THE CLOSER
Flips and splits of New York’s real estate community
Real estate’s top tweeter is
Donald Trump Jr. Not only is he prolific, with 7,170 tweets; he has 149,663 devoted (and growing) followers. Trump’s tweets during every episode of “Celebrity Apprentice” on NBC gave upto-the-second insight behind the scenes. All that between fending off “you’re so hot” tweets.
Don Jr. also knows how to use Twitter to squash a scandal. When a photo surfaced in March of Trump hunting with his brother
Eric in Zimbabwe, Trump quelled criticism by responding to angry tweets and debating the ecological import of big-game hunting and respect for animal life.
“I just hate how so many on Twitter are just selling something,” Trump Jr. wrote us via email. “Or in other cases it’s clearly a PR person with no real opinion or soul sitting in a back room somewhere.”
Lately, Don Jr. has been tweeting about family. fami He has three children. Wife Wif Vanessa is currently pre pregnant. A recent tweet came from a building opening in the th Philippines.
In all, the tweets show strong opinions, loyalty, loy and a real sense se of humor. It’s It one of the top uses of real estate branding we’ve seen so far. Follow him at @DonaldJTrumpJr. Connecticut politics and real estate came together in one of New York’s most elegant and exclusive prewar apartment buildings Tuesday evening. Republican congressional candidate
Steve Obsitnik, running in Connecticut’s fourth district, held a meet-and-greet and questionand-answer session in a fourthfloor duplex home at the River
House at 435 E. 52nd St. Against the backdrop of the East River, Roosevelt Island and Long Island City, Obsitnik spoke about job creation, economic stimulus and the role of the small businessman in the economic recovery.
A telecom entrepreneur and graduate of the Naval Academy and Wharton School, Obsitnik’s policies include a strong pro-Israel stance and a desire to make a difference. With its private tennis and squash club, gated entrance, formidable lobby and outdoor gardens, the 1931 River House was at one time considered the top residential building in the world. It was certainly as good as any place to hold a fund-raiser. Go to Obsitnik.com for more. PR exec Robin Dolch was among the honorees at the “Top Women in Real Estate 2012” awards gala held this past week.
Prudential Douglas Elliman retail chairwoman Faith Hope Consolo kicked off the event with opening remarks. Thrown annually by Sokol
Media, the event has done wonders for women’s roles in the male-heavy world of residential, retail and commercial real estate.
Lori Sokol, a Ph.D. and long a proponent of equality in the workplace, publishes Green Matters and NY Residential magazines. Other honorees at the gala included Rachel Loeb of the WorldWide Group and Sonia Kaur Bain
of Troutman Sanders.
Dolch, who founded Hundred
Stories Public Relations 18 months ago, has already gained notoriety by driving traffic to new developments and big rental projects by throwing smart events having to do with current topics.
Hundred Stories recently brought “Fifty Shades of Grey” author E.L. James to the Carriage
House in Chelsea, where she drew more than 300 people to a reading. Go to Sokolmediaonline. com and Hundredstoriespr.com for more.