2018
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Gina Bedoya ennifer Djurkovic is a Director in the Investment Sales Division
Pei Partnership Architects of Ariel Property Advisors, a prominent commercial real estate brokerage and investment services firm. She is responsible for
Laurenleading Cahillbusiness development and networking initiatives in Man-
hattan’s Downtown East neighborhoods, with a particular focus on the Avalon Bay Communities
East Village, Greenwich Village, and NOHO.Ms. Djurkovic joined Ariel
Jennifer Carpenter in the fall of 2017.
Ms. Djurkovic believes real estate is in her blood. Her father and uncles Jennifer Carpenter Architect
immigrated in the 1970s from Croatia to the U.S., where her father got a Nicole job as an Ceci elevator operator and her uncles worked as supers. Eventually, pooled their resources with their Bronx landlord and began acquiring Steventhey Winter Associates small multi-family buildings in emerging neighborhoods like Washington Clodagh Heights and East Harlem. Ms. Djurkovic made her entry into the real estate industry Clodagh Designshortly after college by joining the NYC real estate trade magazine The Real Deal.. She worked as an advertising account executive Cathy Hobbs and rapidly established herself as one of the publication’s top salespeople. SheDesign startedRecipes her career Cathy Hobbs & in real estate at Massey Knakal Realty Services, now CushmanJournalist & Wakefield, where she worked on a team that sold 142 Emmy-Award-Winning properties worth $2.2 billion in aggregate consideration. She worked on majorIsaacson deals such as 21 Penn Plaza, which sold for $244 million in 2014 to Linda financial services First American Titlegiant TIAA-CREF. Prior to joining the firm, she was an associate director at Eastern Consolidated, where she worked on brokering deals for multifamily buildAndrea Kretchmer ings in Manhattan’s Midtown East neighborhood. During that time, she Poko Partners originated and executed transactions of properties valued at $56.3 million.
Jennifer Djurkovic Ariel Property Advisors
Carol Sigmund
Horowitz Sigmund LLP & incoming President/NYCLA
I recall one of my earliest clients saying to me, ‘Jennie, do you want to read about the rich and powerful or do you want to live it?’
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