An apartment at the Time Warner Center
From the May issue: Über-high-end firms dominated the ranks of Manhattan’s top boutique brokerages this year as prices soared in the luxury market — even as firms competed for a shrinking number of available listings. With last year’s top boutique firm, CORE, now categorized as a mid-size company on The Real Deal’s annual ranking, Upper East Side brokerage Leslie J. Garfield regained its long-time berth as the No. 1 boutique firm. [more]
Ismael Leyva and 353 Central Park West
Ismael Leyva, the architect behind notable Manhattan buildings such as the Yves Chelsea and Place 57, has listed his own apartment at 353 Central Park West for $7.75 million, StreetEasy shows. [more]
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From the May issue: Call them the in-betweeners. They’re too small for the top firms list and too big for the boutiques. They’re New York City’s mid-size residential firms. And for the first time this year, The Real Deal compiled a list ranking these firms by dollar volume of listings. [more]
Residential real estate brokerage CORE unveiled its second Manhattan retail office today and had a party last night to celebrate. The rather tasteful, subdued gathering took place in a sleek basement lounge at the Rouge Tomate, an upscale Upper East Side restaurant known for its nutritional offerings, and was hosted by the firm in partnership with the New York Observer, which just launched a new lifestyle supplement to its weekly newspaper…. [more]
From left: An interior shot of the unit, the building exterior and Core’s Shaun Osher
The sale of a $3.57 million unit at One Museum Mile in East Harlem has set a neighborhood record, Curbed reported. Broken down, the sale amounts to $2,030 per square foot. [more]
Shaun Osher
From the January issue: 6:30 a.m. I usually wake up at 6:30. Half the week I stay in Port Washington, on Long Island. That’s where my two beautiful daughters live. The days when I don’t have my girls, I’m on West 9th Street, where I share a townhouse with my girlfriend, Brittley Jarrell, who is the chief operating officer of Core. I’ve always been very active — I work out about four or five times a week. It’s usually a bike ride, between 20 to 75 miles [before work], and it’s usually loops in Central Park. Today, I ran seven miles along the Hudson. I also try to meet with my trainer once a week, to do push-ups, pull-ups, the rowing machine and rope-climbing, like back in my army days in South Africa. I was in the army for two years. There was six months of basic training, which was brutal. I was living in the bush, crazy stuff. [more]
Core CEO Shaun Osher and the exterior and interior of 93 Worth
A long-awaited new Tribeca condo conversion has hit the market today after hiking its prices 10 percent just a few weeks prior to the launch.
Units at 93 Worth Street, between Broadway and Church Street, are set to come online today with prices ranging from $545,000 for a studio to $6.33 million for a four-bedroom spread, said a spokesperson for CORE, the exclusive marketing agent for the development. There are 92 units at the property in total, including seven penthouse additions. Apartments range in size from 475 square feet to 3,300 square feet. [more]
Core’s Michael Graves (right) and his father, Jim, who is running against Michele Bachmann
From the October issue: The campaign generating most of the attention in New York City right now is, unsurprisingly, the 2012 presidential election. But at least one Manhattan real estate broker is far more focused on a congressional race in Minnesota.
Core broker Michael Graves is the son of Jim Graves, the hotel executive attempting to oust Tea Party spokesperson Michele Bachmann from her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. [more]
Michael Graves
Many New York sales agents have come to the business of real estate from a wide range of other professions. In an ongoing series, TheRealDeal.com will profile brokers for whom selling properties represents a major career transition.
Updated at 12:05 p.m. Michael Graves — Core’s top producer last year — is a classical musician, who had planned to be a composer and write film scores. Then two years ago, he found out his wife was pregnant with twins, and transitioned into real estate “to feed my family.” He recently sat down with The Real Deal to discuss the future of the Upper East Side residential market, what he listens to with his fellow musician friends, and his father’s run for Congress — against Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann. [more]
Shaun Osher and Core’s new location on Madison Avenue
Boutique brokerage Core is set to open its second Manhattan retail location, this one on the Upper East Side, a company spokesperson told The Real Deal today.
The firm, which was recently ranked by TRD as the city’s top boutique brokerage based on the value of listings, has inked a 10-year lease for a 3,500-square-foot office at 673 Madison Avenue that will open next spring, the spokesperson said. A gut renovation of the place will begin this fall. [more]
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