Elliman taps former Compass sales manager to lead Houston growth

Suede Vossos to replace former senior executive sales manager James Horne.

Douglas Elliman Taps Suede Vossos to Lead Houston

Suede Vossos (Douglas Elliman, Getty)

Brandon Sams

Nov 15, 2023, 5:54 PM

Douglas Elliman has hired former Compass sales manager Suede Vossos to lead its Houston sales team.

Vossos was tapped to replace another former Compass associate, James Horne, as Douglas Elliman’s executive manager of sales for its Houston market. Horne, in turn, will continue at the company as a sales agent, the New York-based brokerage said.

Vossos will oversee all resale activities and operations in Greater Houston as well as recruiting new agents to expand Douglas Elliman’s footprint in the market. He will serve the luxury firm’s approximately 110 Houston agents across its two local offices.

He has a decade of experience in real estate and management and climbed the ranks at Compass, from agent success manager to sales manager of the firm’s Greater Heights office.

Douglas Elliman, a heavyweight in the luxury real estate market nationwide, entered Texas in late 2019. Since then, the firm has established its presence in Houston, Dallas and Austin.

Between March 2022 and March 2023, the firm logged over $360 million in MLS-listed sales across 378 deals, marking it as one of the largest firms by sales volume in Houston, according to an analysis by The Real Deal.

The firm is contracted for sales of condo developments including Stolz Partners’ the Sophie at Bayou Bend, as well as Pelican Builders’ the Hawthorne, the Revere at River Oaks and the Westmore.

Douglas Elliman expects to maintain its momentum, aiming to increase transaction volume and headcount.

Former CEO of Douglas Elliman Texas Jacob Sudhoff transitioned to the role of “senior leadership advisor” earlier this year.

This summer, The Real Deal called Sudoff out for his questionable comments in a Texas Monthly story. Sudhoff told the publication that he’d paired a Sikh agent with a white, former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader to be his frontwoman in the affluent Dallas neighborhood of Highland Park, raising questions about potential NAR ethics violations.

More recently, the $1.8 billion ruling in the Sitzer/Burnett trial last month means Douglas Elliman and several other major brokerages are facing the possibility of costly litigation over broker commission practices.

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