Cory Zelnik

Slump Dooms Brokers, Architects

Eric Michael Anton.
Eric Michael Anton.

By year’s end, some of commercial real estate’s freshest young brokers will give up on the somnolent field and start searching for a new line of work, according to the industry’s older hands.

“This is a cliché, but this is the time when the men are separated from the boys,” said Cory Zelnik, of Zelnik and Company.

It’s apparently an apt cliché: “This market, I hate to say it, separates the men from the boys, the strong from the weak,” said Faith Hope Consolo, chairwoman of the retail leasing and sales division at Prudential Douglas Elliman. The “boys” in this case are the newcomers.  read more »