Arabella Greene Buckworth has forty years' experience as a respected and highly successful broker of Manhattan luxury sales. In 1986, in a niche cutting edge boutique, she founded and managed a residential division representing multinational corporations. Four years later, desiring to move from corporate focus to personal residential, she joined The Halstead Property Company where she thrived for seven years before moving to Brown Harris Stevens in 1997, as one of their first agents in the newly opened West Side office, as enthused then as now, to be associated with New York City’s oldest and most prestigious residential real estate firm.
A native New Yorker, Arabella is intimately familiar with the nuances and evolving dynamics of the city and its neighborhoods. Marketing and selling luxury real estate, usually through referrals and repeat business, she has consistently set record prices. Clients appreciate her negotiating talents, thorough knowledge of the real estate market and equanimity under pressure.
In 2006, she had the distinction of representing the buyer in The Real Estate Board of New York’s “Deal of the Year Award” for the sale of a Penthouse on Central Park West, cited at the time as “the most expensive single-occupancy apartment purchase in the history of the Upper West Side.”
In 2009, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, she negotiated the purchase of the largest townhouse sale in New York City, discretely representing the purchaser, a global media star and icon.
The townhouse sale involved the utmost trust and discretion in an industry where these values can often be sacrificed on the alter of publicity.
With this ethos she introduced, in 2010 her charming step-son to the world of high-end properties where he has broken records and established a fine, independent presence.
Whether negotiating on behalf of celebrities, foreigners or first time buyers, Arabella is respected for her sensitivity, tenacity and discretion.
Widely travelled and fluent in three languages, Arabella was educated at the United Nations International School and Mills College, where she earned her degree in Comparative Literature.
She continues to be an avid reader and a patron of all the arts, in particular Modern Art, Jazz and Classical music. Equal abiding passions are chess and ski holidays with her family and ever widening circle of grandchildren.