Rick Kelly is the Founder & CEO of Alta Real Estate, an award-winning boutique luxury real estate firm headquartered in Manhattan. A RealTrends-ranked Top 50 Manhattan agent by sales volume, Rick has built one of New York City's most respected independent brokerages over a 20-plus-year career marked by 700-plus closed transactions and over $1 billion in total sales volume — with $30–$40 million produced annually. His expertise and Alta Real Estate's reputation have been recognized by The New York Times, The Real Deal, and UrbanDigs, and Rick personally holds a perfect 5.0-star Google rating across 30 public reviews and 469 verified transactions on Zillow. The firm's footprint spans Manhattan's most coveted neighborhoods — including the Upper West Side, Lincoln Square, Tribeca, Chelsea, and Central Park West — as well as Brooklyn Heights, Williamsburg, Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, and Long Island City, with a core focus on properties in the $2M–$10M range.
Alta Real Estate serves a sophisticated clientele that includes luxury homebuyers, first-time buyers, commercial investors, and corporate relocations, with particular strength in West Coast tech executive relocations and international moves from Europe. The firm operates with multilingual capability across Italian, Spanish, and Chinese — and Rick himself brings conversational Italian and Russian to the table — enabling seamless service for the global buyers and sellers who make up a significant share of Alta's business. This international reach has taken Rick to Spain, France, Portugal, Lithuania, Belarus, and China on behalf of clients, reinforcing Alta Real Estate's standing as one of Manhattan's most globally connected boutique luxury brokerages.
What sets Rick Kelly — and Alta Real Estate — apart is a rare combination of boutique attention, institutional-level production, and a culture built on frankness, responsiveness, and genuine market expertise. Rick's background buying and selling multiple homes and apartment buildings personally gives him a ground-level fluency that clients across all price points immediately recognize and trust. Whether navigating a first-time co-op purchase or a complex multimillion-dollar building transaction, Rick and the Alta Real Estate team bring the same hustle, integrity, and New York market depth that have defined their reputation for over two decades.
Home Types:
Condo, Co-op, MultiFamily, House
Years of Experience:
24
