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Willis heads commercial unit for The Group Real Estate firm and other Chattanooga-are career moves

Willis heads commercial unit for The Group Real Estate firm and other Chattanooga-are career moves
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Willis heads commercial unit for The Group Real Estate firm

Alexis Willis has joined The Group Real Estate Brokerage LLC in Chattanooga as head of the company’s new commercial real estate division, according to a company announcement.

Willis is a licensed Realtor in Tennessee and soon to be in Georgia who will focus on growing the commercial unit for the Chattanooga brokerage firm.

Willis previously worked for a year and a half as a real estate broker for Second Story Real Estate Management after she founded Natural Beautiful Me in 2011. Willis was also formerly the director of small business and entrepreneurship for the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce from 2018 to 2021 and previously served as director of business support and facilitator for Launch Chattanooga.

Willis is a graduate of Girls Preparatory School and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, according to her LinkedIn profile.

LBMC names Steve Thomason as audit director in Chattanooga

Steve Thomason has been promoted to managing director in the audit and advisory practice of LBMC, one of the Southeast’s largest advisory and business consulting firms.

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Thomason joined LBMC in 2003 and has more than 25 years of experience working with middle-market businesses in manufacturing, distribution, service and construction industries. Thomason specializes in providing audit and assurance services, as well as advisory services related to highly technical accounting and financial reporting areas such as equity-based compensation, complex revenue transactions, post-transaction purchase accounting and business combinations. Thomason received his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and is a CPA. His clients include private equity-backed, family-owned and foreign-owned companies, and he has extensive experience in auditing employee benefit plans, and religious organizations.

Thomason serves on the boards of the Chattanooga Autism Center and the Kiwanis Club of Chattanooga.

Dennis Blanton, the practice leader for LBMC in Chattanooga, said Thomason “exemplifies what it means to provide outstanding service and expertise to our clients, and we’re honored to welcome him to the Chattanooga leadership team.”

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Naples, Fla. Luxury Real Estate Broker Mark P. Riley Makes Clientele Luxury’s 2023 Hot 20 Luxury Agents List

Naples, Fla. Luxury Real Estate Broker Mark P. Riley Makes Clientele Luxury’s 2023 Hot 20 Luxury Agents List

Mark Riley Naples Florida Luxury Real Estate Broker and Leader in Luxury Real Estate

Riley’s distinction stands on 43 years of experience in luxury real estate, including career sales of over $1.4 billion.


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Luxury real estate is a prominent yet highly competitive market both in terms of buying and selling. Clientele Luxury’s annual Hot 20 Luxury Agents List acknowledges agents and professionals who have reached the top of their respective regions’ markets. For 2023, Mark P. Riley, the owner and broker of Lux International Properties, made the roundup and fortified his status as someone to watch in Florida’s luxury real estate market. Recently he had a record sale of 7 Million in the Residences at Mercato located in Naples.

Riley’s distinction stands on 43 years of experience in luxury real estate, including career sales of over $1.4 billion. Riley prides his success on dedication and a versatile skill set, including negotiating deals, attention to detail, impeccable customer service, expansive market knowledge, and repositioning skills.

His prowess extends beyond the Naples area to deals in Dubai, Stockholm, London, Cannes, and Mougins, France. He enhances this perspective with his interest in yachting, which, beyond enjoyment, allows him to explore coastal real estate from another angle. In 2022, Clientele Luxury magazine reached out to Riley for his professional insights into the Naples, Florida, luxury real estate market. He described the community situated on the Gulf of Mexico as a fusion of European charm and paradise with lower state income taxes and ideal for both investments and for those interested in working from home. His outlook reflects Naples’ recent transformation from a vacation market of second or third homes into a residential community attracting families.

Outside of real estate, Riley believes in giving back to his community. He and Lux International Properties engage in multiple philanthropic ventures, including supporting Habitat for Humanity, St. Matthews House, Youth Haven and the Make a Wish Foundation, among other organizations.

About Clientele Luxury

Clientele Luxury magazine made its debut in Fall 2013, highlighting travel destinations, style, and ultra- luxury properties and real estate agents from across the United States. For the past decade, Editor-in-Chief Erin Green and Senior Editor Irene Test have captured their audience with noteworthy content geared toward the affluent, and many of the original featured agents continue to partner with the now- established magazine to access and gain visibility among a high net-worth target audience. At the same time, the magazine’s spreads present the homes through detailed imagery and pair them with engaging content geared toward buyers considering ultra-luxury properties. Along with the Global magazine, Clientele Luxury publishes its Top 10 Homes in the USA edition seasonally, geared toward $200,000,000 or higher net worth individuals, and the biannual BESPOKE, focusing on luxury properties and travel destinations. Considering the full luxury experience of travel and exploration, the magazine continues to carve out a niche by showcasing interior designers, creative individuals, and some of the world’s most sought-after travel destinations.

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CA-based ‘tech enabled’ real estate fund owns more than 200 homes in Rochester

CA-based ‘tech enabled’ real estate fund owns more than 200 homes in Rochester

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — On Monday, April 10, firefighters were called to a home in the overnight hours at 26 Burbank Street. It was the second time the home caught fire in less than a month and with fire officials deeming it to be arson. The building is owned by an LLC called SFR3-60 and according to city records, it has 12 code violations currently listed. To top it off, the city’s housing attorney Mike Fulano says he cannot get in touch with anyone with the company.

“We have the long-term concern of companies coming in, engaging in de-investment and leaving the city with a husk of a property. We have the short-term problem of these, when there’s an immediate issue and an emergency, that we have no body to contact – the occupants have nobody to contact, the neighbors don’t have anybody to contact whenever something goes wrong with these properties. There’s no accountability,” says Furlano.  

Furlano adds, SFR3 has been on the city’s radar since came on board with Corporation Counsel in September. Based on his understanding, and the company’s website, it is California-based real estate fund which creates varying LLCs to purchase property portfolios.

This is why 26 Burbank Street’s owner is listed as ‘SFR3-60’ — there are other LLCs with similar names, such as SFR3-20, SFR3-80, and so on.

“So in Rochester, there’s 8 different LLCs that own a bunch of property in Rochester. Now our concern, at least with this property [sic, group] – why it’s on our radar is a lot of them have double-digit violations. So 41 of these properties have double digit violations, 17 have more than 20 violations, 25 of these are vacant. 115 of them have open cases with us which means there’s at least one violation known, or no Certificate of Occupancy that we’re aware of.”

I’ve tried to reach out to the group several times over the past but have yet to receive a response.

According to Furlano, SFR3 as the parent company owns hundreds of homes in our area, all purchased within the last two years.

“My understanding is it’s within all their subsidiary LLC’s…over 200 properties….that’s my understanding, yes,” Furlano says.

“They’re distributed throughout Rochester but more so in the areas where property values are lower, a lot of high rental areas. You see there’s a lot of Beechwood here, MarketView Heights, down in the 19th ward as well, Furlano adds, while referencing a map with dozens of pinpoints indicating each property owned by SFR3.

Whether the city will take SFR3 to court is unclear, but the city will have to consider several factors.

“While we can’t comment on cases that we are going to bring — once we bring them, then we can talk about them — so we can’t comment on cases that we are considering, unfortunately,” says Furlano.

There is no cap for the number of properties an individual, group, or otherwise can own; if you are a responsible owner, you can own as much property as you’d like. Current city code states for each code violation on a property, it’s $500 per violation, per day. The City also hired additional code enforcement officers last fall along with a code enforcement trainer. According to the city, each inspector has an average of around 300 cases, or properties, they take on.

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Major Food Group Enters Luxury Residential Real Estate Space With The Villa In Miami

Major Food Group Enters Luxury Residential Real Estate Space With The Villa In Miami

Branded residences might seem like a natural extension of five-star luxury hotels, but companies from all types of categories are conceptualizing their own take of luxury living. Major fashion brands, like Diesel and Missoni, and luxury automakers, like Porsche and Bentley, are building residential towers based on their brand principles. Now, a beloved hospitality and restaurant group is jumping into the mix.

As more people seek out residential communities with everyone under one roof, many buyers with a love for the finer things in life are also seeking higher-end food experiences closer to home. Hospitality brand Major Food Group, which owns and operates celeb-favorite establishments like Carbone, Sadelle’s Parm, Dirty French, and Contessa, is entering the luxury real estate space with a residential tower in Miami: Villa.

MFG tapped developers Terra and One Thousand Group for the first-of-its-kind residential tower in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood, along with Vicky Charles of Charles and Co. for the interiors. The celebrity interiors expert and former Soho House design director has designed homes for Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher and David and Victoria Beckham, and worked on projects for Sony, Goop, and other major brands.

Villa will tower 58 stories about Biscayne Bay with 360-degree panoramic views of Miami’s skyline and waterfront. The 650-foot-tall crystalline tower will have a copper-hued exoskeletal design and only have 50 units, offering full-floor units. Details within each residence, which will feel like private villas in the sky, have been carefully curated and developed by Major Food Group’s visionaries. For example, the kitchens are designed by chef Mario Carbone, founder of Carbone restaurants, while the services and amenities are planned by MFG co-founder Jeff Zalaznick.

“To say that this is a natural evolution is an understatement,” Zalaznick tells Forbes. “At MFG, we don’t build restaurants. We create worlds where every element is executed with an unparalleled sense of luxury and skill, down to the most minute detail. Add to that our illustrious track record collaborating with the best of the best in hotels, architecture, design, and art—innovators who understand how to conceptualize complete experiences.”

There will be a brand-new, three-floor MFG restaurant, as well as resident-only lounges, bars, and restaurants and private chef services. It’s a one-of-a-kind project where luxury hospitality and great food collide. In total, there will be more than 20,000 square feet of amenities, and gastronomy lovers can expect many culinary activations and programming, like cooking classes and demonstrations with MFG’s talented roster of chefs, and so much more.

“The Villa is a transformational project,” says David Martin, CEO of Terra. “It unites the most brilliant minds in their respective industries to create a building that is marked by an unrivaled residential experience. MFG’s success in the hospitality space gives them a differentiated degree of expertise when it comes to understanding consumer needs- that level of attention to detail is integrated into every aspect of the Villa brand.”

Units will start around $4.5 million, but don’t hold your breath. The building hasn’t yet broken ground and is scheduled to open in 2026.

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Franchy, succeeding at what she always wanted to do; selling luxury real estate in South Florida | Key Biscayne

Franchy, succeeding at what she always wanted to do; selling luxury real estate in South Florida | Key Biscayne

Gazing throughout the slushy, snowy mountains encompassing the Vail, Colo., area during a new vacation, Vivianna Franchy couldn’t assist but admire nature’s natural beauty, actually supplying her a breath of clean air.

But, back again on Critical Biscayne, in which she has lived for 30-moreover many years, Franchy previously has attained her individual mountaintop, residing “where you definitely can take pleasure in a lovely life” and performing in the assets management business and in actual estate, “where I am able to sell just one of the ideal products in the earth, and that is generally Miami and Vital Biscayne.”

The indigenous of Lima, Peru, has emerged as one of the area’s foremost ladies in the business enterprise globe, operating Viviana Deluxe LLC, managing houses for quite a few entrepreneurs who do not are living in the nation.

She has adopted that exact same branding in her internet marketing as a Forever Agent with the Coral Gables-based mega-organization Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices EWM Realty, where by the principle is “that we are not in the transaction organization, but that we are in the relationships permanently organization,” she reported.

The single mother of Andrew, now 30 and dwelling in New York (“He will generally be my kid,” she said, laughing) had been a world-wide traveler, 1st earning an Industrial Engineering diploma (and getting her master’s in Internet marketing at Texas Tech) to have an understanding of “processes, going from position A to issue B.” It’s something her father taught her in his individual manufacturing organization in Peru, and anything she nevertheless uses now.

Together the way came work in corporate engineering, at Lexmark, Compaq and Toshiba, in which she once sold laptops.







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Getting into real estate was a thing she usually needed to do, but her residence management company could not overlap in some situations. But, following Berkshire Hathaway and EWM Realty merged many several years ago, she obtained the call from CEO and President Ron Shuffield and Controlling Broker of the Essential Biscayne Place of work, Vivian Galego- Mendez.

“Ron explained he could help me to mature with a throughout the world enterprise, and an moral organization. It was uncomplicated to make that final decision,” Franchy reported.

Offering properties in the Miami spot may look straightforward, but contemplate there are additional than 400 brokers who manage Critical Biscayne transactions alone.

“It is a very aggressive market place, but it’s also very fulfilling simply because you are in a position to market your self in your ambitions and your possess identity, and that’s what tends to make this company individualistic,” Franchy mentioned. “You are out there projecting yourself, your model … let us say it has a ton of ‘you’ in it.”

The distinction in advertising right here, rather than other Florida marketplaces, is straightforward to realize.

“Miami is a great product or service and a gorgeous item, and it is out there for the world, not to learn, but to choose a aspect of it,” she claimed. “It utilized to be a end on the peninsula to go someplace else. But the vibrancy of the city and what it features … and it is turn out to be a quite significant identify and in comparison to (key towns) all around the planet.”

Currently being a woman in her profession provides her the gain of acquiring the potential to be an “equal” with her male counterparts and, she explained, she is treated as such.

The toughest point about serious estate? “It’s difficult to be a Real estate agent, for both of those adult males or ladies, for the reason that there is a good deal of rejection that a single has to conquer in get to make almost everything take place so that we can grow to be prosperous,” she mentioned.







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She takes satisfaction in Countrywide Women’s Month, mainly because “it’s a recognition work of several ladies before us building it a improved earth … it was an amazing energy they place with each other. They broke so numerous boundaries and made the women in small business currently to be equipped to conquer and aspire and accomplish all of what we have and what we can.”

Which is accurately what Franchy is executing.

“I just want to supply the most effective attainable service to those people who want a piece of Miami and enjoy this wonderful metropolis,” she stated. “(At Berkshire Hathaway-EWM), we have the potential to provide millions in (this region), which we are … it’s been an astounding journey.”

Call Vivianna Franchy at 305-798-6010 or viviannadeluxe@aol.com

Follow her on Instagram at @viviannadeluxe

This article was revealed as portion of Islander News’ The Women’s Difficulty and provided in Islander News’ next annual Women in Enterprise segment. For the entire The Women’s Problem version, click below. 

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Jeff Cook Real Estate Highlights 2023 Top Agents of Quarter 1

Jeff Cook Real Estate Highlights 2023 Top Agents of Quarter 1

Jeff Cook Real Estate Highlights 2023 Top Agents of Quarter 1

From left to right: Heidi Schaefer, Brandon Garon, Whitney Hall, Clayton Hall, Nancy Walsh

From left to right: Heidi Schaefer, Brandon Garon, Whitney Hall, Clayton Hall, Nancy Walsh

Charleston, SC, March 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Jeff Cook Real Estate is pleased to announce the outstanding achievements of its top agents in the first quarter of 2023. These agents have demonstrated exceptional performance, dedication, and expertise in the real estate industry, and have exceeded expectations in their sales and customer service efforts. With their exceptional skills and commitment to excellence, these agents have helped countless clients achieve their real estate goals and have contributed significantly to the success of Jeff Cook Real Estate. We are proud to recognize their hard work and dedication and look forward to seeing their continued success in the future.

The Hall Group

Top Team at Jeff Cook Real Estate

Clayton and Whitney, the dynamic duo of the Hall Group at Jeff Cook Real Estate, have not only excelled in their careers but have also created a beautiful life together. Clayton, originally from Vero Beach, FL, attended Florida State University, while Whitney, hailing from Columbia, SC, graduated from the College of Charleston. They joined Jeff Cook Real Estate in Mt Pleasant in 2017 and hit it off immediately. After being friends for a year, they started dating in 2018, got married in 2021, and are now the proud parents of a 6-month-old baby girl, Sawyer, and a 6-year-old dog, Hudson. As agents, Clayton and Whitney have helped over 175 families buy and sell real estate in the past 5 and a half years. They credit their success to the family-like environment at Jeff Cook Real Estate, where everyone is supportive and willing to help at a moment’s notice. However, their biggest accomplishment so far is joining together as a husband and wife team and forming the Hall Group, where they have found a system that allows them to better serve their clients while balancing family time. Contact Whitney by calling 843-428-7578 or emailing whitney.hall@jeffcookrealestate.com. Contact Clayton by calling 843-396-3773 or by emailing clayton.hall@jeffcookrealestate.com.

Brandon Garon

Top Buyer Agent at Jeff Cook Real Estate

Originally from Southern California, Brandon relocated to Lexington, South Carolina in 2015 with his wife Danielle and two young boys, Noah and Wyatt. Prior to his career in real estate, Brandon worked as an EMT for 10 years, gaining valuable experience in customer service and problem-solving. Since joining Jeff Cook Real Estate in 2018, Brandon has served over 75 families and closed over $20 million in volume, finishing 2022 as one of the top 10 agents in the entire company. Brandon credits his success to the family-like culture at Jeff Cook Real Estate, saying, “It is more than just a place to work, it is a family. We go through life together, supporting each other in the job and in life.” His biggest accomplishment so far is persevering through the challenges of the industry and becoming a top-producing agent. Brandon’s ultimate goal is to help guide others as they embark on their own journeys, and he does so through his YouTube channel where he shares the Midlands of South Carolina through the eyes of a transplant and real estate agent. As Brandon puts it, “I love this career and feel blessed to have been given the opportunity with Jeff Cook Real Estate, who helped get me started and continues to support me as I have grown into a top producing agent.” Contact Brandon by calling 803-766-4663 or by emailing brandon.garon@jeffcookrealestate.com. Be sure to check out his Youtube channel here http://midlandsofsc.com/.

Nancy Walsh

Top Seller Agent at Jeff Cook Real Estate

Nancy is a successful real estate agent at Jeff Cook Real Estate and has a deep love for family that has been a driving force in her career. Having helped over 170 families build new lives in homes they found together, Nancy’s true joy comes from making these connections. She is a mother of four adult children and two stepchildren, as well as a proud grandmother of six grandchildren. Her supportive husband, Kevin, is also her real estate partner. With Jeff Cook Real Estate, Nancy discovered her true entrepreneurial spirit, having been given the tools and confidence she needed to be successful. Every transaction is special to her, and she considers it a huge accomplishment every time she helps match a family with a home. Nancy loves her job and is passionate about continuing to help families find their dream homes. Contact Nancy by calling 843-994-3715 or by emailing nancy.walsh@jeffcookrealestate.com.

Heidi Schaefer

Rising Star at Jeff Cook Real Estate

Heidi is a native Southern California girl who has lived in 11 states as well as Switzerland. After serving as a flight attendant for almost a decade, she decided to switch careers and became a real estate agent. Since joining Jeff Cook Real Estate in November of 2022, Heidi has already closed three deals in less than 120 days. She loves the supportive and family-oriented culture at Jeff Cook Real Estate and feels motivated to continue her success. Heidi is a mother of four grown children and a grandmother to four little ones ranging in age from 3 months to 7 years old. Despite working another job and taking care of her elderly mother, she has jumped in with both feet and is excited to keep the momentum going. Contact Heidi by calling 843-417-0495 or by emailing heidi.schaefer@jeffcookrealestate.com. 

If you’re interested in buying a home or selling your current one, give us a call at 855-HEY-JEFF. To learn more about joining Jeff Cook Real Estate visit, JoinJCRE.com.

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