Caitlin Ellis

Caitlin went straight from college into real estate, assisting a top Northern Virginia agent and learning the business from the inside before she had any business of her own. Three years on a team was enough. She wanted to build something with her name on it, partly so she could be the person her friends and family called.

So she went out on her own and turned Ellis Properties into a top-producing solo practice while raising a young family. Steven joined her in 2018 and went full time in 2021, which she has generously described as an upgrade.

She runs most of the seller side, and her interior design degree is the reason. Pricing a house and preparing a house are the same conversation for her, so what starts as a listing appointment often turns into a walkthrough of what is worth doing and what is not. She also runs a small design business, which means clients get opinions on paint colors whether they asked or not.

Eight years in Willowsford and two homes there, one of which she built from the ground up. She has closed 19 transactions in the community and can tell you which floor plans resell, which lots look bigger than they are, and which streets get more traffic than the speed limit suggests.

She grew up in Manassas, went to Osbourn Park High School, and got her interior design degree at Radford, where she and Steven overlapped for three years and never once met. She and Steven live in Aldie with Violet and Hayes. When she is not working she is playing mahjong, working through a stack of books, keeping an ambitious number of houseplants alive, or making the case for a winery afternoon.