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Seven Recognized Among Top 1% of Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate Associates in Florida, Attend Exclusive Celebration of Success Event

Seven Sarasota and Manatee county real estate agents and teams have been recognized among the top 1% of Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate sales associates in Florida for 2012 – Barbara Ackerman, Betsy DeManio, Judy Kepecz-Hays, Lynne Koy, The Joe Murphy Team, Bruce Myer and Roger Pettingell.  The sales associates attended a gala event in recently to honor the top regional associates from NRT, the largest residential brokerage in the U.S.* The event included more than 100 Coldwell Banker sales associates from Florida, Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas/Fort Worth and Washington, D.C.

Participating agents were treated to dinner, dancing, networking and professional development at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, Naples, which included a rousing keynote speech from professional speaker Connie Podesta.

Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate is a leading full-service residential real estate company with more than 80 offices and 4,900 sales associates serving the communities of Central Florida, Palm Beach, Southeast Florida, Southwest Florida and Tampa Bay. Worldwide, the Coldwell Banker network includes 3,100 offices with over 82,000 sales associates spanning more than 50 countries.  Every day, Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate properties are exposed to 16 million buyers on more than 575 high-traffic websites. For more information or to view local listings, visit FloridaMoves.com

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To learn more about a career in real estate with Coldwell Banker, visit JoinCBToday.com. Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate is a subsidiary of NRT LLC, the nation’s largest residential real estate brokerage company.

* NRT is ranked #1 in both closed residential buyer and/or seller transaction sides and sales volume (calculated by multiplying number of buyer and/or seller transaction sides by the sales price) from 1996-2012 in the U.S. Data obtained by REAL Trends Survey, 1996-2013.

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