From the January issue: In 2008, 21-year-old Jared Seligman had sold some $40 million worth of real estate and gained fame for listing the Olsen twins’ Morton Square penthouse.
And he wasn’t the only youngster flocking to residential brokerage during the mid-2000s. During the real estate boom, hordes of recent college grads entered real estate, hoping to cash in on the myriad six-figure deals taking place in Manhattan. [more]
Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Oren Alexander and Eric Trump of the Trump Organization are just two of New York real estate industry’s most promising young upstarts named among Forbes’ “Top 30 Under 30″ list, a ranking of the country’s rising stars in various industries.
An Elliman vice president, Alexander made it onto the list after selling close to $100 million in homes at age 24, Forbes said. The New York and Miami broker is currently listing a $60 million private resort property at 3 Indian Creek in Miami Beach. Trump, meanwhile, has worked on more than 70 projects for his father’s company, including Chicago’s Trump Hotel & Tower and has been instrumental in expanding Trump’s golf course portfolio. Eric is 27 years old. [more]
The Real Deal has ranked the top listing agents of the week base [more]
From left: Ashley and Mary Kate Olsen, and images from inside the 1 Morton Square penthouseFor the Olsen twins, perhaps the third time will be the charm for their 1 Morton Square penthouse in the West Village, which has just reentered the market, according to Curbed. The twins, who reportedly never lived in the apartment, tried unsuccessfully to flip the property — once in 2005 for $9.45 million and again in 2007 for $11.995 million. [more]
The home of the late Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein, a club deejay and frequent target of celebrity tabloids known for his relationships with starlets like Nicole Richie and Mandy Moore, is on the market for $1.795 million. The One Kenmare Square one-bedroom apartment at 210 Lafayette Street between Spring and Broome streets was the site of DJ AM’s accidental drug overdose in August of last year. The 1,147-square-foot condo was developed by Andre Balazs and is listed by Prudential Douglas Elliman SVP and wunderkind Jared Seligman.
As a new decade arrives, so does the latest crop of boat-rockers, according to the Observer, which released its list of “insurgents” yesterday. The list contains the 50-plus “punks who will make this city hum again,” the Observer said, including several real estate bigwigs. Helena Durst, assistant vice president for the Durst Organization, Prudential Douglas Elliman’s 23-year-old whiz kid Jared Seligman, Veronica Mainetti, head of investment management firm Sorgente Group’s U.S. activities; Vishaan Chakrabarti, director of the real estate development program at Columbia University as well as president of the Moynihan Station venture; and Jonathan Butler, the Brooklyn real estate blogger who founded Brownstoner, were among the real estate players named on the list. “The ‘insurgents’ may not know it yet, but they’re about to remake this town in ways many of us can’t even fathom,” the Observer editors wrote. “Meet the people who are going to make the [next decade] worth watching.” Other listees include Jonathan Gray, senior managing director of the Blackstone Group, and Andrew Ross Sorkin, reporter and author of “Too Big to Fail.” [NYO]
