Managing Partner at Kleier Residential, Samantha Kleier Forbes has worked in Manhattan’s luxury real estate market for over two decades. A native New Yorker, her clients come predominantly through referrals and friends, many of whom she has known since nursery school. She has brokered a portfolio of deals throughout Manhattan in cooperatives, condominiums and townhouses, with career sales of over $1 billion, and is a member of REBNY. She got her start in real estate at age 2, being carried around to appointments by her mother, Michele, who taught her the word co-op along with the ABCs. Her family motto is “There is no place like home.”
Samantha went on to star along with her family in HGTV’s hit series “Selling New York,” which aired from 2010-2015 and is currently streaming on multiple platforms. She also co-authored “Hot Property” (HarperCollins, 2011) with her mother Michele and sister Sabrina.
Samantha started her career at the entertainment public relations firm Susan Blond Inc, where she became the youngest Vice President in the company’s history, representing luxury and celebrity clients including Reebok Sports Club/NY, Britney Spears and Luther Vandross.
She graduated with honors from Horace Mann ’90 and summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania ’94. At Horace Mann, she serves on the Board of the Alumni Council and as a Class Agent.
Samantha was born and raised on the Upper East Side in Carnegie Hill, where she still resides with her husband JP and their two children, Chase, Vanderbilt ’28, HM ’24, and Caroline, BWL ’29, and a Shichon named Murphy, after a NY Mets player.
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