Brokerage DJ Knight Residential has a new director of sales and leasing. Phyllis Pezenik, a former sales manager at Citi Habitats, said she’s spending her time at DJK helping her staff of more than 50 brokers adjust to the hot rental market and slower sales market. Pezenik said she’ll focus on rental exclusives in a market with a vacancy rate below 1 percent in Manhattan.
“There is product if you know how to go out and get it,” she said. “We have lots of relationships with landlords and constantly know what’s available to make sure we know what is out there.”
Steady job growth in the city keeps her team of brokers busy with relocations, too, Pezenik said. DJK services international relocation agency SIRVA Relocation for Manhattan, Queens, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Before her management role at Citi Habitats, Pezenik was a co-founder of architectural engineering firm Richard I. Pezenik.