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.
The Boston ONE Team at SERHANT. hired Jaci Smith as team specialist as part of the group’s expansion into the Worcester market.
The Wellesley-based real estate firm serves Boston’s MetroWest markets including Weston, Needham, Dover, Natick and Newton.
The mortgage professional has $150 million in annual production and 13 years of industry experience.
In her new role, Moore will focus on recruiting, acquisitions and strategic partnerships — pursuits the brokerage views as key to their next phase of growth.
Guaranteed Rate Affinity selected Josh Rakiey as vice president of mortgage lending with the goal of expanding his business across New England.
With a background in retail, the new agent will work out of ERA Key’s Chelmsford office.
While at Reality Labs, he led global teams across data science, data engineering and user research.
SERHANT. Boston founding members Serge Desir II and Peter Kasseris have teamed up.
The husband-and-wife team has a combined $150 million in sales and experience in the Greater Boston area.
Though licensed in Washington, Common Ground Referrals will serve clients across the United States.
The expansion adds 11 founding agents to the company.
Altneu previously served as the head of Coldwell Banker’s global luxury division.
Goldenfarb specializes in adaptive reuse and new construction.
Sagan Harborside’s 40 real estate advisors will join Gibson Sotheby’s while firm partners Phyllis Sagan, Julie Sagan and Shari Sagan McGuirk operate as advisors.
“John, Sean, Andy, Lesley and Gabby are builders and operators with a track record of turning opportunity into results,” said CEO and President Chris Czarnecki. “Now, we’re putting that experience to work at greater scale.”
MGS Group Real Estate formed Adler Connolly2, a team bringing together 20-year industry fixture Teri Adler and Steve and Nicole Connolly, who joined the brokerage.