John Wollberg
Director of Sales, Eastside
212-381-3300
jwollberg@halstead.com
John Wollberg is known as one of the consummate residential real estate professionals in Manhattan. Since 1985, he has managed and/or brokered the sales and rental of over 5,500 apartments and today is the Director of Sales, Eastside for Halstead Property.
John has represented buyers, sellers, tenants and landlords as well as banks and developers. Having worked "every side of the table", his clients always feel at ease knowing he can best represent their interests. John has represented everyone from brokers, developers and attorneys to celebrities in sports, network & news broadcasting to opera and disco divas, authors, composers, directors as well as Broadway and other performing artists. He has a truly encyclopedic knowledge of Manhattan's residential buildings and thanks to a photographic memory, can draw the floor plan of any apartment he has ever seen.
John was most recently Executive Vice President, Managing Director of ATCO Residential, a firm he founded in 1997. An active member of the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), Wollberg chairs the REBNY Listing System (RLS) and Technology Committees and until recently, he served as the elected co-Chair of the Residential Board of Directors. A driving force behind the development and launch of REBNY's public web portal, ResidentialNYC.com, Wollberg serves as Co-Chair for the Board of ResidentialNYC. The site allows visitors to search member listings and obtain valuable New York City real estate information. In addition, he is a current member of the REBNY Admissions Committee as well as a judge for the Residential Deal of the Year. John is a state-accredited teacher for the Real Estate Board of New York and is often a guest speaker at seminars and on panels.
John became involved in residential real estate after receiving formal training in architecture at Tulane University, marketing at the University of Maryland and Business Administration at George Washington University. After several years in the automotive testing and business information fields, he entered real estate and directed residential conversions and real estate brokerage for three of New York's premier firms before founding Atco Residential Group in 1997. Today, John is a Board member of the George London Foundation for Singers and maintains homes in both Manhattan and Scarsdale, New York with his wife and three children.
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