HGTV’s “Selling New York” follows CORE agents as they navigate the country’s most competitive—and compelling—real estate market. Here’s our behind-the-scenes look at Episode 403, which first aired on October 27, 2011. For more SNY epilogues, click here.

In “Trophy Properties” one of New York City’s premier agents, Vickey Barron, made her “Selling New York” debut, showcasing her exquisite $14M West Village townhouse listing at 38 Bethune Street. Known for her creativity and unorthodox marketing strategies, Vickey exhibited an ability to execute an incredibly inventive plan that left a lasting impression on buyers, sellers and viewers alike. 

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1) DIY decorating is not as easy as it looks on TV. While staging an apartment is commonplace amongst brokers, Vickey refused to simply place a coffee table, a few paintings and some candles strategically throughout the apartment. Instead, Vickey opted to fully decorate the entire townhouse—on her own dollar! She drove to her favorite furniture store, ABC Carpet & Home, and purchased everything from area rugs to couches. She then hired a private moving company to deliver everything to 38 Bethune, where she stayed up until 4 AM placing furniture and hanging artwork from her own personal collection. Luckily everything fit perfectly into 38 Bethune because her purchases were all final sale.

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HGTV’s “Selling New York” follows CORE agents as they navigate the country’s most competitive—and compelling—real estate market. Here’s our behind-the-scenes look at Episode 402, which first aired on October 20, 2011. For more SNY epilogues, click here.

In “The Right Moves,” CORE agent and “SNY” newcomer Adrian Noriega assists a buyer–who is not only a returning client, but also a friend–in finding the perfect apartment. Sound like a sticky situation? Well, disappointed after losing what he thought was his dream home, Adrian’s client, Doug, pressures Adrian even harder to deliver the goods that made him a returning client in the first place. Throughout this hunt, not only is an apartment on the line, but so is a long-lasting business relationship—and perhaps a friendship—as well.

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1) Friends are forever—as long as you find them their dream home. Adrian has worked as Doug’s real estate broker not once, not twice, but a total of three times over the past few years, and the two have developed a strong friendship. While it may have placed additional pressure on Adrian to deliver results, he said that he truly enjoys mixing business with pleasure, and he considers many of his former clients among his closest friends. Doug said that having a friend like Adrian as his representative was a big plus because he knew that he could trust Adrian. In addition, both Adrian and Doug agreed that it is far more fun to go apartment hunting with someone whose company you actually enjoy. And yes, Doug is very happy at his new home, and he and Adrian are most certainly still friends. Phew!

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HGTV’s “Selling New York” follows CORE agents as they navigate the country’s most competitive—and compelling—real estate market. Here’s our behind-the-scenes look at Episode 401, which first aired on October 13, 2011. For more SNY epilogues, click here.

“Selling New York” is back for its fourth season, and if the first episode is any indication of what’s to come, this is sure to be one of the most exciting seasons yet. In this episode, entitled “Making It Personal,” CORE agent and “SNY” favorite, Tom Postilio, is tasked to sell an apartment in his own building, Windsor Park. As always, the stakes are high, but this time the pressure is hitting a little too close to home, especially when potential buyers show little interest in living at Windsor Park. Never one to back down from a challenge, Tom—with the help of a cookie or two—found a buyer who, like him, fell in love with Windsor Park.

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HGTV’s “Selling New York” follows CORE agents as they navigate the country’s most competitive—and compelling—real estate market. Here’s our behind-the-scenes look at Episode 313, which first aired on September 1, 2011. For more SNY epilogues, click here.

In New York City, 45 days is hardly enough notice to get a dinner reservation, but in this week’s episode of “Selling New York,” entitled “Moving Deadlines,” that’s the brief amount of time the CORE team — including agent Maggie Kent, Chief Operating Officer Brittley Jarrell and founder and CEO Shaun Osher — is given to launch a new 53-unit luxury apartment building in the downtown Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea. They say it takes a village to raise a child, and it took almost that many people to get the building, 305W16, ready for its sales launch and grand opening party. And what a party it was! After a few weeks of intense design, staging and marketing work, 305W16 kicked off with an incredible rooftop party that unveiled the building’s massive daisy sculpture to a crowd of over 600.

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HGTV’s “Selling New York” follows along with CORE agents as they navigate the country’s most competitive—and compelling—real estate market. Here’s our behind-the-scenes look at Episode 311, which first aired on August 25, 2011. For more SNY epilogues, click here.

In this week’s episode, “Seeing is Believing,” SNY alum Maggie Kent partners with fellow CORE agent John Harrison to help a young client, Vanessa, navigate the intimidating Manhattan real estate market as she searches for her first apartment. After losing a competitive bidding war on what Vanessa thought would be her dream apartment, Maggie and John had to tackle the challenge of picking up the pieces and starting the apartment search all over again.

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1) Initially, John began showing Vanessa apartments in the $700,000 range, but could quickly tell that she wanted more out of an apartment. Maggie called the apartment hunt not a process of elimination, but rather “a process of addition,” stating that the more apartments Vanessa saw, the more items she added to her wish list. CORE’s experts ended up showing Vanessa around 60 apartments in total. John said that the more options a client sees, the better able he is to meet their needs.

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Top CORE agent, Tom Postilio, is at it again in this week’s episode of Selling New York – this time with an “easy bake oven” dilemma on his hands. The apartment hunters were returning clients of Tom’s, so the pressure was on for him to work his magic and find them a home with both a kitchen fit for a top chef as well as one with suitable outdoor space. Continue reading for some exclusive information on what happened after the cameras stopped rolling and what didn’t make it into this episode!

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This week, Selling New York viewers had the pleasure of taking a peek inside one of Manhattan’s most unique properties, listed by CORE’s Maggie Kent. Viewers watched as Maggie went above and beyond the call of duty to secure a high profile exclusive on a stunning one-of-a-kind listing featuring a pool in the living room.

Since this was Evie McMurray Van-Zeller’s second time listing her property, she knew she needed to choose correctly among the brokerages competing for her unique listing. Continue reading for some exclusive information about what happened after the cameras stopped rolling and what didn’t make it into last night’s episode of Selling New York!

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Emily Beare’s affable yet professional work ethic consistently garners her some of CORE’s most luxurious and jaw-dropping listings. As we saw in this week’s Selling New York episode, titled “Gold Coast”, Emily’s challenge was to sell a $12M two-bedroom apartment on Fifth Avenue. During the episode, viewers watched as Emily harnessed the power of CORE’s top-notch marketing team to strategize a plan tailor-made to this special property.

Emily proves throughout the duration of this episode that innovative marketing strategies are essential to successfully sell unique properties like this pricey Fifth Avenue home. Continue reading for some exclusive information about what happened after the cameras stopped rolling and what didn’t make it into last night’s episode of Selling New York! (more…)

Tom Postilio’s charismatic personality and top-notch client service were on display throughout last night’s episode of Selling New York, titled “World Trade Center,” which is why we’ve already received a lot of positive feedback from our fans. As we saw in the episode, Tom’s buyers were apprehensive about moving to the Financial District because of its proximity to the construction being completed at Ground Zero. However, Tom remained positive throughout the episode, doing anything it took to show the couple all the amazing features they could potentially miss out on by not choosing to live in this area.

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Kirk proved to be quite the leader as he played “Captain Kirk” to his very own “Team Enterprise”. Continue reading for some exclusive information on last night’s episode of “Selling New York”!
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