A former partner of a top-producing team at Douglas Elliman is leaving the firm to join Serhant.
Glenn Davis, who merged his team with Noble Black last year, is launching a new team with Ryan Serhant’s eponymous brokerage. He’s bringing seven agents with him to form the cohort, known as the New York Collaborative Team.
“I’ve contemplated working with Ryan for years. We came up in the industry together,” said Davis. “Ryan’s platform is just compelling to me because there is opportunity, and there is growth. That’s something that at this point in my career, I want to be on the ground level of.”
Davis added that he has “nothing bad to say about Elliman” and commended its leadership and CEO Michael Liebowitz on their work since taking over last year.
“I just needed a change,” Davis said. “Real estate is evolving. Either we’re part of it, or we’re not.”
News of Davis’ move comes roughly a month after his former partner, Black, exited Elliman with 10 agents from their then-36-person team and returned to the Corcoran Group, where Black spent the first decade of his career.
Davis and Black’s combined teams, known as Noble Black & Partners, placed fourth in The Real Deal’s latest rankings of the top resale agents and teams in New York City with $162 million in sales. The cohort also landed among the city’s leading new development brokers, coming in at No. 13 with $92 million in sales.
“I’ve known [Glenn] for years and have always admired his relentless work ethic, integrity, and ability to lead at scale,” Serhant said in a statement.
Before joining forces with Black, Davis co-led another top team at Elliman with Justin Tuinstra, who went solo after the two ended their decade-long partnership. Davis said at the time that he and Tuinstra split months before he merged his then-10-person cohort with Black’s team.
Davis also previously worked on new developments with Elliman’s leading team, the Eklund-Gomes Team.
“We wish Glenn all the best in his new endeavor,” a spokesperson for Elliman said in a statement.
Davis is leaving Elliman on the heels of a number of high-profile departures, including the firm’s longtime advisor Neal Sroka, who left last month to focus full time on his consulting business after two decades with the brokerage. Another 20-year veteran, Kathy Murray, exited Elliman earlier this summer to join Corcoran.
Serhant is in the midst of an expansion that began on the East Coast in April 2023 and has broadened to include adding an outpost in Arizona in March. The five-year-old firm now has 1,300 agents across 13 states, including its latest opening in Newport, Rhode Island earlier this month.
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