Corcoran Real Estate New York
Oprah’s Penthouse Makes Broker’s Dreams Come True (thepoliticker.observer)
Playing fairy godmother again (Story Accents, flickr) Even when she's selling her sprawling Midtown penthouse for **$7.75 million**, **Oprah Winfrey** manages to spread hope and joy. She even made a little profit in the process, having bought the penthouse for $7.1 million in 2008. How does she do it? When we heard that Ms. Winfrey's **Place 57** condo on East 57th Street sold to hedge fund partner **Mark Hillery** (as reported by _The Real Deal_ earlier this week), we thought that naturally Mr. Hillery would be happy. He got the high-ceilinged, big-windowed pad, listed with Corcoran broker **Mark Schoenfeld,** for a few hundred thousand under the $7.9 million ask. But little did we expect that his broker, **Nesrin Anjollie Feradov**, from boutique firm SKNY Realty, would be bowled over with emotion by the sale. Ms. Fedarov told her rags to riches tale—from working in finance to becoming a down-of-her-luck high-end real estate broker with only $5 in the bank—to _The New York Times_. Although Ms. Fedarov's big stroke of luck was finding a client like Mr. Hillery (who looked at another $22 million apartment before Oprah's—think of the commission on that one!), she sees the whole experience ...
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