Recently, CORE was invited to join Leverage Global Partners, a network of independent real estate brokerage firms throughout the world, to be its exclusive member affiliate for the New York City market. After meeting with co-founder F. Ron Smith, Shaun and I agreed that his vision for Leverage dovetails almost seamlessly with the fundamental tenets of CORE’s business model in its focus on transparency, integrity and innovation. CORE is excited to be a member of Leverage and looks forward to working with its newfound affiliates.
CORE has built its brand on a record of consistent performance and evolved the platform for real estate sales by embracing changes in technology, 
marketing and social media. At the same time, CORE never loses sight that the business of real estate is fundamentally based on personal relationships as well as the bricks and mortar of real property, so a high level of individual attention and service defines our agents’ approach. Leverage shares CORE’s commitment to innovation and quality and provides a means for CORE to reach an international audience of like-minded real estate firms as well as relocation clients, in the process reaffirming CORE’s reputation of excellence. Four CORE listings are regularly featured on the Leverage site, as are select listings of all affiliates. Visitors to the site are thus introduced to an array of properties in markets as diverse as San Diego, California, Mykonos, Greece, and Guangzhou, China.
While New York has long been considered a truly global city based on its concentration of critical industries as well as its cultural, financial, medical and educational resources, it is only since relatively recently that many wealthy and influential persons from throughout the world could buy residential property in New York City due to the predominance of cooperative ownership. The vast majority of coops don’t permit second home ownership, and their financial and other disclosure requirements effectively disallow international purchasers. The influx of new and converted condominiums to the market in the last ten to fifteen years, and the extremely high-end finishes and amenities offered by of many of these buildings, has opened up homeownership to a much wider audience of affluent global consumers.
As NYC has experienced this growth in international ownership, CORE increasingly works with clients with property holdings throughout the world, often necessitating a referral to a brokerage in another city, state or country. The collection of boutique brokerages assembled by Leverage Global Partners ensures that CORE will have a reliable network within which it can refer clients. Additionally, the Leverage affiliation ensures that access amongst the firms is at the highest level, so clients are assured careful consideration when being matched with a local realtor. In turn, we at CORE will ensure that clients referred to us through the network receive the same high level of personalized service and attention that CORE agents bestow on their existing clients.
Ryan Fitzpatrick is Director of Sales for CORE’s Chelsea office.