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Annual survey ranks Palm Beach real estate pros among country’s top producers
Local agents who were ranked submitted sales data verified by Real Trends and Tom Ferry as part of Wall Street Journal special advertising section.
Palm Beach Daily News
After a record-setting year in 2020 for Palm Beach real estate sales, local agents and brokers have earned a spot on annual lists of top producers in the country and state based on residential sales volume and other criteria.
The caveat is that the rankings reflect only the sales of those real estate professionals and companies who chose to participate in the survey and not every Palm Beach agent and broker did that.
Moens’ marketing materials described the house as “an oceanfront residence of unparalleled quality and timeless appeal.”
Property last sold in 2001
Edward Watkins formerly owned Simplex Time Recorder, a Massachusetts company started by his grandfather. Watkins expanded the company into fire alarms and security systems, and sold it for $1.2 billion to Tyco International in 2000, according to news reports at the time.
The Watkins trust paid a recorded $17.68 million for the South Ocean Boulevard property in 2001, according to property records. Crews demolished a seven-year-old house there to accommodate the mansion that just sold.
The Watkinses have a lakefront Georgian-style house at 735 Island Drive on Everglades Island, which they bought in October 2017 for a recorded $23.8 million using an ownership company, property records show.
Palm Beach Daily News
Palm Beach-based agents Liza Pulitzer and Whitney McGurk have been named the No. 1 sales team company-wide at Brown Harris Stevens, based on their total sales volume last year.
The two agents were, not surprisingly, the top-producing agents among those in the agency’s island offices. They have earned that honor previously.
Pulitzer and McGurk were among those recognized during a recent virtual Brown Harris Stevens awards ceremony held for local agents along with a separate company-wide digital presentation.
Other local Brown Harris Stevens agents collected honors during the presentation based on their sales volume.
John O. Pickett III was named Palm Beach broker associate of the year. Agent Geoff Darnell was named top listing agent among his Palm Beach peers, while The Kirkpatrick Team Sabra Kirkpatrick, Lauren Greaves and Sarah Koenig was named Palm Beach’s top listing team.