Tom Postilio

Tom Postilio
Occupation Real Estate Broker
Television Personality
Singer
Known for Reality television show Selling New York[1]
Website
Tom Postilio

Tom Postilio is an American luxury real estate broker, television personality, and former professional singer.[2] He is a Founding Member of CORE, a New York-based full-service real estate brokerage firm.[3] He is known for brokering high-end luxury real estate to a celebrity clientele and is a star of the HGTV reality television show Selling New York.[4][5][6]

Early life and education

Postilio was born and raised in Queens, New York City. He was part of the first class to attend the prestigious Townsend Harris High School when it reopened in 1984.[7][8] His family moved from Ozone Park, Queens to Hauppauge, Long Island and he graduated from Hauppauge High School in 1988, where he performed in many of the school's musicals.[9] He became a fan of Frank Sinatra at an early age and entered talent shows singing songs made famous by the legendary crooner. Postilio won the Newsday Teen Talent Showcase in 1987 and was featured in the New York Times when he was 19 years old.[9] He graduated from Suffolk Community College with an Associate's Degree in 1990, but opted not to further his college education when he was invited to tour as the featured vocalist with the Glenn Miller Orchestra at the age of 20.[10]

Career

Postilio is a Founding Member of CORE, a New York real estate firm, and has been ranked as one of the top real estate agents in New York City.[11] He entered the real estate profession in 2003 at the suggestion of a friend.[3] He was hired by Shaun Osher of Douglas Elliman, the largest residential real estate brokerage in the New York metropolitan area.[12] In 2005, Postilio and Osher left Elliman to start a new real estate brokerage, which would become CORE.[13]

Postilio is known for working with high-net-worth celebrity clients such as Jim Carrey, Joan Collins, Michael Feinstein, Lady Gaga, and David Sanborn.[14][4][15] He became a star on Selling New York, a reality show on HGTV that features brokers selling high-end real estate to some of New York's wealthiest residents.[16] He frequently appears alongside his partner, Mickey Conlon, and the duo have been dubbed the show's "Dream Team."[17] Responsible for more than $1-billion in residential sales, they rank among the most successful real estate brokers in the United States and were named CORE’s top-producing agents in 2013.[3]

Postilio has appeared on numerous television shows as a real estate commentator and host, including CBS’s Living Large, Fox’s Good Day New York, NBC’s Open House, ABC’s Good Morning America, and CNBC’s Mega Homes Report.[3][18][19][20] He has also been featured in articles in several publications, including The New York Times, New York Daily News, the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Hollywood Reporter, and a variety of real estate trade publications.[21][22] Postilio has been designated a Certified Negotiations Expert by the Real Estate Board of New York, of which he is a member. In 2014, he was appointed as a juror for the Architzer A+ Awards, the world’s largest architectural awards program.[3]

In 2007, Postilio was at the center of a story that made international headlines about the astronomical pricing for parking spaces in New York City. Based on the sale and waiting list for parking spaces in the basement of a boutique luxury condominium project at 246 West 17th Street in Manhattan’s pricey Chelsea neighborhood, the record price tags of $275,000 were compared to the cost of cars, home values, and income levels around the world.[23] Still, the cost of such spaces was justified as valuable by residents and industry economists based on the lack of available parking in the city and a decline in the number of parking garages in New York City.[24][25][26]

Prior to getting involved in real estate, Postilio began his career as a singer of the Great American Songbook and traveled internationally with the Glenn Miller Orchestra.[3][27] He traveled with the group for one year, playing in venues in Europe, Asia and the United States.[10] He received a MAC Award for Outstanding New York Debut as well as the Back Stage Bistro Award for Outstanding Vocalist.[10] Postilio sang in the Oak Room at New York's Algonquin Hotel and was noted for his Frank Sinatra singing style, with the New York Times stating "his carefully syncopated phrasing and exuberance suggest a softened echo of the late-50's Sinatra in his swinging mode."[28] He released two albums in the 1990s (What Matters Most (Elba, 1993) & Dream (DRG, 1998)).[29]

Upon seeing his performance in 1998, Regis Philbin stated on ABC TV’s Regis & Kathie Lee, “he looks and sounds like a young Sinatra.“[29] His acclaim as a Sinatra-style singer led to his starring role in the Off-Broadway musical, Our Sinatra.[30][31][32] He has appeared on The Today Show, PBS Great Performances, Showbiz Tonight, and BBC News.[10] Postilio returned to the nightclub stage in 2011 with his show This Time Around, performed at Feinstein's at Loews Regency in New York.[32]

References

  1. ↑ Sheftell, Jason (2 August 2012). "Joan Collins’ midtown east apartment gets a makeover". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  2. ↑ Grudens, Richard (2004). The Italian Crooners Bedside Companion. Celebrity Profiles Publishing. ISBN 9780976387701.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Putzier, Konrad (9 January 2014). "CORE dueo singing their way to success". Real Estate Weekly. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ryan, Joel (15 March 2013). "Wheelchair-bound Gaga still looking". New York Post. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  5. ↑ Robledo, S. Jhoanna (4 July 2010). "Garbage In, Garbage Out". New York Mag. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  6. ↑ Curry, Sheree R. (7 January 2011). "Selling New York Broker Calms Skittish Sellers". AOL Real Estate. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  7. ↑ Weiss, Samuel (10 June 1985). "The New Townsend Harris High Keeps Old Goals". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  8. ↑ "Respect for All assembly addressing bullying, LGBT issues". The Classic (Issuu). January 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Ketcham, Diane (2 April 1989). "About Long Island, It Was A Very Good Year". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 "Tom Postilio Brings THIS TIME AROUND To Feinstein’s May 17-21". Broadwayworld.com. 19 April 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  11. ↑ Kamping-Carter, Leigh (1 July 2012). "Manhattan’s top 75 listing agents". The Real Deal. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  12. ↑ Sheftell, Jason (31 January 2008). "Hard work and persistence pays off for condo expert Shaun Osher". New York Daily News. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  13. ↑ Gregor, Alison (18 October 2007). "Osher hangs out boutique shingle". The Real Deal. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  14. ↑ Adams, Cindy (17 December 2013). "An actual anchors stories from the anchorman". Page Six. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  15. ↑ Abramian, Alexandria (20 December 2013). "Town Homes With In-House Recording Studios Hit the New York Market". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  16. ↑ Carter, Nicole (2 February 2011). "Voyeur Insights: CORE’s Tom Postilio". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  17. ↑ "Selling New York S7E1&2: Getting Back in the Game". Curbed. 7 June 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  18. ↑ Emily Smith, Tom Postilio, & Mickey Conlon. Living Large: A Classic Upper East Side Home (Television). CBS New York.
  19. ↑ Tom Postilio (8 June 2013). $24 Million Castle In The Sky (Television). Open House via YouTube.
  20. ↑ Tom Postilio and Mickey Conlon (21 January 2014). Mega Home Report: Sweet Sounds Inside NYC Apartments (Television). CNBC.
  21. ↑ Higgins, Michelle (31 May 2013). "In a Seller’s Market, Every Minute Counts". New York Times. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  22. ↑ Price, Lauren (13 November 2013). "Event manor: Posh parties the new way to show a home". New York Post. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  23. ↑ Marks, Simon (8 October 2008). "Rents for the lowly parking space stay high in the world’s cities". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  24. ↑ "Parking May Cost as Much as Your Car". Haute Living. 12 July 2007. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  25. ↑ "Yours for $225,000: a place to park". CNN Money. 12 July 2007. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  26. ↑ Toy, Vivian S. (12 July 2007). "For Parking Space, the Price is Right at $225,000". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  27. ↑ Millto, Ashley (17 October 2010). "Tom Postilio & His Orchestra". Patch. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  28. ↑ Holden, Stephen (4 July 1997). "Echoes of the Young Sinatra, but With a Shy Romanticism". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Fogelman, Bea (2001). ShowTime: Directory of Entertainment. iUniverse. ISBN 9781469714509.
  30. ↑ Holden, Stephen (1 June 2001). "Cabaret Guide". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  31. ↑ Riedel, Michael (23 February 2001). "’Our Sinatra’ Pals Now Strangers In The Night". New York Post. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 Holden, Stephen (18 May 2011). "Finding His Inner Sinatra, the Always Charming One". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 February 2014.