Business Casual
Frank carries over 10 years of experience handling a long list of complex transactions, totaling over $200M in sales throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn, across all price points. During that time Frank has diligently and discretely represented a portfolio of clients spanning a diverse range of industries.
Frank joined Compass in August of 2014 after spending close to 6 years at The Corcoran Group. At Compass and Corcoran, Frank was a partner on one of the WSJ’s Top 200 teams in the country. In addition to over $200M in sales, Frank simultaneously handled all investor relations and property management for the team, with roughly $100M of assets under management.
“One of my greatest strengths is that I’ve built up a very comprehensive set of skills and experience over the years through my past responsibilities. As a result, I have a thorough knowledge of the different areas of the market and how they all work together in unison and affect one another.”
In March 2020 Frank recognized an opportunity to begin a new chapter of his career, and lay the foundation to build his own team at Compass. Frank believes that foundation centers around the idea that real estate advisory does not need to feel sterile and it should be enjoyable.
“I grew up in Palm Beach, FL and I was lucky to have two wonderful and fun parents who taught me the importance of hard work and dedication from an early age. They were both very successful in their own careers because they were always working, but they also never stopped having fun and enjoying life.”
Delivering an advisory style of business is equally important to Frank, as he believes that is what sets himself apart from others.
“My mindset is that clients can now find an enormous amount of information and data online themselves, so as an agent, you need to be an expert and provide value to them outside of the typical box. For example, if a buyer is interested in a particular neighborhood, I live and breath that neighborhood for them so they can best determine whether they should invest capital there. I go out to restaurants, stop at cafes, use public transportation to and from, walk the streets at different times of day and chances are I’ve already sold or rented there before. The bottom line is that while it is naturally important to be an expert on numbers when it comes time for an offer and subsequent negotiations, I like to know what is going on in a neighborhood beyond the data points and what is on the horizon one, three, five + years down the line whenever possible. It is simply not enough to know a neighborhood as it is now or how it was even a year ago. There are a host of intangibles that I account for and educate myself on on both a macro and micro level for my clients.”