NY property broker’s secret to selling over 2,300 properties worth $30b in 40 years
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Mr Bob Knakal has sold 2,329 properties – offices, town homes, garages, apartment buildings and warehouses – totalling US$22 billion.
PHOTO: NYTIMES
The best view of New York City might just be in a near-windowless conference room on the 12th floor of a midtown Manhattan office building.
Splayed across 10 folding tables, a map pieced together with paper, tape and sticky notes details every block and parcel – 27,649 properties – in Manhattan below 96th Street on the East Side and 110th Street on the West Side.