Maggie Hutter and Jo Rutstein have joined the Sarasota office of Premier Properties of Southwest Florida Inc. as sales associates.
The award-winning team has repeatedly been named in the top 3 percent of Prudential agents nationwide.
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Premier Properties of Southwest Florida, Inc., REALTORS announced the redesign and launch of their www.pelicanbay.com website, one of the family of micro-sites designed and maintained by the Company. The Premier e-commerce department originally released pelicanbay.com in 1996 along with parkshore.com. The company’s four primary GEO sites include: marcoisland.com, bonitasprings.com naples.com, and premiersarasota.com. Premier also owns regattanaples.com, esplanadeliving.com, rentbonitavillage.com, naplescay.com, venetianvillage.com, and promenadeshops.com.
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Naples-based Lutgert Insurance announced the hiring of Rich Biondi as an account executive. He is a licensed property, casualty, life and health agent. Rich will focus on offering his clients an unparalleled level of service and his goal is to build strong, lasting relationships through confidence and trust. Rich has lived in Naples since 1996, and previously worked in the real estate profession as a sales associate with ReMax. Rich is a graduate of South Florida University with a BA degree in Computer Science and has also worked in software development for several well-known financial companies. He is an active member of the Naples Area Board of Realtors (NABOR).
Lutgert Insurance has been a vital member of the Southwest Florida business community since 1953. The agency offers a comprehensive array of personal and commercial insurance products, including estate-planning services, workers compensation and employee benefits programs. Lutgert Insurance employs over 50 employees at its Naples headquarters. Additional employees are located at offices in Ave Maria, Bonita Springs, Fort Myers, Marco Island, and Sarasota, Florida.
Since October 2000, Lutgert Insurance has been a division of The Lutgert Companies, a privately held real estate development company with additional holdings in Premier Properties of Southwest Florida Inc., REALTORS, Strateca Inc., LLC, Lutgert Title, LLC and Premier e-commerce.
Naples, Florida- Premier Properties of Southwest Florida, Inc., REALTORS and Sales Associate Michael G. Lawler, P.A., have been selected by Naples Harbour Ltd. and Stiles Corporation as exclusive marketing agents for Vista Royale, a new waterfront development in the Moorings.
The Vista Royale sales center is located at 201 Harbour Drive east of Gulf Shore Boulevard North and west of Leeward Lane. These three-story residences evoke the architecture of a Tuscan villa with details such as stone embellishments, mahogany doors, and exceptional outdoor living areas. Situated on Moorings Bay, each villa has three bedrooms; some offer a fourth bedroom, which can be set up as a study or fitness center, four and one half baths or five and one half baths. The living area of the eight villas ranges from 3,264 square feet to 4,500 square feet. Prices begin at $3,295,000.
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Premier Properties of Southwest Florida, Inc., REALTORS announced that Julie Rembos has earned her Broker Associate license. Rembos joined Premier Properties Premier Gallery Office located in the Northern Trust Building as a Sales Associate in March of 2008. As a Broker Associate, she will continue in a sales capacity with Premier, but chose to seek this licensure to enhance her knowledge and real estate qualifications. Rembos earned a bachelor’s of science degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and is active in numerous local charitable organizations including The Angel Ball, Race for the Cure for Breast Cancer, National Alliance on Mental Illness, and is a board member for MS Home of Naples. Rembos has held a real estate license since 2005 and is a member of the Naples Area Board of REALTORS (NABOR).
Premier Properties of Southwest Florida, Inc., REALTORS announced two agents as graduates of 2008 Leadership Collier: Chris Sullivan, Broker Associate with Premier’s Marco Office at the Esplanade, and John (Trey) Wilson, Sales Associate with Premier’s Old Naples office on Broad Avenue.
Leadership Collier is sponsored by the Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce since 1989. The program is designed to educate local business leaders about economic and communal concerns facing our community currently, and to seek creative solutions in a group forum. Topics include Environment, Commerce, Growth Management, Education, Healthcare, Agriculture, Human Services, Law Enforcement, Government, and Media-Communications-Arts. Classes are not only informative but are enjoyable and bonds that are created between members can lead to lifelong friendships as well as invaluable networking opportunities.
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Premier Properties of Southwest Florida, Inc., REALTORS welcomes two new Sales Associates. Gordie Lazich and Nick Stepan will work from the company’s Village Office located at the Village on Venetian Bay.
Lazich was born and raised in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. After living in various U.S. cities, and visiting Naples area for more than fifteen years,she moved to Naples in 2004 to live full-time.
Stepan’s hometown is Chicago Illinois. He earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. Introduced to Naples at an early age by his family,who are longtime visitors and residents of Naples, Stepan moved here full time in 2005 and earned his Florida real estate license later that year.
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Premier Properties of Southwest Florida Inc REALTORS is proud to announce that Steve Smiley has joined the company and will work in general real estate sales out of company’s office located at the Village on Venetian Bay.
After moving to Naples from New England with his family in the late 60s, Steve grew up in The Moorings and Port Royal. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a law degree; later he moved to New York, and then abroad in London and Paris. He served as director of legal affairs for an international company with office branches worldwide.
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Tom Bringartner, president of Premier Properties of Southwest Florida, Inc. REALTORS, has worked with hundreds of the top associates in the real estate business, but even for him, Sheldon Paley’s road to success is a bit unusual. “Sheldon may not have come to the business in the typical way, but his experience, philosophy and temperament have allowed him to become a top producer in a relatively short period of time. We’re very proud of him.”
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Naples and Marco Island couldn’t have asked for a better plug. With 34 million members and the world’s largest-circulation magazine, AARP has ranked Naples/Marco Island as the
10th-best place to live and retire. AARP examined health and lifestyle habits of residents in cities across the United States. The nation’s largest nonpartisan organization for people 50 and older has come up with a list of the 10 “healthiest hometowns” for robust living and retirement. Naples/Marco Island joins the ranks of standouts such as San Francisco, Boulder, Colo., and Minneapolis/St. Paul.,
Minn. At the top of the list is Ann Arbor, Mich., followed by Honolulu, Hawaii, and Madison, Wis.
“Wow, what an impressive group that we are linked to,” Naples Mayor Bill Barnett said. “AARP is a very respected group. It says a lot for us.”
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