Packes of Nancy Packes Inc. passes

Rhinebeck NY Nancy Packes, 80, passed away peacefully, in her home, on June 18^th, 2026.

Packes held a JD degree from New York University. She practiced trial law for seven years before starting a career in real estate. In 1977, she founded a brokerage company, Feathered Nest. The company soon grew to be one of the foremost brokerage firms in New York City. In 1998 she sold Feathered Nest to Terra Holdings. Following the sale, she founded Nancy Packes Inc., a real estate consultation firm specializing in design development, marketing, leasing and sale of residential new development.

Over the subsequent 30 years, Packes consulted on, and helped bring to market, developments by some of the city’s largest and most respected developers, including Forest City Ratner, Douglaston Development, The Durst Organization and The Witkoff Group. During this time the company expanded and was eventually co-led by Pakces and her son Seth Rosner.

Packes is considered a legend in the real estate business and her contributions to the industry are unparalleled. From her early days in the 1980s, helping to establish REBNY’s ethics guidelines, to her later years working on some of the world’s most renewed developments, such as New York by Gehry, Packes not only contributed to the evolution of the industry but changed the way buildings and apartments were designed, marketed and leased. For many she served as a mentor, for some she was simply a sounding board for creative thinking and for others a collaborative partner in some of their life’s most renowned work. For most, Packes was a charismatic leader with an impeccable eye and a deep love of design and a drive for nothing less than perfection.

She leaves behind a son, daughter-in-law, granddaughter, nephews, nieces and cousins. She was a mother-in-law and grandmother to Sloane and Stella, her pride and joy and cherished time with her family Warren, Charles, Donna, Bessie, Michelle, Warren III, Grant, Hudson, Caroline, Charlie, Samantha and Billy. But she also leaves behind a city ever changed, and the better for it, from her work and love of it.