Carly Shoulberg, 26
Vice president at Eastdil Secured
In early 2024, the real estate community was a-twitter: Jeff Sutton had sold not one but two properties a stone’s throw from each other on Fifth Avenue for a combined $1.8 billion in a single whirlwind month.
Not bad deals for Carly Shoulberg to have her name attached to.
It “caught the market by such a surprise,” Shoulberg said. “$1.8 billion — there hadn’t been any retail deals in New York in some time” when those deals closed.
Shoulberg works with two of the top names in commercial real estate: Eastdil’s Will Silverman and Gary Phillips. And, while the Fifth Avenue deals were blockbusters, the team has had so many other deals that one could hang a career on: an iStar net-lease portfolio for $3.1 billion; the sale of the Uniqlo retail space at 660 Fifth Avenue for $350 million; the sale of 799 Broadway for $255 million; and the sale of Frank Gehry’s towering 8 Spruce Street apartment building for $930 million.
“I still remember the day we closed on that — Dec. 31,” Shoulberg said of 8 Spruce. “What a fun way to start New Year’s.”
Since 2020, Shoulberg — whose responsibilities center around building client relationships and transaction execution — has been involved in $12 billion in deals.
“I got interested in real estate in college,” Shoulberg said. She had originally started as a communications major at the University of Pennsylvania, but midway through got drawn into real estate and was recruited for Eastdil on campus. But it wasn’t so unexpected a turn: Her family owns real estate in Atlanta, and her mother is a retail leasing broker. (Speaking of Atlanta and its most prominent drink manufacturer, she named her micro-bernedoodle “Cola.”)
“I love doing it all,” Shoulberg said. “What I love about our team is no one is pigeonholed.” Whether it’s Frank Gehry’s architectural masterpiece by the Brooklyn Bridge, or the Fifth Avenue high street retail, Shoulberg has, indeed, done a heck of a lot more than your average 26-year-old.
