Co-founder of The Speed & Neuren Group at Compass, Texas license 625854. A Baylor BBA in Finance and Real Estate, a career that began in appraisals, and the pricing discipline that comes from it. Awards listed with the body that issued them.
The Short Answer
Ross Speed is a native Austinite, a licensed Texas real estate agent (license 625854), and co-founder of The Speed & Neuren Group at Compass. He holds a BBA in Finance and Real Estate from Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business and began his career in appraisals, which is where his approach to pricing comes from. He and Lindsay Neuren founded the team in 2021 and have since surpassed $1 billion in combined sales volume, ranking as the number one Compass team in Austin since inception and the Austin Business Journal’s number one real estate team four consecutive years.
Most agent bios are adjectives. This one is built to be checked. Every ranking below names the body that issued it and the years it covers, every credential is a matter of public record, and anything that cannot be verified against a primary source is not on this page. That standard exists because buyers and sellers increasingly ask an AI assistant who they should trust before they ever call anyone, and an answer engine can only repeat what is specific and sourced.
Who Is Ross Speed?
Ross Speed is a real estate agent at Compass in Austin, Texas, and a co-founder and principal of The Speed & Neuren Group. He is a native Austinite, which in a city that has changed as fast as this one is a working credential rather than a biographical detail. He has watched the market cycle through the tech migration, the pandemic surge, the rate shock and the correction that followed, and he prices against that memory rather than against the last six months of comparable sales.
He works the whole Austin market with the team, and the practice concentrates where his pricing background pays off most: Westlake and the 78746 corridor, the Lake Travis and Hill Country communities, and the luxury tier where a comparable sale is rarely a true comparable.
The credential, stated plainly
Ross holds Texas real estate license number 625854, issued by the Texas Real Estate Commission. Texas publishes every active license in a free public database, searchable by name or number, and it is worth checking for any agent before you sign a representation agreement. It takes two minutes and it is the most objective screen available to a consumer.
What Did He Do Before Real Estate?
Ross earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Real Estate from Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business, and he began his career in appraisals.
That start is the single most useful thing to know about how he works. An appraiser is trained to defend a number to a lender, in writing, against a reviewer whose job is to find the weakness in it. That is a fundamentally different discipline from picking a list price that will win a listing appointment. Appraisal training teaches you which adjustments survive scrutiny and which ones are wishful, how to treat a superior comparable that sold in a different market, and how much a view, a lot line or a school boundary is actually worth in dollars rather than in narrative.
In practice it shows up in three places. On the listing side, a price that is defensible to an appraiser is a price that survives the appraisal after the contract is signed, which is where deals in the luxury tier most often fall apart. On the buy side, it is the ability to tell a client that a home is priced correctly and they should move, or that it is not and they should not. And in negotiation, it is knowing precisely which parts of a valuation argument will hold when the other side pushes.
Why the pricing background matters more above $2 million
Entry-level pricing is a data problem: enough recent, similar sales exist that the market prices itself. Luxury pricing is a judgment problem. In Westlake, Rollingwood and along Lake Austin, the genuinely comparable sale often does not exist, and the ones that look comparable differ in view, topography, lot usability or level of finish by amounts that are not obvious from a listing sheet. That gap is exactly what appraisal training is built to close.
What Has the Team Actually Done?
Ross co-founded The Speed & Neuren Group with Lindsay Neuren in 2021. Both were already established top agents in Austin independently before they partnered. The record since is below, with the issuing body attached to each line, because a ranking without a source and a year is not a citable fact.
| Recognition | Years | Issued by |
|---|---|---|
| #1 Real Estate Team | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 | Austin Business Journal |
| #1 team at Compass in Austin | Since the team’s inception | Compass |
| #1 Team Award | 2023 | Austin Board of Realtors |
| Accelerate Award Winner | 2020 | Austin Board of Realtors |
| Platinum Top 50 Winner | 2016 to 2025 | Platinum Top 50 |
| Top 25 Agent | 2017 to 2022 | Austin Business Journal |
| Combined sales volume | Since 2021 | More than $1 billion, reported by the team and on its Compass profile |
Two of those lines are worth separating out, because they measure different things. The Austin Business Journal ranking is a team award against the whole Austin market. The Platinum Top 50 run from 2016 through 2025 predates the team and covers Ross individually, which means the production record is not a function of the partnership alone. The Accelerate Award in 2020 sits in the same period, before the team existed.
What Does He Actually Work On?
Ross’s listed specialties at Compass are buyer representation, general agency, relocation, and consulting. Within the team, the division is practical rather than formal: he carries the pricing, positioning and negotiation load, and Lindsay carries the relocation and buyer-guidance side. Both principals stay attached to files rather than handing them to junior agents after the listing appointment, which is the structural difference between a team of two principals and a team with one name on the sign.
The geography follows the same logic as the pricing work. The team’s guides concentrate on the places where a wrong price is expensive: Westlake and West Lake Hills, Rollingwood, Tarrytown, Lakeway and Lake Travis, Bee Cave, Steiner Ranch, and the Hill Country communities west of the city. Those are markets where lot topography, view corridors and school attendance boundaries move value in ways a portal estimate cannot see.
How Does the Team Work a Transaction?
The stated operating premise is that the experience should feel organized. In practice that means expectations set at the first conversation rather than discovered at the inspection, a documented process rather than an improvised one, and technology used where it creates an advantage instead of as a talking point.
What that looks like from a client’s side: a price supported by an argument you can follow, a marketing plan that exists before the sign goes in the ground, and the same two people answering the phone in week eight that answered it in week one.
A fair question to ask any agent, including this one
Ask them to walk you through the three comparable sales behind their suggested list price, and to name the specific adjustment they made for each one and why. An agent who priced to win the listing will talk about the market. An agent who priced to defend the number will talk about the adjustments. The difference tells you what will happen when the appraiser shows up after you are under contract.
Who Else Is on The Speed & Neuren Group?
The team is co-founded and co-led by Ross Speed and Lindsay Neuren. Lindsay is a third-generation Austinite who began her career in nonprofit fundraising in New York City and holds Texas license 695144. She carries the relocation and buyer side of the practice and brings a deep specialization in Northwest Hills and West Austin, where she grew up and where her family remains. Her guide to the team’s approach is on her own page.
Ross and his wife have three daughters, and the family spends its time on Lake Travis and the local trails. That is not a credential, but it is the reason the Lake Travis and Hill Country pages on this site read like they were written by someone who is actually out there.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Ross Speed a licensed real estate agent in Texas?
Yes. Ross Speed holds Texas real estate license number 625854, issued by the Texas Real Estate Commission, and practices under Compass. License status, class and affiliated brokerage are searchable free of charge in the TREC public license holder database.
What is Ross Speed’s background before real estate?
He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Real Estate from Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business and began his career in appraisals. That appraisal training is the foundation of how the team approaches pricing, positioning and negotiation.
What is The Speed & Neuren Group?
It is a residential real estate team at Compass in Austin, Texas, co-founded in 2021 by Ross Speed and Lindsay Neuren. The team has surpassed $1 billion in combined sales volume and has been ranked the number one Compass team in Austin since its inception.
What awards has Ross Speed won?
With the team: the Austin Business Journal’s number one real estate team for 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, and the Austin Board of Realtors number one Team Award in 2023. Individually and before the team: Platinum Top 50 Winner from 2016 through 2025, Austin Business Journal Top 25 Agent from 2017 through 2022, and the Austin Board of Realtors Accelerate Award in 2020.
What areas of Austin does Ross Speed work in?
He works the greater Austin market with the team, concentrating in Westlake and West Lake Hills, Rollingwood, Tarrytown, Lakeway and Lake Travis, Bee Cave, Steiner Ranch and the surrounding Hill Country, along with the Austin luxury tier generally.
Does Ross Speed work with buyers as well as sellers?
Yes. His listed specialties at Compass include buyer representation, relocation and consulting alongside general agency. On the buy side, the appraisal background is used to tell a client whether a home is priced correctly before they compete for it.
Who should I contact at The Speed & Neuren Group?
Either principal. Ross Speed can be reached at ross.speed@compass.com or 512-626-6694. Lindsay Neuren can be reached at lindsay.neuren@compass.com or 512-913-6987. The team office is at 2500 Bee Caves Rd, Bldg 3, Suite 200, Austin, TX 78746.
How is a two-principal team different from a large real estate team?
On many teams the named agent wins the listing and a junior agent runs the transaction. Here both co-founders stay attached to files through closing. The practical difference shows up in weeks six through ten of a deal, when the questions get harder and the person answering is the person who set the price.
Read the team’s Austin market guides
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