Brown Harris Stevens is bigger than the famously blue-blooded boutique real estate brokerage Edward Lee Cave, but it has the same genteel glow: Brown Harris brokers have monogrammed shirts and Italian leather shoes, they're always quite appropriate, and they tend to take vacations in the Hamptons.

So it's incredibly odd to receive a virulent press release from brokerage president Hall F. Willkie (who, according to his online bio, "lives on Manhattan's East Side and on a working farm in upstate New York with chickens, ducks, and four horses, including 'heavy hunters' and a Percheron which he enjoys riding in his leisure time"). And it's even odder to hear Mr.  read more »

It's a good year to be a top-notch, shiny-shoe, uptown real estate broker. Less than a year after Sandy Weill finally closed on his $42.4 million penthouse at 15 Central Park West, his agent on the deal has gotten a condo of his own in the multi-billion dollar building.  read more »