A veteran new growth dealer has returned to Douglas Elliman after only one yr at Compass.
Samantha Behringer departed the brokerage for Compass in January 2025, ending a 23-year stint throughout which she oversaw quite a lot of new growth initiatives because the chief of her personal eponymous group.
Her monitor report in New York Metropolis new growth consists of 12 new growth initiatives, eight as gross sales director. The initiatives embody the Oro Condominiums, a 303-unit apartment in Downtown Brooklyn that launched gross sales in 2007, and 15 William Street, a condo-turned-rental-turned-condo constructing within the Monetary District.
At Compass, she bought all three models in a boutique townhouse apartment conversion in Gowanus at 167 thirteenth Avenue for a complete of just about $6 million.
Behringer stated she missed the “luxurious, boutique surroundings” at Elliman. “The transfer again was, to place it bluntly, to be with household,” she stated. “There’s no option to recreate that sense of kinship that occurs at Douglas Elliman.”
“We want her effectively,” a Compass spokesperson stated in an announcement.
Behringer will carry the 2 different brokers on her group again to Elliman, the place she’ll cut up time between the brokerage’s Manhattan headquarters and its Greenwich workplace.
Behringer joined Compass about 9 months earlier than it introduced its $4.2 billion merger with Anywhere Real Estate, the holding firm for brokerages like Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty, Corcoran, Coldwell Banker and Century 21. The deal closed in January and the Compass model now exists underneath Compass Worldwide Holdings, which oversees greater than 300,000 brokers.
“We’re one model and we’re luxurious all the best way, and we’re increasing into markets which might be luxurious, and it’s clearly outlined,” stated CEO Michael Liebowitz of how Elliman has positioned itself as an alternative choice to bigger opponents like Compass.
Behringer stated New York Metropolis continues to be a significant focus for her, she’s been working in Greenwich to proceed to service purchasers trying to transfer out of town. Her addition to Elliman’s Greenwich workplace at 75 Arch Avenue comes weeks after the agency picked up a prime agent within the rich enclave, Megan Sullivan, from Sotheby’s, one other brokerage underneath Compass Worldwide Holdings.
Considered one of Houston’s prime brokers, Dana Johnson, additionally jumped to Elliman from Compass in January, as Liebowitz says he’s centered on rising in choose luxurious markets to create a “high-end referral community.”
Liebowitz, who stated throughout the brokerage’s recent earnings that the agency was anticipating to enter a “new development part,” added that he has a purpose of including 3,500 brokers in 2026.
Compass has additionally picked quite a lot of prime New York Metropolis-based brokers from Elliman within the final yr, together with 24-year veteran Holly Parker, Lindsay Barton Barrett and Dennis Mangone.
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