Douglas Elliman has picked up a co-founder of one of Connecticut’s top residential teams.
After three years at Sotheby’s International Realty, Megan Sullivan is joining Elliman as an individual agent. Sullivan co-founded the Greenwich, Connecticut-based Select Client Team, which ranked as the state’s top small team in 2024 with $137 million in sales, according to RealTrends.
Sullivan, who an Elliman spokesperson says closed over $100 million in sales last year, will be joining the brokerage’s sports and entertainment division.
Sullivan started her career as an agent at Compass in 2020 after a decade working in finance. She jumped to Sotheby’s in 2022, where she co-founded the Select Client Team with long-time Sotheby’s agent Steve Archino.
Sullivan said she started thinking about a move starting last summer, before Compass and Anywhere’s $4 billion merger that was announced in September. But Sullivan said the deal “definitely had something to do with it” as she looked to find a brokerage she thought was more tailored to her luxury brand.
When Sullivan originally started at Compass as an early agent in its Greenwich office, it had several thousand agents at the brokerage. By the time she left for Sotheby’s, “it was a very, very different feeling,” Sullivan said.
“Now with the Anywhere merger, Compass/Anywhere is 350,000-or-so-odd agents,” she said. “My clients are discreet, I work in the luxury market, and I want to have a boutique luxury firm supporting them and supporting me.”
Over 40 percent of Sullivan’s deals last year were done off-market, something she says she has carved out as a niche in the wealthy tristate enclave. Last year, Sullivan represented the buyer on an $11.5 million sale at 38 Aiken Road. She also brought buyers for two different homes — a $15.5 million sale at 111 Conyers Farm and an $8.5 million sale at 10 Hurlingham Drive — in the private residential community in Greenwich known as Conyers Farm.
Sullivan’s addition gives Elliman a foothold in Greenwich, according to Douglas Elliman CEO Michael Liebowitz.
“Megan is at the forefront of a lot of agents we’re getting inbounded that don’t want to be a part of this giant conglomerate, that want a lot more personal, luxury experience,” he added.
A spokesperson for Sotheby’s International Realty did not respond to a request for comment.
The brokerages have traded star agents back and forth in the last year during busy years for both companies.
Compass closed on its merger with Anywhere in January, adding over 300,000 agents and brands like Corcoran, Coldwell Banker, Century 21 and Sotheby’s International Realty under its umbrella.
Elliman has also been in the process of reshaping its brand. It jettisoned its property management arm in October and has seen a number of executives exit the firm’s New York office in recent months.
In December, veteran New York City agent and New York Residential Agent Continuum co-founder Heather Domi returned to Elliman after seven years at Compass, and one of Houston’s top agents, Dana Johnson, jumped to Elliman from Compass last month as well.
Meanwhile, Compass has brought on a number of top New York City-based agents from Elliman, including 24-year veteran Holly Parker, Lindsay Barton Barrett and Dennis Mangone.
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