For decades, husband and wife team, Daniel Douglas and Eileen LaMorte, represented clients running the gamut of New York society including, to name a few, editors of the country’s 3 leading newspapers, owners of Wall Street’s leading hedge funds, US ambassador to a major European country and the most celebrated fashion designer on Madison Avenue and in Milano. A founder of Corcoran's Westside offi
ce at Barbara Corcoran’s invitation, Dan is the top overall producer of Westside sales at Corcoran and in the NY residential market. He is one of the company's highest-grossing brokers, perennially acclaimed as Salesperson of the Year until he was promoted to the Superstar Circle of three members, the Corcoran Group's highest honor. A cm laude graduate of Princeton in Art and Architectural History, which informs his complete knowledge of Manhattan residential architecture, Dan wrote his thesis under the aegis of Robert Rosenblum, noted art historian and curator of 20th-century art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Dan proceeded to Harvard Graduate School studying English, taking a degree with high honors in art education and practicing photography at the Carpenter Center with Len Gittleman, a disciple of the great Harry Callahan. Having sold residential real estate in Manhattan in every quarter of the City, through markets high and low, to a broad spectrum of personalities, Dan believes that the home selects the purchaser rather than the other way around, its provenance and persona meeting the wishes of an ideal buyer. Dan’s diverse background led to his intuition for real estate, which is the art of architecture before it is anything else. Dan acted with and directed Tommy Lee Jones at Harvard. He played Angelo in Measure for Measure opposite Stockard Channing as Isabella. James Woods tortured him (in character). After Harvard, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship at the London Academy of Dramatic Art with John Lithgow to whom he later sold an apartment on CPW. A professional actor, Dan was in the original Broadway cast of Grease. His mother, a successful real estate investor, amassed a portfolio of significant commercial properties which he developed and sold, prefiguring his present activities. Dan is also a published photographer. His portraits appear on the book jackets of Sebastian Junger’s "The Perfect Storm," Michael Lewis’ "Liar's Poker," “Moneyball” and "Blind Side," Fareed Zakaria's "The Post American World," and "The Price of Inequality" by Joseph Stiglitz and “End This Depression Now!” by Paul Krugman, the latter two authors having won the Nobel Prize for Economics. Photography of Dan’s properties is therefore carefully executed. The sale or purchase of one’s home is the most consequential of actions for most people, unifying a myriad of elements, all of which Dan has encountered one time or another. Making this complex process run smoothly and fulfilling the expectations of his clients is, to Dan, the most gratifying aspect of his work. Eileen LaMorte prefers to find someone a home rather than "sell" real estate. A graduate of Suny-Purchase College in English Literature and a post-graduate, pre-medical student at Columbia University, she brings a pragmatic, level-headed sensibility to the sales process. Having acquired and marketed her own properties, Eileen is familiar with the stress involved in buying, selling and moving, thereby helping to make the event run smoother. Having evolved her personal esthetics from extensive travels and years involved in the fashion and arts-related industries, she surveys a living space and sees not just what is there, but easily imagines and conveys how it can be adapted to her clients' needs. She earns many referrals by maintaining a sanguine perspective, understanding and respecting the requirements of the buyer and seller and keeping up-to-the-minute on all available properties in order to make the right match. Eileen's achievements are a direct result of her ease and delight in communicating with her clients. For this reason, she also enjoys productive relationships with other brokers and colleagues. One satisfied seller who also found a new home through Eileen describes her "especially well-tuned ability to listen, to process and then to know when to go the extra mile to make a deal happen." In addition to her real estate activity, she is an accomplished athlete (star sprinter, basketball forward and avid cyclist) and a talented cartoonist. Eileen cares deeply about her clients and customers, which is why she has become friends with many of them after the closing.
