Leonard Steinberg

29-year industry veteran Leonard Steinberg started a firestorm in the real estate profession by joining a small start-up technology-focused New York-based brokerage as its first President in June, 2014 after 17 years in the profession. The 50-person company - known then as Urban Compass - backed by Goldman Sachs, Founders Fund and a host of other private equity entities - that have since been joined by Wellington Fund, Fidelity, Dragoneer, and Softbank Vision Fund and is now a publicly traded company - has mushroomed at a historically rapid pace to become an internationally recognized brand simply called COMPASS with over 350 offices throughout the USA and around $1 trillion collective sales volume within the past 5 years alone. COMPASS recently acquired Christie's International Real Estate and recently merged with ANYWHERE to create a COMPASS International Holdings, the largest global collection of leading luxury real estate brands with around 340,000 agents in total.

Leonard helps buyers and sellers Uptown and Downtown, and in Brooklyn.  Along with his experienced team, he has always remained active in daily brokerage, changing his title to Chief Evangelist/Corporate Broker in 2018 as COMPASS expanded to include multiple regional presidents. He writes a morning memo, the only one of its kind in the industry - 365 days of the year - to the entire COMPASS family and beyond that reaches around 50,000 recipients, daily. He embodies the modern real estate professional who provides substantive knowledge and non-Google-able insights about all aspects of real estate and full-fledged, elegant, and discreet advisory and brokerage services to sellers, developers, and buyers of New York/TriState property with decades of experience and multiple billion dollars in sales volume. While rankings have never been the focus - the client is and always should be #1 - The Leonard Steinberg Team sells several hundred million dollars worth of real estate annually, consistently.

His team has worked with numerous developers and their architects, including Tadao Ando, Sir Norman Foster, Alvaro Siza, Annabelle Selldorf, CookFox, and Rogers, Stirk & Harbor to help create and market some of Manhattan's most recognizable residential landmarks. Leonard and his highly experienced team also connect clients nationally and globally to the best pre-screened agents, best suited to the client's needs. LUXURYLETTER, the team's monthly newsletter started in July, 2004, reaches around 14,000 recipients monthly, the first real estate monthly newsletter of its kind.

Leonard is a Founding Vice-Chairperson of NYRAC, an industry organization created in 2018 for residential real estate agents focused on elevating the consumer experience by raising the quality of the residential brokerage profession in New York City, encouraging innovation, transparency, ethics, advocacy, influence, best practices, education, collegiality, and professional networking.