New York City
Jaime Aguilera
The city's most consequential residences, represented for a deliberately short list of clients — with discretion, judgment, and a standard that does not move.
A practice built on judgment, precision, and a singular point of view.
For more than a decade, a select group of founders, collectors, and families have turned to this practice for New York's defining properties — Central Park residences, landmarked townhouses, lofts and towers of architectural consequence.
The work is deliberately narrow. Few clients at a time. Exhaustive preparation behind every introduction. A record measured in outcomes rather than volume — and in the discretion that surrounds them.
“I answer my own phone. I walk every residence before I price it. And I will tell a client the truth about value — even when it costs me the engagement.”
At this level, clients are not retaining a firm. They are retaining judgment — one person accountable for the strategy, the outcome, and the silence around both. I never send someone in my place.
The Approach
Discretion as a condition
The most significant transactions never reach the open market. The practice operates within a private network of owners, family offices, and advisors where confidentiality is the price of entry — not a courtesy extended after the fact.
Value is read, not estimated
Light, provenance, ceiling height, the integrity of a renovation, the character of a board. At this level a residence is evaluated the way a curator evaluates a work — closely, and in person — long before a number is attached to it.
The outcome, engineered early
Negotiation is decided before an offer exists. Patient, evidence-led, and unsentimental — structured to protect the price and the relationship at once, so that neither is ever spent to rescue the other.
The complexity stays with me
Counsel, staging, financing, and the quiet logistics of a move are all run from one desk. The client experiences clarity; everything that would otherwise intrude on it is held, and resolved, out of view.
Selected Work
“He understood what we wanted before we did — and protected our privacy at every turn.”