ABOUT ROSS ELLIS

Ross Ellis, Real Estate Agent
New York, NY

Ross Ellis is an award-winning agent with COMPASS. For the past 15 years Ross has helped people find their dream homes.

Featured and quoted in New York Daily News, CBS Money Watch, International Homes Magazine and well-respected real estate trade publications. Ross’s comprehensive market knowledge, persistent and strategic negotiating skills and commitment to each and every client are the keys to her success, which result in client satisfaction and referrals.

Her expertise and love of real estate, combined with being a great listener and communicator and her strong attention to detail insures a great outcome for her clients…both buyers or sellers.

A dedicated professional, Ross Ellis handles luxury rentals to multi-million dollar sales in NYC, as well as investment properties - all with the same enthusiasm and professionalism. She prides herself in understanding her client’s goals to ensure their needs are met.

The purchase of a home represents a substantial emotional and financial investment. As a dedicated professional with an excellent knowledge of the Manhattan Real Estate market, Ross works closely with her clients and focuses on their lifestyle needs -- while applying her proven and effective sales strategy, keen pricing and expert negotiating. Her passion, commitment and goal-oriented drive are familiar to all who know her.

For Sellers: Ross knows the ever-changing trends in Manhattan’s real estate market. She is an active and aggressive agent and uses her creative marketing plans, as well as positioning each property ahead of the current real estate curve allowing for a maximum ROI. Treating each ‘for sale’ property with love and care, she understands the needs and desires of the seller.

For Buyers: Ross understands that every one has different and specific needs and hones in on what they need and want. This enables buyers a smooth transaction from beginning to end. Whether one is a first time buyer, a foreign buyer, investor or a seasoned buyer wishing a new home, Ross Ellis consistently helps buyers in finding their dream home. She has a professional team in place offering her customers the best services available, to ensure a smooth transaction.

As a recognized and accomplished agent, a "relationship builder" and "connector", she learned much from her family's business which owned substantial holdings in Boston's prime and elite residential real estate market. 

In addition to owning several small businesses, Ross worked in advertising, PR, marketing and fundraising with fortune 500 firms and top entertainment clients. Today, she has and maintains a strong relationship with the celebrity, entertainment and media worlds. In addition, Ross runs a highly respected non profit: STOMP Out Bullying which is the leading national anti-bullying and cyberbullying organization for kids and teens in the U.S.. She is widely quoted as an anti-bullying expert and regularly appears on national and international media discussing the effects of bullying and ways to prevent it. A dedicated founder of the charity, Ross donates her real estate commissions to STOMP Out Bullying.

She is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York, as well as the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child Council and NY Women in Communications., and serves on the Boards of  and STOMP Out Bullying as well as the Advisory Board of School Safety TV. 

Ross was selected as one of “100 Making A Difference” along with notable celebrities and change makers in a book by celebrity fashion photographer Jon Russo. She was also Awarded 2017 Achievers Award With Melissa Joan Hart, Susan Lucci & Other Amazing Achievers at the LI Center For Business & Professional Women. In 2015, Ross and STOMP Out Bullying received the award for “Outstanding Organization” at National Philanthropy Day. In 2013, she received the Longines Town & Country “Women Who Make A Difference For Children” Award and in 2010, was included as an Architect of Change on the Program Cover of the Architects of Change Conference by former First Lady of California Maria Shriver. In March, 2009 Ross Ellis was named an Inspirational Luminary by Inspire Me Today, and in both 2001 and 2003, was selected as one of New York Women In Communications:  Women Who are Changing the World. Her philanthropic involvement is with New York children's charities and the arts.

Here are some recent testimonials from some of Ross Ellis' clients:
 

Ross Ellis is a dedicated real estate agent who found us the perfect tenant for our apartment. Her follow up and attention to detail were impressive. We highly recommend her. She is a true professional. - M.M.
 

Ross Ellis is the most amazing Real Estate Broker in all of NYC. If it weren't for her tenacity and expert knowledge of the market I would not have this incredible Manhattan Condo with the most fabulous view. Ross turned out a great result – D.S.
 

Working with Ross Ellis as our real estate agent could not be a better experience. Her expertise, knowledge, professionalism and patience say a lot about her dedication to helping us find the right home. - F.S.
 

My husband and I were so impressed with Ross Ellis. Every apartment she showed us proved she was listening and had our best interests in mind. - G.S