Kaden / About
The founder
Born in Albania. Raised in Florence. New York since 2010. Founded Kaden in 2012.
Bledar started in real estate at the entry level in January 2012 and rose quickly — agent, then Office Manager, then Managing Director, where he ran a team of more than 200 brokers until 2018. That year he transitioned exclusively to commercial: leasing, sales, and asset transactions for both tenants and landlords. The firm followed.
Before real estate, he spent more than a decade in hospitality — Italy, Australia, New York. The training carries over. The work, at its core, is the same: read the room, listen carefully, deliver something better than expected.
Credentials: Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker, State of New York · Member, REBNY · NYU SPS — Gold Achievement, Private Equity & Institutional Real Estate Finance · NYU SPS — Gold Achievement, Real Estate Taxation · NYU SPS — Gold Achievement, Hotel Investment Analysis & Valuation · Certified in Professional Life Coaching & Real Estate Investment
Languages: English, Italian, Albanian, Spanish.
Passion : Life coaching and travel
Hobbies: Golf and DJing
The firm exists to do one thing well — close commercial real estate deals that still hold up to five years later and beyond.
“The right deal is the one that still works five years later and beyond.”
Bledar Asllani Founder · The Kaden Team
The firm
Kaden was founded as a boutique commercial real estate practice. Three brokers. One office. Every deal personally led. The firm grew on referrals and repeat clients — not headcount targets or volume incentives.
We work across four verticals — Retail, Office, Hospitality, and Investment Sales — with a particular emphasis on buyer and tenant representation. Roughly half our closed volume comes from the side most brokerages don’t show on their websites.
We are intentionally small. Every transaction is led personally by one of the principals — never handed off, never delegated. That structural limit is also a strategic decision: it forces us to take only the work we can do well.
Kaden operates as an independent boutique within Keller Williams NYC — part of the largest real estate network in the world by agent count. The firm stays small in New York. The reach scales when a deal needs it. When a client’s work crosses into Milan, London, Miami, or beyond, we route the buyer or seller representation through KW’s network of 17,000+ international agents across 55+ countries. Boutique service in NYC, with the right global referral network behind it.
