GREENWICH —Tamar Lurie, who offered greater than $1 billion in actual property in Greenwich and represented celebrities and different high-profile shoppers throughout the area, died Wednesday. She was 87.
A longtime Greenwich resident, Lurie died in Berkeley, California, the place she had not too long ago moved to be nearer to her daughter, Danielle Lurie. Her household mentioned she died in her sleep of pure causes.
“She died as elegantly and gracefully as she had lived her total life,” her daughter mentioned.
Lurie was persistently ranked amongst The Wall Avenue Journal’s high 100 gross sales professionals within the nation. In 2014, she closed practically $100 million in gross sales, together with the sale of a $27.5 million New York property owned by movie director Ron Howard. She is cited as the primary unbiased agent to exceed $1 billion in gross sales in Greenwich.
Gretchen Peck, an actual property journalist who interacted with Lurie, remembered her as an insightful skilled who was at all times useful.
“She was extremely beneficiant along with her time and experience,” Peck mentioned. “She was an engaged conversationalist — the type of one that provides you their full consideration and reveals earnest curiosity. … Really a beautiful individual.”
Lurie was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, on July 10, 1939, to Harry Fletcher and Leah Lederman. She grew up in a one-bedroom condo the place area was restricted, although her household “prioritized having a piano over a correct sitting space,” Danielle Lurie mentioned.
She married Ranan Lurie, a cartoonist whose work appeared in 1,000 publications around the globe, on Feb. 25, 1959. He died in 2022 on the age of 90. Lurie specialised in caricatures of world leaders.
Lurie labored on the enterprise aspect of her husband’s media profession earlier than transferring into actual property with Coldwell Banker. She graduated from the State College of New York at Buy and moved along with her household to Greenwich in 1972.
In 2021, shortly earlier than retiring, Lurie discovered a purchaser for a Smith Street waterfront property in Greenwich that had the yr’s highest waterfront sale value: $27.75 million.
Her household described her as trendy however by no means aloof.
“In the future my mom was dressed very elegantly earlier than a workday, and I requested who she was going to fulfill that day, assuming it might be somebody well-known or perhaps even royal,” Danielle Lurie wrote in an e mail. “However she merely mentioned, ‘Nobody. I’m dressing like this for myself.’ And that’s how she lived her life, by no means making an attempt to impress whereas at all times being completely spectacular.”
Her son, Rod Lurie, mentioned, “It’s uncommon that an individual will be nice at their work, a titan at it, and in addition be a wonderful father or mother. My mother raised youngsters to go to and graduate from Williams, Stanford, and West Level and nonetheless managed to develop into one of many high Realtors in the USA. Usually, ‘one thing must give’ for any individual in her place — however that is not what occurred. Perhaps it is a operate of being raised in tough-as-nails circumstances or perhaps it was simply her character from the beginning … however her resilience grew to become the North Star of her youngsters and grandchildren.”
Lurie is survived by two different youngsters, Daphne and Barak; her sister, Dorit; and six grandchildren.
A non-public memorial service will likely be held Sunday in Los Angeles. A bigger celebration of life is being deliberate in Greenwich within the subsequent few months, based on her household.
