I’m Ron Cohen, an independent licensed real estate broker and the owner of Rivertown Rose Real Estate. You’ll find me at our storefront office at
10 Spring Street in Hastings-on-Hudson — right in the middle of the village, with the door open. Walk in, sit down, and talk to the broker who will actually handle your sale or rental.
I spent years inside corporate brokerages. Then I built something better.
Before going independent I worked at large corporate brokerages and mentored plenty of agents coming up through them. I know exactly how those firms work: the heavy lifting often falls to the least seasoned person on the team, while the name on the sign takes the credit. When you hire me, you get me — decades of transactions, negotiation and local market judgment, applied to every detail of your deal. No middleman, no handoff.
Because Rivertown Rose is independent, compensation isn’t locked to a corporate rate card or franchise fee. We structure fees around your property, timeline, and how you want to work together —a partnership, not a template.
Same MLS, same tools — with the agility to change them.
Independent does not mean under-equipped. I use the same MLS, the same syndication to the major portals, the same professional photography, floor plans and marketing systems the national brands use. The difference is that when a better tool comes along, I can switch to it that week. I’m not waiting on a corporate technology committee to finish a three-year vendor contract.
Hyper-local, including the tour NYC movers actually need.
I know Hastings-on-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington and the surrounding Rivertowns the way you only can by living in them — the riverfront views, the historic housing stock, which blocks walk to which train, and what buyers here really respond to. For clients moving up from New York City, I run village tours: the schools, the Saturday farmers market, the walk to the Metro-North platform, where you’d actually get coffee on a Sunday. Buying here is choosing a village, not just a house.
I live here, work here and volunteer here.
My referral network isn’t a corporate directory — it’s people I know. Real estate attorneys who close on time, inspectors who explain what they found, contractors, landscapers, movers, stagers and lenders I’ve worked beside for years. Volunteering in the village adds another layer: the neighbors, board members and business owners who hear about a house before it ever hits the MLS. Those small-town networks take years to build and you cannot buy them from a brand.
Let’s talk.
Call or text me at
914-478-1505, or just walk into the office at 10 Spring Street, Hastings-on-Hudson. No call center, no lead form purgatory — you’ll be talking to the broker.
