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Our core team is comprised of talented real estate professionals with a unique set of skills and a carefully curated team of collaborators - a community of creatives, artists, designers and makers.

We believe in careful planning, attention to detail, artistry, and a thoughtful individualized custom approach. We are passionately committed to quality and integrity and are driven by our intense love affair with bricks.

our team

Victor Gazal

Licensed Real Estate Broker
Founder  |  Partner
President - Gazal Brokerage Group

917.325.2505

victor@gazal.nyc

Revital Gazal

Executive Creative Director  |  Partner
President - Gazal Design

917.770.1433

revital@gazal.nyc

Native New Yorker Victor Gazal opened his independent brokerage firm in 2005. Victors strengths are his great eye, extensive knowledge of the real estate markets, prolific understanding of investment values and a knack for finding undervalued properties and emerging trends.

Victor brings to the table a tremendous knowledge and understanding of the numbers side of the business. His  personal specialty and passion is definitely as a Buyers Broker. Victor's success comes from  finding his clients exactly what they are looking for.  A Brooklyn brownstone, boutique hotel in Manhattan, development deal, luxury condo or starter home all get individualized and thoughtful attention in Victors hands. His reputation is built on his integrity and honesty, his passion, and most importantly- working tirelessly to fulfill the needs of his clients.

Victor has kept GAZAL purposefully small insuring that it remain a "family and friends" brokerage.

Revital is Victor's partner - in life and in business.

Both native  New Yorkers, Revital  and Victor early on shared a desire to be self starters and to follow their passions.

Revital started her career in the music  & food industry. After training as a holistically focused chef,  she and Victor opened a cafe & juice bar in the early days of the Williamsburg, Brooklyn scene.  It was during those times that she began exploring and  pursuing her passions both in real estate and collaborative custom design work.  At GBG (and at home) Revital functions as partner, nourisher,  manic multi-tasker and is generally tasked with the business of making all things beautiful.

Revital handles art direction, project design and consultation and is currently working on expanding the design division of GAZAL.

Ditza Shalem

Licensed Real Estate Salesperson
Vice President of Sales
Landscape & Botanical Designer

718.483.4095

ditza@gazal.nyc

Josette Barenholtz

Brand Strategist

josette@gazal.nyc

Moshe Lazarus

Creative Director & Project Manager
Visual Designer  |  Media Producer

917.774.7403
moshe@gazal.nyc

Ditza brings her native instincts and cosmopolitan  sensibility to her real estate practice.  She is our top agent and oversees the sales devision.

Her earthen yet refined aesthetic and love for homemaking inform her talent for finding people the home that makes them happy. An accomplished ceramicist and botanic artist, Ditza has a gift for designing plant installations using repurposed and salvaged materials. She studied horticulture and plant therapy at the NY Botanic Gardens.

Prior to moving over to the service side, Josette enjoyed a 15 year marketing career managing big global brands including Dentyne, Revlon and Marlboro.  She was fortunate enough to work on all aspects of brand strategy and innovation, from birthing new to world brands and products, to breathing life into ones on the decline.  Her passion has always been in the creative and strategic parts of her work.  She thrived on imagining and creating the possibilities.

She decided to take those passions and make them the central focus of her career. After spending a few years partnering with a number of premier branding and innovation companies, she turned her attention to servicing her own direct clients and created catalystspark, LLC in 2011 catalystspark.com

Beyond her deep understanding of brands, innovation and people, Josette is a master workshop designer and facilitator.

Josette is a through and through New Yorker, having lived in 4 out of the 5 boroughs of New York City.  She currently resides in Manhattan.

One of the primary members of the GAZAL crew, Moshe has spent the last 20 years creating media and art across a broad spectrum.  Used to wearing many hats, Moshe is extremely versatile, often alternating or even combining various roles as art director, creative director, designer and project manager. Moshe has produced work in movies, television, Interior, architectural and graphic design as well as experiential events.  Whether GAZAL is designing furniture or spaces, producing an event, or developing a brand identity, Moshe is always an integral part of the team!

Proficiencies: Architectural design, furniture design and fabrication, lighting design, motion gfx and animation, graphic design for packaging, print, outdoor and retail,  brand identity and positioning, experiential marketing and live event production, broadcast and video production and media traffic.

Archil Pichkhadze

Creative Director
Visual Designer

718.578.8273
archil@gazal.nyc

Ekaterina Mitchev
Licensed Real Estate Salesperson
Artist, Designer, Stylist,
Feng Shui Consultant

kate@gazal.nyc

Elisheva Gazal

Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

Property Management

917.497.3546

elisheva@gazal.nyc

Archil is a painter, photographer, designer and illustrator. He  has closely collaborated with Revital to create the Gazal website, logo, signage and other visual materials.

After spending many years living and working in Park Slope, Brooklyn Archil now lives in Upstate NY where he can focus on the creative parts of his job as well as being the ideal person to help fellow New Yorkers looking for upstate properties.

To see his paintings and photographs please visit:

archilpichkhadze.com

Ekaterina Mitchev grew up in Bulgaria. She was nine years old when she knew that she was going to be an artist.  After 15 years of education in  the arts and design, and an MFA degree, she went on to pursue a successful career in film production and costume design.

Ekaterina was established and working on major projects when life presented her with a new challenge. She moved to New York City with her five years old daughter and began anew.  After some years working as a fashion designer, she decided to quit the industry and invest her time and creativity into something that she loved and was passionate about, architecture and interior design.

Ekaterina is dedicated to find and create beautiful spaces for people to live and work in.

 

Elisheva brings a different side of real estate to the company.   She has been managing properties for over 15 years.  She specializes in the residential market and has mastered the art of balancing customer service for the tenant and budget management for her landlords.  Elisheva has always had a love of real estate and becoming a licensed agent felt like a natural progression.  As a buyers agent, she has an innate ability of finding the right match for her clients and as a seller’s agent, she knows just how to market the property to bring out it’s best value.

When Elisheva is not thinking real estate, she is a busy wife and mother of 6 kids and a new puppy. Managing such a large brood, Elisheva boasts that she has extra practice sharpening her negotiation skills, delegating tasks, and exercising patience.  Between homework, dinner and shopping she certainly has a full day, with rewarding results both in her professional and her private life.

Joshua Blitz
Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

646.226.6171
joshua@gazal.nyc

Abbey Lieber
Licensed Real Estate Salesperson
Content Manager

917.450.3645
abbey@gazal.nyc

Zivar Amrami
Photographer & Contributing Editor

646.244.3415
zivar@gazal.nyc

In addition to being a leader of Gazal’s Manhattan rental and management divisions, Joshua Blitz  is a seasoned real estate development executive & entrepreneur. Josh is also well known in the VC community as a serial start-up investor, founding and building businesses in the consumer goods, internet/mobile technology and entertainment space. Josh brings this knowledge base to GAZAL’s latest Brooklyn real estate initiatives.

Abbey brings her passion, drama, flair and penchant for really big shoes to everything she does. Her amazing wit and entertaining spirit and her keen, sharp intuition make her a valued member of our team.

Abbey also works as a freelance Television Script Superviser.

Zivar Amrami, currently a resident of Brooklyn, is a multidisciplinary artist who works primarily in photography and performance art. Her portraits have been exhibited in galleries in New York, San Francisco, and Jerusalem and her current performance piece, youholdme, will be touring this fall. In addition to weaving stories with photos and movement, Zivar is the founder + editor of the new moon project, a monthly moon journal, and acts as a consultant for a few boutique art centers in new york city. Zivar thrives in community and loves to collaborate with interesting folk on creative endeavors. When she is between meetings and travel, Zivar can be found treasuring hunting at local flea markets, cooking dinner with friends, and roaming the city in her yellow ballet flats.

To see her work please visit:

zivaramrami.com

Esther Katz

Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

718.213.1574

esther@gazal.nyc

Esther is one of the newest members of Gazal Brokerage’s team. Born and bred in Brooklyn, she is a natural when it comes to all things this vibrant city has to offer. Esther is a realtor that has a true feel for her clients needs and understands the depth and particulars of the Brooklyn residential residential market.  She is well networked in her local Crown Heights community giving her an inside edge both for investors and homeowners alike.