Long Island’s residential market trudged through a sluggish 2023, but Douglas Elliman has found reason for celebration: the brokers and teams that came out on top.
Through sparse inventory, rising mortgage rates and economic uncertainty, the firm’s leading agents closed some of the priciest deals in the region and claimed prizes at the brokerage’s annual Ellie Awards.
The Eklund-Gomes Team, headed by Frederik Eklund and John Gomes, secured a place in the brokerage’s Billion Dollar Club, a category recognizing teams with sales volumes exceeding $1 billion.
In the Hamptons, the team is led by Kyle Rosko and Marcy Braun, who represented the sellers in the $35 million deal for 51 West End Road.
On the East End, Michaela Keszler, Erica Grossman and Martha Gundersen snagged the top three honors for individual agents based on gross commission income (GCI) and sales volume.
Grossman, who ranked second by GCI and third by sales volume, represented the buyer in the $33.5 million sale of 35 Dune Road.
On the team side, the Atlantic, Enzo Morabito and Tunick teams took home awards in the same categories.
Elliman was No. 1 in The Real Deal’s 2022 ranking of the top brokerages in the Hamptons by closed sell-side transactions. The brokerage closed 771 deals totaling more than $2 billion in sales volume.
Several Ellie award winners — including Keszler, Grossman, Gundersen, Morabito’s team and Eklund Gomes — also placed in TRD’s latest ranking of the top 20 brokers on the East End.
On the rest of Long Island, Maggie Keats, Barbara Leogrande, Michelle Keegan were the top three agents by GCI and sales volume.
The Maria Babaev Team, The Pascullo-Salegna Team and The Tripodi / Shemtov Team were the highest ranked by GCI. Two of the three, The Maria Babaev Team, The Pascullo-Salegna Team, also nabbed top awards for the largest sales volume.
In Manhattan, Elliman notched $4 billion in sales across more than 1,800 deals to take the No. 3 spot among TRD’s ranking of the top brokerages in the borough last year.
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