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, Michael Lorber and Fredrik Eklund

From the April issue: “Million Dollar Listing New York” is all about flash — flashy apartments, flashy buyers and, of course, the flashy brokers who bring them all together. But the three Manhattan brokers who star on the new Bravo reality show have very different definitions of dressing for success. [more]

From left: Ryan Serhant, Michael Lorber and Fredrik Eklund in “Million Dollar Listing New York”

From the March issue: When MTV’s “The Real World” premiered in 1992, few could guess that reality shows would eventually come to dominate prime-time TV, with monster hits like “The Bachelor” and “Jersey Shore” boosting networks’ ratings.

Manhattan real estate is a cutthroat business often involving big dollar signs, so it’s no surprise that New York brokers have made their way onto a slew of reality shows since then. [more]

From left: Designer Christopher Highland, his Chelsea apartment and Nestseekers' Ryan Serhant and Regis Roumila

[Updated at 9:00 p.m. with a comment from Bravo] A 4,000-square-foot apartment in Chelsea owned by Manhattan interior designer Christopher Hyland, has been relisted after 18 months off the market, but the textile guru’s not too keen on selling it, he told The Real Deal today.

The 12th-floor loft unit, which first came on the market for $22.45 million in 2010 and was featured on “Selling New York” with Core broker Michael Graves and agent Kirk Rundhaug, was listed again yesterday for the same price with “Million Dollar Listing New York” star Ryan Serhant and Regis Roumila, both of Nestseekers, but is for sale only because “everyone wants to do TV shows about it,” Hyland said. [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]

Broker Regis Roumila

From the August issue: With the success of “Selling New York”on HGTV and Bravo’s forthcoming New York spinoff of “Million Dollar Listing,”there’s little doubt that New York real estate can generate solid ratings for television networks. Now, Nest Seekers International is betting that small-screen exposure can yield big sales, too.
The firm has struck a deal to broadcast its own internally produced 12-minute show on Cablevision’s Plum TV every Saturday, twice in the morning and once in the evening. Called “Blend” for its mix of real estate, lifestyle and celebrities, the show is hosted by Nest Seekers senior vice president Caroline Grane and filmed inside some of the firm’s priciest listings.
The first episode aired Memorial Day weekend. It featured a cooking segment, a roundtable discussion by artists and designers about Manhattan’s Sloane mansion, and a tour of the Watermill home of Todd Hase, a Soho-based furniture designer. The house is currently listed with Nest Seekers’ Joseph DeCristofaro for $3.295 million. [more]

Agent Adrian Noriega has left the Corcoran Group to join the boutique brokerage Core. In 2009 and 2010, Noriega was named among the top 2 percent of agents at Corcoran in sales, Core said. Noriega will join the company as vice president, Core announced. In the past few months, Core has lost a number of its top agents. Frederik Eklund and John Gomes recently said they were joining Elliman to appear on Bravo’s “Million Dollar Listing” reality show, which competes against HGTV’s “Selling New York,” a real estate brokerage-related reality show that features Core agents. Agent Caroline Grane left Core for Nest Seekers, also with plans to participate in “Million Dollar Listing.”
Core in December hired top Prudential Douglas Elliman agent Doron Zwickel. TRD

From left: Nest Seekers CEO Eddie Shapiro and new hire Caroline Grane

Boutique brokerage Nest Seekers International is planning a hiring spree on the heels of what it says was its “most profitable year ever” in 2010, CEO Eddie Shapiro announced today.

The New York City-based company — whose exclusive new development marketing contracts include the Residences at 36 Gramercy Park East, 99 John Deco Lofts and the View in Long Island City — has already hired some 15 new brokers over the past few months and is planning to take on 20 more in the months to come. TRD [more]

From left: John Gomes and Fredrik Eklund

Top Core brokers Fredrik Eklund and John Gomes are leaving the firm due to Eklund’s involvement in Bravo’s New York City edition of “Million Dollar Listing,” Core confirmed today. “Million Dollar Listing” competes with Core’s HGTV show, “Selling New York.” Eklund is a managing director at Core, while John Gomes is a senior vice president. The two had formed a team at Core.  [more]

Chad Rogers

The New York City real estate industry will be getting a little bit of advice from a Beverly Hills real estate pro, with the arrival of “Million Dollar Listing” star Chad Rogers, [more]