Stephon to Net Perry Street Condo?   June 19, 2006 For New York Knicks players, a good way to get over this woeful season could be to treat oneself to something nice—say a $6.95 million apartment…... Read more >

Stephon to Net Perry Street Condo?
 
June 19, 2006

For New York Knicks players, a good way to get over this woeful season could be to treat oneself to something nice—say a $6.95 million apartment in the Richard Meier–designed towers on Perry Street.
 
Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury recently checked out such a pricey pad, according to a source with knowledge of the listing.
 
The 3,692-square-foot apartment includes floor-to-ceiling windows, providing superb city and Hudson River views. The full-service building also features a 24-hour doorman, concierge and state-of-the-art fitness room.
 
The Perry Street towers have been a celebrity outpost ever since they hit the market several years back—attracting notables like Calvin Klein, Martha Stewart and Vincent Gallo. But the building has never been popular with sports superstars.
 
As of now, there’s no word on whether the Brooklyn native is ready to relocate to the West Village’s glass-and-steel fishbowl. Through a spokesperson, Mr. Marbury declined to comment on his real-estate interests.
 
Warburg Realty’s senior managing director, Richard Steinberg, and his colleague Sarah Fiszel have the listing.

< Read less

Top Agents Under 30 "Nobody starts out planning to go into real estate," is a common refrain one often hears. Traditionally, residential real estate has been a profession that most launch into as a second…... Read more >

Top Agents Under 30
"Nobody starts out planning to go into real estate," is a common refrain one often hears. Traditionally, residential real estate has been a profession that most launch into as a second or third career, one or two or three decades after entering the workforce. It’s not a young person’s game.
But that may be changing. A new breed of younger agents are increasingly coming into the profession, a trend that has been fueled by the downturn in other sectors of the economy and the impressive amount of money that can be made in real estate.
Given the trend, THE REAL DEAL decided to assemble a list of some of the hottest agents under 30. We approached 25 of the city’s most prominent firms, both large and small, asking for their most accomplished or top-producing agent still in their 20s (for the largest firms we asked for two names), and then whittled down the list some more.
The results speak for themselves. From Manhattan-born-and-bred family business scions to new agents who came to New York from small towns to make it big, they run the gamut. Some have worked on Wall Street. Some hail from the art world. What they all seem to possess is an impressive degree of maturity, drive and smarts, which no doubt has helped them to elevate their careers at a relatively early stage.

Sarah Steinberg
Company: Warburg Realty
Deals: $9.5 million in last six months
Age: 24
Sarah Steinberg is the daughter of two of Warburg’s top brokers, Richard Steinberg and Renee Bross, but has also shown she has what it takes to be superstar herself since beginning as an agent three years ago. Over the past six months, working both independently and with her father, who is the company’s top producer, she has obtained $9.5 million in signed contracts and closed deals, and presently has a whopping $26.6 million in exclusives. Steinberg graduated from the Nightingale-Bamford School on the Upper East Side and from Cornell University, and said because of her upbringing she learned early on "the twists and turns of a deal - it’s not a surprise to me." Nonetheless, starting so young, "people were welcoming, but skeptical" of her, she said. "But I got the trust and was able to prove myself." Since she started, she said, "there are so many other young brokers entering the business."

 

< Read less