About Hoyt Spelman

Hoyt has spent most of his working life in marketing and sales, largely in the magazine publishing business. For many years he was in charge of marketing for The New Yorker magazine. Subsequently he was Senior Vice-President and Project Director for the Marketing Corporation of America and Managing Director of The Moorgate Group, the American arm of a British financial marketing company. For several years he was an independent marketing consultant and in 1994 became a broker with Halstead. He has since been recognized by Halstead as a top producer. In 2004, he was recognized for having sold over $50,000,000 worth of properties in ten years in the business. He has served on a number of civic, social, and professional boards and is an avid sports participant, playing squash and tennis, swimming, rollerblading, and riding a bike all over the City. As a photographer he has several book jackets to his credit. A graduate of Kent School and Yale with postgraduate work at Harvard/Radcliffe and Oxford, he lives in Carnegie Hill with his wife, a remedial learning specialist. They have two children who between them have owned four apartments - all found for them by the same broker! - in Manhattan. Hoyt himself has lived in the City since he was 13 and says he is "currently serving a life sentence." "Mr. Spelman is a first-class professional whose skills enabled us to increase the sale for an estates apartment by 25% above the appraised value." - VAK, lawyer/executor You did everything right." - CJA, seller/buyer Halstead Manhattan, LLC