This almost OG east coast former Housewife, is coming back and needs a boyfriend.

Apparently, she landed a married real estate agent, so I’m not sure that is a good look.

Kelly Bensimon

Real Housewives of New York

‘I’ve Broken Fingernails, I’ve Cleaned Toilets, I Stage’: Kelly Bensimon on Her Life in Real Estate

Kelly Killoren Bensimon, former model, Real Housewife of New York City, and author of Assouline books about bikinis and the Hamptons, has spent the past few years carving out a career as a real-estate agent. As it turns out, she’s pretty good at it. Bensimon sold $110 million in real estate last year, which included a $41 million off-market deal, and was declared Douglas Elliman’s Rookie of the Year. Now Bensimon, who joined Douglas Elliman’s Holly Parker team in 2019, is launching her own six-person team. Where did she come from, how did she rise in the real-estate industry, and what (and how) is she selling?

How does she sell it? “I smile a lot, and I have a lot of energy, and I think that hopefully my enthusiasm will be contagious and people will respond to how much I love New York,” Bensimon told the Real Deal in 2019. Also, like many successful real-estate agents, she has a lot of rich friends: “She’s very well connected, and she knows New York,” Fredrik Eklund said in a Bravo interview. “Superhard worker and has insane connections,” another real-estate insider wrote to me. “I’m used to selling the best of the best, and that’s what I’m doing,” Bensimon said. “I’m also a really good listener. I listen to what my clients want and what my sellers need.”

She says people also find her through social media. “I work with a lot of people from Instagram. Look, Instagram is real. At one point, I put up a pair of mink slippers — it was for an event at my daughter’s school; I wanted to make something for the other mothers and wives that was fun — and I sold a thousand pairs in a few weeks,” she said. (The slippers were made by Pologeorgis.) “Four years later, I have a shearling outerwear line with them. It’s about mining your database, being connected with people you know, informing them they’re great, and congratulating them on things they do that are great. I spend a lot of time on Instagram liking what people do, because I really like what they do.” – Source

Kelly Bensimon Says She’d Be Open to Starring in a Real Estate-Centric Reality Show: ‘You Can’t Make This Up’

Selling New York City? Kelly Killoren Bensimon may have left her life as a Housewife long behind, but she is open to returning to reality TV one day.

“I’d love to celebrate any show that highlights the world of real estate,” the Real Housewives of New York City alum, 54, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, August 30, before joking that her busy schedule would provide plenty of material for the project. “I’m a multi-hyphenate — mama-bear of two girls, queen of clean, hunter for the chicest new interiors … I actively work for Foodbank For New York City with my girls. … I’m a real estate broker. My life is a reality show. You can’t make this up.”

Bensimon, who starred on the Bravo series from 2009 to 2011, began working in luxury real estate in 2018. While the career move might have been surprising for some fans, the former model explained that it felt like a fitting next step. “I have been prepared for high-end [and] luxury clients [since] way before I did Housewives,” Benismon told Us. “I had been in the luxury sector during my modeling days, had worked with ELLE magazine, and wrote luxury lifestyle books. It has been a natural and seamless segue.” – Source


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