Dottie Herman's Biography

Dorothy Herman, Dottie, is the quintessential New York success story. In only two decades, she climbed to the pinnacle of the housing industry – CEO of Prudential Douglas Elliman, the #5 ranked real estate company in the United States.   

Today, under her leadership, Prudential Douglas Elliman has become a $12 billion business, and is on track to exceeding $13 billion in 2007 with over 3,300 real estate professionals and 675 employees working in more than 60 offices in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, the Hamptons and the North Fork.

Dottie created a company that serves the customer’s every real estate need.  In addition to leading New York’s largest residential real estate brokerage and rentals, she also controls a portfolio of real estate services, including commercial and retail leasing and sales, relocation and settling in services, new development consulting and also Manhattan’s largest residential property manager, Douglas Elliman Property Management, as well as PDE Title, and Preferred Empire Mortgage Company.

Dottie began her career on Long Island, and purchased Prudential Long Island Realty in 1989. After turning the company into the powerhouse brokerage operating on Long Island and in the Hamptons, she purchased Douglas Elliman, Manhattan’s largest and most prestigious brokerage firm, with her partner Howard Lorber in 2003. Since then, Prudential Douglas Elliman has become the largest and fastest-growing real estate firm in New York, completing over 13,200 transactions a year from Manhattan to Montauk.