Trystan Polsinelli, 29
Senior executive director of commercial at Compass
Trystan Polsinelli is no stranger to the real estate world — he was born into it.
Coming from a real estate family, Polsinelli spent his summers at the University of Tampa interning at Marcus & Millichap and Eastern Consolidated, learning the lay of the land.
After graduating in 2018, Polsinelli joined Compass and had an integral part in launching the brokerage’s commercial division, where he completed $80 million in sales across asset classes in New York City. In 2019, he took his talents to 60 Guilders, where he served as vice president of leasing and sales for five years and managed a portfolio of about 22 properties with a combined value of $2.5 billion across office and retail in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.
Polsinelli returned to Compass last summer as senior executive director, in which he is responsible for the firm’s investment sales, leasing and advisory services in New York City.
“The experience of being involved in the entire life cycle of a deal is crucial, and it certainly separates me from every other broker because I have that perspective from all sides of the table,” Polsinelli said.
Polsinelli also came back to Compass with some major deals under his belt, including selling 120,000 square feet of office condominiums at Midtown’s 345 East 37th Street and 18-20 West 33rd Street. At 20 West 33rd Street specifically, Polsinelli executed the $25 million sale of two office condos to two different buyers, a deal he said was completed in just 14 days.
As for retail, Polsinelli recently completed the $16.5 million sale of a 16,000-square-foot retail condo at 350 Avenue of the Americas to a New York University-affiliated community center and preschool operator.
And, while he can dominate office and retail deals, Polsinelli said his real forte is multifamily, as he’s onboarded about 300 multifamily units across the city in his decade in real estate. “I’ve spent long nights putting leases together by hand for all different types of assets, but I think, out of everything, multifamily is going to be the first that comes to mind,” he said.
Over the next five years, Polsinelli said he wants to continue to increase his deal volume and transact across all asset classes.
