Unlisted listings in brokerage rankings
I write with regard to your May 2007 issue and your annual Top Residential Firms rankings.
I take issue with the results you published in the Total Manhattan Listings category. In counting the total number of Corcoran listings, The Real Deal omitted approximately 300 new development listings belonging to Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group from our tally, probably due to the fact that many of these listings are still labeled as being under the Sunshine Group in the OLR system. Corcoran Sunshine is part of Corcoran — not a separate company — and all of their listings should be credited to us.
Had these new development listings been included, Corcoran would be the No. 1 residential firm in the Total Manhattan Listings category. We have taken steps to correct the misleading labels in the OLR system.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Pamela Liebman
President, The Corcoran Group