(Illustration by Nate Kitch) The Manhattan condo market is starting to feel like the beauty counter in a fancy department store â€' with everyone from (Illustration by Nate Kitch) The Manhattan condo market is starting to feel like the beauty counter in a fancy department store â€' with everyone from...

Douglas Elliman’s Raphael De Niro closed more than any other broker in 2016...

“A few months , it was pretty much obvious to most buyers that things were changing, and that zapped the urgency out of things,” said Douglas Elliman’s Raphael De Niro, who had $382.8 million in total listings...

The ordering at the top represents a significant reshuffling from last year, when Eklund and Gomes took the top spot and when other household names â€' Dolly Lenz (now No. 13) and Raphael De Niro (now No...

Meanwhile, with nearly 2,000 New York City agents, no single agent â€' or team â€' accounted for more than 7 percent of Douglas Elliman’s total listings, which topped $4.3 billion. With $322 million in exclusives, Raphael De Niro’s listings represented just over 7.4 percent of Elliman’s total as of Aug...

From left to right: (Top row) John Burger, Alexa Lambert, Paula Del Nunzio, Deborah Grubman, Fredrik Eklund and John Gomes (Bottom row) Carrie Chiang, Leonard Steinberg, Serena Boardman, Dolly Lenz and Raphael De Niro (Illustration: P.J...

The priciest closed sale of the year was hedge-funder Israel Englander’s (left) purchase of the former French Ambassador’s residence at 740 Park Avenue for The priciest closed sale of the year was hedge-funder Israel Englander’s (left) purchase of the former French Ambassador’s residence at 740 Park Avenue for...

In rank order, the remainder of the Top 10 is: Leonard Steinberg and Herve Senequier, who shocked the industry with their move from Elliman to Urban Compass last month (see related story on page 50); the Corcoran Group’s Carrie Chiang/Janet Wang Team; Raphael De Niro’s team at Elliman; Taub of Stribling & Associates; and BHS’ Boisson Aries...

Raphael De Niro of Douglas Elliman, who with 22 listings worth $189.89 million moved to No...

So it was a bit surprising when, in April, they began marketing Brooklyn’s priciest listing: David Walentas’s legendary triplex in the ClockTower Building. Walentas, who converted the ClockTower into condos in 1998, later struck a deal with the condo board to create a 16th-floor penthouse in a tower atop the building. The resulting apartment first hit the market for $25 million in 2009 with Raphael De Niro (another top broker who works mostly in Manhattan), and has been on and off the market since then...

From left: Carrie Chiang, Dolly Lenz, Serena Boardman, Leonard Steinberg, Hervé Senequier, Brenda Powers, Elizabeth Lee Sample, Kathy Sloane Manhattan's top real estate agents are as From left: Carrie Chiang, Dolly Lenz, Serena Boardman, Leonard Steinberg, Hervé Senequier, Brenda Powers, Elizabeth Lee Sample, Kathy Sloane Manhattan's top real estate agents are as...