3 Prime Brokers From Realogics Sotheby’s Transfer To The Company Seattle
As brokers proceed to reevaluate their brokerage affiliations heading into the brand new yr, Seattle-based Sandra Hines, Blake Waggoner and Dave Janssens have all left Realogics Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty for The Company.
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Three prime brokers from Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty have left the luxurious model and moved to The Company Seattle, as brokers proceed to reevaluate their brokerage affiliations heading into the brand new yr, Seattle Agent Magazine reported on Friday.
Sandra Hines and Blake Waggoner of The Hines Group, in addition to Dave Janssens, at the moment are affiliated with the Seattle department of the Beverly Hills-based brokerage led by CEO and founder Mauricio Umansky.
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Jen Cameron | The Company
“I’ve by no means been extra excited in regards to the momentum we’re constructing at The Company Seattle with our crew and model,” Jen Cameron, The Company Seattle’s managing companion, stated in an announcement.
“As an organization, we’ve at all times centered on who we’re rising with, as it’s key to our tradition,” she continued. “Having Sandra Hines and the Hines Group, together with Dave Janssens, be part of our crew is a testomony to that. Not solely are they icons of our trade with unimaginable reputations of integrity, I do know first-hand that they share our philosophy of all for one and one for all. I started my profession 25 years in the past in the identical workplace as Dave. He was a mentor to me as I started my profession and now we’ve come full circle once more.”
Hines might be a senior dealer, Waggoner a dealer and Janssens a managing dealer at The Company Seattle.
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Sandra Hines | The Company
Hines has gained recognition in Seattle after her greater than 20 years within the trade. She is persistently acknowledged as considered one of Seattle Journal’s 5-Star Actual Property Brokers, has been named to Forbes Market Chief — Prime 500 Record and was Sotheby’s No. 1 dealer by gross sales quantity in West Seattle in 2018-19.
In 2023, the Hines Group, together with Waggoner, was additionally acknowledged by the Seattle Occasions as Gold Winner for Greatest Luxurious Actual Property Firm within the Pacific Northwest. Waggoner launched his actual property profession in 2020 at Realogics Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty and, in 2022, was named a Seattle Rising Star Actual Property Agent by 5 Star Skilled.
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Blake Waggoner | The Company
“My shoppers are my all the things and giving them my best has at all times been on the forefront of my profession choices,” Hines stated in an announcement.
“This final yr, I got here to the belief that I wanted to align with a model that really shares my ardour for folks and delivers excellence at each degree,” Hines added. “I’m thrilled to have accepted the invitation to affix The Company Seattle and convey their cutting-edge inventive and daring enterprise philosophy to my Seattle clientele and past. My enterprise is private and I’m proud to name The Company house.”
Janssens is one other trade veteran with greater than 20 years of expertise in actual property. In 2016, he was the No. 1 promoting agent within the Houghton neighborhood of Kirkland by complete variety of houses offered, in keeping with the NWMLS. Whereas at Windermere from 1997 to 2017, he was the No. 1 agent throughout a number of years of his affiliation with the agency.
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Dave Janssens | The Company
“I’m excited to make a daring and important transfer in my actual property profession by accepting a private invitation to affix The Company’s Seattle workplace,” Janssens stated in an announcement.
“It’s essential to notice that this transfer is simply my second transfer in my 27-year actual property profession, so it’s one thing I take very critically,” Janssens continued. “The thought began as I started to see The Company doing daring and inventive issues, and the extra I seemed into what they have been doing and what they have been about, the extra I knew it was the suitable transfer on the proper time for me, as it’s what’s finest for my shoppers, which ultimately is all that issues in actual property. I imagine that there has by no means been a extra essential time to be daring and encompass your self with folks and organizations who’re and prepared to face out!”
The Company launched its Seattle franchise within the spring of 2022 with Jason Binab and Jen Cameron main the workplace as managing companions. Binab can be a managing companion of the agency’s Victoria workplace in Canada.
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