Douglas Elliman Broker Maria Babaev has been a dominant force in Long Island real estate since opening shop in 2013. Babaev and her all-women team are part of Douglas Elliman’s prestigious Pinnacle Club, largely thanks to her pipeline of foreign homebuyers and investors. Taking advantage of her team’s diverse background with fluent speakers of English, Russian, Hebrew and Greek on her staff, Babaev is an authority on international homebuyers.