Jon Phillips & Ginnie Gardiner together comprise one of Halstead's most successful and effective sales teams. Consistently ranked among the top brokers in all Halstead in completed sales, they sold more new development properties that any other Halstead brokers in two out of the four quarters in 2006. They regularly rank in the Producers Council, Gold Circle and Platinum Circle as they specialize in representing Manhattan's premier downtown properties as well as 'boutique lofts' and 'special properties.'
"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 $1,250,000 property, we're still aware that this translates into over $135,000 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."
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's graphics and photographic skills presented our loft both on the web and in print in ways that truly conveyed all of the attributes that attracted us to buying our loft originally." Writes the noted art critic Carter Ratcliff and his wife, author Phyllis Derfner, concluding "As art critics, we never imagined that the selling of real estate could find a place among the fine arts, and yet Ginnie and Jon have raised it to that level." 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 also helped create 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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