At The Real Deal‘s seventh annual forum last week’s at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, real estate pros gathered to watch debates between real estate attorneys Adam Leitman Bailey of the eponymous firm and Stuart Saft, chair of law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf’s global real estate department; developer Billy Macklowe of William Macklowe Company and John Catsimatidis, CEO of the Red Apple Group; and Frederick Peters, president of Warburg Realty, and Lockhart Steele, founder of Curbed. In attendance were Faith Hope Consolo, chairman of Prudential Douglas Elliman’s retail leasing and sales division, Jonathan Miller, president of appraisal firm Miller Samuel and Andrew Barrocas, CEO of brokerage MNS, all of whom stepped outside to talk to The Real Deal about the state of the market (see video above). — Katherine Clarke

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From the June issue: One might expect a corporate mogul who owns grocery stores, office
buildings and oil refineries to run his empire from a fancy skyscraper.
Not John Catsimatidis, CEO of the Red Apple Group and one-time mayoral
hopeful. His office is in a low-rise building at 823 11th Avenue.
There, clutter belies a command central for a new foray into
residential development with a plan to build apartments on a
three-block stretch in Downtown Brooklyn. The first piece, a 100-unit
rental at 218 Myrtle Avenue, opens in September. See after the jump for a snapshot of Catsimatidis’ office. Comments