Jon Phillips & Ginnie Gardiner are among Halstead's most successful and effective sales teams with over $100 million dollars in sales in the past five years. Consistently ranked among the top brokers in all Halstead in completed sales, they sell in new developments and resale environments with equal skill and effectiveness. They regularly rank in the Producers Council, Gold Circle and Platinum Circle as they specialize in representing sellers of Manhattan's premier downtown properties as well as 'boutique lofts' and 'special properties.' This year they were among the one hundred top New York brokers independently vetted and selected by the prestigious web site, Top Agent Guide.com.
Their effectiveness, proven track record, and the client loyalty it has earned them derives from their thoroughness in all phases of every deal. From the time they take your property on and personally help its styling, presentation and web media positioning, to the fielding of offers, securing of contract and follow-through to close they have a total and absolute focus upon selling your property more effectively than any one else ever could according to the testimony of those who have experienced their service.
“Jon and Ginnie are hands-down the most knowledgeable brokers I've worked with in terms of the properties they represent.” Says Harry Gaffney, of the prestigious firm of Simon & Eisenberg LLP.
"There's no any doubt in my mind that Jon Phillips is worth two or three times Halstead's commission in the labor, value and finesse he brings to any deal he's worked on," states Vincent P. Hanley, founding partner of Hanley Goble, LLP, one of the most respected real-estate specialty law firms specializing in downtown lofts.
Jon says: "Our objective when we represent your property is: define or communicate qualities and tangible characteristics in its history or neighborhood that can translate into additional value. In 80% of the buildings where we have sold lofts or apartments we have set the building record price to date. Our goal is not to 'set a building record,' it's to consummate a sale for our customer that qualifies their Co-Op or condo Board, and closes," Jon explains. "The market is largely responsible for providing the environment that sets prices. What we can do is recognize the trends and try to stay one step ahead. If our graphics and marketing skill and web savvy result in improving the final sales price by only 11% on a $2,550,000 property, we're still aware that this translates into over $270,000 more our customer makes on their investment." Jon adds, "It is a point of pride that none of our board packages have ever experienced a rejection. Ever!”
The Phillips-Gardiner team represents re-sale and new development property in nearly equal proportions. "Keeping a foot and the 'street' and the other on development provides us with the bandwidth and presence that enhances the assets we bring to either market," says Jon. "The discipline of staging property for maximum positive effect on its market value is undoubtedly a benefit that is continually honed and refined by involvement with both sides of the Manhattan property market," adds Ginnie.
"Jon and Ginnie are certifiably geniuses.” Say Yeshe & Stephen Davis, a photographer and painter who are Tribeca pioneers. “Our loft, a raw fifth-floor walk up, had previously been on the market with another prominent Manhattan company . . .We were really disillusioned. The market had crashed, home sales were way down, and no one seemed to want a walk up. Miraculously we found Jon and Ginnie on Halstead's website, and were immediately impressed by their profile. When we met them, their approach to selling our loft turned conventional real-estate wisdom on its head, and was so astonishingly creative that we enlisted them right away. Here's the amazing part: Jon and Ginnie brought us three sold offers within three weeks of the listing going live. Literally. We accepted one without even having to counter. During the process of the sale, Jon and Ginnie discovered that the building did not even exist in the minds of the lending banks, because none of the original owners in the coop had ever sold. The building was not on the lending list, so to speak. This would have been an enormous problem, but Jon and Ginnie's tremendous knowledge of banks, appraisers, and sundry other building mysteries like this one, got the building on the list.”
A Cornell University's College of Architecture Art and Planning graduate, Jon worked for Mayor Koch as Director of Finance and Administration to his first Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, Bruce C. Ratner, and served as Executive Director of We Care About New York Inc. under his co-chairs Donald Platten and William C. Butcher, chairmen of Chemical and Chase Banks respectively. Jon's background bridges the world of art and the worlds of business, government and real estate.
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