From the August issue: Long gone are the days of a handwritten thank-you note or a basket of fruit. In today’s tight housing market, buyers and sellers are giving much flashier presents to their brokers for a job well-done — jewelry, European vacations, even pets.
Parisse, a Maltese, came to Javier Lattanzio at Christmastime, a gift from a couple who wanted to show their appreciation for his hard work in selling their Fifth Avenue apartment a year earlier. [more]