Founder Eddie Shapiro Key people Eddie Shapiro (CEO) CEO Eddie Shapiro (2001–) Number of employees 500 | Area served New York Website www.nestseekers.com Founded 2001 Type of business Private | |
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Industry Commercial and Residential Real Estate Number of locations New York City, New York, the Hamptons, Beverly Hills, California Profiles | ||
Nest Seekers International is a full-service service residential and commercial real estate brokerage firm headquartered in the New York metropolitan area. The firm has affiliates in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Nest Seekers International is one of the fastest-growing real estate firms in the world and one of the top firms in Manhattan.
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History
President and CEO Eddie Shapiro founded Nest Seekers International in 2001. Since its inception the firm has grown to include 15 storefront and office locations in New York City, Beverly Hills, Miami and The Hamptons. The fully integrated marketing and management firm employs more than 700 agents representing properties around the world.
The firm employs multiple record agents including Silvette Julian, who set the record for the most expensive Queens condo in August 2015 (sold for $5.4 million) and associate broker Ryan Serhant, who sold an Astor Place duplex in Noho for a record price of more than $3,100 per square foot.
Reality TV
Various brokers at Nest Seekers International are featured on real estate reality shows. Ryan Serhant is a featured agent on Bravo TV's program Million Dollar Listing New York, appearing on the show since its first season in 2012. Beverly Hills Regional Managing Director Marisa Zanuck was a cast member on the Bravo TV program Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She has also appeared on HGTV's Selling LA and episodes of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles. Agent Caroline Grane appears in the eighth season of TV3’s Swedish Hollywood Wives.
Reception
The firm's listings have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, New York Observer, the CBS series "Living Large" and the NBC series "Open House."
Nest Seekers International brokers are regularly featured as real estate experts in outlets such as The New York Times, CNN International, CNBC, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, Business Insider and Glamour.