Four decades in one market.
Lawrence Zacks got his license in 1982 and never left Putnam County. That is the entire pitch, and it takes forty years to make it.
Larry got his license in 1982, the year he finished a business degree, and has done nothing else since. Roughly thirty years at RE/MAX Classic Realty in Somers, and now a Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker with Keller Williams Realty Partners out of the Mahopac office on Route 6.
Career
- 1982
- Licensed, the same year he finished a business degree. He has sold real estate in Putnam County ever since.
- ~30 years
- RE/MAX Classic Realty, Somers — where most of the recognition listed below was earned.
- Today
- Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker with Keller Williams Realty Partners — Empire Team, Mahopac.
- Throughout
- More than 1,000 clients across Putnam, Westchester and Dutchess — buyers and sellers, on everything from first houses to hundred-acre parcels.
What forty years in one county actually buys you
He has sold on the street before
Often twice, in two different markets — and he remembers what each buyer cared about.
He knows which septic fields fail
And which ones fail only on paper. Most of this county is unsewered.
He has priced through four cycles
Including the ones nobody enjoyed. That is the part that takes four decades.
He answers his own phone.
No team hand-off, no coordinator, and no point in the transaction where the person who priced the house stops being the person you talk to.
Pricing here is judgement applied to thin evidence — wells, septic, acreage that varies from a quarter acre to a hundred and fifty, and streets that may not have produced a comparable sale in two years. Why automated estimates miss up here.
What clients say.
Written by the people he actually worked for, on the platforms where they left them.
Read all reviews“Larry, Jeanne, and Gwen are a great team to work with. When selling our house in Mahopac, they made the process as smooth as I could have hoped for. Their expertise and professionalism were incredibly valuable throughout the entire process and it allowed our house sell quickly and above above asking price. Thank you!”
Awards, and what they're worth.
Earned across a thirty-year run at RE/MAX Classic Realty. They describe volume, which is a proxy for experience, which is the thing that actually helps you.
Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker, New York
GRI — Graduate, REALTOR® Institute
40+ years full-time, licensed 1982
RE/MAX Hall of Fame, 1998
RE/MAX Lifetime Achievement Award
RE/MAX Circle of Legends
Platinum Award, Westchester County Board of Realtors
Million Dollar Producer since 1982
Reported in industry press
Ranked #10 agent in New York State · Top 1% of agents in North America · 1,000+ clients served
Where he actually closes.
Drawn from his transaction record, not from a marketing radius. He is licensed in New York only.
Putnam CountyPrimary
Mahopac · Carmel · Brewster · Patterson · Putnam Valley
Westchester County
Somers · Yorktown Heights · Katonah · North Salem · Bedford · Chappaqua · Mount Kisco · Lincolndale · Peekskill · White Plains
Dutchess County
Pawling
The whole range, not a niche.
- Single-family homes
- Multi-family
- Land & acreage
- Estates & probate
- Commercial
- Residential investment
Probate is work most agents avoid and he does not. An executor is usually handling a house, a family and a court timeline at once — there, the sequencing matters more than the marketing.
Fifteen minutes, and you'll know where you stand.
No listing presentation and no follow-up sequence — just a straight read on your property or your search from someone who has done this here since 1982.
Scheduling
Online booking is being set up.
The calendar isn't live on this page yet. Until it is, the fastest way to get fifteen minutes with Lawrence is to call him directly — he answers his own phone — or send a note and he'll come back with times.
Call (914) 282-6440Email LawrenceSelling? The valuation form gets you a considered number within 24 hours without needing a call at all.