THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, December 3, 1994 TAG: 9412010329
SECTION: REAL ESTATE WEEKLY PAGE: 14 EDITION: FINAL
COLUMN: ON THE MOVE
LENGTH: Medium: 83 lines
Long & Foster Real Estate has signed up to be a sponsor of the Marine Corps' annual Toys For Tots campaign through Dec. 16.
Toys - new and unwrapped, please - may be brought to any of the eight Long & Foster offices in South Hampton Roads seven days a week. The Toys For Tots program was begun in 1947. The Christmas toys are distributed to needy children through churches and welfare agencies. The firm collected 15,000 toys last year throughout the mid-Atlantic region.
Long & Foster also announces the following top performers for September:
Great Neck office: Sharon Lathrop, top producer, lister and seller.
Hampton office: Cathie Harney, top producer and lister; Sandy White, top seller.
Independence office: John Keller, top producer and seller; Judy Turlington, top lister.
Kempsville office: Sam Moore, top producer; Dee Tompkins, top seller; Allen Jensen, top lister.
Lynnhaven office: Beatrice Cole, top producer and seller; Kathy Cary, top lister.
Norfolk office: Joyce McKeever and Lin Miller, top producers, listers and sellers.
Oceanfront office: Pam Rogers, top producer and top seller; Carol Webb, top lister.
Williamsburg office: Trinh Murphy, tops in all categories.
Robert L. Riddle, president of Riddle Associates in Chesapeake, has been awarded the Certified Commercial Investment Member designation by the Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute, an affiliate of the National Association of Realtors.
The CCIM designation is awarded to professionals who have completed 240 hours of graduate-level courses in financial analysis, commercial brokerage, market analysis, tax planning, managing and marketing troubled assets, decision analysis and negotiation.
Of the estimated 100,000 commercial real estate practitioners nationwide, only 3,500 hold the CCIM designation.
Progressive Realty will be marketing Courthouse Estates, a single-family community in the historic courthouse area of Virginia Beach with prices ranging from $110,000 to $170,000. Joann Nemie is the site manager and David Hirst is her partner.
R.L. ``Abe'' Ellis, a senior partner with Virginia Commercial Real Estate Services in Virginia Beach, has achieved the Active Industrial designation awarded by the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors.
Ellis has completed more than seven years of creditable experience as an industrial real estate specialist and recently passed the qualifying written exam.
Residential contracts for future construction were up 1 percent for October in Hampton Roads compared to October 1993, according to the F.W. Dodge Division of McGraw-Hill Inc. in New York. Dodge figures show that the total value of residential construction contracts for the month was $62,432,000; for October of last year, the amount was $62,034,000.
For the first 10 months of 1994, the value of residential construction was down 5 percent, from $643.3 million last year to $614.3 million this year.
Thinking about retiring to Florida? DMS Marketing of Tarpon Springs has published a guide for those interested in manufactured housing, used or new. The book also addresses community homesites. The Florida Manufactured Home Guide costs $19.95 postpaid and may be ordered from DMS Marketing, 40429 U.S. 19 North, Tarpon Springs, Fla. 34689. Include a check or money order. MEMO: On the Move reports management changes, awards, seminars and new
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ILLUSTRATION: Robert L. Riddle
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