THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, April 22, 1995 TAG: 9504200371
SECTION: REAL ESTATE WEEKLY PAGE: 10 EDITION: FINAL
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Cindy Goree, an agent with William E. Wood and Associates Realtors, was named 1994 Salesperson of the Year by the Portsmouth-Chesapeake Association of Realtors at the organization's recent annual banquet. Last year, she secured more than 40 listings and had a gross brokerage of over $90,000.
The Realtors also named Alan Kersnick of Coldwell Banker Harbor Group Real Estate as Rookie of the Year. Vann Lefcoe, a lawyer with McGuire Woods and Boothe in Norfolk, was awarded a medallion of service from the National Association of Realtors.
Caroline McCartney of GSH Real Estate in Norfolk has been named among the top Farm, Ranch & Country Estate Megabrokers by Unique Homes, a national magazine featuring luxury real estate. She specializes in dwellings on the Virginia Beach Oceanfront, the Outer Banks, Norfolk's West Side and gentry farms in Suffolk.
McCartney has been a Million Dollar club member for 15 years and in the top 5 percent in real estate sales since 1982.
More honors: Bob Anderson of Century 21 Realty in Chesapeake and Sam Harris of the Pembroke Mall branch office have been named Centurian Sales Associates for ``consistently achieving superior productions levels'' . . . Womble Realty has recognized its top associates for March: Brian Okuley, Great Bridge office, No. 1 sales associate; Brenda Rawls, Beach office, first in listings . Bridge; Claudia Hudgins, Lynnhaven; Pam Johnson, Holland; Judy Marsh, Beach; Karen Barnard, Greenbrier; and Debbie Mustin, Carolyn Payne and Anne ````Cookie'' Page, Lynnhaven.
William E. Wood and Associates weighs in with its best for March. Jody Johnson of the Laskin office, was No. 1 in listing resales, and Andy Mullen led the firm in new home sales for Southside. Renee Quinn was named Wood's property manager of the month and Howard Norwitz of Churchland was recognized for his relocation referral efforts.
At the Wood branch offices, the following were top sales associates: Cindy Goree, Churchland, Marie Callaham, Hampton Boulevard; Debbie Boriase, Great Bridge; Barbara Adams, Great Neck; Alice Friedlein, Haygood; Margie Shirley, Holland Road; Chris Souza, Kempsville; Chris Shaughnessy, Laskin Road; Harry Vergakis, Little Creek, and Vicky Duncan, Lynnhaven.
And the top branch office listers were Jeanne Livesay, Churchland; Langhorne Porter, Hampton Boulevard; Debbie Barnes, Great Bridge; Anne Runaldue, Great Neck; Margaret Cody, Haygood; Tom DiBouno, Holland Road; Georgie Frech, Kempsville; Jody Johnson Laskin Road; Harry Vergakis, Little Creek, and Tom Duckett, Lynnhaven.
Debbie Jennings of Long & Foster Real Estate's Lynnhaven Office is the firm's Rookie of the Year. Among the agency's top 10 producers in Hampton Roads for 1994 were Cam Templeton-White, Independence office; Joyce McKeever, Norfolk; Nat Williams, Chesapeake; Nancy Miller, Kempsville, and Linwood Miller, Norfolk.
Top producers for the branch offices were Tom Seddon and Linda Spruill-Karako, Chesapeake; Marlene Brantley, Great Neck; Cam Templeton-White, Independence; Joe Auzenne, Kempsville; Jenny Boyenga, Lynnhaven; Joyce McKeever and Linda Enders, Norfolk; Carol Anne Kent, Oceanfront, and Nat Williams, Princess Anne.
Education: Coldwell Banker-Gifford and Mid-Atlantic Financial Group will present a free seminar on ``Three Easy Steps to Home Ownership'' at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Quality Inn Lake Wright, 6280 Northampton Blvd., Norfolk. Call 490-7680 for reservations . . . The Norfolk Navy Housing Welcome Center at Janaf Shopping Center will present four workshops next month on real estate. Home buying will be discussed from 6 to 8 p.m. May 3 and May 10, home selling on May 17 and property management on May 25. Call 445-2832 for more information.
Progressive Realty has been selected to market Holland Pines West, a new wooded section of 91 lots in Virginia Beach. Kroll Residential, Nicholson Homes and Affordable Homes are building new models, priced from $130,000. They are due to open next month. MEMO: On the Move reports management changes, awards, seminars and new
services offered by real estate firms, mortgage companies and builders.
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