One of Douglas Elliman’s top teams in the country is heading to Corcoran.
Broker Noble Black, who has been at Elliman since 2015 and leads the firm’s Noble Black and Partners team, is returning to Corcoran, where he spent the first 10 years of his career, the firm announced on Wednesday.
Noble Black and Partners closed more than $250 million in sell-side transactions in New York City last year, earning the No. 4 spot among the city’s top resale agents and No. 13 among new development brokers, according to The Real Deal’s latest rankings.
His team was Elliman’s top-ranked team in Manhattan in 2024 and brought in the second-highest gross commission income among the brokerage’s megateams.
A spokesperson for Elliman said the firm wishes Black “continued success.” The spokesperson added that Elliman will “continue to attract and retain top talent across our markets.”
“We are proud of the agent Noble became as part of Douglas Elliman this last decade,” the spokesperson said.
Black, who counted 36 people on his team at the time of his departure, according to his website, will bring at least 10 members with him to Corcoran. Departing brokers include Jamie Gagliano and Matthew Mackay, who joined Black’s team in June from his own Elliman team, the Mackay Dixon Team. It’s unclear whether others will be joining him.
A number of firms had reached out in the past few months, according to Black, who said he took meetings for the sake of “due diligence and seeing what’s out there, not from any position of, ‘I’m looking for something else.’”
One team member not jumping to Corcoran is Elliman agent Glen Davis, who joined Black’s team as a partner to bolster the cohort’s foothold in new development sales. The move came six months after Black hired Gagliano, who previously led operations for the Holly Parker Team while Parker was still with Elliman.
Black’s team also set up shop in the Hamptons in May 2024 and snagged a few eight-figure deals to mark its debut on the East End, including the $15.5 million sales of 8 John Street in Sag Harbor and 139 Seascape Lane in Sagaponack.
Among Black’s latest deals in Manhattan is a penthouse at 111 Murray Street, a listing he shared with Elliman’s De Niro team and which closed for $28 million in July. Shortly before leaving Corcoran the first time, Black sold singer Denise Rich’s penthouse at 785 Fifth Avenue for $54 million.
Earlier this summer, developer Rotem Rosen and partners tapped Black, under Elliman’s new development marketing arm, to head sales at their 145-unit building at 126 57th Street, known as Malabar Residences. Black will not be bringing the Billionaires’ Row project over with him to Corcoran.
Black’s move follows several of Elliman’s top producers who have exited the firm on the heels of a leadership shakeup last year and a string of quarterly losses. A number of agents have decamped for Corcoran, including veteran agent Kathy Murray and Kirsten Jordan, who brought her eponymous team to the firm earlier this year. Other departures included veteran agent Holly Parker and her New York-based team and “Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles” star Tracy Tutor, who both departed Elliman this year to join Compass.
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