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Million Dollar Listings: Behind the Firm and In Front of the Camera
Nest Seekers International recognizes the importance of networking, connecting and sharing our voice and content with communities around the world. Of course Eddie Shapiro, founder and CEO of Nest Seekers International, was joking when he described the next phase of the real estate bro-kerage firm’s expansion as interplanetary. “We’re looking at good real estate on Mars, now that the new explorer vehicle landed there just a few weeks ago,” he laughed. Ok, so the idea of brokers negotiating numbers and showing properties on the Red Planet is patently ridiculous. But if anyone could believably make such an out- of-this-world pitch, it’s Shapiro, who founded Nest Seekers in 2002. Since then, the young firm has established its presence on six continents and gained dominance in and around its NYC home base, particularly in the Hamptons. Even outside its four offices (East Hampton, Southampton, Bridgehampton, and Water Mill), it’s hard to ignore Nest Seekers’ omnipresence, especially in the past year. From 2011 to 2012, Nest Seekers saw a 47 percent increase in size (to 308 brokers) and an over 90 percent jump in its listings’ dollar volume. The recipe for Nest Seekers’ success is anything but secret. Shapiro values high visibility, online and off, as vital to thriving in a changing real estate climate. In the 20 years since Shapiro got his license, at 19, the number of brokers in the Hamptons has increased fivefold and the year-round community has grown enormously.
Core grows rental biz
Core marketing group is expanding its core business to include more rentals. The company has enlarged its rental presence and acquired its first rental director, Regis Roumila. Osher said he still plans to focus on high-end units and new developments. “I think there’s a niche that is very much needed in this marketplace, where the rental market is very much perceived as something on the lower end,” said company CEO Shaun Osher. “I think there’s been a void in the market, and we’re looking to fill that void.” This move comes amid a time when more agents are getting into the rental game, to ride out a bad market. Osher said that his brokers — there are currently 38 at the group, according to Core’s Web site — will work on both sales and rental deals. While the group plans to expand — Osher wouldn’t say how many new agents he plans to hire — it will remain a boutique firm.
Nest Seekers cooks up new TV Show
With the success of “Selling New York”on HGTV and Bravo’s forthcoming New York spinoff of “Million Dollar Listing,”there’s little doubt that New York real estate can generate solid ratings for television networks. Now, Nest Seekers International is betting that small-screen exposure can yield big sales, too. The firm has struck a deal to broadcast its own internally produced 12-minute show on Cablevision’s Plum TV every Saturday, twice in the morning and once in the evening. Called “Blend”for its mix of real estate, lifestyle and celebrities, the show is hosted by Nest Seekers senior vice president Caroline Grane and filmed inside some of the firm’s priciest listings.
Régis Roumila flies the nest to Corcoran
Régis Roumila, one of net seekers international’s top agents, is flying off to the corcoran group’s chelsea office. The Paris native, who joined Nest Seekers in 2011, attended law school at the Sorbonne and worked in advertising before turning tp real estate in 2000. After moving to New York, he did stints at several firms, including Citi Habitats and CORE. Corcoran said at Nest Seekers, he was the firm’s No, 2 agent in 2015, behind Ryan Serhant. Roumila said he hoped the move to Corcoran would help him take his business to a new level. His recent deals include the sale of a three-bedroom co-op at 279 Central Park West for nearly $7 million and a penthouse at 401 East 60th Street that went for $5.9 million. In a statement, Nest Seekers CEO Eddie Shapiro said he understands and respects the need for change. “He contributed greatly to our organization for many years,” he wrote. “Our door will always be open for Regis, We look forward to having him back soon.”
Top Agent Régis Roumila
“I love to create situations that allow sellers to win,” says Régis Roumila who developed a niche as an elite Manhattan listing agent following several successful years in New York City’s hot rental market. Born and raised in Paris, Régis took the first chance of his career by moving to San Francisco in 1998 to continue the law studies he began at the prestigious La Sorbonne law school in Paris. After a short time on the west coast, however, he craved a city with the vibrancy of Paris. His desire for world-class art, attractions, museums, parks, stunning architecture and unlimited opportunities drew him both to Manhattan and to real estate. “I moved to New York in 2000 and started my real estate career in rental properties,” he says. “By the time I left the rental business, I had a team of agents and was renting an apartment almost every day, but something was missing.” The rental market no longer offered the challenges he craved. “I discovered that, especially in New York, a real estate agent needed to do both rentals and sales at the same time.” Before long, his profound understanding of Manhattan’s rental and sales markets helped him build sizeable referral base of owners, landlords and clients.
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Blend | Régis Roumila
Régis Roumila in Blend, a network that mixes real estate, lifestyle, design and celebrities, on Cablevision's Plum TV.
Who’s News | Régis Roumila
The Corcoran Group announced Régis Roumila, ranked as Nestseeker’s #2 agent in 2015, has joined the firm’s Chelsea office. Roumila joined the real estate industry in 2000, transitioning from rentals to sales and emerging as a top producer at several firms. He also served as a director at CORE Group Marketing before joining Nestseekers in 2011. In his five years at the company, he rose to be the #2 broker in 2015 with over $100M in sales.
New York City’s illustrious Sherman M. Fairchild Mansion at East 65th Street now offered at US$35 million
The architectural tour de force located steps from Central Park is listed by Régis Roumila who recently joined Christie’s International Real Estate Christie’s International Real Estate’s New York City brokerage, the only real estate brokerage fully integrated with a global art auction house, is proud to represent for sale the Sherman M. Fairchild Mansion at 17 East 65th Street for US$35 million. Régis Roumila, who joined Christie’s International Real Estate in August from Corcoran Group, has the listing.
Ex-Tiffany Exec Krakoff Picks Up A Fifth Avenue Co-Op
Reed Krakoff has scaled down from a townhouse to a penthouse. The former creative director of Tiffany, who left the jewelry company last year after its acquisition by French conglomerate LVMH, has purchased a 2,600-square-foot aerie at 1115 Fifth Ave. The sale price on the unit, which Krakoff bought with his wife, interior designer Delphine, was about $6 million, according to tax records that appeared online Friday.
Designer's Bonkers Chelsea Apartment Returns to Market
There's been a void in our lives ever since the craziest apartment in the Chelsea Mercantile, #12X, came off the market in August 2010. But the dark times are over, because the apartment is back! Last time around it was asking $22.45 million, and the price now is a very similar $22.5 million. Designer Christopher Hyland owns the place, and he intended it as a tribute to Greek Revival architecture, which means:Surrounding rooms include a breakfast room, gym, library with battlement bookcases, Doric column-flanked double drawing rooms, a Gothic kitchen of hand-carved oak, five full baths and a floor plan that can be configured into three to five bedrooms. 8-foot-high mahogany double doors and 10- to 12-foot ceilings allow for a spacious, open atmosphere that can quickly be transformed to cozy privacy. Hyland’s handpicked décor weaves in cultures from all over the world and features custom wall coverings, rugs and window treatments from his world-renowned textile collection.
Régis Roumila Sells New York City
The Brown Harris Stevens real estate broker talks to DuJour about his Parisian roots, favorite neighborhoods, and daily rituals.
M6 Television Exclusive with the Golden Boy from New York
M6 French Television network follows Régis Roumila, a native parisian and learns how he navigates the New York real estate market in this exclusive interview.
Multi-Million Dollar Top 20 Club
Members in this elite group are recognized for their outstanding sales achievements and for their contribution in advancing corcoran’s extraordinary annual sales volume.
Modern Townhouse Returns to Market After Price Chop
In Woody Allen’s 1986 film, “Hannah and Her Sisters,” the townhouse at 17 E. 65th St. — one of the city’s first modernist homes — gets a cameo. “It has an organic quality that’s almost entirely wholly interdependent, if you know what I mean,” Carrie Fisher’s character, April, says while touring the space and trying to impress its fictional architect, played by Sam Waterston. “I can’t put it into words. The important thing is, it breathes.” In real life, the property is known as the Sherman Fairchild Mansion — and the 25-foot wide red granite manse is back on the market for $35 million, following a $5 million price slash and broker swap.
Awards Season
The first HYLAND Awards for Design, Architecture, Decoration, Photography, Gardening and Contracting were given on May 22nd at an event sponsored by Nest Seekers, the luxury real estate firm. HYLAND, founded byChristopher Hyland and available exclusively on the iPad, honored Geoffrey Bradfield, Mario Buatta, Jamie Drake, Juan Pablo Molyneux, Samuel Botero, Fairfax & Sammons, AGI Architects, Xhema Construction, Durston Saylor and Bunny Mellon. The lifetime achievement award was forPaige Rense, former editor of Architectural Digest. Approximately 200 people gathered at an event hosted by Ryan Serhant(a star of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing) and Régis Roumila ofNestSeekers at the classically inspired apartment of Christopher Hyland. The fifteen pound HYLAND Awards were created by P.E. Guerin, featuring a ormulu neo-classical head, found in the firm's archives, atop a Thebian style solid walnut base crafted by master furniture maker Eric Chapeau. Life long Rense devotees Pilar Molyneux, Geoffrey Bradfield and Sam Botero accepted the HYLAND Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of Paige Rense. The three-hundred pound sun dial will be placed in her garden in West Palm Beach.