Barbara Pronin

The more than $2.2 trillion in collective 2021 sales volume reported by the Top 1,000 respondents to RISMedia’s 34th Annual Power Broker Survey is truly historic. Yet it doesn’t tell the complete tale of last year’s residential real estate market. The missing piece? Compass. While recent industry media coverage has declared Compass “the largest brokerage…

By the time he graduated from the University of South Florida at Tampa, Josh Dotoli knew he was an entrepreneur at heart. Having worked with a mentor who managed and rehabbed properties, he believed real estate was his calling, and he quickly proved the point in his first successful year with a boutique firm in…

Arguably the most successful sales team in the toniest areas of Brooklyn, Jim Cornell and Leslie Marshall, with a combined 50 years of borough sales experience, clearly have keys to the King’s County kingdom, closing out last year with 199 transactions and a sales volume of over $480 million. Their four-person team, consistently ranked among…

For team leader Khrista Jarvis, every day is a new opportunity to prove that women not only do it all, but do so with grace under pressure. Jarvis, along with business partner Nicole Jung and their 11-woman team in Contra Costa County, who last year recorded more than 300 transactions and $600 million in sales,…

A self-described ‘serial overachiever,’ Jonathan Spears was enrolled in college at the age of 14, and in 2010 earned his Florida real estate license just after his 18th birthday. So, it is little surprise, as he rings up his 30th birthday in January 2022, that the boyish-looking entrepreneur leads the very successful 11-person Spears Group,…

For REALTORS® in Manhattan, the competition is keen. But that’s part of the appeal for Takk Yamaguchi, whose Takk Team represents more than $300 million in New York City properties and closes an average of 150 transactions annually in the exclusive Midtown East. The team, comprised of Takk Yamaguchi, Danielle Stout and a back-office crew,…

California real estate professional recognized by the SRES® Council for providing outstanding service to seniors Oceanside, California, REALTOR® Ginni Field, who in her nearly 40-year career has served in multiple facets of the real estate industry, has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the Seniors Real Estate Specialist® (SRES®) Outstanding Service Award. The SRES®…

Robby Brady grew up amid the glorious mountain greenery of northwest South Carolina—a region the locals call, “upstate,” rife with scenic hiking trails, waterfalls and views of the Appalachians—so it is perhaps not surprising that he graduated from Clemson University with a degree in forestry and began a career among the tall timber. But Brady,…

In today’s low-inventory housing market, where buyers are vying for homes like never before, the guidance of an experienced real estate professional is a must. But what does it take to be the agent buyers can rely on to help them navigate even the most challenging home-buying experience? According to this year’s REBAC Hall of…

Marcia and Albert van Zyl—whose husband-and-wife team, Team van Zyl, works under the banner of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices (BHHS) Florida Realty—serve buyers and investors along the Fort Lauderdale coastline. It took them a few twists of fate for the magic to happen. Marcia Saunders was a young woman from Illinois with a background in advertising…

Hispanic Heritage Month, first proclaimed by President George H.W. Bush on Sept. 14, 1989, is celebrated annually from mid-September to mid-October. Here, RISMedia interviews several notable professionals advocating for closing the diversity homeownership gap and introducing solutions to some of the challenges the Hispanic community faces within the housing market. “It’s an ideal time for real…