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Peter Elebash
Peter Elebash was born in Atlanta, Georgia and attended the Choate School and Yale University. After graduating from Yale in 1959, he served in the US Army Special Forces. His business career began in the early 1960s with a group of partners building small real estate projects and operating a series of small businesses.
Peter and Jane Elebash
In 1972, he led the sales and marketing effort at Bay Point, a 1200 acre residential resort community in Panama City, Florida on the Gulf Coast. Later, he joined the Kiawah Island Development in South Carolina, where he rose to the position of Director of Real Estate. In that position, he managed the real estate sales operation, and consulted with other members of the development team in land planning, architecture, building and financing. Approximately 450 real estate transactions per year were handled through his office, dealing with a high demographic audience purchasing second or third homes on the Carolina Coast.
In 1979, he founded the Elebash Company and joined the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club Development in Wellington, Florida. His responsibilities included real estate sales, as well as consulting on development and marketing plans.
In 1981 The Elebash Company was appointed sales and marketing director for Conyers Farm in Greenwich, Connecticut. A 1500 acre gated community in the back country of Greenwich, Conyers Farm includes a total of 100 home sites, all ten acres or more in size. The community is regarded as one of the premier residential communities in the eastern United States and is home to the Greenwich Polo Club. The Elebash Company continues to be active in the resale market within Conyers Farm (see October Farm in our properties listing)
In the 1980s, the Bear Island Paper Company in Ashland, Virginia became a client. Bear Island, a major manufacturer of newsprint, owned over 250,000 acres of timberland in 38 different counties in Virginia. The objective was to sell off higher value tracts and acquire land suitable only for the growth of pine trees. The program was highly successful and spanned a number of years.
As a consultant to the Trustee of the estate of Fox Lease Farm, located in Middleburg, Virginia, The Elebash Company planned subdivision possibilities and recommended innovative ways to sell off other portions of this property.
Peter moved to Millbrook in 1989. Since then, he has been active in Real Estate in New York, Connecticut and Florida.
In April 2009, Peter and the Elebash Company affiliated with Houlihan Lawrence in the Hudson Valley.