Making Moves
For such a tight-knit industry, real estate has a lot of players, and we’re keeping track of them in our Making Moves feature. Stay up to date on your colleagues in the industry, where they’ve been and where they’re going.
Top producer Matthew Neistat has returned to @properties Christie’s International Real Estate where he will work out of the firm’s East Lincoln Park office.
Pablo Galarza and his team have affiliated with CENTURY 21 Real Estate to form CENTURY 21 New Beginnings. Formerly the Galarza Team, Galarza and his agents are known for offering bilingual service.
Christie’s International Real Estate has promoted Natalie Hamrick and Kevin Van Eck, to co-lead its Americas network. The company also made a new C-suite hire: Nidhal Charfi.
Award-winning real estate broker Anne Hardy has returned to Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Chicago. Most recently with Coldwell Banker, Hardy was affiliated with BHHS Chicago from 2018 to 2022.
Joe Gerber, a top-producing agent formerly with Engel & Völkers, has joined Coldwell Banker Realty. He comes with his team, The Gerber Group, which includes three other professionals.
Real estate industry veteran Bob Floss has joined Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Chicago as a managing broker for the firm’s Lincoln Park office.
COMPASS has added two new Chicagoland agents: Anne Hodge and Debra Dobbs, who both come to the company from @properties Christie’s International Real Estate.
Broker Diana Varva has joined CENTURY 21 Circle, operating out of the firm’s Lincolnwood office. She is licensed in both Illinois and Wisconsin and has been working in real estate since 2016.
Broker Brett Boudart has joined the Lincoln Park Clybourn office of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Chicago. Formerly, he was with Redfin.
Industry veteran Andrew Chevalier has joined Movement Mortgage as a market leader. He will focus on expanding the company’s presence in the markets of Illinois and Wisconsin.
Industry veteran Melissa Archer-Wirtz has been named the new CEO of CENTURY 21 Circle. She will oversee operations at the brokerage as well as its partner companies, Acuity Title and Skylight Insurance.
Chicago-based brokerage Fulton Grace Realty is expanding into Arizona with its first franchise partner.
Branden Lopez has been promoted to general counsel at @properties Christie’s International Real Estate; she joined the firm in November 2022 as director of legal.
Marty Dunne, a top producer who closed $34 million worth of real estate last year, has joined Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Chicago’s Hinsdale office.
Two years after his original departure from the company, Mark McLaughlin is returning to Compass as the company’s chief real estate strategist.
Ayoub Rabah, who has served as president of Coldwell Banker Realty in the Central West region since 2018, was recently promoted to the role of regional president, Midwest.