Over the course of five days last week, thousands of you voted in our first annual Power 100 Reader’s Poll. In the end, however, the balance of power swung like a pendulum with every new tweet and social media update posted by real estate professionals committed to seeing their colleagues reach the top.
As it turns out, no company or individual has mastered the ability of self-promotion and branding quite like The Trump Organization, which snagged 8 percent of the vote in part through a dedicated social media campaign and an old-fashioned word-of-mouth strategy. Mr. Trump, the father-in-law of Jared Kushner, the owner of The Commercial Observer, has proven once again that the medium is the message.
Below, the full results of our first-ever Power 100 Reader’s Poll. Check back tomorrow for the official Power 100 list.
| 1. Donald Trump | Trump Organization | ||
| 2. Andrew Farkas | Island Capital Group | ||
| 3. Ralph Herzka | Meridian Capital Group | ||
| 4. Jeffrey Gural, Jimmy Kuhn, and Barry Gosin | Newmark Grubb Knight Frank | ||
| 5. Paul Massey and Robert Knakal | Massey Knakal Realty Services | ||
| 6. Howard Lutnick | BGC Partners | ||
| 7. Michael Bloomberg | New York City | ||
| 8. Gary Barnett | Extell Development | ||
| 9. Barry Sternlicht | Starwood Capital Group | ||
| 10. Stephen Ross, Jeff Blau, and Bruce Beal | Related Companies | ||
| 11. Larry Silverstein and Martin Burger | Silverstein Properties | ||
| 12. Andrew Cuomo | New York | ||
| 13. Steven Roth | Vornado Realty Trust | ||
| 14. Joe Chetrit | Chetrit Group | ||
| 15. Jeff Sutton | Wharton Properties | ||
| 16. Joe Sitt | Thor Equities | ||
| 17. Mary Ann Tighe | CBRE | ||
| 18. Anthony Malkin | Malkin Holdings | ||
| 19. Bruce Ratner | Forest City Ratner | ||
| 20. Bill Rudin | Rudin Management | ||
| 21. Marc Holliday and Andrew Mathias | SL Green | ||
| 22. Mort Zuckerman | Boston Properties | ||
| 23. Richard LeFrak | Lefrak Organization | ||
| 24. Scott Rechler | RXR Realty | ||
| 25. Douglas and Jody Durst | Durst Organization | ||
| 26. Jonathan Gray | Blackstone Group | ||
| 27. Joseph Ficalora and Jim Carpenter | New York Community Bank | ||
| 28. Jerry and Rob Speyer | Tishman Speyer | ||
| 29. Aby Rosen and Michael Fuchs | RFR Realty | ||
| 30. Steve Spinola | Real Estate Board of New York | ||
| 31. Joel Seiden and Ofer Yardeni | Stonehenge Partners | ||
| 32. Peter Riguardi | Jones Lang LaSalle | ||
| 33. David and Jed Walentas | Two Trees Development | ||
| 34. Ric Clark and Mitch Rudin | Brookfield Office Properties | ||
| 35. Adam Schwartz | Angelo Gordon | ||
| 36. David Levinson and Robert Lapidus | L&L Holding Company | ||
| 37. Maryanne Gilmartin | Forest City Ratner | ||
| 38. David Bistricer | Clipper Equity | ||
| 39. Doug Harmon, Adam Spies, and Ben Lambert | Eastdil Secured | ||
| 40. Brian Harris and Greta Guggenheim | Ladder Capital | ||
| 41. Harry Macklowe | Emeritus Macklowe Properties | ||
| 42. Darcy Stacom and Bill Shanahan | CBRE | ||
| 43. Peter Hauspurg and Daun Paris | Eastern Consolidated | ||
| 44. Seth Pinsky | New York City Economic Development Corporation | ||
| 45. Paul Pariser and Charles Bendit | Taconic Investment Partners | ||
| 46. Stanley and Haim Chera | Crown Acquisitions | ||
| 47. Robert Alexander and Stephen Siegel | CBRE | ||
| 48. Christine Quinn | New York City Council | ||
| 49. Howard and Edward Milstein | Milstein Properties | ||
| 50. Jonathan Merchanic and Stephen Lefkowitz | Fried Frank | ||
| 51. Bruce Mosler | Cushman & Wakefield | ||
| 52. Doug Shorenstein and Mark Portner | Shorenstein Company | ||
| 53. Arnold, Kenneth, Steven, and Winston Fisher | Fisher Brothers | ||
| 54. Arthur and William Lie Zeckendorf | Terra Holdings and Zeckendorf Realty | ||
| 55. Burton and Jonathan Resnick | Jack Resnick & Sons | ||
| 56. Pam Liebman | Corcoran Group | ||
| 57. Henry and Justin Elghanayan | Rockrose Development Corporation | ||
| 58. Leon Litwin and Gary Jacob | Glenwood Management | ||
| 59. Christopher Schlank and Nicholas Bienstock | Savanna | ||
| 60. Jeffrey Feil and Jay Anderson | Feil Organization | ||
| 61. Jeff Citrin and Craig Solomon | Square Mile Capital | ||
| 62. Stephen Meringoff and Leslie Wohlman Himmel | Himmel + Meringoff | ||
| 63. John Sexton and Alicia Hurley | New York University | ||
| 64. Robert Stuckey, Mark Schoenfeld, Andrew Chung | Carlyle Group | ||
| 65. Alan Wiener | Wells Fargo Multifamily Capital | ||
| 66. Greg Kraut and Arthur Mirante | Avison Young | ||
| 67. Owen Thomas | Boston Properties | ||
| 68. Dottie Herman and Howard Lorber | Prudential Douglas Elliman | ||
| 69. Ron Kravit | Cereberus Real Estate Capital Management | ||
| 70. Earle Altman | ABS Partners Real Estate | ||
| 71. Constantine Dakolias and Chris Linkas | Fortress Investment Group | ||
| 72. Glenn Rufrano | Cushman & Wakefield | ||
| 73. John Pelusi and Mike Tepedino | HFF | ||
| 74. Robert Ivanhoe | Greenberg Traurig | ||
| 75. Elizabeth Stribling and Kirk Henckels | Stribling & Associates and Stribling Private Brokerage | ||
| 76. Norman Sturner and David Greene | Murray Hill Properties | ||
| 77. Christopher Kahl, Matt Bronfman, and Michael Phillips | Jamestown Properties | ||
| 78. Edward Minskoff | Edward J. Minskoff Equities | ||
| 79. Diane Ramirez | Halstead Properties | ||
| 80. Albert Behler | Paramount Group | ||
| 81. Robert Tierney | Landmarks Preservation Commission | ||
| 82. Robert Verrone | Iron Hound Management | ||
| 83. Hector Figueroa | SEIU 32BJ | ||
| 84. Ben Bianchi and Jonathan Pollack | Deutsche Bank | ||
| 85. Jay Sugarman | IStar Financial | ||
| 86. Andrew Heibrger | Town Residential | ||
| 87. Steve Kenny | Bank of America | ||
| 88. Charlie Garner, Justin Rimel, Shaul Kuba, Avi Shemesh, and Richard Ressler | CIM Group | ||
| 89. Charles Cohen | Cohen Brothers Realty | ||
| 90. Kyle Blackmon | Brown Harris Stevens | ||
| 91. Mitch Steir and Michael Colacino | Studley | ||
| 92. James Cooper and Jason Pizer | Trinity Church and Trinity Real Estate | ||
| 93. Keith Gelb and Tom Gilbane | Rockpoint | ||
| 94. Tobin Cobb and Justin Kennedy | LNR Property | ||
| 95. Hall Willkie and Paula Del Nunzio | Brown Harris Stevens | ||
| 96. Christopher Sharples, Coren Sharples, William Sharples, Kimberly Holden and Gregg Pasquarelli | SHoP Architects | ||
| 97. John Rhea and Frederick Harris | NYCHA | ||
| 98. Ziel Feldman | HFZ Capital Group | ||
| 99. Mark Jaccom | Cresa New York LLC | ||
| 100. Bruce Stachenfeld & Terri Adler | Duval & Stachenfeld LLP |
