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There are aspects of real estate sales that seem pretty simple. There are many elements of a smooth transaction, however, that are complicated and daunting. 

We can help you with every aspect of buying or selling your home because we are experienced, because we are professional . . . and because we care.   

Joseph-Michael & Petra Contrada


Petra Contrada


Petra Contrada
 
Petra Contrada
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Phone: 917-539-3837
Business: 914-835-6400
Cell: 917-539-3837
Fax: 914-267-2806

About Petra


 

A PASSIONATE & DEDICATED REAL ESTATE  PROFESSIONAL
Petra is a co-founder and partner of The Contrada Group Inc. at RE/MAX Power Realtors. As your licensed real estate sales professional, Petra applies her business expertise and outstanding people skills to fulfilling all your real estate needs -- whether buying a new home or selling an existing one. 
Petra has a proven track record as a world-class professional business developer and corporate educator, with over 30 years of successful involvement as an executive in the corporate industry, retail and training environments. As a result of her past experience, she brings the following skills:
  • Sales & Negotiation: 30 years proven successful track record
  • Marketing & Advertising: 25 years multimedia experience (print, TV, web, display)
  • Project Management & Organization
  • Customer Service & Client Support
  • Education & Transformation
  • Relocation Specialist - She can share the joys and traumas of changing one's household as she has done it herself a number of times: Germany to Egypt and back; twice over the Atlantic Ocean from Germany to NYC and finally to Westchester.
Languages: English and fluent German
Designations and Awards:

ABR; e-pro
2009 - WCBR Gold Award
2008 - WCBR Platinum Award
2007 - WCBR Silver Award
2007 - RE/MAX Executive Club

Joseph M. Contrada


Joseph M. Contrada
 
Joseph M. Contrada
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Phone: 914-312-7666
Cell: 914-312-7666
Fax: 914-274-2806
City: Westchester
State: New York
Country: United States

About Joseph


 

Your resource for achieving your real estate objectives, and more energy-efficient, environmentally-responsible and healthier living for you and your family

Joseph is a co-founder of The Contrada Group at ReMax Power Realtors. He has earned the National Association of Realtor's Green Designation. He has also completed training as a Darryl Davis Real Estate Sales Specialist and is a PowerAgent.  
 
After undergraduate and graduate linguistic and literary studies in the United States and Germany, Joseph worked as a freelance writer, copyeditor and translator. He then moved on to several executive positions in Manhattan corporations. Thereafter, he found employment in non-profit institutions while dedicating himself to the study of Eastern and Western spiritual classics and to exploring meditation and energy healing practices.
 
Joseph founded the Aquarian Institute, together with his wife Petra, in the 1990s. They organized and facilitated scores of weekend seminars dedicated to meditation and healing in major cities throughout Germany. During this time, Joseph also lectured and wrote on topics related to spirituality, comparative religion and esotericism. Further, he undertook a prescribed course of training that included anatomy, physiology and psychology; the study of psychological and physical pathologies; differential diagnosis; emergency medical care, medical laboratory analysis; etc. After passing written and oral examinations, Joseph became licensed to practice medicine and psychotherapy in Germany as a “Heilpraktiker”, a naturopathic practitioner. He built a successful practice that offered a broad palate of complementary medical modalities.
 
Joseph’s commitment to environmental conservation began in this teens during the latter 1960s and, since then, he has educated himself on environmental issues and supported initiatives to promote environmental protection and healing. Joseph began working in the environmental health department of a government agency in 2004 and, while there, he completed New York State public health training and a course in HazMat (hazardous materials) response.
 
Joseph is uniquely positioned to offer real estate clients guidance in locating and bringing together the right resources to find and/or create a "green"-er living environment, one that promotes better health and a greater sense of well-being, while being more energy efficient and environmentally responsible. 
 
Languages: Fluent English and German, some French, Italian and Spanish
 
Designations: National Association of Realtors Green
                          Darryl Davis Real Estate Sales Specialist & Power Agent
 
 
 

Robert S. Rubin


 

 

Robert S. Rubin
 
Robert S. Rubin
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Phone: 718-7965799
Cell: 917-312-3463
Fax: 914-274-2806
City: Westchester
State: New York
Country: United States

About Robert S. Rubin


 

PROPERTY HISTORIAN & SPECIALIST IN LUXURY HOMES

Robert S. Rubin (Bob) was born in New Rochelle, and he was raised and educated through high school in Mamaroneck. He graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in Business Administration. Bob's professional life over decades has provided him with the knowledge and practical experience to handle any and all residential and commercial real estate transactions. Bob’s real estate career has included:

v Renting and selling luxury apartments, first as a rental agent, then as manager of a thousand-unit Mitchell-Lama project in Brooklyn.

v Office leasing brokering for seven years at Helmsley-Spear Inc., where his accomplishments included brokering the British Airways headquarters at 245 Park Avenue (80,000 square feet).

v Serving as senior account director for nine years at Environmental Research & Development, where Bob was instrumental in the company’s expansion from a five-person firm to the third-largest interior architectural and corporate relocation consulting organization in America, employing over one hundred people in New York, Beverly Hills and London, and handling over four million square feet of space. This exceptional growth was achieved primarily through his obtaining access to the senior officers of major corporations and, with his staff, providing accurate and detailed cost and functional analyses of their office needs.

v Involvement as a partner or as the broker in the purchase, sale and management of multifamily apartment houses; in the sale of many luxury residences both in New York City and in the suburbs; and in the sale and leasing of corporate offices. He also acted as broker for about two hundred million dollars worth of multiple residences, including Castle Village in Manhattan (640 units), now a co-op, as part of his representation for the late Sarah Korein. In addition, Bob acted recently as owner's representative in the construction of a 50,000-square-foot specialty high school for the City of New York, created out of two continuous floors in a 100-year-old historic loft building. This project involved many complex and special construction and technical elements that required both precise coordination and a rigid completion schedule.

Finally, Bob Rubin's avocation is architectural and social history, and he has frequently conducted tours of the New York area, both for relocating corporate officials and for real estate clients.

 

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