximum to Obama. [more]

(source: U.S. Federal Election Commission)

In the last three months of 2011, New York City real estate executives gave more than six times as much to Republican political committees as Democratic groups, a review of federal election documents released yesterday shows.

Republican backers, including Vornado Realty Trust’s Steven Roth and Related Companies’ Stephen Ross, donated a total of $280,000 in the fourth quarter of the year to federal campaign committees, while Democrats contributed $43,300. An additional 10 donors gave $36,000 to political groups that back candidates in both parties (see partial list above and full list after the jump). [more]