ERA Actual Property, a world franchising chief inside the AnyplaceSM portfolio of manufacturers, as we speak introduced the 4 longtime, excellent actual property professionals inducted into the ERA® Corridor of Fame Class of 2022. The induction ceremony occurred on the ERA model’s Gas 2023 Worldwide Convention in Las Vegas, Nev.
Established in 2013, the ERA Corridor of Fame honors affiliated people and firms who’ve persistently earned excessive ranges of recognition and made distinctive contributions to the tradition and historical past of the ERA model over the many years.
The ERA Corridor of Fame Class of 2022 contains:
- Joanne Breen, Dealer/Proprietor, ERA Sargis-Breen Actual Property Co., Newington, Conn., joined the ERA community in 1979. Presently, Joanne serves as Dealer Affiliate for ERA Hart Sargis-Breen Actual Property.
- Francois Gagnon, President, ERA Europe, joined the ERA community within the early Eighties.
- The late H. Thayne Houston, Principal Dealer, ERA Brokers Consolidated, St. George, Utah, joined the ERA community in 1984.
- Jim Napier, President and Principal Dealer, Napier Realtors ERA, Richmond, Va., joined the ERA community in 1990.
“This 12 months’s ERA Corridor of Fame inductees have performed a major position in serving to to create the collaborative spirit and tradition of the ERA community,” stated Sherry Chris, President, and CEO, of ERA Actual Property. “Joanne, Francois, Thayne, and Jim are all {industry} trailblazers, revered leaders, and icons inside Group ERA. They’ve taken the instruments, studying sources, and help from the ERA model together with their entrepreneurial spirit to create profitable companies. Their induction into the ERA Corridor of Fame is well-deserved and a tribute to their accomplishments, dedication, and the affect they’ve made to form the community and the {industry}. Congratulations to all of this 12 months’s inductees!”
Joanne Breen, Dealer/Proprietor, ERA Sargis-Breen Actual Property Co., Newington, Conn.
Joanne Breen is a passionate chief, and actual property powerhouse and is thought for her class, grace, and professionalism. She was the Dealer/Proprietor of ERA Sargis-Breen Actual Property Co., earlier than promoting it in 2020. Now at ERA Hart Sargis-Breen Actual Property, she serves as Dealer Affiliate.
Throughout her 40-plus 12 months tenure with the model, ERA Sargis-Breen Actual Property Co. was inducted into the ERA Corridor of Fame Class of 2012 and honored with the ERA Dedication to Excellence Award in 2013. Joanne can be identified for creating an organization the place customer support is a precedence, ensuing within the brokerage changing into a three-time winner of the Jim Jackson Memorial Award for 1st in Service. Joanne additionally earned excessive ranges of recognition for her achievements, together with being named the 2021 State REALTOR® of the Yr and the Larger Hartford Affiliation REALTOR® of the Yr in 2018.
Energetic in her native, state and nationwide associations, Joanne beforehand served as President of the Connecticut Affiliation of REALTORS® in 2020 and President of the Larger Hartford Affiliation of REALTORS® in 2016. Presently, she sits on the Board of Administrators for the Connecticut Affiliation of REALTORS®chairs the affiliation’s Legislative Committee and serves on the Nationwide Affiliation of REALTORS® (NAR) Board of Administrators. Additional, Joanne previously served on the NAR Security Advisor Committee and is at the moment the 2023 Area I Vice President serving on NAR’s Govt Committee.
“I’m humbled to be inducted into the ERA Corridor of Fame Class of 2022. As an ERA® affiliate for over 40 years, the model has been a major a part of my life and actually an prolonged household for me. The success and development I’ve skilled couldn’t have occurred with out the help of my fellow associates and the ERA model.” – Joanne Breen
Francois Gagnon, President, ERA Europe
Francois Gagnon has been in the actual property {industry} for roughly 40 years. Initially from Canada, Francois moved to the US within the early Eighties, the place he began his profession as an actual property salesperson for an ERA affiliated brokerage in Fort Lauderdale. In 1993, Francois moved to France to begin the enlargement of the ERA model in Europe.
As President of ERA Europe and ERA France, Francois has contributed tremendously to the expansion of the ERA® model’s presence on the continent. ERA Europe is at the moment in 18 nations with over 1,190 workplaces and over 6,000 affiliated brokers and brokers, with ERA France being the most important ERA operation in Europe with over 500 workplaces.
Francois is a real grasp of actual property and his information and expertise have helped him obtain well-deserved recognition. In 2022, ERA France was named primary for customer support amongst actual property networks in France by Wizville.com, an organization that analyzes consumer satisfaction outcomes collected on Google buyer opinions. Moreover, ERA France was licensed by Veritas in 2012, a course of renewed and recertified yearly, making ERA France one of many few actual property networks to obtain this seal of approval in France for the systemization of their franchise providers and gross sales course of.
As well as, Francois is a long-standing member of the distinguished Nationwide Audio system Affiliation and the Nationwide Affiliation of REALTORS®.
“The ERA® model is in contrast to another model within the {industry}. I’m honored to be inducted into the ERA Corridor of Fame Class of 2022. ERA Europe is likely one of the fastest-growing residential actual property networks in Europe and I’m proud to have performed a powerful position in its success for over 30 years. The ERA model’s collaboration and teamwork are second to none. Thanks for recognizing me and I stay up for all of our success to return.” – Francois Gagnon
H. Thayne Houston, Principal Dealer, ERA Brokers Consolidated. St. George, Utah
The late H. Thayne Houston was a essential a part of ERA Brokers Consolidated in St. George, Utah, for 37 years.
A lifelong resident of St. George, Thayne joined ERA Brokers Consolidated in 1984, the place his father was a founding accomplice. Thayne turned the Principal Dealer in 1985, and later bought his father’s curiosity within the agency. Thayne served as Principal Dealer for greater than 35 years on the firm. ERA Brokers Consolidated has maintained a premier standing in one of many fastest-growing markets within the nation for greater than 4 many years.
Thayne was a part of the corporate’s substantial enlargement to Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah and Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2016. Throughout his profession, he was a licensed actual property dealer in 4 states. On the time of his passing, the brokerage had grown to over 600 affiliated brokers in 12 workplaces, launched a proprietary know-how platform referred to as ARTI®launched an industry-leading actual property schooling platform and printed month-to-month market analysis for greater than a decade.
Throughout his time as a accomplice and Principal Dealer, ERA Brokers Consolidated earned quite a few accolades as a part of the ERA system, together with induction into the ERA Corridor of Fame Class of 2015, recipient of the ERA Gene Francis Memorial Award for Prime All-Round Firm in 2018 and a number of time finalist for the Jim Jackson Memorial Award for 1st in Service. For many years, ERA Brokers Consolidated was acknowledged as an ERA Nationwide Prime 25 agency in each items and gross sales quantity and Thayne was acknowledged by his friends in 2021, as a Legendary Chief for his many contributions, accomplishments, and years of service.
Thayne invited these inside the firm to be good, be type, and do good. He served the group as a commissioner for the Utah Division of Actual Property, as Board Chair of the St. George Space Chamber of Commerce, as President of the Washington County Board of REALTORS® and as an EMT. He was awarded the Enterprise Integrity Honoree Award by the St. George Chamber of Commerce in 2015.
Thayne handed away in December 2021 leaving a legacy of service and enjoyable. He was a job mannequin of service and integrity and has had a long-lasting affect on the ERA® model, the actual property {industry} and people who had the pleasure of working with him.
“It was an honor to affiliate with Thayne for over 30 years. I’m really proud that he’s being inducted into the ERA Corridor of Fame Class of 2022. His contributions, ardour, and positivity have performed a serious position within the success of ERA Brokers Consolidated and his instance helped hundreds of actual property professionals succeed of their careers. Thayne is the proper Group ERA position mannequin all the time encouraging to Be Good, Be Form, and Do Good.” – Neil Walter, CEO, ERA Brokers Consolidated
Jim Napier, President and Principal Dealer, Napier Realtors ERA, Richmond, Va.
Jim Napier has been a pillar in his group and all the time desires to assist the folks and group the place he lives and works. This philosophy has confirmed to result in success.
Napier Realtors ERA (previously Napier and Savage Realtors) was initially based by Jim’s father, Oscar, in 1958. Jim started his profession in 1976, and in 1990 when Jim was solely in his late thirties, he took over the corporate. Now, Jim has been lively in actual property for over 45 years and has been an envoy of all the things ERA for over 20 years. This steadiness of youth and expertise has been one in all Napier Realtors ERA’s strengths for many years.
Below his management, Jim has been capable of develop his firm immensely. Napier Realtors ERA now has a complete of 4 workplaces within the Richmond and Central Virginia areas and over 100 affiliated brokers. Moreover, Napier Realtors ERA holds the consideration of being the recipient of the ERA Gene Francis Memorial Award for Prime All-Round Firm in 2004, the Cartus Dealer Community Cup in 2007, ERA Innovation Award in 2012 and winner of the ERA Circle of Gentle Award for Group Management in 2011 and 2020. Jim was inducted into the Virginia REALTOR® Corridor of Fame in 2015.
Jim’s love for his group is personified by his unbelievable help of philanthropic organizations, together with the VCU Massey Most cancers Heart, the place he serves on their Advisory Board, Toys for Tots, Tech for Troops, Backpacks for Love and extra. He obtained the Spirit of Giving Award in 2008 for his efforts on behalf of VCU Massey Most cancers Heart. In 2020, Jim obtained the Virginia REALTOR® Good Neighbor Award for making a constructive affect on the group. Jim was founding chairman of the Partnership for Housing Affordability and is at the moment a member of the Board of Administrators for C&F Financial institution and the Govt Board for the Actual Property Circle of Excellence on the VCU College of Enterprise.
“I’ve spent my profession caring concerning the lives and livelihood of my affiliated gross sales associates and employees. Their success is what has pushed me and our group for over 60 years. I wish to thank the ERA® model for naming me into the ERA Corridor of Fame Class of 2022. I’m really humbled by this honor.” – Jim Napier
About ERA Actual Property
ERA Actual Property is aware of that actual property is as native because it will get. We consider that our core enterprise values of collaboration, innovation, variety and development are wanted greater than ever. As a world chief within the residential actual property {industry} for practically 50 years, the ERA model contains a highly effective community of like-minded entrepreneurs supported by the model’s game-changing know-how, merchandise and highly effective lead technology.
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