IN HER EIGHTEEN YEARS IN REAL ESTATE, Paula Del Nunzio has specialized in townhouses, penthouses and "townhouse equivalent" spaces. She joined Brown Harris Stevens in 1995 as a Director and Townhouse Specialist and is now a Senior Vice President and Managing Director of the firm. Her encyclopedic knowledge of the townhouse market is a unique benefit to both buyers and sellers. She has consistently been a top producer and has sold the largest and most prominent townhouses and luxury apartments in Manhattan.
With over $415 million in sales from her last 24 townhouse sales, Paula has sold over 65 townhouses throughout Manhattan, achieving an average 97% of the listing price. Highlights of her sales include the following properties:
The Harkness Mansion: A 50' wide building on Fifth Avenue and 75th Street, sold for $53 million, the highest price ever paid for a townhouse or any residential residence in New York
The Duke-Semans Mansion: A 27' wide building on Fifth Avenue, sold for $40 million
The John Duncan Mansion: A 25' wide home sold for a record price of $35 million
A 50' wide Delano & Aldrich masterpiece of 28,000 sf
A 44' wide historical beauty in Greenwich Village, also being restored to a single family residence, was sold twice
Three 40' wide mansions on the Upper East Side
A 36' wide mansion in the East 70s
A 28' wide mansion on the Upper East Side by an architect being restored to a single family residence
Four 25' wide townhouses
In December 2007, Paula was ranked by the Wall Street Journal as the 4th Largest Producer in the United States as well as the only residential broker listed in The New York Observer's “10 Real Estate Big Shots”. She has appeared in the press on the subject of townhouses and penthouses on the front page of The New York Times, The Post, New York Magazine, the New York Observer and in television segments for CNN, NBC, MSNBC, Fox Business Channel, CNBC and NY1 Cable. With insights and historical background on many of Paula's exclusives you may also receive up to date information by visiting Paula'a personal blog, The New York Townhouse.
Her background is varied. Having graduated from Vassar College with a BA in Literature, she went on to study chemistry at Columbia University and then film production and finance at The New School for Social Research. She has been an Associate Editor with New Directions, book publisher; Vice President of TV and Film Production at the Wells, Rich, Greene Advertising in Los Angeles; and Executive Producer at Ogilvy & Mather Advertising, for the Mattel, Honda, Max Factor, Gallo and Proctor & Gamble accounts. In addition, she wrote and produced teasers and trailers for twenty-one Columbia Pictures feature films. Ms. Del Nunzio's fourteen-year career in advertising gave her the background to create unusually successful marketing campaigns for high-end real estate properties.
Having lived in Los Angeles for ten years, as well as in London and Hamburg, Ms. Del Nunzio has studied French, Spanish, German and Russian. She is a member of the New York Landmarks Conservancy, Vassar Club, American Irish Society and is on the Board of Trustees of The Kaufman Center. She is a preservationist, with a country home in Millbrook, and her interests include reading on historical subjects, tennis and riding Polish Arabians.
