Hugh's Asking: Recent Episodes
Douglas Elliman
Interviewing Douglas Elliman real estate agents exclusively, the Hugh's Asking Podcast is a conversation series hosted by Devin Hugh Leahy and produced by Ariel Sassoon. The purpose of this podcast is to add value to all our listeners by sharing useful insights on the real estate landscape in New York City, as well as the experiences of the industry's top real estate professionals. Featured in Forbes, The Real Deal, New York Post, Complex Magazine, and USA Today- The Leahy Sassoon Team is a highly skilled group of creative individuals, representing buyers, sellers, renters, and landlords across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Long Island with a vast referral network to service clients nationally and across the globe. Devin Hugh Leahy and Ariel Sassoon have together re-defined the future of innovative marketing in residential real estate, continuously breaking records for their clients. The purpose of this podcast is to add value to all our listeners by sharing useful insights on the real estate landscape in New York City, as well as the experiences of the industry's top real estate professionals.
President and CEO of Douglas Elliman’s Northeast Region
Richard Ferrari, a highly regarded industry expert, will oversee the firm’s New York City resale markets, including Manhattan, Brooklyn, Riverdale and Long Island City in Queens. He will also assume responsibility for Elliman’s New Jersey, Westchester, Connecticut and Massachusetts regions and is based out of Elliman’s New York City headquarters located at 575 Madison Avenue.
Richard is an expert in the New York City co-ops market, where he has lived and sold some of the biggest deals in the city. He has maintained top agent status in New York City for much of his 30-year career including 15 years with Douglas Elliman.
“Richard has had his hand on the pulse of New York City residential real estate for the past three decades,” said Howard M. Lorber, Executive Chairman, Douglas Elliman Realty, LLC. “His experience and professionalism will make him a great asset to our firm, and we look forward to the continued success of our New York City and Northeast brokerages under his stewardship.”
Ann Marie Folan is a premier real estate professional specializing in the marketing of cooperatives, condominiums, town houses, lofts, new construction, investment properties and rental properties throughout New York City. Ann Marie has received numerous industry accolades and is consistently ranked in the Top 1% of Brokers nationwide.
Coming from a family of realtors, Brian grew up understanding the New York marketplace and its many characteristics. Brian possesses a sharp detailed memory for real estate data, such as layouts, building histories, new developments, recent sales comps, pricing, staging and reformatting of existing floor plans. He owns real estate investments in New York, Miami and Texas, and is currently finishing a high-end condo development in Brooklyn Heights.
Fluent in English, Russian and Spanish, Brian graduated from University of Vermont with a Bachelor’s degree in Art History. He previously ran his own video/photo production company working with some of the most well-known high-end fashion brands. Passionate about the arts, Brian is an avid photographer whose NYC street photos have been featured in several art publications. He is also an art collector and investor in Broadway shows.
The 'go to' commercial link at Douglas Elliman for residential agents to offer the very best service to their clients. Tom Brady is one of Elliman's few commercial agents, but with Elliman from the very beginning. He is an industry veteran and reveals the stories behind some of his biggest deals and history in the New York City real estate market.
Listen closely as we sit down with one of real estate's most influential figures. Yuval is a 30 year industry veteran and overseas billions in residential real estate transactions annually. Considered by many as one of the most important members of the Elliman family, Yuval shares his unique market insight, the most fulfilling elements of working with so many industry veterans, as well as nourishing hundreds of agents to reach tremendous heights.
Join us as we sit down exclusively with members of the @douglaselliman family. Our goal is to offer a unique broker to broker conversation that all of our colleagues across the industry can benefit from. Watch and listen to stories and insights from some of the Industry’s TOP agents and professionals at the leading real estate company in the world.
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The NYC real estate market is on fire once again. The average weekly number of signed contracts in Q2 2021 compared with Q2 2020 represents a 900% increase!
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Steven Bailey is a Senior Account Executive at Roadway Moving, a premiere moving company utilized by many of our clients and friends. Steven dives deep on how he became the successful 'hunter' he is today, delivering second-to-none service and hospitality for our clients, friends and families. For more information on Roadway, click the link below.
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The New York real estate market RISES!
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Rori Sassoon is the CEO of New York's premier matchmaking service, focused on curating successful matches for Manhattan's elite singles. On this episode, Rori highlights the obsession she has for her work and its ethos, having the opportunity to facilitate synergy, love, and successful matches for people in search of a relationship with substance. She speaks of the challenges that come with the territory, managing expectations, and being direct in her guidance for her clients.
Last week was a strong week for our team and a strong week for New York City real estate. Tremendous levels of activity in the market. As we continue to share the real data of the real estate market, we address the trolls on social media.
Last week we sat down to share the week's value add, diving deep into gratitude and using fear as a resource to reach your goals. We then move-on to discuss how Forbes and big name media outlets are getting it completely WRONG with their data reporting of the NYC real estate market....
Christopher Leahy is a born and bred Brooklynite who started a construction company while still attending Stuyvesant High School. A 7th generation New Yorker, Christopher walks us through his experience as a General contractor in NYC throughout the 80s and his pivot into high end residential construction in the 90s. Christopher provides detailed insight into the old New York and walks us through his story of pivoting his business into becoming a landlord, property developer and marina owner throughout Manhattan, New Jersey and New England. Christopher expanded his business after top ticking the sales market when agreeing to sell two pink landmark buildings in Soho for a number he had to take seriously. His son Devin Hugh Leahy asks the questions while learning about his father’s story.
On this week's Audio vlog - We discuss getting back to content creation after dropping the ball, sharing a weekly lesson with the audience, and announcing the new News of New York platform (@newsofnewyork) on Instagram. Follow for real time weekly updates on the Manhattan and Brooklyn real estate markets.
Dov Sassoon is the Vice President of Maxxima LED Lighting, providing factory direct lighting products across multiple industries, including transportation, emergency services, and direct to consumer in home. Dov is the Co-Founder of the company's 'In-Home' division, MaxximaStyle (maxximastyle.com).
Listen as Dov provides unique insights drawn from his over 20 years of experience in sales and customer service, working in a dynamic family business which commonly comes with its unique and non-traditional challenges.
Ariel is a creative visionary with a vast international network, an incredible energy, and unwavering loyalty to his clients. Ariel was the first real estate professional to create a highly successful real estate vlog on Facebook & YouTube, with over 200 films produced, and created by Ariel himself, focused on the residential marketplace and documenting the journey of his team. Collectively, his content produced over 1,000,000 views on multiple social media platforms. He continues to set the bar in innovative marketing and has been asked to address audiences as a leading expert in the field of residential marketing highlighting his take on the future of the process he is continuously evolving. His unique vision curated a growing platform for high level creative marketing, specializing in luxury homes, including apartments, townhouses and new development Ariel co-founded an in-house media company, LS Media to service clients directly in creating the attention and foot-traffic needed to sell property in the current market.
In late 2016, Ariel joined forces with Devin Hugh Leahy, an industry leader in sales and hospitality. As partners, they have blended each other’s intuitive strengths to form the perfect balance between inventive sales and innovative marketing, which has cultivated over $300,000,000 in sales volume between Q4 2016 –Q4 2019. Ariel has also kicked off the 2020s by leading the marketing initiatives behind the largest South American residential development. Ariel has obtained an extraordinary knowledge of Manhattan's inventory and the intricacies of the condominium and co-op systems since the early stages of his career, beginning with his first sale at 900 Fifth Avenue.
Ariel lives, breathes and loves his work, and is a success-driven professional. With 3 years experience in finance with Mizuho Securities USA, his years of in-depth exposure to the financial markets, market trends has allowed him to bring his financial knowledge into the deal making process through a numbers based approach in expressing and facilitating deal for his clients. A native of Long Island and immediate family throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn, Ariel brings an extensive sales knowledge of theNorth shore and most Areas throughout NYC. Ariel was born and raised by the strong arms of an international business family, learning the values of success, hard work and dedication from a very early age.