Bond New York Real Estate Upper East Side

John Bradshaw is the best realtor we have ever worked with. Not only did he work with our many requests and parameters he was able to do it all remotely. Renting sight unseen is always a bit sketchy and he went above and beyond to ease our fears. He helped guide us to a neighborhood that we would actually be happy in. He was able to get us an amazing place with two days notice in a great neighborhood. He got us into a great school district and found a building that welcomed our dogs. Everything was done through DocuSign and perfectly executed. He was available for any and all question and was a pleasure to work with. I have never been happier to pay someone’s commission. Completely worth it. Best of all he sent us an orchid as a house warming gift. Very grateful for him. He is a huge asset to Bond and anyone in the market.

After receiving an email from Naked Apartments about a loft on Irving Place and then subsequently being contacted and speaking with Kim Dillon — I was pretty excited. She says, «My office is only a few blocks from that apartment. Come in on Saturday and I’ll take you over to see the place.» All was going well and I was getting my documents in order when she gives me her office address 1776 Broadway! Tell me how that is a «few blocks» from 17^th Street? She’s at 57^th Street on the West Side! Un-freaking’believable. I killed that appointment and suggested she buy herself a map before she tries to handle real estate in New York! That’s 20 minutes of my time I’ll never get back!

so looking for my own space in this city is a big step. It means paying 12 or 13% of the annual rent to the agent! Huge chunk of money. As I’m not in a hurry I dealt with a couple of agents and looked and a lot of apartments. I have to say that BOND had the best service. We met with Filip on a Sunday and he showed us around 4 or 5 different apartments in the area. It was so much more efficient that what I had been dealing with before with other agents. I actually put an offer in for one place, which sadly was not accepted.

Kevin Maher from Bond Realty is an AMAZING realtor and a pleasure to work with! I can not say enough wonderful things about him. After meeting Kevin through a co-​broke situation, my broker assured me that we were lucky to be working with Kevin, as he would be a great asset to the leasing process. My broker had known Kevin for a long time and felt he was «the best in the business.» Well, after working with him to secure my new apartment, I can attest that my broker was absolutely right — Kevin Maher is truly one of a kind and you are lucky to work with him in any capacity!
The listing which I wanted to rent was being offered exclusively through Bond Realty, Kevin’s company, and Kevin was responsible for showing me the apartment and helping with the leasing process. Although I bombarded him by bringing along my mother, father, sister AND boyfriend, Kevin was more than happy to explain all of the finite details about the apartment and the leasing process to every one of us. He took complete responsibility for introducing me to the landlord, and insured that my transition was quick and painless.
Kevin was a complete DOLL — his demeanor was always pleasant, patient and personable. Although I technically was not his client, Kevin still made a point to answer my texts/​calls promptly & openly communicated about what to expect throughout the leasing process. Kevin went above and beyond for me — insuring that all of my needs were consistently met, and he did so with a smile. He is an expert in his field who knows the real-​estate business inside and out, and I guarantee that he will make sure you are comfortable and informed every step of the way.
After my lease was signed, Kevin has continued to make himself readily accessible for questions/​concerns, and has checked in with me on multiple occasions to insure that my move-​in was a success. Overall, my experience with both Bond Realty and Kevin Maher was nothing short of PERFECTION and I urge you to use them for any of your real estate needs :) Thank you, Kevin!!!

I had similar issue with other folks who were shown a no fee apartment without being told it was prior to the lease signing.
This type of practice is beyond unethical and the fact that they can collect a $ 5200 check from kids who just graduated college, preying on their lack of experience in the real world (often this will be their first «official» place in life) is outrageous.
As for my story, I was shown four apts. two were apparently no fees. I wasn’t smart enough to look up the apartments thst I saw with broker afterwards. Instead, I assume that the broker had my best interest (I mean isn’t that part sort of assumed?.
48hours later, I ended up signing a lease on a $ 3300 one bedroom apt. Along with first month and security deposit, I handed $ 5200 check to the broker. The following day, I saw the managing director of the building to pick up the keys when he said, «we own over 40 residential buildings in manhattan ans even after your lease is up, we would like to have you as a tenant at any one of our buildings — and don’t worry, all our buildings are no fee».
Ya. Imagine how I felt after hearing those words…
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Where to begin?
I answered a listing by Steven Druth. He was rude, demanding, and patronizing. So, instead of viewing any apartments with him I resolved to avoid this brokerage.
Alas, my roommate found a listing by Tuval Mor. Tuval met us at the apartment and was curt but professional enough. We loved the apartment and asked him what his fee was. He said 15%, not negotiable. (Although the apartment was advertised as an exclusive, it turns out that it wasn’t his exclusive but someone else in Bond’s exclusive. That meant the fee was to be split a variety of ways and there’s less room for negotiation. That’s why we avoided non-​exclusive listings. Whatever.)
He offered 14%, we said no. He told us to look him in the eye (what???) and that he would never go below 13.5%.
We said that’s too bad and he said he wish we hadn’t wasted his time. Then he stormed off like a 6 year-​old having a temper tantrum.
Turns out he would go below 13.5% but not before repeatedly texting and emailing that we weren’t going to find a better deal elsewhere.
We signed a lease but not before hearing about 30 times that he’s been in real estate for 10 years and he’s giving us a great, discounted deal.
Ok. We get it.
Also, if you work a day job, don’t expect them to work with you on a time to sign the lease. It will be on their terms.
Bottom line: Tuval and everyone we encountered at Bond was pushy, rude, demanding, arrogant, patronizing, and generally unpleasant. Just the kind of people you want to give $ 2000-​$ 4000 to for causing you nothing but headache.
Avoid these jerks!

I can not thank Adam J. Michaels enough for finding us a great apartment in the UES. If you want a knowledgeable broker who LISTENS to your needs and follows up on a timely basis! He is so hard working, often emailing me in the late evening hours with potential listings! I really appreciated his dedication and professionalism during my search. He really puts his client first and you can’t go wrong with him. This is our first apartment in NYC, and Adam explained everything and helped us with the paperwork and process. It definitely eased up on the pressure and stress! I def. recommend Adam, he’s honestly a great guy who really puts his heart and soul into what he does! We went through about 10+ apartments and he was patient the entire time!
He also shows apartments in the UWS!
check his listings
Bond has a great relationship with building management around the area, we saw all great spacious apartments until we found the right one. Highly recommend!

This review is about my experience with Danielle LaCroix at Bond. She was absolutely fabulous! She earned every penny of the 15% brokerage fee. We saw dozens of places and she stayed right in my price range and was so well informed of each apartment we visited. Because I had no prior experience with NYC brokers, I tried to use another broker from another firm in NY to see if I could find a better place for me, but had a horrible experience and came running back to Danielle. Danielle is committed to her job and knows exactly what she’s doing. She answered my frantic texts at 9pm, assisted me with every step of the application process, and made sure that everything went smoothly for me from start to finish. She is personable and was truly a pleasure to work with. I have already and will continue to highly recommend her to anyone who is looking for a place in the city! Thanks, Danielle!

After having a horrible unprofessional experience with one of their brokers, I was hesitant when my boyfriend told me he was using Bond to find our new apartment. The first broker had horrible communication skills, and when I was in the office again treated his client like she was an idiot. But this post isn’t about him. This post is about how fabulous Danielle and Jeff were.
Danielle and Jeff were amazing and went above and beyond for us to find our new apartment. They were both aggressive in setting up viewings, which is good. The market moves so fast you need a broker that moves even faster. They were not slimeballs or creepy like a past company I had used. They were respectful of our budget and did not try to show us things we could not afford.
They had no problem showing me the apartment multiple times to make sure we were satisfied with where we would be living. They were not rushing me to make a decision but were helpful when I was ready to apply. They even helped me rent out my current apartment. Fantastic people. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for an apartment.
Thank you Danielle and Jeff for your fantastic work!

I should have listen to the other posts. Horrible business practices. Lost paperwork and then shown an apartment. After asking an hour earlier if there were any applications in the agent said it was rented. He tells me this after we filled out paperwork again! I do not Recommend them to anyone.

The real estate market is a rude introduction to New York, but Oliver Fernandez on the Upper East Side buffered the blow. In talking with several brokers, Oliver was the only one who seemed to listen to what I was looking for and tailor the apartment search accordingly. He is available without being push and personable.

I too had a terrible experience with Sean Fuller at Bond. We looked at places all over the city and ultimately decided on the UES.
Sean showed us several apartments and we ultimately settled on one. We have a cat and told Sean that up front, and specifically stated that we didnt have the cash to put down for a pet deposit. He assured us this was doable and would only show us places that didnt require a pet deposit.
Sure enough, we began to sign the rental docs, at which point Sean told us there was in fact a pet deposit of one months rent required on top of the one month security deposit. We were surprised but given hed already gotten us to sign the docs we were in a bit of a tight spot. He claimed that he could negotiate with the owner and that we would only have to put down half of one month, but encouraged us NOT to contact the owner. This was a little suspect, especially given all the money changing hands. We contacted the owner and they said that we would definitely have to put a full month down, but with no help from Sean we were able to work out an installment plan.
Sean intentionally misled us and sent several angry emails after he discovered we contacted the owner. Unprofessional and manipulative — watch out!

Last year, I was faced with the task of finding an apt on the upper east side. I actually went down a list and called some 25 agents from Citi-​Habitat and from Bond. Some didn’t answer, and some took as much as 2 days to call me back. Abigail of Bond NY was the only one who answered on the first call.
She was respectful about my budget, and very laid back and non-​pushy. I totally felt like she was on my side all the way. I’m very picky about apartments, but she patiently showed me around all the properties I wanted to see, and suggested some too. She even helped negotiate my rent!
I have since left NY, but I recommended Bond to my sister-​in-​law. Abigail just negotiated a new fridge for her apartment – and it was listed «as is». Woohoo!

these guys are good.
I got the appartment I wanted in a matter of hours.
in particular, ask for Joseph Lombardo (and Matt) from the 57^th street office. Joe is by far the best real estate agent I have worked with in New York (I have used at least 20 different agents over the years).
I was impressed by the fact that they were able to scope, find and close an apartment meeting my exact criteria in a grand total of 3 days (including Sunday when they came to the office to help me with the paperwork).
I also liked the straight forward manner in which Joe presented the facts, giving relevant data and useful tips, and also not committing beyond what he was able to deliver.
Bottom line, they really went out of their way me in this process by advising me, by expediting procedures and by recommending peripheral services. and they achieved what I needed them to achieve.
In general, real estate agents in New York are uneven (some really bad memories actually…). Joe and his team are amongst the greats.

5 stars for Jonathan M. — he is the most honest broker in New York.
He patiently worked with us to find the right apartment in the UWS.
He will only show you homes that are within your criteria unless he thinks it’s something worth and extra $ 100 over your budget.
He listens to what you’re looking for, is relaxed about scheduling a good time viewings and won’t bombard you with inventory that you are not interested in, just to push a rental.
All in all he’ll make the most of the time he has with you (mid-​day hour/​after work) to show you what he knows you’d be interested in. Asking a lot of questions up front — I really liked that.
He separates himself from an otherwise difficult industry to deal with.

The experience working with the agent to search for an apartment was nice. However, the apartment had BEDBUGS and there was no way to ask anyone for help after I had signed the papers and paid off the fees. Moved out after three months’ fighting with the landlord for nothing but loss of sleep and stress at work. Lost my one-​month deposit and 15% annual rent broker fee. Threw out all the new furniture that I bought for the apartment because of fear of bugs. Horrible experience of first moving to New York. Now it’s been five years and I still can’t live in Manhattan because the experience was so bad.

A 1 star rating only because I can’t choose 0 stars — Bond, and specifically Sean Fuller and his henchman Michael, should be avoided at all cost.
I contacted Bond when I was looking for an apartment recently, and it was clear from the first minute that they did not have my best interests in mind. I wrote a particular dollar amount on the application as my upper limit but said to them that I really didn’t want to go that high. Nevertheless, they immediately saw dollar signs and decided that one particular apartment on their list was the one for me, whether I liked it or not. I can only imagine that they had a deal with that particular landlord to rent that apartment quickly, so they began pushing it on me even though I made it clear that I had serious reservations. I think they saw in me someone who didn’t know the market well (I was moving into the city from out of state), and they figured they could push me into whatever apartment they wanted. Michael did show me other apartments that day, but they were all in a different price range and class. Even though Michael took me to one particular apartment complex, he specifically did not show me one particular apartment available in that complex, and I suspect it was because he knew that I would never take their ‘chosen’ apartment over that one once I saw it. At the end of the day, I said I needed time to think and look more before taking the apartment they were pushing on me. I suspect they started to panic at that point because they might not be able to rent that ‘chosen’ apartment as quickly as they thought.
The next day I viewed other apartments with another broker (Century 21, an agency that was much more considerate of my price range and wish list), including the one apartment at the complex Bond had taken me to that Bond hadn’t shown to me, presumably on purpose. I was leaning heavily toward taking that particular apartment, but I decided I wanted to see the ‘chosen’ one Bond had shown me again to be sure. After a second look at Bond’s ‘chosen’ apartment, I realized how run down the building was; it was a big space but had nothing else going for it, and it was really too expensive for me anyway, especially give that it now had switched from ‘no fee’ to ‘fee.’ I told them I didn’t want it, and I walked from there to the rental agency renting the apartment I had decided to take.
It was at that point that I realized how low Bond would stoop. Apparently Michael either followed me to the rental agency at which I decided to submit an application, or Bond has moles in that office reporting on people taking apartments with other brokers. Bond knew immediately where I was putting in my application, and Sean decided to throw legality to the wind and start trying to bully me. He began calling me repeatedly, berating me on the phone and ranting unintelligibly about how changes in fees for apartments is how the NYC rental market worked whether I liked it or not. Citing the contract I had signed with Bond, Sean said I owed them a broker fee for the apartment I was going to take with another broker, even though Bond hadn’t shown me that apartment. To make a long story short, I learned that Bond uses illegal language in the contract they have clients sign, and they were using that illegal contract to try to bully me into renting an apartment I didn’t want just because they needed to get it rented. (Thanks to Sean also harassing me by email, I obtained a nice scanned copy of that illegal contract to use as evidence for the complaint I’ve filed with the NY broker licensing bureau about his illegal tactics. Hopefully Bond soon will realize that they can’t get away with using that illegal contract with clients any more.)
To make a long story short, I made other arrangements, I got an apartment that I wanted (not one I was being forced into by a bad broker), and Bond got nothing, as they deserved. Their illegal tactics and bullying might work on some people, but fortunately I had teamed up with a reputable broker at that point and was able to get far away from Bond just in time.
In sum, Sean Fuller’s behavior made it clear that he is entirely unprofessional and doesn’t care about his client’s needs, and Bond as a company uses illegal tactics to try to force people to rent apartments they don’t want. Sean is one of Bond’s most visible brokers, so it seems that Bond endorses this kind of behavior. That being the case, I would recommend that everyone steer clear of the entire company.

NOT Recommended based on disorganized application process and
keeping my $ too long after their error!
Saw a few apartments in early May 2010. Applied for an apartment on a Saturday morning, giving bank checks for the security deposit and 100 $ each for credit check fee (mine and my brother’s.) Heard on Monday AM that the apartment already had an application in and we would have to start over. The bank check for security deposit was given back. The credit checks had already been run for this unavailable apartment and are reflected as such on our credit reports from Experian. The 200 $ was not refunded until 2 2 months and many calls and emails went by.
I know NYC real estate moves fast but it took too long to get my refund and now there is an extra inquiry on my credit report.

1. Went in on Sunday before Memorial Day, was shown 10 apartments, on a tour of over 3 hours. Found 1 apartment we liked. While waiting in their lobby noticed lots of dead leaves near the entrance on the floor, and an empty starbucks cup.
2.Emailed regarding one apartment, was told to come back Tuesday after Mem Day, made an appt with same broker to come into office after work.
3. Arrived at office on Tuesday evening, still same dried leaves covering the floor, and empty starbucks cup had not been removed. Noticed that the bathroom was in disrepair and a little gross. After being called in to meet with same broker, was told that apartment we wanted was no longer on the market. Apparently this was a matter that demanded schlepping 20 blocks in the rain to hear, and couldn’t be told to us over the phone (wtf?). We were given the advice to wait until after the summer rush, and said goodbye, feeling like fools for walking all the way to their office just to be told THAT.
4. It’s been 2 weeks, and we just got an email from broker, time-​stamped 4:56 AM, with a personal attack at us, relevant to medical information we told him (the broker was making fun of my boyfriend’s need of a bathtub, and citing that as a reason why he couldn’t help us find an apartment). We find this hilarious, and my instinct was to immediately contact his firm, and show them the insulting email. My boyfriend didn’t want the broker’s job to be in danger (my friends think we should turn him in!). It’s a good thing my boyf gets his regular AM baths, or else he might not be in such a good mood.
5.They wanted a 15% broker’s fee if they can actually find you an apartment, but they will insult you for free regardless!