About Katey McGrath

Katey McGrath is the Vice President of Operations for Elfant Wissahickon Realtors, overseeing planning, development and management of the company’s non-sales departments, including finance, IT, human resources, special projects departments, et al. She manages strategy and policy development and implementation for the ownership of the organization.

Since joining EWR in 2000, she has held a variety of roles. She became a licensed real estate agent in 2005, an associate broker in 2016, and was named Partner that same year. Her experience also includes work as a resource consultant for various small businesses and non-profits. She has been instrumental in assisting many of our real estate agents and teams with their business planning, marketing, and technology strategies.

Katey cares strongly about the vitality of the city’s neighborhoods. She works regularly with neighborhood associations to strengthen ties between business and public education communities, and spent many years building relationships through her work with various public school Friends Groups and education coalitions, and as chair of the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, an independent news organization serving the stakeholders of the Philadelphia School District.

More recently, her advocacy has focused on fair housing and furthering and strengthening homeownership as a volunteer leader with the Greater Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Associations of REALTORS® (GPAR and PAR). She currently serves as the Treasurer of GPAR, sits on the Government Affairs and Horizons Committees at the local level and the Professional Standards Committee at the state level. In 2024, she joined the Board of Directors at BrightMLS, a multiple listing service covering five states and 90,000 subscribers. Katey was instrumental in chartering the Women’s Council of Realtors Philadelphia and served as its founding President. She proudly represents WCR, GPAR, and EWR as a Mayoral Appointee to the Philadelphia Commission for Women. She is actively involved with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, a global network of independent brokerages, speaking at their local, national, and international events.

A Philadelphia native, Katey is a graduate of public schools K-12, and continued her studies at Drexel University, Community College of Philadelphia and Temple University. She completed the Leadership Philadelphia Core Program in 2017, and regularly uses the skills and philosophies from that program to connect and mentor young professionals. Katey is passionate about civil rights, Philly sports teams, her garden, her husband Steven and their two very tall sons, Sonny and Danny.