Sonoma County-based Rob Sullivan most not too long ago labored at Vanguard Properties, and spent a number of years at Coldwell Banker earlier than that.
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Should you thought the battle for high brokers had ebbed within the face of huge information about issues like fee lawsuits, nicely, guess once more: Coldwell Banker simply nabbed a top-performing agent in California’s wine nation.
Rob Sullivan has joined the venerable model from Vanguard Properties, and can work out of Coldwell Banker’s workplace in Petaluma, a metropolis in Sonoma County, based on a press release from the corporate. The assertion describes Sullivan as “a consistent top-performing agent” who “has closed over $250 million in real estate sales across 265 transactions.”
Sonoma County is the center of California’s wine nation.
Previous to Vanguard, Sullivan did an earlier stint at Coldwell Banker from 2014 to 2019, the assertion notes. Which means he’s not only a huge get for Coldwell Banker, he’s additionally what’s typically referred to as a “boomerang agent,” or somebody who left one model solely to later return. During the last a number of years, because the market slowed and brokerages centered ever extra intensely on top-performers with confirmed monitor data, boomerang brokers have been among the many most celebrated recruits.
Coldwell Banker particularly has made a degree of celebrating its boomerang brokers in opposition to the backdrop of a heightened competitors for brokers. That competitors dominated headlines in 2023 and early 2024, earlier than being considerably eclipsed by information of antitrust litigation over agent commissions. Nonetheless, regardless of the rise of different information tales, the so-called “recruiting wars” haven’t ended — as Sullivan’s transfer to Coldwell Banker demonstrates.
In Sullivan’s case, he was upbeat about becoming a member of Coldwell Banker, saying within the assertion that he constructed his “foundation here and I look forward to offering access to the company’s global network to my clients.”
“Relationships are the core of real estate, and I know returning to the Coldwell Banker family will only enrich my business and client development,” he added.
Firm brass was equally laudatory towards Sullivan.
“Rob is a highly regarded agent in Sonoma County and we are thrilled that he has chosen to come back and affiliate with the Petaluma office,” Jennifer Lind, a regional president at Coldwell Banker, mentioned within the assertion. “Coldwell Banker’s presence, global footprint and strong local leadership, combined with Rob’s exceptional service to his clients creates a perfect partnership that we are proud to continue.”