Larry Kaiser
Kaiser Roll

Daniel M. Weiss
Larry Kaiser has been a broker in
New York since 1968. In 1978, he
co-brokered the first Manhattan apartment
deal over $1 million.
New York since 1968. In 1978, he
co-brokered the first Manhattan apartment
deal over $1 million.
“For the past 15 generations, nobody in my family has had to work,” said A. Laurance “Larry” Kaiser IV, the high-end Upper East Side real estate broker. “You work because you have to contribute to society.”
Mr. Kaiser, 66, was sitting upright in his small Madison Avenue office last month. A day earlier, two top executives at Lehman Brothers had lost their jobs and the Federal Reserve released a grim economic report: Manhattan real estate is “down sharply … inventories of unsold units have risen.”
Has Mr. Kaiser, a broker since 1968, been anxious? “Not in the past 40 years,” he said. read more »












