2 months ago Share The coming year looks to be a big one for Smith & Associates because the bulk of its business comes from high-end, luxury condos a class that has boomed recently and shows no signs of slowing down.
Company: Bob Glaser, in his 44th year with Smith & Associates, one of the leading residential real estate firms in the Tampa Bay region, has seen many up and downs in the market during his long career. But going into 2021, he’s as bullish as he’s ever been about the firm’s prospects for growth. The pandemic changed the way homebuyers look for properties leading firms like Smith & Associates to quickly adapt to showing homes via FaceTime and Google Hangouts, for example but sales didn’t slow, and prices rose because inventory, already low in 2019, dropped even further. “Some folks decided that they didn’t want to sell during the pandemic,” Glaser says. “They wanted to be safe in their own home.” On the other hand, because people