Michael Lorber and 241 Orange Grove Road

From the South Florida site: Michael Lorber, star of Bravo’s “Million Dollar Listing New York” and son of Douglas Elliman Chairman Howard Lorber, has splurged on his very own Palm Beach pad following the season finale of his hit show, he told The Real Deal today. Lorber paid $1.3 million for his new digs at 241 Orange Grove Road, he said, buying it from a company that owns and rents out hundreds of homes in South Florida. The asking price was $1.49 million. [more]

From left: Ryan Serhant, Fredrik Eklund and Michael Lorber (click image to see video)

Bravo’s new reality TV show, “Million Dollar Listing New York,” was recently picked up for a second season. The Real Deal’s Candace Taylor and Lauren Elkies sat down with the three Manhattan real estate brokers who star on the show — Ryan Serhant of NestSeekers and Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Fredrik Eklund and Michael Lorber — to find out how TV stardom has impacted their lives and careers. [more]

Fredrik Eklund and John Gomes of Prudential Douglas Elliman (credit: Richard Caplan)

Fredrik Eklund, managing director at Prudential Douglas Elliman and newly anointed star of Bravo’s “Million Dollar Listing New York” has been getting 2,000 hits a day on his Elliman agent’s page since the show hit the airwaves last month, up from 100 views a day prior to the show, he told The Real Deal today. Traffic on each of his listings, open house foot traffic and telephone call volume is also up substantially, he said, thanks to the publicity the show has garnered for Eklund and John Gomes’ team, founded in 2010. (While Gomes was on “Selling New York” with Eklund, he bowed out of participating in the Bravo show.) [more]

A screen shot of Michael Lorber during his dinner date. See video clip after the jump. (credit: Bravo)

It was one single 12-character tweet from Michael Lorber, broker at Prudential Douglas Elliman and co-star of Bravo’s new spin-off series “Million Dollar Listing New York,” that seemed to say it all. “I need help!” he tweeted yesterday to Lori Zaslow, co-founder of matchmaking service Project Soulmate and co-star of Bravo’s “The Love Broker,” in reference to his dating life. [more]

Ryan Serhant and Fredrik Eklund (right) face-off in Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New YorkMillion Dollar Listing is coming to New York City, and Bravo released the first trailer of the premier season, which documents Ryan Serhant of Nest Seekers and Fredrik Eklund and Michael Lorber of Prudential Douglas Elliman angling to close multi-million dollar deals (watch the trailer after the jump). [more]

Caroline Grane and Michael Lorber
Bravo’s New York City version of “Million Dollar Listing” begins shooting today, and the Post has more gossip about what is to be expected come next fall, when the show will premiere. As might be expected, the network that brought us the “Real Housewives” plans to distinguish its version of realty reality television from HGTV’s popular “Selling New York” by focusing on “strong, contrasting personalities who travel in the same circle… and who clash whenever things threaten to get too boring,” rather than on the properties themselves. In that vein, Core broker Caroline Grane has just jumped ship to Nest Seekers International to join the “Listings” cast. [more]