While video tours of homes can often pique a buyer’s interest, some industry experts say the trend may be going too far, according to AOL News. Rather than serving as an objective view of a property, many agents use the videos as an opportunity to ham it up on camera. For example, Max Dobens, a senior vice president with Prudential Douglas Elliman, filmed an apartment tour at 401 East 84th Street brandishing a cigar, perhaps in an effort to drive home the listing’s luxurious qualities (see video above). But Diane Saatchi, a Hamptons broker with Saunders & Associates, said “the cigar was the first turn off.” [Aol] [more]
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Among this year’s most powerful East End residents are a number of familiar real estate names, according to Hamptons Magazine. Prudential Douglas Elliman CEO Dottie Herman, who has a home in Sag Harbor, made the publication’s “Power List,” as did Dolly Lenz, who resides in Southampton, Toni Haber who owns in East Hampton, and six others from the firm. Brokers listed from the Corcoran Group are CEO Pamela Liebman, who has a home in East Hampton, Susan Breitenbach of Bridgehampton, and five others. Diane Saatchi, the ex-Corcoran broker who resides in East Hampton and now works at Saunders & Associates, was also on the list, as was Southampton’s Ritchey Goodwin of Sotheby’s International Realty. [Newsday]
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Veteran Hamptons broker Diane Saatchi has left behind her senior vice president position at the Corcoran Group for the smaller, more “personalized” feel of Bridgehampton-based Saunders & Associates, she told The Real Deal.
Saatchi, who has consistently been named one of Corcoran’s top five East End agents, joined the firm in 2004 after a 12-year stint at Dayton-Halstead, where she was a principal owner. During Saatchi’s tenure, Dayton-Halstead grew from a three- to 60-agent operation before it was purchased by Corcoran.
“If I decided that I wanted to get back into management again there’s room to do that at Saunders where there wouldn’t be at Corcoran,” Saatchi said of her decision to move. “At this point in my life, that smaller culture suits me… it reminds me in many ways of [Dayton-Halstead].” More
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