Look out, New York: One of Gotham’s super brokers has a “mini-me.” Dolly Lenz, among the most successful real estate agents in New York City and the country, has hired her 26-year-old daughter, Jenny Lenz.
Jenny, who shares her mother’s trademark blond locks, is already generating buzz on the New York real estate and social scene, nine months after quietly joining Dolly’s boutique firm, Dolly Lenz Real Estate.
In January, the social-media-savvy Dalton School and Johns Hopkins University graduate served on a panel about millennial homebuyers at the annual Inman Connect conference alongside real estate wunderkind Jared Seligman. She also posed alongside her mother in a photo shoot for Avenue Magazine’s upcoming annual real estate issue.
She shares her mom’s signature camera-readiness, too. When Dolly showed off her $25.5 million penthouse listing at 165 Perry Street on NBC New York’s “Open House” last month, Jenny was beside her, expounding on the home’s unique outdoor spaces.
Not surprisingly, Jenny has access to an impressive network of potential clients, thanks to her mother’s vast Rolodex.
Her Instagram feed shows her schmoozing with a who’s who of New Yorkers, including real estate moguls Steve Ross of the Related Companies, Don Peebles and Ivanka Trump, along with former police commissioner Ray Kelly, fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and actor Mark Ruffalo.
“She certainly has the pedigree, as the child of someone who’s seen as being so triumphant in the business,” Seligman said of his fellow panelist. “With her connections, everyone knows she’ll have a leg up on the competition right out of the gate.”
While she certainly benefits from her mother’s decades in the business, she’s not without her own credentials. She spent 18 months at Barclays Capital as an analyst in their industrials group and worked as an associate at private bank U.S. Trust for another year before moving into real estate, according to her LinkedIn profile. Plus, she grew up around the business. (Her father, Aaron, also works for the family firm.)
“She definitely seems like a smart individual,” Seligman said. It’s unclear if Jenny has any listings of her own thus far, however.
Neither Dolly nor her daughter responded to a request for comment, but Jenny did share some interesting insights at the Inman conference.
“The greatest transfer of wealth is going to be from the baby boomers to the millennial generation. So, although we may not be making the money ourselves as a whole, we’ll be inheriting it,” she said. “That’s a good thing, I guess.”