NYC luxury real estate brokers reveal outrageous client demands

NY Post ^ | 06/13/2025 | Christopher Cameron

[ChicagoConservative27]

If Bravo is to be believed, all it takes to sell the world’s richest people the world’s most expensive homes is pulling up in your Lambo, shaking hands and opening a bottle of Krug.

But there’s a dark side to the glamor of closing deals that you won’t see on TV, NYC brokers reveal.

“We’re like a concierge service,” Peter Zaitzeff of Serhant told The Post. “People want restaurant reservations. They want to know where to take their kids. We scrub toilets.”

A couple weeks ago, Brown Harris Stevens hotshot Lisa Simonsen had already wrapped her work for a client — selling him a roughly $10 million unit in one of the Upper East Side’s “good building” co-ops — when he called back up asking for more.

“He asked me to get them a last-minute reservation for 12 at Casa Tua,” said Simonsen of the Upper East Side private supper club, which is currently one of the city’s toughest tables to book. “He wanted it in the next two hours!”

[Brian Griffin]

There was a guy who wrote books about various economic sectors in the 1970s. One book was about the housing industry. He wrote that one real estate agent said that the way some clients acted would shock their employers.

My uncle worked at a top-end Palm Beach establishment after WW2. Some of the outrageous behavior can run in a family.

Most wealthy people know enough to treat the help well because they know they need lots of help, but some wealthy people don’t.

[ridesthemiles]

THERE IS A PRODUCT CALLED “RING BE GONE”

COSTS UNDER $15 a QUART.

PUT SOME INTO TOILET BOWL—_CLOSE LID-—

LEAVE ALONE FOR OVERNIGHT. FLUSH 2 times in Am.

WORKS FINE.