The Leonard Steinberg Team

08/21/2026

All sellers - including the sellers of 80 Clarkson - should have a choice in how they market and expose their property to the markets. Some want full, broad exposure allowing some aggregators to have agents they have never met speak about their most valuable asset…for a price, of course….others, like 80 Clarkson cobroke with all agents but limit the exposure, applying different strategies at different moments of the marketing process. All sellers should have this choice. That is not discriminatory or exclusionary. It’s simply smart. Not for all, but for those who choose to do so for specific, smart reasons. Do sellers list their homes to enrich third parties who monetize the imagery, descriptions, floorplans, videos, etc paid for by others or should they have a choice? Our constitution demands FAIR AND EQUAL treatment. Compass.

08/17/2026

You live full time in NYC. Pay full taxes. LOTS of taxes. You buy a larger apartment as your family grows but it needs a full renovation. The City charges you a PIED A TERRE tax on that new apartment even though you can’t live in it. Thats insanity? Or is it worse? Or am I wrong? Should a home being renovated be subjected to an ADDITIONAL TAX even though unoccupied it’s already paying big real estate taxes? Help me…

08/14/2026

08/10/2026

Dear Home Sellers: some in the real estate profession profess to work in your best interests and insist displaying your property more quietly at first should be an option denied of you….. do they tell you what happens when your property listing goes out worldwide on the BILLIONAIRE BIG TECH website search engines? They should. If not, this was my very recent experience.

08/09/2026

Some believe the ONLY way to sell a home is by mass-marketing it to the planet via the aggregator websites. So…. I tested what a prospective buyer might experience searching for a home on realtor.com, the experience almost identical to other similar search engines like Zillow and Homes:
1. I found a listing (one of my own), and clicked on “more about this property”, typed in my name and contact info, assuming I’d be connected to the listing agent hired by the (SELLER) consumer to best represent them.
2. In an instant, I received an email, ......selling me financing options.
3. I received a similar email from Zillow when testing their site....
4. I was then notified that my request had been received and was being sent to a concierge….. and immediately suggested I look at 3 other ‘similar’ listings….all of which were not similar, but I imagine those were paid placements?
5. Then I received a text saying they’d love to talk to me, and what time would be convenient. I responded: “NOW!”…..
6. Then I received a call from a non-AI lady with slurred speech who sounded like she had been in the sun for 87 hours, solid, with a loud barking dog in the background..... I will stop here. THIS is who should be representing a $30 million listing? THIS is who the seller entrusted to represent their asset?
ARE WE NUTS?
SELLERS BEWARE: all those delusional (or purposefully deceptive profiteers?) defending this: someone PLEASE explain how this serves consumer SELLERS well? Anyone? Sellers provide the inventory to sell. Sellers decide how and whom they wish to have their homes seen by. Sellers enter a fiduciary relationship with an agent to best represent them……would you describe the above as serving the (seller) consumer well…….or…….interference-for-profit? BIG TECH lives by the MAGNETS and MERCHANTS playbook: do they also write the laws of the land? Sellers have consumer rights too and should be allowed to choose when they how they wish their homes should be broadcast to real prospective buyers.
Yes, ONLYFANS gets lots of eyeballs too: but how many marriages does it deliver?

08/03/2026

TAX THE BILLIONAIRES!!! There are only about 150 of them in NYC, yet 17,000 notices went out for the tax-the-billionaire-pied-a-terre taxes….🤔 worse, the media is almost as confused as the rest of us: MARKET value in government is very different to MARKET value in the real world. So when the say this tax is for apartment with a market value of $1 m or more it refers to the GOVERNMENT numbers, not the real world. Just like most things in the government are somewhat “removed” from the real world. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

07/27/2026

The punitive pied a TERRE tax is a bold admission that New York City and state have lost billions in tax revenues from wealthier citizens leaving. We should do everything we can to encourage wealthy people tot love here, build businesses here, spend here, retire here….and yes, pay taxes here too. If the wealthy generate the biggest percentage of tax revenues, losing just 5% of them leaves the rest of us - you and me - paying more to cover the increasing - and often inefficient, ineffective - spending. Printing up the names of wealthy pied a TERRE owners is disappointing and divisive at best: There is zero collective warmth in that, or am I mistaken? Wanting more taxes is one thing, but demonizing people who already pay the same real estate taxes as their neighbors while using local services significantly less seems not smart at all. Very disappointing.

07/20/2026

This week we featured the sensational Flatiron penthouse that has everyone talking…. 60 West 20th Street with a real garden in the sky…. $10m Compass

07/15/2026

What might your terrace look like with… people? People make a home. A terrace - especially this terrace in the penthouse of - is magical, but it’s when enjoyed by friends and family that the magic happens! Here is an a.i. image to let you imagine the possibilities… Compass amy mendizabal Lois Planco Calli Sarkesh