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Richard Grossman
Executive Director of Sales, Downtown
rgrossman@halstead.com
212-381-4274
With more than two decades of real estate experience in Manhattan, Richard Grossman is well-known as an innovative, effective and strategic leader in both the residential and commercial fields. As Executive Director of Sales of Downtown for Halstead Property, LLC, Richard handles the day to day operations of running Halstead's Village office and with his guidance the office has doubled in size to more than 110 agents.
Under his direction, a solid network of loyal and top producing agents has been created in the Village Office. Combined with his strong leadership skills, he is able to provide his agents and their clients with an invaluable knowledge of the ins and outs of the real estate industry. His familiarity with the inner workings and requirements of cooperatives and condominiums provides agents and clients with valuable insight in successfully dealing with complex transactions. In addition, Richard is known for his calm and patient demeanor and is always able to address concerns and solve problems in a composed and logical manner.
During the course of his career, Richard has been involved with the conversion of more than 30 rental buildings to cooperative or condominium ownership. He has been directly involved in each step of the process including initial analysis of the viability of conversion, preparation and certification of schedules A & B for the offering plan, handling the sales and marketing of vacant units as well as the negotiations with existing tenants.
Prior to joining Halstead Property, Richard was the Senior Vice President and Director of Sales for Heron Properties, where he was responsible for the creation of the sales division of one of New York's most prestigious management firms and which quickly grew to 25 sales agents under his direction. While at Heron, he also served as a commercial mortgage broker, specializing in underlying mortgages for cooperative buildings. In addition, Richard brokered numerous retail and commercial transactions including the leasing of a midtown office building, several garage leases, the sale of income producing properties, as well as art galleries on 57th Street and the Chelsea art districts. Before Heron, Richard was the Director of Sales for Hahn & Mann Realty, Inc. and started his career at J.H. Taylor Real Estate, two venerable firms.
In his personal time, Richard is an avid traveler, fitness enthusiast and collector of contemporary and modern art. Richard is the past President of the Brevoort East, a luxury 330-unit cooperative building in Greenwich Village. He is a graduate of Syracuse University and he received a Diploma in Real Estate Analysis from New York University.
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Halstead Property is pleased to announce the return of Ivana Tagliamonte who, as a result of her cumulative production level, has been appointed to the coveted title of Executive Vice President at the Village office. With more than a decade...
Mann Report - Wednesday, February 01, 2012
New York, NY — Halstead Property is pleased to announce the return of Ivana Tagliamonte who, as a result of her cumulative production level, has been appointed to the coveted title of Executive Vice President at the Village office. With...
Realestaterama - Friday, December 23, 2011
Halstead Property announced that Sara Rotter has joined the firm as director of sales for downtown.
Rotter is working closely with Richard Grossman, the executive director of sales for downtown. Together, they are responsible for the day-to-day management of Halstead's...
Brokers Weekly - Wednesday, November 23, 2011
From left: Sara Rotter, the new director of sales for Halstead, and Diane Ramriez, president of Halstead Property
Sara Rotter, the former director of sales for the Gramercy, Flatiron, Chelsea and West Village offices of Citi Habitats, has joined Halstead Property...
The Real Deal - Friday, November 11, 2011
Revealed: 10 brokers under the age of 30 who are fast risers in a marketplace increasingly infused with technology
By Theresa Agovino and Amanda Fung
Happily, in many respects, life isn't what it used to be for newbie brokers. Newmark Knight Frank...
Crains - Sunday, October 23, 2011
By Vivian Toy
BEFORE the financial markets’ most recent drubbing, New York City’s real estate prices had been flat for the better part of a year. But over the spring and summer, prices in certain pockets of property sprinkled around Manhattan...
New York Times - Sunday, August 21, 2011
StreetEasy is a key real estate website that breaks down all the market data needed when buying, selling or renting a home. Now it is also launching a new service that will help with a different step in the process...
NY1 - Monday, August 08, 2011
Agents asked - and the experts delivered at The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY)'s DOwntown Committee Breakfast Roundtable Discussion earlier this month.
More than 70 brokers received industry insight on various topics from winning the bid to entering...
Brokers Weekly - Wednesday, June 22, 2011
LESTER HOLT KRISTEN DAHLGREN
LESTER HOLT, anchor:
Freedom from a New York City jail cell has come at a very high price for the disgraced former head of the IMF. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, accused of sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper, is spending...
NBC Nightly News - Saturday, May 21, 2011
By: Rachel Morgan
The downtown real estate market is bouncing back with a vengeance. “The downtown real estate market is healthy and growing stronger by the deal” said Eric Zollinger, president of Zollinger & Associates. “In West Chelsea, for example, once-stalled...
New York Observer - Sunday, May 15, 2011
A.C. LawrenceDenise Salizzoni was promoted to senior vice president from managing director. Cammy Cutler was promoted from executive assistant to closing director and assistant manager. Rebecca Wolfson, Tawn Jefferson, Nikolaya Todorova, Nelly Narvaez, Dina Capobianco, Daniel Jaeger, Meza Eythel, Hans...
The Real Deal - Sunday, May 01, 2011
By Amanda Fung
Four years after the Rudin family unveiled plans for a massive residential development in Greenwich Village, and a year after those plans were derailed by the bankruptcy of the site's owner, Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers, the project...
Crains - Sunday, March 13, 2011
NEW YORK - Wall Street executives may face smaller bonuses and a public that still eyes them with suspicion, but that isn't stopping them from rediscovering their love of luxury cars, oceanfront homes and private jets.
A soaring stock market, a...
MSNBC - Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Welcome to the next installment of our ongoing interview series, Meet the Neighbors! Today, The Observer checks in with Richard Grossman, Halstead's Executive Director of Sales, Downtown. That means he runs all the deals brokered out of Halstead's Village office,...
New York Observer - Wednesday, November 24, 2010
By CANDACE TAYLOR
NEW YORK CITY -- Brokers these days have coined a term for a lawyer -- or anyone else -- who ruins a perfectly good real estate transaction: "deal killer."
Despite the recent pickup in sales activity, the lingering...
Inman News - Monday, August 09, 2010
By Amy Tennery
At Manhattan's luxury buildings, doormen don't just hold the doors -- they hold the keys.
Which is why an impending strike, set to begin at midnight, could turn a lot of desirable listings into pumpkins, according to...
The Real Deal - Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Map by Jason Lee
Fourth-quarter numbers reveal six neighborhoods where prices maybe, just maybe, have bottomed out. By S.Jhoanna Robledo
It’s been a dismal eighteen months for sellers, but the fourth-quarter statistics from the end of 2009 were surprisingly...
New York Magazine - Monday, February 01, 2010
By Candace TaylorIn post-Madoff, post-Lehman Brothers New York, co-op and condo boards are taking a turn as gumshoes. Experts say buildings are now conducting increasingly extensive, and often costly, background checks of prospective buyers. The investigations include everything from reviewing...
The Real Deal - Monday, November 02, 2009
By: Jill UrbanWith a contract signed for a set price, all that's left to do is have the bank appraise the property for financing. As we explained in our last report, that's where things can get sticky. New guidelines are...
NY1 - Friday, September 18, 2009
By Mark EllwoodChristian Egan, a 34-year-old banker originally from Brazil, has long coveted a new apartment in New York. But the resilience of the city property market, even in the current downturn, has prevented him from buying. “I’ve been very...
Financial Times - Saturday, July 04, 2009
A fat bonus used to help with the co-op board. Now it’s a liability.
By S.Jhoanna Robledo
For years, Halstead Property’s Richard Grossman has run a boot camp, teaching agents how to get buyers approved by co-op boards. In it, he...
New York Magazine - Monday, March 23, 2009
Bottom of the market seeing more activity than top
By Julia Dahl
A little over six months ago, Barak Dunayer made headlines when his eponymous agency snagged the listing for William F. Buckley's Park Avenue duplex. The asking price was...
The Real Deal - Sunday, March 01, 2009
As offices shutter, rental activity shines in grim market
By Candace Taylor
Though the New Year ushered in more grim news for the residential real estate market, a few positive signs appeared as brokers reported a slight uptick in sales...
The Real Deal - Monday, February 02, 2009
By Gabby Warshawer
How much do you ask for a home when fewer and fewer deals are being inked, prices are heading down, and buyers are bargain hunting?
For many Manhattan brokers, that question is Topic A nowadays.
"Pricing is the...
The Real Deal - Monday, January 26, 2009
By VIVIAN S. TOY
WITH sales of co-ops and condominiums in New York City slowing to a virtual trickle in recent weeks, many brokers suspect that would-be buyers are sitting back and hoping to time their apartment purchases to coincide with...
New York Times - Sunday, December 21, 2008
By Alicia Hartgrove
Unlike many in this business who stumble into real estate after dabbling in other fields, Richard Grossman of Halstead Property, now with 26 years of experience, never craved a different career.
He got his first taste of the business...
Brokers Weekly - Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Last night was REBNY’s 20th Anniversary Residential Deal of the Year Awards & Charity Gala in Central Park, honoring toppers in residential sales and rentals. Each of the first-place winners received $1,500 for a charity of their choice, and all...
Real Estate BisNow - Thursday, October 30, 2008
Some of the Real Estate Board of New York's Residential Deal of the Year award winners on Wednesday night, with their managers:
(Left to right) Steven Spinola, REBNY president; Kent Swig of Terra Holdings and Swig Equities; Michael Goldenberg; Dan...
New York Observer - Thursday, October 30, 2008
Brokers use works by local, contemporary artists to stage homes
Brokers know that staging a home with works of art helps sell it faster. Now, more real estate agents are reaching out beyond established artists to connect with the current...
The Real Deal - Tuesday, July 01, 2008
You Can Afford to Live on the Water
Lenny Rosenblatt is a native New Yorker who has lives all over town, from Chelsea’s London Terrace to a park-front Park Slope co-op. But when he moved into a new townhouse development in...
The Village Voice - Wednesday, April 09, 2008
THE apartment listing promised a renovated one-bedroom on a corner of Avenue C. But the broker, who was 20 minutes late, actually had the keys to an apartment on the corner of Avenue D - a far less appealing address....
New York Post - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Photographs by Tina Fineberg for The New York Times
Photo caption: SUM OF ITS PARTS At apartment buildings like the Park Royal, a co-op at 23 West 73rd Street, maintenance covers everything from security and wages for the staff to the...
New York Times - Sunday, February 24, 2008
Photo: Getty Images/Glowimages
By VIVIAN S. TOY
FOR years, some New York City co-ops that have retail space in their buildings have been doing the unfathomable. They have rented out their commercial space at bargain rents, and to make sure they weren’t...
New York Times - Sunday, January 20, 2008
By Justin Rocket Silverman, amNewYork Staff Writer
News of a bursting bubble and increasing foreclosure rates is daily fare in reports of the American real estate market - unless it's New York City's market that's being discussed. Then the picture seems...
AM New York - Thursday, November 08, 2007
In contrast to recent months, brokers report quieter open houses, fewer bidding wars
By Malika Worrall
Filled-up open houses left buyers at a disadvantage during a strong selling season that lasted the bulk of the year through August. But, according to brokers,...
The Real Deal - Thursday, November 01, 2007
Halstead Property announced today that Abby Plitt Gellert and Richard J. Grossman have been promoted to Executive Director of Sales for their respective offices, Westside and Downtown. Previously, Gellert and Grossman served as Director of Sales. Reporting to the President...
Real Estate Weekly - Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Halstead Property announced that Abby Plitt Gellert and Richard J. Grossman have been promoted to executive director of Sales for their respective offices, Westside and Downtown. Previously, Gellert and Grossman served as Director of Sales. Reporting to the President of...
RIS Media - Tuesday, October 16, 2007
By: VIVIAN S. TOY
EVERYONE knows that buying a condominium in New York City is supposed to be much easier than buying a co-op. More expensive maybe, but definitely easier.
An advertisement for a condo is as likely to scream “No...
New York Times - Sunday, May 20, 2007
Vacancies are increasing on Greenwich Avenue.
Vacancies may be making room for Bleecker Street-style retail, rents.
A rash of retail vacancies has broken out on Greenwich Avenue -- and brokers speculate that Bleecker Street envy is to blame.
Some brokers link the...
The Real Deal - Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Developmental Difficulties: Does affordable housing have a future?
Our Town downtown
February 19, 2007
It’s a cold, but clear day, and from the terrace of John Scott’s 38th floor apartment on Greenwich Street, you can see the Empire State Building perfectly. You...
Our Town - Monday, February 19, 2007
Hefty year-end bonuses, including a chief executive's record $40million, bring good cheer to employees at Manhattan brokerages.
By Walter Hamilton
Times Staff Writer
NEW YORK — On Wall Street, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Morgan Stanley Chief Executive John Mack...
Los Angeles Times - Saturday, December 16, 2006
BY PHYLLIS FURMAN
DAILY NEWS BUSINESS WRITER Wilson Sierra, who has worked as a doorman at 440 W. 34th Street for nine years, is expecting a $3,000 windfall in tips this holiday season. Parking attendant Wilson Lata says younger customers don't...
The New York Daily News - Thursday, December 14, 2006
A Manhattan complex has long been shielded from gentrification, but new ownership could change that.
By Walter Hamilton
Times Staff Writer
NEW YORK — It was true love when Arlynne Miller moved to Stuyvesant Town 30 years ago to live with a boyfriend.
The...
Los Angeles Times - Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Plastic surgery is painful and expensive, so it’s no wonder tenants of one Jane Street building are divided over the need for an extreme makeover. At a recent shareholders’ meeting, a larger-than-usual crowd congregated in the lobby—which is a bit...
New York Magazine - Monday, December 26, 2005