Laurie Lewis

In her airy, minimalist Chelsea apartment, Laurie Lewis has framed a yellowed piece of composition paper with neatly blocked print letters – one of her first poems in elementary school. It begins: Do Skyscrapers ever grow tired of holding themselves up high?/Do they ever shiver frosty nights with their tops against the sky?/Do they Feel lonely sometimes because they have grown so tall?...Do they ever wish they could lie down and never get up at all?” “I was kind of dramatic, but you can see interest in real estate started early,” Lewis laughs. “Buildings, apartments, offices...they all had souls to me. Even when I was a little kid. I had this feeling that – well, just like the right people needed to find the right match, so did people and homes.” This idea may have been a bit odd coming from an 8-year-old, but it is the kind of thinking that has propelled Lewis to the top of her field. In addition to being a musician (she has scored documentaries, films. written innumerable commercial jingles, and was the “meow” voice and a producer of the ubiquitous Meow Mix spots following the great Linda November), Lewis has spent 25 years furnishing clients both local and international with homes, investments and development opportunities that, she says, “were destined; the ones they were meant to have.” Her passion, combined with her unparalleled knowledge of New York City, has made Lewis consistently among the top 1 percent of brokers in sales at Corcoran, earning her membership in the company’s prestigious Gold Council. Specializing is both commercial and residential, new development and townhouses, she is inventive, and has marketing experience (owning a real estate advertising company with her family) that spans over 30 years. She is comfortable in the most nuanced details, is highly intelligent and believes in specific target marketing and out of the box concept. Her results are uncontested. “But whether buying or selling, there are considerations that are just as important as the financial ones. A home is a romance,” she says. “Sometimes we are logical in what we want, but very often there is a visceral response to a space. When I’m working with a client, I try very hard to understand their minds. But I also believe in listening to their hearts.”