Stuart Halbert - 7 time winner as Bahamas Realty's top producer

Thu, Jan 29th 2015, 11:03 AM

Lucky 7 - It took more hard work than luck for Stuart Halbert, BRI, left, to be named Bahamas Realty's top producer for the 7th time since 2002. Bahamas Realty Chairman Larry Roberts congratulates Halbert today outside the firm's office on East Bay Street. NASSAU, Bahamas -- Sixteen years after he first walked into Bahamas Realty as a nearly novice agent with two years' experience abroad and more hope than history, Stuart Halbert still can't believe his good fortune. He loves Mondays, thinks Fridays come too soon and as for the weekend, well, that's for working, too.
It's that attitude that has just made Halbert Bahamas Realty's top producer in 2014 for the 7th time, a journey that has taken the industry through thick and thin and been peppered by sea changes in the economy and the profession.
"When the economy took a sudden and dramatic turn for the worst in 2008, Stuart went on, working hard, never giving up," said Larry Roberts, chairman of the real estate company celebrating its 65th year. "But for several years, the returns did not match the energy he expended and what made everyone admire him so much is that he was always there, always ready to show a property, to co-broke a sale, to bring a positive approach. He put in the extra hours and is always highly motivated."
That drive and motivation paid off again in 2014 for Halbert, who is among fewer than 5% worldwide to qualify as a Certified Residential Specialist. Halbert says much of the success is due to advent and growth of MLS, the Multiple Listing Service that permits all participating firms to share information on listings.
"The MLS has changed the way we do business, allowing us to expose our listed properties to a much wider market, accumulate more statistics, provide better information to prospective buyers or sellers, maintain more accurate appraisals, enjoy more co-brokes (sales shared by listing agent or firm and other participating BREA MLS agents)," said Halbert, a director of the Bahamas Real Estate Association for the past six years and a past treasurer.

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