ESTHER MULLER,
REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY EXPERT
AND CONSULTANT

Muller’s real estate career began while she was teaching in Ridgefield, Connecticut, where she was approached by a developer who needed help educating his tenants on the advantages of home ownership. She was a natural, helping people empower themselves through ownership. “So, I began selling properties and felt that I was making a difference in people’s lives,” she says. As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Muller has always strived to make the world a better place to live.

Soon she was working with major developers in Connecticut and had started her own firm to facilitate the conversion and sales of rental units to co-ops and condos. In 1980, looking at New York, she saw a vast untapped market for conversions, and expanded her operations to Manhattan. Muller became known as the “queen of sponsor apartments” because she was involved in converting dozens of buildings with thousands of units throughout the city. Included were such residential landmarks as the Ansonia, Leonori and Parc Vendome condominium.

Esther has been a top broker at Sopher, and Prudential Douglas Elliman, the largest real estate company in New York City. Central to her success is Muller’s keen sense of location, understanding the financials of a building, and her negotiating skills.

As co-founder of and master teacher at the Academy for Continuing Education, Esther Muller has been educating real estate professionals for more than a decade. Her incisive thoughts and perceptive ideas have distinguished her as an authority and often quoted spokesperson on industry issues. Ms. Muller holds a BA in Education from Brooklyn College. Along with her expertise in the real estate market, she is an acclaimed lecturer on real estate investing and a fierce advocate of quality education