Doug Bowen and Zia O'Hara are as sophisticated, strategic, and savvy a team as you could ever hope to find in the New York real estate market. They bring to bear a powerful combination of old-fashioned networking and connections, complex data analytics, shrewd negotiating skills, and certainty and confidence about the process that put us at ease both as sellers and buyers about how things would unfold. Over the course of multiple sales, they have met or exceeded their predictions about the price we could sell for by devising and executing a strategy perfectly suited to our house and market conditions. We wouldn't even consider making a real estate m...

I met Zia through a good friend in the neighborhood. I told her we would be ready to buy a house in about two years’ time and almost to the date, she rang me up and asked if we were ready. Her laid-back, can-do attitude made the process so enjoyable. She is endlessly knowledgeable about the market, community, and homes in all the Brooklyn neighborhoods. She found us the home of our dreams and navigated the deal like a true professional. I highly recommend Zia and her team. They are a joy to work with and Zia is one of the hardest-working people I’ve met. I’m so glad to have met her.

Doug Bowen and Zia O’Hara of Douglas Elliman came to us and highly recommended they sold several of our friends’ homes in our Clinton Hill, Brooklyn neighborhood. We valued that they knew the neighborhood well and have lived or still live there. They really get the market. We bought our house 35 years ago and needed some hand-holding as we downsized and staged our warm, eccentric family home. While it wasn’t the easiest sell in some ways (a quirky one-family on an unlovely corner of a lovely block), Doug and Zia totally got the good “juju” of a house well-loved and their changes captured that vibe while still guessing it up in a just-right way to ma...