Leila Yusuf

"I do my best to see things from my buyers', sellers' renters', and developers' points of view. "

When you live and breathe your work, success ultimately follows. A true consummate real estate professional, Leila is a member of The Leonard Steinberg Team at Compass. Lead by Leonard Steinberg, his team is responsible for over $3 billion in transactions and is consistently ranked as one of the top 20 teams in the United States by the Wall Street Journal.

Working side-by-side with the most respected real estate brokers and industry professionals in the city, Leila's services are based on trust, kindness, performance, and honesty in every aspect of each property transaction I handle. These values are important to Leila. It is her fervent commitment to maintaining these qualities that have kept her clients, ranging from first-time buyers and sellers to multiple-dwelling owners to seasoned investors, unquestionably loyal. From a $300,000 co-op to a $10 million penthouse, Leila always delivers the absolute highest level of service.

Leila is a Manhattan and Buckscounty, PA resident New Hope & Doylestown Suburbs. Who takes great pride in her profession, providing clients with the highest level of discretion, trust, and loyalty, plus a vast knowledge of today's unique market.

Over her 13-year real estate career, Leila is responsible for over $150 Million in transactions, condos, townhouses, co-ops, New development, and Suburbs homes. 

As a seller's agent, Leila provides a marketing service that is both unique and effective, embracing the digital age, enhancing the exposure of the property, and thereby maximizing the best price. Her clientele ranges from first-time sellers to seasoned multiple-dwelling owners of multi-million dollar homes.

As a buyer's agent, listening skills, patience, honesty, and attention to detail are key to keeping your customers loyal and helping them realize their dreams. She always tells her buyers I want you to sleep well at night and never have to regret anything…being herself and putting her client first.

She is a skillful negotiator and a talented, hardworking individual who has earned not only outstanding results for her clients but has also secured an excellent reputation within the real estate industry.

In 2010 Leila broker a deal by cold calling the owners of townhouses for 11 months in the upper and coming area now known as East Tribeca, with a New Development Project, "Tribeca" Acquisition: $10 Million and anticipated project sellout of $34 Million. Leila recognizes that buying or selling a home is not only a personal and emotional experience but, in many cases, the single most important financial decision one can make.

She helps ease this process by being herself. Leila was born and raised in Kenya and came to America at age 19 to attend the University of Massachusetts, where she studied hospitality and management. Before entering the real estate industry, Leila had a very successful career in the restaurant business, where she worked in management for well-known chefs Jeffrey Zakarian and Jean-Georges Vongerichten.

Also, she is an owner of a few restaurants chain. When not with clients, she is a proud mother, mentoring newcomers to the business, and loves running, hiking great peaks around the world, sailing, spinning, skydiving, cooking, traveling, and yoga. She is currently working with IT-Project, an organization whose mission is to provide digital education resources to public schools in Kenya.