Anna Shagalov

Trulia and Real Trends Top Real Estate Agent in New York As an associate broker with Halstead Property, Anna brings an enthusiasm to buying and selling real estate that is rarely found in todays market. Having grown up in New York, her adoration for the city translates in the approach she uses to acclimate buyers with various neighborhoods. As a downtown specialist, Annas knowledge of the assortment of buildings, individual properties, boards and market conditions becomes apparent within the first conversation. Her intuition and genuine interest in who shes working with is understood within the first meeting. With a pre-real estate background in sales and management, Anna excelled in the Gift Industry as a sales manager overseeing 14 sales professionals while representing 26 of the industrys most lucrative home accent manufacturers. This experience offers her the ability to handle a variety of situations simultaneously while maintaining strong, well balanced and congenial communication skills leaving everyone involved in each transaction feeling comfortable and well represented. Annas affable demeanor resounds in her reputation. Her patience, diligence, and determination when brokering the sale or purchase of any property can be corroborated by her customers as well as colleagues*. Her greatest pleasure is getting to know her buyers and sellers and using her distinct and irrefutable knowledge of the market to advise toward healthy choices and ultimately make appropriate matches. Despite the fact that this was my fourth co-op purchase in Manhattan, I still found Annas involvement in the process to be extremely helpful. Anna was always there with unbiased advice and expertise that guided me through a competitive bidding process, very difficult financing, the co-op board package and approval, as well as the numerous other unforeseen difficulties that emerged along the way. The end result was a very happy owner of a new co-op loft in SoHo... ...Apart from her professionalism and intuition, Annas personality made the task of searching for an apartment to be an absolute pleasant one. She was always energetic and brought wit and humor to our months of searching. I appreciated her discipline in staying within the parameters of our finances and never felt any pressure to look at apartments outside that boundary...