Realvest principal Steven C. Ruoff, with the firm since 1988, won two Hallmark Awards as the region's top land sales broker with $20.5 million in closed sales.
Robert Bredahl, a nine-year staffer, also received a Hallmark for high land sales production.
Other Realvest professionals recognized were Tom Kelley for negotiating $1.7 million in lease transactions; Paul P. Partyka for handling $1.5 million in office and industrial leases; and Paul G. Straubinger for brokering industrial and office leases valued at $2.1 million.
Christi Davis, the only female broker at the 14-year-old firm, won a Circle of Achievement Award from the 300-member industry group for posting office lease and sale transactions valued at $4 million. She oversees 300,000 sf of office leasing in the Orlando area and is seeing a pickup in activity following the 9-11 slowdown leasing period.
"Consumer confidence is returning," Davis tells GlobeSt.com. She notices that upbeat attitude especially at one of her assigned buildings, the class A, 48,000-sf Oasis Office Centre in Seminole County. She says most of the demand at that property currently is from the healthcare, medical, insurance, and security sectors.
However, at Realvest's five-building, 150,000-SF office portfolio in the 4,000-acre Orlando Central Park, tenants are tied in to the hospitality/tourism/service industries and leasing remains weak. "That space has been negatively impacted by 9-11 and consequently we have experienced the loss of some of our tenants," she tells GlobeSt.com.
Still, Davis says, she remains optimistic over the leasing business in metro Orlando for the rest of the year. "In this business, you have to," she says.
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