Ann was the No. 1 Manhattan agent at every Douglas Elliman Ellie Awards from 2020 to 2026. The Real Estate Board of New York gave her its Residential Brokerage Agent of the Year Award in 2018.
About Ann Cutbill Lenane
Ann Cutbill Lenane has spent more than 40 years helping New Yorkers buy and sell their homes, and she still walks out her door every morning excited to do it. A Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker with Douglas Elliman, she works from the firm’s office at 1995 Broadway, in the heart of the Upper West Side, the neighborhood she knows building by building.
She represents both sellers and buyers. Many of her clients live right here: co-op and condo owners on Central Park West, Riverside Drive and West End Avenue, townhouse owners on the brownstone side streets, and families moving up, moving on or downsizing. For buyers, she finds the right home, negotiates it and guides them through the co-op board process to closing. She works all over Manhattan, from Fifth Avenue to Greenwich Village and Hudson Yards, and over her career she has sold well over $2 billion of Manhattan real estate.
That work has earned her a place at the top of her firm. She was the No. 1 Manhattan agent at every one of Douglas Elliman’s annual Ellie Awards from 2020 to 2026. In 2018 the Real Estate Board of New York named her its Residential Brokerage Agent of the Year.
Friends and clients call her “Annie Gets It Done,” and it fits. She prices an apartment against what has actually sold in the building, is often at the showings herself, knows the building staff by name, and walks buyers through co-op board packages and interviews so the deal closes. Away from work she founded ONE BLOCK, which kept Upper West Side streets clean for five years, and Wise and Wonderful Women, a community of about 3,000 women aged 45 and over.
- Title
- Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker
- Brokerage
- Douglas Elliman Real Estate
- Represents
- Sellers and buyers
- Licensed
- Since 1983
- Office
- 1995 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10023
- Phone
- 212.769.9862
- NY license
- 30LE0994547
Awards and rankings
- 2026No. 1 Manhattan agent by number of transactions and by sales volumeDouglas Elliman Ellie Awards; also No. 3 nationally by commission income · source
- 2026RealTrends “The Thousand” (2025 results)No. 7 in New York City; 52 sides, $167.7 million · source
- 2025No. 1 Manhattan agent by transactions, sales volume and commission incomeDouglas Elliman Ellie Awards · source
- 2024No. 1 Manhattan agent by transactions and by commission incomeDouglas Elliman Ellie Awards · source
- 2020–2023No. 1 Manhattan agent by number of transactions each yearDouglas Elliman Ellie Awards · source
- 2018Residential Brokerage Agent of the Year AwardReal Estate Board of New York (REBNY) · source
Selected sales
Some of the largest sales Ann has handled, as recorded in New York City property records (ACRIS). See more on the Sample of Sales page.
| Building | Year | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 50 West 66th StreetRepresented buyer | 2025 | $25,163,696 |
| 998 Fifth AvenueRepresented buyer | 2012 | $18,500,000 |
| 271 Central Park WestRepresented seller | 2018 | $17,750,000 |
| 50 West 66th StreetRepresented buyer | 2026 | $17,052,816 |
| 88 Central Park WestRepresented seller | 2024 | $13,315,000 |
| 33 West 71st StreetRepresented seller | 2016 | $12,500,000 |
| 325 West End AvenueRepresented buyer | 2012 | $11,955,000 |
| 45 West 84th StreetRepresented seller | 2012 | $10,700,000 |
In the press
- 2024Real Estate Agents Take Over a Smaller Screen: Taxi TVThe New York Times
- 2024Elliott Erwitt’s Co-op and Photo Studio Are Listed on Central Park WestThe New York Times
- 2023The Luxury Tower Built for New York’s Elite Still Sits Half EmptyThe Wall Street Journal
- 2019Manhattan Luxury Broker Looking for Love, in a Taxi Cab Near YouBloomberg
- 2018New York’s Wealthiest Cut Losses as Manhattan Real Estate FaltersThe Wall Street Journal
- 2018Bruce Willis Lists Home on Central Park West for $17.75 MillionThe Wall Street Journal
- 2013–14Selling New York (four episodes)HGTV
More on the Select Media page.
Community
- 2020–2025Founder, ONE BLOCKA 501(c)(3) nonprofit that cleaned Upper West Side streets and, with ACE, employed formerly homeless New Yorkers. It filled more than 250,000 bags of street trash before closing in December 2025. More
- Since 2019Founder, Wise and Wonderful WomenA community of about 3,000 women aged 45 and over; its monthly dinners draw around 90 women each. More
- CommitteeAmerican Heart Association Go Red for Women
- Advisory boardLove Rocks NYC
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