The Real Estate ?Concierge? Helping New Yorkers Find Cool Homes Outside The City
A few of the properties outside the city that Gomez has been spotlighting this summer (from left): The Luby House (1968), Gagarin House I (1956), and 30 Hand Lane (1920). | Photos from left: Compass, Madonna & Phillips Group, Brown Harris Stevens/Courtesy of Esteban Gomez
Real-estate agent Esteban Gomez sells the upstate dream to the city?s apartment-dwelling ?creatives?. Earlier this pandemic summer, while stuck inside my one-bedroom apartment with only the internet to keep me company, I came upon the engrossing Instagram account of New York City real-estate agent Esteban Gomez. Although Gomez typically deals in expensive downtown apartments, after real estate in the city came to a halt in the spring, he began playing matchmaker between clients and quarantine-friendly homes all over Upstate New York, Connecticut, and Long Island. His account only has some 2,583 followers, but it provides the complete country-house fantasy: Mid-century modern homes that come with a quarry pool or border 86 forested acres, 1700s farmhouses with at least five fireplaces, monochrome contemporary retreats set on hillsides ? all presented in simple white-bordered photos or narrated video tours that last up to 15 minutes.
Photograph by Alessandro Simonetti
Gomez rebranded himself @thecreativesagent (tagline: ?Property Advisor to New York?s Creative Industry Leaders?) only a year ago, and it turned out to be very good timing. Interest in homes outside the city i...
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