{"id":370,"date":"2026-05-21T10:05:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=370"},"modified":"2026-05-21T10:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:05:58","slug":"the-36-most-powerful-real-estate-brokers-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"The 36 Most Powerful Real Estate Brokers in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tFor all the hand-wringing about a sluggish American housing market, the luxury sector seems to be doing just fine, especially in New York, especially at the very top. In 2025, more city condos, townhouses and coops sold than in the previous year. The median sale price was higher, and inventory, while tight, improved. Rents, meanwhile, continued to climb above previous records. From mid-2024 through 2025, New York had the best performing housing market in the country, according to the Federal Reserve. A-number one. Top of the heap.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=368\">\u2018Red Rocks\u2019 Review: Bruno Dumont\u2019s Beautifully Shot French Riviera Kids Flick Is a Minimalist Drama Mostly for Adults<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThe New York City real estate market in 2025 was a surprisingly strong one,\u201d says StreetEasy senior economist Kenny Lee. \u201cAs mortgage rates continued to moderate this fall, buyers and sellers both rushed to the market. With more homes on the market, buyers had more options and the city saw more sales.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAt the same time, another sterling year for Wall Street gave buyers the cash they needed to bite off the best pieces of the Big Apple. \u201cThe rich just keep getting richer,\u201d notes Donna Olshan, president of the NYC brokerage Olshan Realty Inc. \u201cIn 2020, the top one\u202fpercent had $31\u202ftrillion, and now they have over $50\u202ftrillion. So the luxury market is being fed by very rich people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThat might explain why so many of the realtors surveyed were aghast at Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s proposed pied-\u00e0-terre tax and rent-freeze plan. But for now, demand for an address in the Five Boroughs remains robust. And as every agent knows, high demand and tight inventory mean one thing: big deals. For our 2026 hot list of the top real estate agents in New York and the Hamptons, <em>THR<\/em> crunched numbers, surveyed the city\u2019s top brokerages and scoured public records for celebrity sales and blockbuster deals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Emily Beare<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tCORE<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>After more than 21 years as a broker, earning more than $4\u202fbillion in sales, Beare feels this is the first time she is working in a balanced market. \u201cSellers have become more realistic, and buyers realize that if they see something they like, and it is well priced, they need to act quickly,\u2019\u2019 she explains. She just put Mariah Carey\u2019s penthouse on the market and sold Rupert Murdoch\u2019s apartment on Central Park South. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Noble Black<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>CORCORAN GROUP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>After listing Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward\u2019s penthouse at 1120 Fifth Ave. last year, \u201cWe had 52 showings in a week, 11 offers above ask,\u201d says Black. The property emerged from the bidding war to sell $4\u202fmillion above the $9.95\u202fmillion listed price. He\u2019s now selling a smaller unit that also was owned by the couple. (It\u2019s in contract.) \u201cIt does have this incredible provenance. We had some photos of them having parties there in the early \u201980s,\u201d says Black, one of the top sellers in the country, who did $506\u202fmillion in sales in 2025.<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Serena Boardman<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>SOTHEBY\u2019S INTERNATIONAL REALTY <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tManhattan\u2019s famed co-op whisperer continued to rack up big transactions in some of the Upper East Side\u2019s most exclusive buildings. Her recent streak includes repping either the buyer or seller in three deals of $13\u202fmillion or more. She also repped the owner of a Gilded Age townhouse, which traded hands for $15.5\u202fmillion in January. Closing out 2025 with total annual sales of $260\u202fmillion, Boardman remains an undisputed arbiter of Manhattan real estate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Paul Brennan and Martha Gundersen<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>DOUGLAS ELLIMAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt was a big deal for a \u201cLittle\u201d estate.\u00a0The 7-acre Amagansett property, owned by Judy Little (widow of financier Brian Little) at 370 and 372 Further Lane had been on the market since spring 2024. But when Brennan and Gundersen introduced their buyer to the property, they had a $70\u202fmillion deal inked in a matter of days, one of the largest of the year. \u201cAll the pieces fell into place,\u201d says Brennan. \u201cIt was a very special buyer,\u201d adds Gundersen, noting that the deal is under an NDA. While not a formal team, Gundersen and Brennan are frequent collaborators, working together to market the East End\u2019s top estates \u2014 like the new-construction eight-bedroom East Hampton spread they sold to Sylvester Stallone for $25\u202fmillion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>John Burger<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>BROWN HARRIS STEVENS <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tKnown for his market knowledge and discretion, Burger is one of the titans of New York\u2019s luxury real estate market, with more than $10\u202fbillion in career sales. He recently sold a co-op at iconic building The Dakota and has the listing on late architect Robert A.M. Stern\u2019s two-bedroom condo in the Upper East Side\u2019s Chatham, which Stern designed, at $4.5\u202fmillion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Janice Chang<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>DOUGLAS ELLIMAN\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tChang was the most successful broker in NYC in <em>THR<\/em>\u2019s research, racking up the highest total sales volume of any small team at any brokerage this April-to-April calendar year \u2014 $582\u202fmillion. She also closed the year\u2019s biggest condo sale, repping both sides of the $55\u202fmillion deal for 52E at 50 West 66th St., Extell\u2019s 70-story Lincoln Square tower, plus two other units in that building for $45.4\u202fmillion and $44\u202fmillion. \u201cThe secret is not to do small deals,\u201d she says with a laugh. \u201cIf you can average $10 or $15 million a deal, you don\u2019t have to do 100.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Carrie Chiang<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>CORCORAN GROUP <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tChiang is known for closing complex, record-breaking deals with precision and finesse. Many of her properties could serve as locations for HBO Max\u2019s <em>The<\/em> <em>Gilded Age<\/em>, such as 973 Fifth Ave., a Stanford White-designed mansion, which she sold last year for $46\u202fmillion. She says, \u201cAt the ultra-luxury level, New York remains one of the most desirable and stable places to invest globally.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Steven Cohen<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>CORCORAN GROUP <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tCohen recently repped the sellers of a $21\u202fmillion Upper West Side penthouse bought by former NBA exec Alex Lasry and sold an $11\u202fmillion Upper East Side townhouse for financier David Rothschild. Despite market uncertainty\u00a0 like the city\u2019s proposed pied-\u00e0-terre tax, \u201cthe market is strong,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s New York City, and people want to be here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Terry Cohen<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>COMPASS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tCohen\u2019s biggest deal last year was an East Hampton gem \u2014 known as Dune Cottage and once owned by Jacqueline Kennedy\u2019s sister Lee Radziwill \u2014 which closed for $72\u202fmillion with Cohen repping the buyer. \u201cYou have really good years, and you have years where your assistant gets paid more than you do,\u201d says the 25-year Hamptons real estate vet. \u201cA year and a half ago, we didn\u2019t sell anything on the ocean. Now we\u2019ve sold about 45 properties.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Gary Cooper and Preston Kaye<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>HEDGEROW\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThough their company is only 6 years old, the infamously tight-lipped Kaye and Cooper have been cleaning up in Suffolk County, closing the most expensive trade in Amagansett history this year with the sale of fashion designer Reed Krakoff\u2019s home at 55 Dunes Lane for $43.5\u202fmillion and racking up a total of $683\u202fmillion. They sold an oceanfront teardown on Surfside in Bridgehampton for $28\u202fmillion, and the house on that block that was in <em>Wall Street<\/em> for $32\u202fmillion. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Bianca D\u2019Alessio<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>THE MASTERS DIVISION, NEST SEEKERS <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tD\u2019Alessio has built a booming business advising developers from site acquisition through construction, design and sales launch, posting $255\u202fmillion in sales volume last year. She\u2019s also a castmember on HBO Max\u2019s <em>Selling the Hamptons<\/em>, author of <em>Mastering Intentions<\/em> and a weekly <em>Money <\/em>magazine columnist. \u201cI do 20 to 30 buildings a year,\u201d she says. \u201cWe had a lot of healthy activity in the $3.5\u202fmillion to $20\u202fmillion market in our projects this past year.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Glenn Davis<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>SERHANT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tAfter a successful 14-year run with Douglas Elliman, Davis joined Serhant in October. Looks like he made a good choice: He just sold three homes at 1 Morton, totaling around $30\u202fmillion, including a townhouse that went to Will Arnett. He also unloaded Harry Macklowe\u2019s 78th-floor apartment on Millionaire\u2019s Row for just under $60\u202fmillion and will be handling sales for the Mandarin Oriental Residences on Fifth Avenue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Tim Davis<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>CORCORAN\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tFew names are as synonymous with Hamptons real estate as Davis\u2019. The lifelong Hamptonite has spent 42\u202fyears making deals for billionaires like Vornado\u2019s Steven Roth, Chris Burch and Harry Macklowe, negotiating more than $5\u202fbillion in East End sales. His market dominance is striking: Of seven sales on Meadow Lane \u2014 aka Billionaire\u2019s Lane \u2014 Davis was involved in six, including 1320 Meadow Lane, a Moroccan-style oceanfront mega-mansion that sold for $40\u202fmillion. \u201cWhen you sell something on the ocean, it\u2019s a different level,\u201d he says. He\u2019s also marketing 635 Daniels Lane in Sagaponack for $85\u202fmillion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Mick DiStasio<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>BROWN HARRIS STEVENS <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tA former pro basketball player in the U.K., DiStasio has come a long way since his first sale \u2014 a fifth-floor walk-up that he had to show 300 times before it finally closed, but unlike other big earners, he still caters to relatively humble buyers. \u201cBelow $8\u202fmillion is our wheelhouse now,\u2019\u2019 he explains.\u00a0 That target is paying off. After stints at other firms, he joined Brown Harris last year and did $60\u202fmillion in sales. \u201cThis year,\u201d he says, \u201cwe are on pace to do $100\u202fmillion.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Fredrik Eklund and John Gomes\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>DOUGLAS ELLIMAN\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tEklund and Gomes helped make NYC real estate America\u2019s favorite spectator sport with <em>Million Dollar Listing New\u202fYork<\/em>, notching $30\u202fbillion in career sales in the process. This year, the duo \u2014 with a team of 100 agents in five states and an AI real estate specialist named Maya \u2014 have sold three West Village properties for around $20\u202fmillion, and they\u2019re marketing a $75\u202fmillion spread atop 432 Park. But their biggest coups were in Montauk. \u201cThis last year, the Hamptons were gangbusters,\u201d they say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Stephen Ferrara and Clayton Orrigo<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>HUDSON ADVISORY TEAM, COMPASS <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cFriends are clients and clients become friends. It\u2019s an incredibly intertwined business,\u201d says Orrigo, who adds that there\u2019s \u201cno off switch,\u201d especially since he purchased a three-bedroom condo (for $7\u202fmillion) last year in a Herzog &amp; De Meuron-designed building that also houses Hudson Advisory\u2019s headquarters. Their team amassed an astounding $1.8\u202fbillion in sales from April 2025 to April 2026 (about 20\u202fpercent of which were off-market deals), including selling a penthouse at the Zaha Hadid-designed 520 West 28th St. building for Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Wes Edens for $26.5\u202fmillion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Nikki Field<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>SOTHEBY\u2019S<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tNot only did Field do more than a half a billion in deals in 2025, she turned the struggling super-tall Steinway Tower at 111 West 57th St. into one of the hottest properties in New York. \u201cIt was not being branded well for the type of luxury buyer it needed,\u2019\u2019 she notes. That all changed when she brought in developer Christian Candy for $47\u202fmillion and<em> Shark Tank<\/em>\u2019s Robert Herjavec, who is about to close on a home there for $22\u202fmillion. \u201cThere are now 34 billionaires in the building,\u201d Field says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=366\">Cannes Embraces Ira Sachs\u2019 \u2018The Man I Love\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Cathy Franklin<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>CORCORAN GROUP <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tFranklin, who totaled $376\u202fmillion in 2025 sales, says one sign of how hot the market is right now is that potential buyers were willing to venture out in the bitter cold this winter. When Franklin and Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group launched sales at 1122 Madison, a Studio Sofield-designed new development, in January, \u201cWe had a blizzard and people walked in the snow to get to the sales office, which is very, very telling,\u201d says the agent, who promptly sold the building\u2019s penthouse for $89.5\u202fmillion, the highest sale this year in NYC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Carl Gambino<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>COMPASS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tGambino\u2019s first sale \u2014 Joe Jonas\u2019 house more than 10 years ago \u2014 set him on course to be a go-to agent for high-profile clients. He went on to sell the homes of Ana de Armas in SoHo, Jessica Chastain in midtown and Louis C.K. on Shelter Island. He currently has the home of Lily Allen and David Harbour in contract for $8\u202fmillion and is selling Yolanda Hadid\u2019s farm in Bucks County. \u201cI get to work with the most interesting, talented and intelligent people in the world,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Steve Gold<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>CORCORAN GROUP <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tHigh-net-worth buyers, according to Gold, no longer are waiting for interest rates to fall. \u201cIt\u2019s not really a topic of discussion anymore. Buyers have adjusted psychologically, and they\u2019re starting to realize they might be missing good opportunities,\u201d says Gold, who\u2019s drawn 388,000 Instagram followers amid starring on such TV shows as <em>Million Dollar Listing<\/em> and <em>Selling the City<\/em>. Gold, who scored $422\u202fmillion in sales in 2025, leased supermodel Linda Evangelista\u2019s Chelsea loft to Keanu Reeves for a reported $45,000 a month while he was on Broadway doing <em>Waiting for Godot<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Sami Hassoumi<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>BROWN HARRIS STEVENS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe sale of Ronald Perelman\u2019s townhouse at 36 East 63rd St. for $46.75\u202fmillion and Oleg Cassini\u2019s beaux arts mansion at 15\u202fEast 53rd St. for $34.4\u202fmillion were two big coups for Hassoumi this year. But large city homes have been her niche since she sold the Harkness house for $53\u202fmillion back in 2006. \u201cThey were predicting negativity in the market,\u201d she says, \u201cbut there is more of a demand for bigger houses in the past six months.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Frances Katzen<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>DOUGLAS ELLIMAN\u2019S THE KATZEN TEAM <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tKatzen\u2019s reputation for discretion is one reason she has raked in $3.5\u202fbillion in career sales \u2014 with a celebrity clientele that reportedly includes Naomi Watts, Michael Strahan and Annie Leibovitz. So it came as a shock when the press found out that the buyer of the duplex penthouse she sold at 108\u202fLeonard St. was none other than Sabrina Carpenter. \u201cI sent a note to my team, saying, \u2018How did this happen?\u2019\u202f\u201d says Katzen, who had signed an NDA. In the end, she was vindicated: It was the attorney\u2019s fault. \u201cIt was a hard year,\u201d says Katzen, who nonetheless secured a $46\u202fmillion deal at 53 W. 53rd; a $17.5\u202fmillion at 150 E. 78th St.; and a $15\u202fmillion deal for the penthouse at Jardim in Chelsea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Deborah Kern<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>CORCORAN GROUP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tKern still holds the record for the biggest residential sale in New York history, in which billionaire Ken Griffin purchased a $238\u202fmillion property at 220 Central Park West from her client. Her streak continued last year, when she repped Byron Allen in the sale of a full-floor condo in the same building; it sold for $82.5\u202fmillion. \u201cThe New York City market today reflects what it always has: resilience, momentum and enduring appeal,\u201d says Kern.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Lisa Lippman<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>BROWN HARRIS STEVENS <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tLippman has a distinct advantage over many colleagues: She\u2019s an attorney. \u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of discretion,\u2019\u2019 she explains. Her legal background also comes in handy when it\u2019s time to negotiate. When there was a bidding war over a $29\u202fmillion West Village penthouse and she was told the other buyers were going to purchase it with crypto, she didn\u2019t fold: \u201cI did my due diligence.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Alberto Luzzi<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>SOTHEBY\u2019S INTERNATIONAL REALTY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe multitalented Luzzi keeps busy as an agent with Sotheby\u2019s (with recent deals in the Financial District), as a jewelry designer (with an eponymous store in SoHo) and as a philanthropist. He\u2019s the founder of the We Raise Hope foundation, which has built a school and hospital in a small village in Nepal that was devastated by an earthquake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Frank Newbold<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>SOTHEBY\u2019S INTERNATIONAL REALTY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe veteran Hamptons agent and one-time business partner of Ina Garten repped the seller in the second-biggest sale on the South Fork in 2025, a 7-acre oceanfront estate on Further Lane that traded for $70\u202fmillion. His listings include an 1894 carriage house (priced at $19.5\u202fmillion) in East Hampton Village that\u2019s been enlarged and redesigned by Chris Mitchell and Pilar Guzm\u00e1n, authors of <em>Patina Modern<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Brenda Powers and Elizabeth Sample<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>SOTHEBY\u2019S INTERNATIONAL REALTY <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cMy wish list for the year is simple: smart policy, fiscal discipline and leadership that keeps New York competitive. Incentives matter. Stability matters,\u201d says Sample. In January, she and Powers handled both sides of the $50.7\u202fmillion sale of billionaire developer Stephen Ross\u2019 penthouse at Deutsche Bank Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Abraham Sarway<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>DOUGLAS ELLIMAN <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tAt just 28, Sarway has made a big impact. Last year, he represented three different buyers on the purchase of units at the Giorgio Armani Residences, totaling about $75\u202fmillion. On the seller side, he\u2019s representing another $25.5\u202fmillion property at that Madison Avenue location.\u00a0He also set a rental record with a $150,000-a-month deal at 1010 Park Ave. \u201cGetting people to pay more over the market is no easy feat,\u201d he says, \u201cbut when you\u2019re able to explain the value for them, it goes a long way. People listen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Ryan Serhant\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>SERHANT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tFrom his start on Bravo\u2019s <em>Million Dollar Listing New York<\/em> to the launch of his TikTok-fueled brokerage in 2020 and the premiere of his own show, <em>Owning Manhattan<\/em>, on Netflix, Serhant may be the most visible man in real estate. Now, he\u2019s leaning in to his acting chops and producing original scripted shortform programming, including his new comedy series <em>The Broker.Age<\/em>. \u201cWe have a full production company here,\u201d says Serhant of his agency-cum-studio. It operates in every time zone around the world, 24\u202fhours a day, pumping organic real estate-centered edutainment across multitudes of channels. Though he plans to expand to 11 states this year alone, he maintains that \u201cbigger isn\u2019t better \u2014 better is better.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Jordan Silver<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>BROWN HARRIS STEVENS <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tSilver\u2019s early career as an actor and his mastery of social media dovetailed to contribute to his rapid rise in real estate. He began making videos of apartments, and then decided to appear in them. \u201cI used my writing skills and voice training to do the narration, and as things were picking up, I thought I should have myself in there for branding,\u2019\u2019 he explains. The much-followed 32-year-old, who closed more than $20\u202fmillion in deals last year, just sold a penthouse at 8\u202fUnion Square South for $5\u202fmillion and is creating a mockumentary reality show for Instagram titled <em>Selling\u202fSkylines<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Jim St. Andr\u00e9<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>COMPASS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tGoing into his 23rd year as a broker, St. Andr\u00e9, a former professional soccer player, has parlayed his sportsman\u2019s energy into real\u202festate success. He is selling a historic garage being converted into condos at 125 Perry St., has a $35\u202fmillion townhouse and a $57\u202fmillion penthouse in contract in the same project and was involved in a $60\u202fmillion apartment sale at 150 Charles St., the most expensive to close downtown. And he still finds the time to coach his local high school soccer team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Dana Trotter<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>THE AGENCY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tA former equestrienne, the aptly named Trotter was born into the real estate business, growing up in the Hamptons with a father who was a builder and developer and a mother who worked in sales at Sotheby\u2019s. At 22, she got a license to help her mom out and wound up loving it. This year, her office sold two of the top 10 deals in their market \u2014 oceanfront parcels on iconic Lily Pond Lane for $67\u202fmillion and a home off Hook Pond for $37\u202fmillion. \u201cThere isn\u2019t a lot of inventory, but if something is priced right, it gets multiple bids,\u201d she\u00a0notes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Cody Vichinsky<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>BESPOKE REAL ESTATE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn 2014, brothers Cody and Zachary Vichinsky launched Bespoke Real Estate in the already crowded Hamptons. They instantly stood out with a data-driven approach and a business model catering exclusively to the richer-than-rich. They say: \u201cWe structured our business more like an investment bank. We didn\u2019t focus on accumulating massive amounts of agents. We wanted massive amounts of resources that we could pass on to our clients.\u201d It\u2019s been a winning model, with Bespoke closing more than $12\u202fbillion in deals over the past 12\u202fyears, with an average sale price of more than $27\u202fmillion. Bespoke has expanded to South Florida, California and the Caribbean, but the Hamptons remains the heart of their operation, and last year was another standout, including a $59\u202fmillion deal for 115 Beach Lane. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Greg Vladi<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>SERHANT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tFour years ago, Vladi was showing rentals to NYU students. Now, the 35-year old former tennis player has sold a 22-unit condo project in Greenpoint and closed a $16\u202fmillion townhouse on East 66th Street \u2014 in addition to selling a Tribeca loft off-market for $2\u202fmillion in one day. \u201cIt was loaded with memorabilia like an original gun from <em>Terminator 2<\/em> and the scissors from <em>Edward Scissorhands<\/em>,\u201d he recalls.\u00a0 Sadly, the props didn\u2019t come with the apartment. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>James Weiss<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>CORCORAN GROUP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tAt just 30 years old, Weiss totaled more than $100\u202fmillion in deals in 2025 and is approaching the half-billion mark in career sales. \u201cI think New York is going through a renaissance period\u00a0 with all these membership clubs and restaurants opening,\u201d says Weiss, who works with several clients in the crypto and venture capital space. \u201cWe actually have a lot of people from L.A. who want to try out New York for a year to see if they want to make the jump.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Greg Williamson<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>DOUGLAS ELLIMAN <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tWilliamson has two full-time jobs: selling multimillion-dollar NYC homes \u2014 last year he found a buyer for Ellie Kemper\u2019s $7.49\u202fmillion four-bedroom on Central Park West \u2014 and giving back. Williamson is producer and founding partner of Love Rocks NYC and the Soho Sessions, both raising funds for God\u2019s Love We Deliver. Co-produced with designer John Varvatos and Nicole Rechter, benefit concert Love Rocks has raised nearly $65 million over 10 years, funding 6.5\u202fmillion meals for New Yorkers with life-altering illnesses. Past performers include Cher, Alicia Keys, Paul Simon and Keith Richards. Total fundraising has reached $100 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>This story appeared in the May 20 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. 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