From left: Dottie Herman, Pamela Liebman, Mary Ann Tighe and Steven Spinola

Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Dottie Herman, Real Estate Board of New York’s Steven Spinola, CB Richard Ellis’ Mary Ann Tighe and Pamela Liebman of the Corcoran Group ranked on Inman’s annual list of the most influential players in the real estate world, based on readers’ votes. The list comprises 100 leaders who either work in real estate or whose work impacts the industry, including brokers, technologists, multiple listing service representatives, government officials, journalists, economists, academics and financial services executives. Other notable winners were Stan Humphries, chief economist at Zillow; Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s; Pete Flint, co-founder and CEO of Trulia; Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors; and Kenneth Harney, columnist for the Washington Post. TRD’s own Web editor, Lauren Elkies, was nominated in the media category, in which Curbed founder Lockhart Steele was one of the winners (Inman is an investor in Curbed.com). Click here to see the full list. TRD [more]

The Real Deal had a contingent of reporters and editors at the New York Hilton for the Real Estate Board of New York’s annual banquet and awards ceremony (click here to see an article on the event). The Real Deal’s Web editor Lauren Elkies interviewed a slew of real estate bigwigs from Bill Rudin of Rudin Management — who said Jonathan Mechanic of Fried, Frank (who The Real Deal also spoke to) is “the real deal” — to Bruce Mosler of Cushman & Wakefield — who said he loves The Real Deal, to Frederick Peters of Warburg Realty — who said “Virtual Office Web sites,” or VOWS, “will ultimately be insignificant.” [more]

From left to right: Barack Obama, Mort Zuckerman, Amir Korangy and Darcy Stacom made the New York Observer Power 100 list.

The Real Deal’s Amir Korangy made the New York Observer’s Power
100 list of the most powerful people in New York real estate, released today. President
Barack Obama ranks first on the list, which includes politicians,
developers and brokers, followed by Stephen Ross, CEO of the Related
Companies, and Mort Zuckerman, chairman and CEO of Boston Properties.
Twelve women made the list, including Corcoran Group CEO Pamela
Liebman, Elliman CEO Dottie Herman and CB Richard Ellis Vice Chairman
Darcy Stacom. The Observer also held a poll inviting readers to vote
for the most powerful people in New York real estate, and The Real Deal’s Web editor, Lauren Elkies, was named the city’s most powerful real estate blogger. [more]