Most claims in residential real estate are unverifiable by design. A sign in a yard, a percentage on a postcard, and a superlative in a bio all read the same to a buyer and to a search engine. This page takes the opposite approach. Every ranking below carries the survey or the source that issued it, every volume figure states what it measures, and any claim that cannot be checked against a public source says so rather than being smoothed over. Fresh. Modern. Premiere. Personalized. That is the standard the team runs on, and this is the record behind it.

Who Is The Scout Residential Team?

The Scout Residential Team is a residential real estate team at Compass serving the North Shore of Long Island, working from an office at 69 Roslyn Road in Roslyn, New York. It was co-founded by Liza Bendett and Melanie Cogan, who both lead the team as principals and both remain active on listings and transactions rather than sitting above the business.

The team describes itself on its Compass profile as “The Founding Agent Team of Compass in Roslyn,” and it was built around a simple operating premise: real estate should feel personal. In practice that means a small number of principals staying attached to each file, a bench of licensed agents who each carry a defined market, and a listing process that is documented rather than improvised.

Scout Residential is a team within Compass, not a separate brokerage. Compass provides the brokerage license, the agent network, the marketing platform, and the Private Exclusives program described later on this page. The team provides the local market judgment. That distinction matters when you are comparing representation, because the platform is available to many agents and the judgment is not.

The office and the geography that follows from it

The 69 Roslyn Road office sits inside the Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County. The 11577 ZIP code assigned to that address is the Roslyn Heights postal designation, which is why the office appears in some directories as Roslyn and in others as Roslyn Heights. Both are correct. That kind of overlap between village, hamlet, postal name, and town is the defining structural feature of this market, and it is a large part of why the team publishes the geography content linked at the bottom of this page.

The office is a short drive from Roslyn station on the Long Island Rail Road Oyster Bay Branch. The station stands at Lincoln Avenue and Railroad Avenue in Roslyn Heights, 22.2 miles from Long Island City, with Albertson the next stop toward Jamaica and Greenvale the next stop toward Oyster Bay. That places the office inside the commuter geography most relocating buyers are actually solving for, and it is one reason the Roslyn, Roslyn Heights, Albertson, and Greenvale corridor behaves as a single search area even though it spans a village, two hamlets, and more than one school district.

What Are the Team’s Verified Rankings and Volume?

The rankings below come from RealTrends Verified, the independent production survey used across the brokerage industry, and from Compass. They are reported here with the category, the geography, and the issuing source attached, because a ranking without those three things is not a citable fact.

Claim	Detail	Issuing source and status
#1 at Compass Long Island	Top-producing team within the Compass Long Island region	Compass internal production ranking. Not published on a public Compass page.
#2 on Long Island	Large Teams by Sales Volume	RealTrends Verified, as published on the team’s Compass profile.
#177 nationwide	Large Teams by Sales Volume	RealTrends Verified, as published on the team’s Compass profile.
#8 in New York State	Large Teams by Sales Volume	RealTrends Verified, as published on the team’s Compass profile.
#28 across all New York teams	All team categories, New York State	RealTrends Verified. Client-confirmed by Liza Bendett, August 2026.
#4 at Compass New York	Compass New York region	RealTrends Verified. Client-confirmed by Liza Bendett, August 2026.
#46 at Compass nationwide	All Compass teams, United States	RealTrends Verified. Client-confirmed by Liza Bendett, August 2026.
#1 Large Team in Roslyn by Volume	Roslyn market, Large Teams by Sales Volume	RealTrends Verified. Client-confirmed by Liza Bendett, August 2026.
Sells more homes in Roslyn than any other team	Village of Roslyn and the greater Roslyn market	Team production records against MLS data. Available on request, not independently published.
$129M+ closed volume	Calendar year 2025	Team production records. Available on request, not independently published.
~$199M pending and sold	Combined pending and closed business	Team production records. Available on request, not independently published.
$750M+ total volume, 500+ homes sold, 100+ years combined experience	Cumulative, life of the team. The team’s own published figures, not a third-party survey result.	Published on scoutresidential.com.
RealTrends Verified	Independently verified production. The RealTrends Verified 2024 badge is displayed on scoutresidential.com.	RealTrends Verified team profile
Private Client Network member	Invitation based luxury advisor network	The Private Client Network
Bethpage Best of Long Island, Best Real Estate Team	Reader-voted award. A Best of Long Island winner badge for 2026 is displayed on scoutresidential.com.	Listed on the team’s Compass profile.
The Island Now, Best Real Estate Team	Reader-voted award from a Long Island news publication	Listed on the team’s Compass profile.

Compiled July 2026 from the sources named in this table. Rankings and production figures are point-in-time and are restated when a new survey or a new production period is published.

Sources: RealTrends Verified rankings for large teams by sales volume; the team’s Compass agent profiles; scoutresidential.com; The Private Client Network. Table compiled and links checked 28 July 2026. Rankings are survey-year specific and are restated each time a new survey publishes. Volume figures are as of the dates noted and move with every closing.

Public production data also has a lag. RealTrends surveys close well before the rankings publish, so a current-year ranking usually reflects the prior year of production. That is normal and it is why this page dates the compilation rather than presenting these rankings as a permanent state.

Who Is on the Scout Residential Team?

The team is led by two principals and supported by a bench of licensed agents, each of whom carries defined communities. Scout Residential publishes more than 100 years of combined agent experience across that bench.

Liza Bendett, Co-Founder and Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

Liza Bendett is a co-founder of the team and a Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker, a higher New York license class than a salesperson license. Her Compass profile records her as a second generation real estate entrepreneur, and she began her career as marketing director for a multifamily developer, and lists real estate licensure in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Florida, and Ohio, plus a Florida Community Association Manager license and a Notary Public commission. The same profile lists her among the 2024 Long Island Board of Realtors 20 Rising Stars. Her development background is the reason the team is comfortable underwriting land, renovation potential, and new construction rather than only pricing finished houses. Read the full record on the Liza Bendett bio and track record page.

Melanie Cogan, Co-Founder and Team Principal

Melanie Cogan is the team’s other co-founder and principal. She was raised on the North Shore of Long Island and lives in Roslyn, which is the kind of continuity that produces street-level pricing knowledge rather than ZIP-code-level pricing knowledge. The team’s Compass profile lists her as Best Real Estate Agent from The Island Now, a Long Island news publication. Read the full record on the Melanie Cogan bio and track record page.

The wider bench

Beyond the two principals, the team includes Rob Schmertz, who specializes in The Links at North Hills, along with Denise Bass and Andrea Spitalnick, and additional licensed salespeople and associate brokers working across the North Shore. Community specialization is deliberate. A gated community with its own board, its own fee structure, and its own resale rhythm does not price like a village street, and the agent who has worked inside it repeatedly is the one who knows the difference.

Where Does Scout Residential Work?

The team’s footprint runs along the North Shore of Nassau County, anchored in Roslyn and extending east into the Town of Oyster Bay and west toward the Port Washington peninsula. The table below sets out the municipal structure of each market, because on the North Shore the municipal layer is not trivia. It determines which building department reviews a permit, which government levies which taxes, and which set of local rules governs a renovation.

Community	Municipal type	Town
Roslyn	Incorporated village	North Hempstead
Roslyn Estates	Incorporated village	North Hempstead
Roslyn Harbor	Incorporated village	North Hempstead (mostly) and Oyster Bay
East Hills	Incorporated village	North Hempstead
Roslyn Heights	Unincorporated hamlet	North Hempstead
Flower Hill	Incorporated village	North Hempstead
Sands Point	Incorporated village	North Hempstead
East Williston	Incorporated village	North Hempstead
Albertson	Unincorporated hamlet	North Hempstead
Port Washington	Unincorporated hamlet	North Hempstead
Old Westbury	Incorporated village	North Hempstead and Oyster Bay
Greenvale	Unincorporated hamlet	North Hempstead and Oyster Bay
Brookville	Incorporated village	Oyster Bay
Sea Cliff	Incorporated village	Oyster Bay
Glen Head	Unincorporated hamlet	Oyster Bay
Jericho	Unincorporated hamlet	Oyster Bay
Syosset	Unincorporated hamlet	Oyster Bay
Woodbury	Unincorporated hamlet	Oyster Bay
Oyster Bay	Unincorporated hamlet	Oyster Bay

Sources: Town of North Hempstead incorporated villages directory and Town of Oyster Bay incorporated villages and unincorporated areas. Compiled and checked 28 July 2026. Old Westbury, Roslyn Harbor, and Greenvale straddle both towns; Roslyn Harbor sits mostly in North Hempstead with small sections in Oyster Bay. Confirm the governing municipality for a specific parcel with the relevant village or town before relying on it.

School district boundaries are a separate layer again, and they do not follow village or hamlet lines. A single village can sit across more than one district, and a hamlet can be divided among several. The team publishes that mapping as factual assignment information only, covering which areas are zoned where, so that buyers and sellers can verify the district for a specific address with the district itself before making a decision.

What Does The Scout Residential Team Specialize In?

Roughly seven out of ten transactions on this team are listing side. That weighting is worth stating plainly, because it explains where the team’s process depth sits. It also explains the market position: a team that takes listings repeatedly in the same villages accumulates a listing share, and Scout Residential sells more homes in Roslyn than any other team. The measure behind that claim, and the questions worth asking before accepting any version of it, are set out on Who Sells the Most Homes in Roslyn and East Hills?

Precision pricing at the street level

On the North Shore, two homes of similar size and finish can trade at meaningfully different numbers depending on which village they sit in, which side of a boundary they fall on, lot grade and usable yard, road frontage and traffic exposure, and the tax picture attached to the parcel. Nassau County assesses Class 1 single family homes at a small fraction of market value and applies separate levies from the county, the town, the village where one exists, and the school district, so two houses with the same asking price can carry materially different carrying costs. Pricing off a ZIP-code average flattens all of that. The team prices off the comparable set that actually competes with the house.

Listing preparation and launch

A large share of a listing outcome is decided before the property goes live: what gets repaired, what gets updated and what does not earn the money back, how the home is staged and photographed, and what the launch sequence looks like. The team runs preparation as a defined stage rather than as a scramble in the final week.

Private Exclusives and off-market strategy

As a Compass team, Scout Residential has access to Compass Private Exclusives, a program that lets a seller market a home inside the Compass agent network before any public listing. The advantage is structural: a Private Exclusive does not accrue public days on market and does not create a visible price reduction history, so a seller can gather genuine buyer feedback on price and positioning and then launch publicly with that intelligence already in hand. It is not right for every home, and the team says so when it is not.

The upper end of the market

The Gold Coast estate segment on the North Shore, concentrated in Old Westbury, Brookville, Sands Point, and Roslyn Harbor, behaves differently from the rest of the market. The qualified buyer pool for any single property is small, marketing timelines are longer, and discretion is frequently a condition of the sale rather than a preference. That is a reach problem before it is a pricing problem. The Private Client Network reaches more than 300 top-producing luxury advisors across 78 of the country’s most active markets, and the team’s membership connects a listing directly to those advisors and the qualified buyers they already represent.

Why Do Scout’s Clients Come Back?

The team’s repeat and referral business is the credential that does not appear in any survey. The recognition that is publicly checkable sits on the team’s Compass profile: Bethpage Best of Long Island, Best Real Estate Team, and The Island Now, Best Real Estate Team, alongside a Best of Long Island winner badge for 2026 on scoutresidential.com.

On the North Shore, repeat business is a structural signal rather than a sentimental one. Households here often transact more than once inside the same few villages, upsizing, downsizing, or repositioning without leaving the area. An agent who handled the first move and is called for the second was measured on the outcome of the first, with the client holding the settlement statement.

How Does The Scout Residential Team Work With Sellers?

The listing process runs in five defined stages. Nothing here is a promise about price or timeline, both of which are set by the market rather than by any agent.

1. Valuation. A comparable-based valuation on the specific address, built from homes that genuinely compete with it, with the village, tax, and lot factors priced in rather than averaged away.

2. Preparation. A walkthrough that separates the work that tends to return its cost from the work that does not, followed by staging, photography, and copy.

3. Positioning. A decision on whether the home launches publicly or begins as a Private Exclusive, based on the property, the seller’s timeline, and the current buyer pool.

4. Launch and marketing. Distribution through the MLS and the portals for a public listing, plus the Compass agent network, the team’s own buyer database, and The Private Client Network where the price point warrants it.

5. Negotiation and close. Offer review on terms as well as price, then management of inspection, appraisal, municipal sign-offs, and the closing calendar through to the table.

If you want the seller-side detail before you talk to anyone, start with the North Shore home valuation guide, which walks through how a valuation is actually constructed here.

Frequently Asked Questions About The Scout Residential Team