Halstead Property

Roberta Benzilio is, at her core, a dealmaker. Her love of personal interaction and background in psychology have certainly served her well in that regard, and as a top-shelf salesperson throughout much of her real estate career, she has never lost...
Mann Report - Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Buyers snap up two lofts a day at Brooklyn conversion By Liana Grey At Kirkman Lofts, a former soap factory in DUMBO, Brooklyn that was recently converted into condos, northern-facing units overlook a Con Edison power plant.Rather than detract from sales,...
Brokers Weekly - Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Terra Holdings announced that Stephen G. Kliegerman has been named president of a newly formed company, Terra Development Marketing. Kliegerman will be responsible for the operations, direction and management of new business, client relations, pre-development planning, marketing and sales for all...
Brokers Weekly - Thursday, June 16, 2011

Kliegerman's New Hat Terra Holdings, the parent company of Brown Harris Stevens and Halstead Property, has named Stephen Kliegerman as president of the group's newly formed business, Terra Development Marketing. Mr. Kliegerman, who for the past six years has served...
New York Observer - Thursday, June 16, 2011

Many building developers are finding innovative ways to incorporate old architecture into new designs. NY1's Jill Urban filed the following report. Though building conversions often chuck out the old to bring in the new, many developers are now working to incorporate...
NY1 - Monday, June 13, 2011

Head of firm's Brooklyn office to take senior post as head of marketing of new developments; Brown Harris Stevens broker named to take over Brooklyn operations. By Amanda Fung Halstead Property, one of the city's largest residential brokerages, announced two new promotions...
Crains - Thursday, June 09, 2011

Trish Martin A former vice president and director at Brown Harris Stevens has been named director of sales for Brooklyn at sister company Halstead Property, Halstead announced today. Starting July 11, Trish Martin will manage Halstead's offices in Brooklyn Heights, Cobble...
The Real Deal - Thursday, June 09, 2011

By Candace Taylor Developer SDS Procida couldn't have asked for better weather to show off the last three penthouses at the Richard Meier-designed On Prospect Park. Brilliant sunshine and cooling breezes greeted visitors last night to the glass and steel...
The Real Deal - Friday, June 03, 2011

JARED KLEINSTEIN For years, the Columbia Street Waterfront District has been treated like the middle child of South Brooklyn. While neighboring Cobble Hill and Red Hook have taken turns in the spotlight, this four-block mini ‘hood has sat in the...
Metro - Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Downtown Brooklyn is on its way up. As one of the city’s largest business districts, the neighborhood had always served a vital role, housing large corporations and the borough’s major government agencies. But in the last decade, the area has been...
Brokers Weekly - Thursday, March 24, 2011

Call it “sharing the wealth.” Brooklyn is full of residential pockets that are benefiting from the heat of their better-known neighbors. “It used to be that people sought a certain neighborhood,” says Roberta Benzilio, executive director of Brooklyn sales for Halstead...
New York Post - Thursday, December 16, 2010

To get to Brooklyn’s Columbia Street Waterfront District by subway, take the F train to Bergen Street or Carroll Street. Then start walking west. You’ll cross scene-y Smith Street and Court Street. Keep going past Cobble Hill or Carroll Gardens...
New York Post - Thursday, December 16, 2010

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Crains - Tuesday, November 16, 2010

New condominiums in Brooklyn are leading the way in sales activity so far this year, according to PropertyShark, which released a list of the top-selling New York City apartment buildings so far this year (click here to see the full...
The Real Deal - Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Ladies and gentlemen, your best-selling building of 2010 so far: Toren! The Downtown Brooklyn zebra tower sold 99 units at an average price of $513,712 during the first three quarters of the year, according to a PropertyShark report cited by...
Crains - Tuesday, November 16, 2010

The first building is Toren Condominium, built in 2009. 99 units have been sold so far this year, that’s 39% of the total number of units. The average sale price was $513,712. One Brooklyn Bridge Park follows with 88 units sold...
Property Shark - Tuesday, November 16, 2010

By JOSH BARBANEL The housing market in most of New York City is outperforming markets in the rest of the country this summer, with prices rising modestly as employment grows in the city. In Brooklyn, median prices for apartments and houses...
Wall Street Journal - Monday, August 30, 2010

THE TNS Development Group of College Point, Queens, has built about 40 buildings classified as affordable housing over the last two decades, and each has had finer-grade detailing than the one before it. Its latest project, the Shelton in Bedford-Stuyvesant,...
New York Times - Monday, June 28, 2010

By Candace Taylor Last month, New York Magazine surprised Manhattanites when it named Park Slope "The Most Livable Neighborhood in New York." But the ranking came as no surprise to major city real estate firms, who have been busily setting...
The Real Deal - Saturday, May 01, 2010

By Linda CollinsHalstead Property announces that Roberta Benzilio has been named executive director of sales of Halstead Property Brooklyn. She previously served as Senior Director of Sales for Halstead Property Development Marketing.In her new role, Benzilio is responsible for Halstead’s...
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Monday, December 14, 2009

The Toren had its first closing last week two days before Thanksgiving, according to public records that just became available. The unit in question was a 1,033-square-foot two-bedroom on the 19th floor. It hit the market in March 2008 for...
Brownstoner - Monday, December 07, 2009

By S.Jhoanna Robledo Laurie Pollock and her husband were ready for change. Their sons were long gone from their seven-room Upper West Side co-op, which was beginning to feel too quiet. “We have a family saying: Drive a truck across...
New York Magazine - Sunday, December 06, 2009

By David Jones The developer of Toren, the long-awaited condominium at 150 Myrtle Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, has applied for Federal Housing Administration financing and is scheduled to begin closings by the second week of December, officials said. FHA financing,...
The Real Deal - Friday, December 04, 2009

Halstead Property announces that Roberta Benzilio has been promoted to the position of Executive Director of Sales of Brooklyn. She previously served as Senior Director of Sales for Halstead Property Development Marketing. In her new role, Benzilio is responsible for...
Brokers Weekly - Wednesday, November 25, 2009

By Linda Collins BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — There’s been a lot of interest in property no. 5 on the list for Tuesday’s auction at Brooklyn Supreme Court, according to a spokesperson in the office of the Public Administrator of Kings County in...
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Thursday, October 01, 2009

To celebrate the just-opened sales office for 20 Henry, the newly- converted luxury condo in Brooklyn Heights, developers 20 Henry Street Development, LLC, hosted an event at the sales office at 114 Henry Street. The property will be marketedand sold...
Brokers Weekly - Wednesday, January 14, 2009

by Tom Acitelli Katherine Dykstra, writing in the January issue of The Real Deal: [W]hat was the perfect pitch in early 2008's real estate market now seems inappropriate. Over the course of one year of tumultuous financial events (a mortgage crisis,...
New York Observer - Thursday, January 01, 2009

In nod to current zeitgeist, value replaces ostentation By Katherine Dykstra When the Park Columbus first came on the market a year ago, the marketing team introduced the building with a campaign that emphasized the conversion's luxury, its high-end finishes...
The Real Deal - Thursday, January 01, 2009

Gifting down payments, price protections are some of the tricks moving units By Candace Taylor Andrew Barrocas, the CEO of the Real Estate Group New York, recently brokered nothing short of a real estate miracle. In the midst of the...
The Real Deal - Monday, December 01, 2008

Compiled by Linda Collins Brooklyn Daily Eagle SUNSET PARK — Calling it the best value in Brooklyn, a conversion of a pre-war classic building into condominiums comes with reasonable starting prices and favorable loan terms. The 54-unit six-story development at 702 44th St....
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Thursday, November 06, 2008

Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Condominium buyers can get more than granite countertops and penthouse views for $4.16 million in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. If Barack Obama isn't elected president, they can get out of the deal. Call it the Obama contingency....
Bloomberg News - Wednesday, October 29, 2008

To compete with sponsor units, resales come with unusual incentives to sweeten deal In late 2006, when the Manhattan residential sales market was red hot, Lawrence Rich, an associate broker and vice president with Prudential Douglas Elliman, decided to put his...
The Real Deal - Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Photo: ROOM TO ROAM: Christine and Ira Fogel left the Upper West Side for Riverstone, one of Riverdale's posh new buildings. 'THE Bronx?" poet Ogden Nash once wrote. "No thonx!" Well, OK, the borough has had its issues ("Fort Apache The Bronx"...
New York Post - Thursday, April 24, 2008

THIS time last year, we took a look at on-the-rise developments that tickled our fancy - whether it was because of design or price or amenities or location. Now, with everyone and his broker weighing in on today's market, we...
New York Post - Thursday, April 10, 2008

Photo: View59 is one of the many projects filling up with future tenants. (Lane Johnson) Proximity to Manhattan andprices are a draw for Queens. Once off the map, Long Island City is now off the charts with a residential building boom that's...
AM New York - Thursday, October 18, 2007

A retractable façade that brings the outdoors in is no surprise in California. But on 14th Street? By S.Jhoanna Robledo Say what you will about glass condos—they’re too glitzy, too impersonal—but they do fulfill one of modern architecture’s basic tenets:...
New York Magazine - Monday, November 20, 2006

REAL ESTATE Halstead Property: Roberta Benzilio, 53, joined as senior director of sales, development marketing. She was formerly chief operating officer at Century 21 NY Metro.
Crains - Monday, September 11, 2006