A consecutively ranked top producing broker at Warburg and most recently ranked in 2020, Rachel Ostow Lustbader was born and raised in New York City., Rachel Ostow Lustbader was born and raised in New York City. She graduated from the Fieldston School in Riverdale, New York, received a B.A. summa cum laude from Tufts University in Boston, and then returned to Manhattan to attend Columbia University School of Law where she was a Kent scholar and received a J.D. in 1978. She practiced labor law at two of the city's most well-respected corporate law firms, Weil Gotshal & Manges and Graubard Moskovitz McGoldrick Dannett & Horowitz.
For over twenty years Rachel has successfully applied her expertise in negotiation and her high degree of integrity and professionalism to the Manhattan residential real estate market. She has consummated sales in a wide range of properties throughout the city, including townhouses and large family apartments in cooperative and condominium buildings on the Upper East Side, Upper West Side, downtown in Gramercy Park, Greenwich Village, Tribeca, the West Village and NoMad, and in many areas of Brooklyn, including Williamsburg, Boerum Hill, Fort Green, Bushwick and Prospect Lefferts Gardens.
Rachel is married to Brian G. Lustbader, a partner specializing in Construction Law at Venable LLP. Brian is also a former President of the Park Avenue Synagogue. They live on the Upper East Side and have two daughters, Sarah, a graduate of the Fieldston School, Stanford University, and NYU Law School, who is currently a Criminal Defense Attorney at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, and Ilana, an alumna of the Dalton School and Pomona College, who holds Masters’ Degrees in Early Childhood and Early Childhood Special Education from New York University. Rachel serves on the Board of Trustees at the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan and has devoted herself to numerous other fundraising and other philanthropic activities on behalf of her children's schools, the Park Avenue Synagogue, and Kids of NYU Medical Center, a group devoted to improving the quality of pediatric care and facilities at one of New York's most renowned hospitals.
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New York City brokers are bracing for an “absolutely dead” sales market this summer but that could be good news for buyers who are unscathed by current economic conditions. https://www.brickunderground.com/buy/how-buyers-can-take-advantage-slow-summer-sales-negotiate-discount-pricing-condo-co-op-nyc
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Rachel Lustbader, Mihal Gartenberg, Steve Gottlieb, Jeremy Kamm, and Hala Lawrence comment. https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/make-bathroom-look-more-expensive-36983416
Rachel Lustbader, Allison Chiaramonte, Tania Isacoff Friedland, Bonnie and Lisa Chajet comment, 300 Central Park West, Apt 24G & 255 West 84th Street by Allison Chiaramonte and Tania Isacoff Friedland, and 30 East 85th Street PH30… More
Ellen Sykes, Sarah Minton, Parisa Afkhami, and Rachel Ostow Lustbader comment, 1160 Park Avenue 14B by Ellen Sykes, 315 East 65th Street, Apt 10AB by Lisa Chajet and Parisa Afkhami, and 965 Fifth Avenue 5A by… More
Featured Properties: 196 East 75th Street, 17B; 235 East 87th Street, 11B; and 242 East 19th Street, 2FG by Rachel Lustbader 400 East 56th Street, 26K by Andrea E. Wernick and Bill Kowalczuk https://theclose.com/virtual-staging-software/
Rachel Lustbader and Sarah Minton comment. https://www.brickunderground.com/sell/bricktionary-comps-data-recent-sales-apartment-asking-price-nyc-co-op-condo
Featured listings: 196 East 75th Street, 17B and 400 East 56th Street, Apt 26K by Andrea Wernick and Bill Kowalczuk. 235 East 87th Street, 11B and 242 East 19th Street, 2FG by Rachel Lustbader. https://theclose.com/virtual-staging-software/
235 East 87th Street #11B by Rachel Lustbader and Jeremy Kamm featured. https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/market-insight/features/get-to-know/co-ops-no-board-approval-as-manhattan-co-op-inventory-doubles-listing-prices-plummet-35/45522
Rachel Lusbader and Domingo Perez, Jr. comment. https://www.brickunderground.com/buy/what-to-do-if-your-real-estate-deal-is-stalled-by-coronavirus-covid-19-nyc
235 East 87th Street, Apt 11B by Rachel Ostow Lustbader and Jeremy Kamm featured. https://www.brickunderground.com/buy/sponsor-co-op-pick-of-the-week-renovated-junior-four-yorkville-nyc
115 East 9th Street, Apt. 11R by Rachel Ostow Lustbader & Jeremy Kamm, 35 East 85th Street, Apt. 10B by Harriet Kaufman & Dorothy Schrager, 31 Jane Street, Apt. 9H by Rachel Ostow Lustbader & Jeremy… More
400 East 56th Street, Apt 17M by Andrea Wernick and Kathryn Landow and 235 East 87th Street, Apt 11B by Rachel Ostow Lustbader and Jeremy Kamm featured. https://www.offthemrkt.com/blogs/homes-under-a-million-to-avoid-the-real-estate-transfer-tax
Deborah Ribner, Christopher Totaro, Eric Mendelsohn, Domingo Perez Jr., and Rachel Lustbader comment. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-increase-home-value-price-diy-tips-advice-2019-5
Closing at 510 West 110th Street, 12D by Rachel Lustbader and Bosco Diaz; Closing at 171 East 84th Street, 11H by Angela Wu; Closing at 255 East 74th Street, 6B by June Gottlieb is featured in… More
Rachel Lustbader gives advice about the quality of photos when listing a property. https://www.forbes.com/sites/taramastroeni/2018/10/17/real-estate-agents-answer-whats-the-one-thing-you-wish-sellers-knew/#53ec60ef7f2f
Rachel Lustbader’s listing at 85 North 3rd Street in Williamsburg, formerly the residence of model Agyness Deyn, finds a buyer. http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/12/10/model_agyness_deyns_old_williamsburg_pad_sells_for_31m.php
Rachel Lustbader’s listing at 85 North 3rd Street, the former home of model Agyness Deyn, sells for $3.1M. http://observer.com/2015/12/under-the-sea-agyness-deyns-former-seashell-themed-loft-sells-for-3-1m/
Rachel Ostow Lustbader’s Williamsburg loft listing at 85 North 3rd overwhelmingly dominates in Curbed’s “Real Estate Deathmatch.” http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/10/16/which_williamsburg_loft_would_you_spend_35_million_on.php
Rachel Ostow Lustbader’s listing at 85 North 3rd was included in Best Properties On the Market for a collection of refurbished factory lofts around the country. http://theweek.com/articles/580548/6-former-factory-lofts-turned-into-awesome-homes
Rachel Ostow Lustbader lists an apartment at 85 North 3rd Street with “virtually unheard of” taxes of only $24 a year until 2025. http://therealdeal.com/blog/2015/08/21/the-taxes-on-this-3-6m-brooklyn-loft-are-just-24-heres-why/
Rachel Ostow Lustbader’s new listing at 85 North 3rd Street was a featured article. http://www.6sqft.com/model-agyness-deyns-3-6m-former-williamsburg-loft-has-a-tax-bill-of-just-24-a-year/
Rachel Ostow Lustbader was interviewed about her new loft listing at 85 North 3rd Street. The current owners purchased the apartment from model Agyness Deyn. http://nypost.com/2015/08/21/tax-on-3-6m-williamsburg-loft-is-just-24/
352 Riverside Drive, listed by Rachel Ostow Lustbader, was featured in a round-up of homes with fountains. http://www.brickunderground.com/blog/2015/08/fountains
Rachel Ostow Lustbader’s new exclusive at 85 North 3rd Street was a featured property in On the Market. http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/08/20/model_agyness_deyns_old_williamsburg_loft_seeks_365m.php
Warburg Realty, one of Manhattan’s leading real estate companies, recently announced its top 10 brokers for 2013. Longtime Warburg agent Wendy Greenbaum was the leading broker, followed by Richard Steinberg and Jay Glazer. The top ten… More
WARBURG REALTY® ANNOUNCES TOP 2013 BROKERS Wendy Greenbaum, Richard Steinberg and Jay Glazer Lead the Firm’s Most Successful Agents Warburg Realty®, one of Manhattan’s leading residential real estate companies, has announced its top 10 brokers for… More
LINCOLN SQUARE CO-OP $1,250,000 MANHATTAN: 17 West 64th Street (between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue), #8F A two-bedroom two-bath co-op with a combination washer/dryer in a prewar elevator building. PROS: There are windows in every… More
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