Joan brings more than 25 years of real estate, sales, and management experience to Smart NY Solutions. Joan is also the founding partner of Manhattan Boutique Real Estate (MBRE). She has been helping clients navigate New York residential and commercial real estate for 20 years.

Focused on the residential side, her expertise includes condominium sales, rentals, investment properties and management, corporate relocations, and new developments. Her experience in commercial real estate includes brokering commercial office space, retail leasing, building sales, and real estate consultation. Development-related activities include experiences of having raised capital both in equity and debt from institutional investors such as Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and private equity for real estate developments (ex. Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group for 2280 FDB New Development Condo, Harlem, NYC.)

Joan has been an active consultant to Uptown Partners developers on Harlem’s well-known condominiums 5th on the Park and The Lenox. Interacting with a diverse client base, her personal interest in real estate and global markets and cultures allows Joan to always keeps her eyes open for “outside the box” opportunities. Activities in 2019 involved introducing artists from China into NYC art Galleries (One Art Space) and the formation of Smart NY Solutions Inc., a joint-venture, women-owned business that seeks to bring technology innovations to real estate. She also received certificates from NYC SBS Construction Mentorship Program and the NYC HPD M/WBE Affordable Housing Developers Program.