As brokers proceed to reevaluate their brokerage affiliations heading into the brand new 12 months, 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 high brokers from Realogics Sotheby’s Worldwide 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 12 months, Seattle Agent Journal 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.
Jen Cameron | The Company
“I’ve by no means been extra excited concerning the momentum we’re constructing at The Company Seattle with our workforce and model,” Jen Cameron, The Company Seattle’s managing associate, mentioned in a press release.
“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 a part of our workforce is a testomony to that. Not solely are they icons of our business with unbelievable 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 can be a senior dealer, Waggoner a dealer and Janssens a managing dealer at The Company Seattle.
Sandra Hines | The Company
Hines has gained recognition in Seattle after her greater than 20 years within the business. She is persistently acknowledged as certainly 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 Instances as Gold Winner for Finest 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.
Blake Waggoner | The Company
“My shoppers are my all the things and giving them my easiest has at all times been on the forefront of my profession selections,” Hines mentioned in a press release.
“This final 12 months, I got here to the conclusion that I wanted to align with a model that actually shares my ardour for folks and delivers excellence at each stage,” 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 dwelling.”
Janssens is one other business 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 whole variety of properties offered, in accordance 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.
Dave Janssens | The Company
“I’m excited to make a daring and vital transfer in my actual property profession by accepting a private invitation to affix The Company’s Seattle workplace,” Janssens mentioned in a press release.
“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 significantly,” Janssens continued. “The concept began as I started to see The Company doing daring and artistic issues, and the extra I regarded into what they had been doing and what they had been about, the extra I knew it was the correct transfer on the proper time for me, as it’s what’s greatest for my shoppers, which in the long run is all that issues in actual property. I consider 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 associate of the agency’s Victoria workplace in Canada.
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