Top Agent Lindsay Barton Barrett Exits Elliman For Compass

One of Douglas Elliman’s biggest brokers in Brooklyn is returning to Compass.

Lindsay Barton Barrett, known for brokering some of the borough’s priciest deals, is exiting Elliman after seven years to join Compass, where she was previously an agent. Joining her at Compass are her four team members, including Kaitlin McGlynn, Taylor Schultz and Christopher Mohr.

“It really feels like a homecoming,” Barrett said. “It’s a different world from when I left.”

Under the Compass banner, Barrett said she plans to add more agents to her team, which also represents listings in Downtown Manhattan.

“While I’ve always had a super lean team, I think right now we might be a little too lean for the amount of business we’re doing,” Barrett said.

Barrett began her first stint at Compass in 2015, when she left Corcoran to join the fledgling firm among an early class of New York City-based recruits. At the time of her move, the brokerage, then known as Urban Compass, had also just brought over 25 other agents from Corcoran to build out its headcount, which was then in the hundreds. Barrett said by the time she departed roughly four years later, that number had grown to more than 10,000.

Barrett jumped to Elliman in 2018, a move she credited, in part, to wanting to be with a more traditional, legacy brokerage. Once onboard the new firm, she began to enhance her focus on new development.

While at Elliman, she led sales at the Brooklyn Home Company’s 350 Butler Street in Park Slope, which sold out in August, and launched sales at the developer’s 524 Halsey Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, which is roughly 85 percent sold.

During her tenure at Elliman, Barrett closed some of the borough’s most expensive townhouse trades, including representing billionaire Vincent Viola and his wife, Theresa, in the $25.5 million sale of their home at 8 Montague Terrace in Brooklyn Heights. The deal closed in 2021, marking the highest price ever achieved for a home in the borough.

Barrett also represented the Brooklyn Home Company in their 2024 sale of 1 Sidney Place, which Glossier founder Emily Weiss and her partner, fintech executive William Gaybrick, bought for $22.1 million. The deal claimed the No. 2 spot among Brooklyn’s top deals.

Barrett currently holds the priciest listing in Cobble Hill, a seven-bedroom townhouse at 205 Clinton Street that initially asked $22 million, now asking $18.5 million. She’s also bringing with her to Compass listings at 50 Bridge Park Drive, also known as Quay Tower, and 113 North 9th Street in Williamsburg.

“We wish Lindsay the best as we continue to field calls from a high volume of agents who want to work for the only truly agent-focused luxury and independent brokerage in the nation,” a spokesperson for Elliman said in a statement.

Barrett’s team placed 21st among The Real Deal’s latest ranking of the top resale brokers in New York City with $78 million in sell-side sales volume. Her cohort also ranked 33rd among the leading new development agents with $58 million in closed deals.

In 2023, Barrett teamed up with Maggie Marshall. Later that year, the Barton Barrett Marshall Team partnered with the Heyman Team at Sotheby’s International to head sales at Fortis Property Group’s Olympia Dumbo, replacing the Eklund-Gomes Team.

Marshall and Barrett later parted ways. Marshall left Elliman to join Compass last August, as several of the brokerage’s top agents, including Holly Parker and Noble Black, began departing for other firms.
Though Elliman has lost a number of its leading brokers, the firm also nabbed its first major recruit last month, when Heather Domi and her five-person team joined the fold. Domi, who was previously with Compass, is a co-founder and founding chair of the New York Residential Agent Continuum.