Serhant veteran jumps to Brown Harris Stevens

The original Serhant band is breaking up. 

Amy Herman, the first member to follow Ryan Serhant to his eponymous brokerage from Nest Seekers, has left for Brown Harris Stevens. 

Herman, who spent almost 10 years working with the top broker across the Nest Seekers and Serhant, will be joined by team members and new development heads Charisse Chassen and Francesca Albarrán.

Herman has played a role in a number of high-profile listings in her time at Serhant. Last month, she and her team sold real estate veteran David Feinberg’s 5,000-square-foot penthouse at 993 Fifth Avenue for $17.2 million. She also had the $15 million listing for a condo unit used in “Uncut Gems” this past January, which Douglas Elliman took over in April. 

Herman was also part of the team that took over sales from The Agency at 15 West 96th Street, in May, which Herman said will “stay with Ryan.” 

“I have a very long list of developer relationships, and that is what I am bringing to Brown Harris [Stevens],” Herman said. 

Herman said she’ll be bringing a book of resale business and a number of new development pitches in her pipeline, on which she declined to share specifics. 

The departures of Herman and Chassen, who served as the director of new development under Serhant from 2015 to 2018 is a blow to the three-year-old brokerage’s efforts to grow in the city’s new development market. 

In May, Serhant promoted Jennifer Alese to chief business officer from new development director and brought on Carolyn Sebba, a seasoned new development executive, to replace Alese in her old role. 

The brokerage currently leads sales at sites including Extell Development’s Brooklyn Point, RAL Companies’ Quay Tower and Quadrum Global’s The Huron. As of May, Serhant counted $3.5 billion in new-development inventory across 48 projects.

The move to BHS represents a homecoming of sorts for Herman, who began her career in 2002 at Halstead, which merged with BHS in 2020. The firm finished fourth in TRD’s 2023 Manhattan brokerage rankings with $2.6 billion in closed sales. 

BHS CEO Bess Freedman said the brokerage has “a very meaningful footprint of new development projects” and considers Herman a great addition to both our new development and resale efforts.”  

Serhant did not respond to a request for comment. 

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