Considered one of Douglas Elliman’s greatest brokers in Brooklyn is returning to Compass.
Lindsay Barton Barrett, identified for brokering among the borough’s priciest offers, is exiting Elliman after seven years to hitch Compass, the place she was beforehand an agent. Becoming a member of her at Compass are her 4 workforce members, together with Kaitlin McGlynn, Taylor Schultz and Christopher Mohr.
“It actually looks like a homecoming,” Barrett stated. “It’s a unique world from after I left.”
Beneath the Compass banner, Barrett stated she plans so as to add extra brokers to her workforce, which additionally represents listings in Downtown Manhattan.
“Whereas I’ve at all times had a brilliant lean workforce, I believe proper now we may be slightly too lean for the quantity of enterprise we’re doing,” Barrett stated.
Barrett started her first stint at Compass in 2015, when she left Corcoran to hitch the fledgling agency amongst an early class of New York Metropolis-based recruits. On the time of her transfer, the brokerage, then referred to as City Compass, had additionally simply introduced over 25 different brokers from Corcoran to construct out its headcount, which was then within the lots of. Barrett stated by the point she departed roughly 4 years later, that quantity had grown to greater than 10,000.
Barrett jumped to Elliman in 2018, a transfer she credited, partially, to desirous to be with a extra conventional, legacy brokerage. As soon as onboard the brand new agency, she started to reinforce her give attention to new growth.
Whereas at Elliman, she led gross sales on the Brooklyn Dwelling Firm’s 350 Butler Avenue in Park Slope, which offered out in August, and launched gross sales on the developer’s 524 Halsey Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, which is roughly 85 p.c offered.
Throughout her tenure at Elliman, Barrett closed among the borough’s most costly townhouse trades, together with representing billionaire Vincent Viola and his spouse, Theresa, within the $25.5 million sale of their residence at 8 Montague Terrace in Brooklyn Heights. The deal closed in 2021, marking the best value ever achieved for a house within the borough.
Barrett additionally represented the Brooklyn Dwelling Firm of their 2024 sale of 1 Sidney Place, which Glossier founder Emily Weiss and her accomplice, fintech govt William Gaybrick, purchased for $22.1 million. The deal claimed the No. 2 spot amongst Brooklyn’s prime offers.
Barrett at present holds the priciest itemizing in Cobble Hill, a seven-bedroom townhouse at 205 Clinton Avenue that originally requested $22 million, now asking $18.5 million. She’s additionally bringing along with her to Compass listings at 50 Bridge Park Drive, also referred to as Quay Tower, and 113 North ninth Avenue in Williamsburg.
“We want Lindsay one of the best as we proceed to area calls from a excessive quantity of brokers who wish to work for the one really agent-focused luxurious and unbiased brokerage within the nation,” a spokesperson for Elliman stated in an announcement.
Barrett’s workforce positioned twenty first amongst The Actual Deal’s latest ranking of the highest resale brokers in New York Metropolis with $78 million in sell-side gross sales quantity. Her cohort additionally ranked thirty third among the many main new growth brokers with $58 million in closed offers.
In 2023, Barrett teamed up with Maggie Marshall. Later that yr, the Barton Barrett Marshall Crew partnered with the Heyman Crew at Sotheby’s Worldwide to move gross sales at Fortis Property Group’s Olympia Dumbo, changing the Eklund-Gomes Crew.
Marshall and Barrett later parted methods. Marshall left Elliman to hitch Compass final August, as a number of of the brokerage’s prime brokers, together with Holly Parker and Noble Black, started departing for different corporations.
Although Elliman has misplaced plenty of its main brokers, the agency additionally nabbed its first major recruit final month, when Heather Domi and her five-person workforce joined the fold. Domi, who was beforehand with Compass, is a co-founder and founding chair of the New York Residential Agent Continuum.
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