About Us

Successful companies bring value-added qualities to each relationship.  When combined with excellent service and a drive to be the best, they result in a company like Metro Spire, which in a few short years has risen to the top flight of boutique, full-service real estate companies

Founded by Daniel Roubeni and Joseph Ben-Zvi in 2003, Metro Spire brings a sophisticated, global perspective to the sales and leasing of residential properties in Manhattan, the outer boroughs and Long Island.

The founders’ prime mission was to create a company that delivers quality service with honesty and integrity. This philosophy has driven Metro Spire’s rapid success, carving a specific niche in the real estate market while developing a solid client base built on trust and customer satisfaction.

OUR AGENTS...

Helping to make Metro Spire stand out in real estate is our team of diligent agents.  They are a diverse group of trained industry experts with a passion for real estate, who successfully combine youth and experience with an intimate knowledge of the market and the city. Combined, they speak at least eight languages --English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Farsi, and Russian.  This diversity helps Metro Spire expand its base of potential buyers.  Our agents are sensitive to individual client needs and have a proven ability to go ‘the extra mile’ to achieve client goals.

Our agents work closely with Joseph Ben-Zvi, Metro Spire’s president.

For Sellers

Upon listing your property with Metro Spire, we will immediately coordinate and execute a strategic selling plan that includes establishing a competitive price, quickly disseminating information about your property to the entire brokerage community and developing a targeted marketing plan to generate the widest and most favorable exposure for your property.

As an active member of REBNY (The Real Estate Board of New York), Metro Spire’s listings are automatically shared with over 100 of the leading real estate companies in the city.

From the initial contact, you will see the difference in the way we work.  We have a comprehensive system from the original meeting through the closing that ensures our clients are getting the best representation. 

We begin with a price analysis of your property looking at sales of comparable apartments for the past three months.  Based on this, plus the specific features of your apartment such as location, floor, condition, etc, we recommend a selling price.  In recent years, establishing the initial selling price has gained increased importance as it should be high enough to maximize your investment while attracting solid offers.

We then implement our marketing/promotion campaign using our excellent graphics and writing team to produce materials that put your property in the best light.

 Our state-of-the-art website showcases your listing with virtual tours of the property, photos, floor plans and detailed information.  Our staff takes the photos and creates the floor plans.

Depending on need, we can produce eye-catching marketing brochures and information sheets for distribution to the brokerage community, potential buyers and our pre-qualified clients, real estate investors, and registered users of Metro Spire.
 
An extensive mailing campaign featuring your property is also available. Our database of investors and corporations includes those who recently purchased in or relocated to the neighborhood where you are selling.

The Metro Spire advertising team will place ads for your property in traditional outlets such as the New York Times, as well as the burgeoning internet market.  In recent years, with the growth in importance of the internet in marketing apartments, we have made considerable investments in technology and the know-how of using this vehicle to attract worldwide attention to the properties we are selling.

We want to work closely with you from listing through closing, and can recommend professionals such as attorneys and appraisers, who have proven their ability to us.



ADVERTISING

Metro Spire is a mid-sized full service real estate brokerage.  The firm provides a full range of services in both residential rentals and sales. My company and I are active members of REBNY (Real Estate Board of New York) and Metro Spire's customers benefit with access to both properties from the New York City brokerage community and the general public. As part of a concerted marketing effort Metro Spire will do the following:

• We will advertise your property in:
  New York Times ♦ New York Times.com ♦ New York Post ♦ Wall Street Journal ♦ The Real Deal ♦ and other publications as suggested.

• We will list your property on:
  MetroSpire.com ♦ RLS (REBNY Listing Service) ♦ Property Shark ♦ ROLEX ♦ Real Plus ♦ Yahoo Real Estate ♦ Trulia Real Estate ♦ Lending Tree ♦ Real Estate.com ♦ Citi Mortgage.com ♦ and other publications as suggested.

• We will produce a Virtual Digital Tour of your property, and create a dynamic digital marketing campaign centered around an interactive webpage that utilizes photographs and floor plans to advertise propped pictures of your property.

• We will produce no less than 2000 marketing books and flyers featuring your property and mail them to all of our clients and your neighbors and registered users of our firm.

• We will market your property to the entire Manhattan brokerage community immediately upon listing and we will cooperate with any and all legitimate Brokers.

• We will feature your property on our MetroSpire.com web site and display it to the thousands of people who look at our site daily.

E-Listings … A NEW WAY TO MARKET YOUR PROPERTY

Whether it’s Direct Marketing to the brokerage community or the presentation of a property flyer to a prospective buyer, an E-Listing is a highly effective way to improve your property presentation. Direct marketing has never been easier and more efficient.

Today, an E-Listing represents the quickest and most effective way to get your exclusive listing out to the grassroots of the brokerage community. Within 48 hours your exclusive is in the FACE of 5000+ brokers and Thousands of buyers, with pictures, virtual tours and floor plans.

Floor Plans … RECONSTRUCTED & DIGITIZED

Metro Spire can provide crisp and accurate floor plans from full floor plate images, single apartment plans or rudimentary home or apartment sketches. Even existing grainy floor plans, hand drawn plans, or old and illegible copies are digitized into a perfect, legible, digital format suitable for web presentations, printing and emails. The digitized plans can be provided in CAD or PDF format.

Digital Ads … THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE CAN SEE YOUR PROPERTY ONLINE

Your property will be advertised on the NewYorkTimes.Com website, featuring 700,000 unique hits per day. Color photos and virtual tours greatly enhance your listing thereby ensuring the maximum exposure of your property.

As well as featuring your property for sale, we can feature your property on the OPEN HOUSE section of the New York Times, ensuring a good turnout of informed and active buyers.

MetroSpire.COM … OUR WEBSITE

Our Website is well known and actively marketed to Real Estate Buyers and Sellers alike. Easily navigable, it allows fast access to detailed listings and property information, featuring recent transactions, affiliated companies and the personal resumes of our Brokers. Your property will be posted immediately to ensure that every one of the thousands of daily visitors can navigate and preview your property online.