Marisa DiLenge (Better Homes and Gardens), Judith Church Baker (Coldwell Banker Residential), Steve Roberge (Coldwell Banker Residential), and Mike Kimmey (Tropical Realty Group)

The Broward Chapter of the Master Brokers Forum, MBF, an organization comprised of South Florida’s top residential real estate agents, recently presented a market report for its members at WCI Communities’ Heron Bay, in Parkland.  More than 65 Master Brokers and guests attended the event in Heron’s Bay’s 23,000 sq ft clubhouse, “Plaza del Lago.”

WCI’s vice president, Lou Paratore, welcomed the guest to Heron Bay.  Paratore introduced the country club community’s Somerset and Sawgrass Bay neighborhoods, as well as the company’s incentive programs for agents.

Summer Greene, Florida Realtor president and regional manager of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate in Ft. Lauderdale, led a special presentation entitled “UPSWING!: Great News about 2012 and Beyond.” Greene offered a compressive look at recent statewide increases in sales and home prices; the value-added benefits reaped by Florida Realtors members; the group’s critical advocacy and legislative initiatives; and the positives effects that every home sale produces for the U.S. economy.

Greene is also the former president, “Realtor of the Year” for the Realtor Association of Greater Ft. Lauderdale and a director of the National Association of Realtors.  Additionally, Greene is a Master Broker and an honorary member of its advisory board.

“We are proud and honored to have Summer Greene representing the profession here in Florida,” said Carolyn Block Ellert, chair of the Broward MBF. “Our thanks to her and to WCI Communities and Heron Bay for making us feel so welcome, and for their tremendous support of the entire broker community.”