Ed Hardesty at a glance

Ed Hardesty’s career, year by year

• 1982 Moves to New York City after a BA in Film and Theater at Trinity University in San Antonio (his Compass biography).
• 1994 Licensed in New York, starting in rentals.
• 1995 Joins Douglas Elliman, where he works for more than two decades. That year he was the first Douglas Elliman agent he knew of to print color flyers as mailers.
• 2011 Starts his first YouTube channel, “Ed Hardesty” (@hardestygroupre), dated by YouTube to September 12, 2011. Its 104 videos run to March 27, 2017, when he was still at Douglas Elliman.
• 2012-13 Registers web domains for individual buildings and sends mailers linking to his building videos.
• 2017 Joins Compass. He and Theresa Ferraro were the first two working agents for Compass in Westchester and helped open its Dobbs Ferry office in 2017.
• 2023 Theresa Ferraro is named to Westchester Magazine’s Top Real Estate Agents list.
• 2024-25 Ed Hardesty and Theresa Ferraro are both named to the list in 2024 and again in 2025.
• 2026 Ed Hardesty is named to the 2026 list, and The Hardesty Team at Compass is ranked second among Dobbs Ferry teams by volume and by sides on the 2026 RealTrends Verified list, based on 2025 sales data.

Ed Hardesty works mainly for sellers in Manhattan

In Manhattan, Ed’s work is mostly for sellers: co-op and condominium owners whose apartment needs to be prepared, priced, marketed and carried through to closing. He describes the job as helping owners “figure out what has to be done to get their apartment ready for sale,” then marketing it and managing the timing.

The part of a Manhattan co-op sale owners most often underestimate, in Ed’s view, is the board. The things people most need to understand, he says, are “how long that process takes” and “what the expectations of the boards are, because it is very opaque.” Reading a buyer’s finances against what a building’s board expects is a large part of his work. As Ed puts it, “a condominium is real property, so the board isn’t as much of an issue.”

He also prepares sellers for what a Manhattan sale costs, from transfer taxes to a flip tax where the building charges one, and the team gives clients its own closing-cost guides. Rentals are a small part of the business, handled for owners who ask. Owners who want a starting number can request a valuation of a Manhattan apartment.

The move between Manhattan and Westchester is the center of his work

Ed’s core client sells an apartment in Manhattan and buys a house in Westchester, often at the same time. He and Theresa have lived and worked in both places, and he holds a license at a Compass office in each, so one team can run both transactions.

Which sale comes first has no single right answer. It turns on how long the building’s sale and board process takes, whether the owner can carry or finance both homes, and how a contingent offer will be received where they are buying. Ed walks through that decision, with his video on it, in Selling a Manhattan Apartment and Buying in Westchester at the Same Time.

Ed Hardesty’s record in four buildings

• 60 East 8th Street (Georgetown Plaza), Greenwich Village: more than 30 apartments sold over 20 years. The New York City Department of City Planning records the building at the southeast corner of East 8th and Mercer Streets. See the team’s 60 East 8th Street building guide.
• The Ritz-Carlton Residences, White Plains: at least 20 apartments sold, and about a year running on-site sales there.
• St. Andrews, 10 Old Jackson Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson: four units sold by the team in the last two years.
• The Print House Lofts, 50 Chestnut Street, Dobbs Ferry: Ed sold the property to its developer and took it through about three years of approvals.

In Westchester, Ed Hardesty works the seller side of the Rivertowns

In Westchester, Ed represents sellers across the county and works most in the Hudson River villages near home: Dobbs Ferry, Hastings-on-Hudson, Irvington, Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow. He also knows Ardsley, Yonkers and White Plains well. He and Theresa have lived in Dobbs Ferry for about 25 years. They were the first two working agents for Compass in Westchester and helped open its Dobbs Ferry office in 2017, with Ed touring the candidate spaces and negotiating the lease.

For sellers in these villages, much of the work comes before the listing: checking the house’s permits and paperwork, pricing a house that may have few close comparables, and choosing when to list. The team’s guide to selling a house in the Rivertowns covers each step.

Before real estate, Ed Hardesty worked in fashion, television, film and theater

Ed Hardesty was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and earned a BA in Film and Theater from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He moved to New York City in 1982, worked first in the fashion industry, then turned to television, film and theater. He came to real estate as an investor before moving into the brokerage side of the business. He holds a third-degree black belt in Seido Karate.

The Hardesty Team is Ed, Theresa and four licensed agents

Ed leads The Hardesty Team at Compass with Theresa Ferraro, his wife and partner and the team’s co-founder, a Licensed Real Estate Salesperson (license 40FE1053178) licensed for more than two decades. The rest of the team:

• David Findel, Licensed Real Estate Salesperson, Westchester and Riverdale in the Bronx
• Melody Acevedo, Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker, Westchester
• David Wong, Licensed Real Estate Salesperson, Westchester, with work in Queens
• Jonathan Hogan, Licensed Real Estate Salesperson, Westchester

The Department of State lists all four, and Theresa, under Compass Greater NY LLC at 2 Ashford Avenue in Dobbs Ferry. Ed holds licenses at both the Dobbs Ferry and Manhattan offices.

Ed Hardesty’s recognition, with years and sources

Westchester Magazine named Ed Hardesty to its Top Real Estate Agents list in 2024, 2025 and 2026. The research firm DataJoe compiles the lists, and each of those editions states that agents do not and cannot pay to be included. Theresa Ferraro was named in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

On the 2026 RealTrends Verified list, based on 2025 sales data, The Hardesty Team at Compass is a Medium Team with the award “RealTrends Verified Top Team by Volume”, ranked second among Dobbs Ferry teams by volume and by sides.

How to reach Ed Hardesty

Ed Hardesty takes calls at (917) 749-9071 and email at ehardesty@compass.com; the team’s shared address is thehardestyteam@compass.com. He works from both Compass offices, in Manhattan and in Dobbs Ferry.

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