Topic: Dolly Lenz

With Rents That High, Why Not Buy?

Before his sudden death in 2008, actor Heath Ledger was paying nearly $25,000 a month to rent his New York City apartment.. . Yes, you read that...
Dolly Lenz, vice chairman at Prudential Douglas Elliman, sells more real estate than any other broker in the United States, some $7 billion to date. For another closing, Lenz jetted to and from Moscow, also in less than 48 hours. Lenz, who ...

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Dolly Lenz Falls to Earth

On Feb. 12, after seas of silk-scarved, shiny-shoed, power-suited real estate brokers shuffle into the Pierres ballroom, the colossal real estate brokerage Prudential Douglas Elliman will name its broker of the year. Just as its been since Dottie Herman and Howard Lorber ...

The Afternoon Wrap: Friday

The Real Deal pointed us to this gem of a Fox Business clip, wherein Neil Cavuto (greatest hair in show business), Dolly Lenz and Bernie Madoff came together for a few heavenly minutes. [Fox Business]Old Bear Stearns and Lehman executives are ...
If Dolly Lenz did not exist we would have to create her. She has said that she has done $7 billion in sales, has personally owned 70 to 80 properties, and currently keeps 12 BlackBerrys; her name is in the news weekly ...

The $7 Billion Sales Whiz

Dolly Lenz, vice chairman at Prudential Douglas Elliman, sells more real estate than any other broker in the United States, some $7 billion to date. When trying to finalize a sale with a Chinese mogul, she hopped a plane to Hong Kong ...
Even though the most expensive single residential deal ever documented in New York City is still a $53 million townhouse sale (though thats unofficially been beaten by combined-unit spreads at the Plaza), and even though Manhattan real estate is slouching toward dreariness ...

The Top-Earning Women in America

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Manhattan's Luxury Bubble Pricked

After two heirs to the Seagram liquor fortune sold their townhouses last summer for 11 times what each had paid a decade earlier, or after a hedge funder set a co-op record twice this year by buying a penthouse for $46 million ...