Real Takk Podcast

Join us for an insightful episode with Nico Moinian, a true connoisseur of New York City real estate. Nico, a Partner at Fortuna Realty Group, brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the industry. Fortuna Realty Group is a private real estate investment firm in Manhattan that specializes in owning and operating a collection of independent boutique hotels, restaurants, and bars in some of the world's most sought-after locat...

I am pleased to have Tony on the wrap-up & prediction pod for 2024 and 2025.  Tony & I met at Compass several years ago, and I’ve come to know him as a smart, thoughtful, and opinionated real estate professional in NYC who brings a wealth of knowledge to our community & most importantly, his clients.  Tony was raised internationally and speaks five languages, attended Carnegie Mellon University, cold-calle...

It's an annual end-of-the-year tradition by wrapping up the 2024 year in business & real estate with our guest Sean Mcpeak of the Empire Collective Team at Serhant.  Sean had a productive year with his business partner being featured in the hit Netflix TV show Owning Manhattan, building up his team, and, of course, coming on my pod with his zingers, one-liners, trivia skills, and real estate knowledge to top it off.  

I welcome my friend Will Hardy to the Real Takk Podcast, where we discuss real estate, the state of the brokerage business, the hardships we face as real estate agents and brokers, the NAR Settlement, brokers going into politics, his story about biking across America through Georga to California, and what's working under the hood from business leadership. We also discuss the direction our industry is headed in 2025 and what markets...

I'm jumping on to quickly discuss my thoughts on the FARE Act, AKA the Fairness in Apartment Rentals Act. Who does it help? How does the bill affect the overall market? How does this impact mom-and-pop shop landlords? Does this bill positively impact the tenant community overall? Or just a small segment of renters?  

According to the bill's sponsor, the New York City Council is poised to pass a law that would allow most tenants to ...

Recording from our HQ on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, Florida, I welcome Elizabeth De Woody of Compass Palm Beach!  Born in Miami and raised in Central Florida, Elizabeth has called West Palm Beach home for the past 25 years.  She was hand-picked to represent our office in Palm Beach Island as the founding agent, with top producing figures of closing over half a billion dollars in sales volume in the last two years.  E...

One of our founding agents at Compass Miami, Levi Meyer, is back on the pod to give us the latest on the Miami market, updates on developments in Brickell, and new HOA and Condominium Board regulations.

A few fun facts about Levi: He’s a fifth-generation Floridian and a longtime Coral Gables resident. He’s one of 9 siblings, an Israeli military vet, and he grew up attending Rabbinate school. Before he was selling Miami’s most prest...

I'm thrilled to have my good friend and industry colleague Maggie Wu on the Real Takk Pod! Maggie, the youngest of three, was raised in Hong Kong before moving to the US to attend the prestigious Peddie School in Hightstown, NJ. She then majored in Economics and Business at NYU.

Upon graduation, Maggie made a brief foray into VC before joining the real estate business. She quickly rose to the top of our industry, with successful te...

Pleased to have my friend & industry colleague Jon Capobianco, one of the newest additions to Ellimans De Niro  Team on the Real Takk Pod. Did you know? Jon used to bike over the Queens Bridge everyday on his single-speed steel bike to his Corcoran office in the Upper East Side from Brooklyn?  Did you know? Jon's an avid surfer, snowboarder, fisherman, and Phish-er men?  

With a career rooted in real...

Ryan Garson of Compass joins the pod to discuss all things social media, our business, his early beginnings, successes, failures, what it's like having Rob Reffkins' mother on his team, and more. 

Ryan is an influential real estate agent covering Manhattan and Brooklyn, he’s contracted over $400 million in sales and brokered more than 1,000 client success stories in the past 8 years. Ryan is known in the industry for ...

NYC Real Estate Powerhouse Kael Goodman Returns!

We're thrilled to welcome back Kael Goodman, Founder & CEO of Marketproof, the industry-leading real estate data platform. Used by top brokers, banks, PE firms, and developers, Marketproof is the go-to resource for anyone serious about NYC real estate.

Considering a new development? Marketproof analyzes all Manhattan & Brooklyn residential properties, providing in-depth insig...

Onie Bolduc, is a true mountain native from a family of real estate professionals.  Born & raised in arguably one of the BEST areas in the United States, Vail Colorado, Onie attended the University of Colorado, then jumped into the construction business in the Vail Valley.  He then went into the development side of real estate & eventually created Bold RE solutions where he represented his clients in the Vail Valley region....

Pleased to have Compass Chief Real Estate Strategist Mark McLaughlin on the Real Takk Pod to discuss all things real estate at the operational end, his beginnings, the growth & sale of his previous brokerage firm Pacific Union, and of course, one of our favorite states & destination Jackson Hole Wyoming where Mark currently resides.   Mark's resume is phenomenal, from initially buying condos in SF, to buying developing Pac...

I'm very pleased to have Nick Bowers on the Real Takk Podcast.  Nick is one of the best lawyers focused on real estate & estate matters.  We talk about the importance of creating an estate for your family, the costs, in which scenario estate law supersedes coop & condo boards, and the house rules that govern their operation.  Does the coop stock & lease supersede the legal will? What happens when a death t...

Adam is a Partner at Fentin Goldman Turk & Davidoff LLP where he & his team represent a list of banks, buyers, sellers, sponsors, developers, and those involved in the real estate space in the state of New York.  Adam & I have met at the closing table fairly recently in person, in the post covid era where face to face meetings have become a rare thing in the world of real estate.