The Tribune
February 6, 2009 - A real estate agent who recently handled $20 million in luxury condo hotel sales at The Reef on Paradise Island has been named as ERA Dupuch Real Estate's top performer for 2008.
Ten-year veteran Dave McCorquodale walked away with number one honours after zeroing in on a segment of the real estate market that has continued to thrive despite economic challenges - luxury properties. Networking and benefiting from word of mouth referrals, Mr. McCorquodale has nurtured relationships with second home owners who wanted to invest in the Bahamas.
The result, amount many other single home and commercial transactions, has been 10 sales at the 22 -storey Reef, including its most expensive offering, the Ocean View Resort, a residence with a priceless view and a price tag of $7.6 million.
"Dave's success often surprises people because he appears quiet, almost like an observer, never aggressive, but he knows the market backwards and forwards, inside out, and he really listens to people, mulls over their needs, considers their timeframe, long-term plans and then he goes to work find the exact match. He rarely misses", said Peter Dupuch, founder and owner of ERA Dupuch Real Estate.
"While I am honoured to be recognized as the top broker or sales associate of the year", Mr. McCorquodale said, "i know I would not have been able to achieve all that I did without the great team of ERA Dupuch Real Estate behind me. You can't find a better, more supportive group to work with, right from flying all around the islands in our company plane to look at new listings or familiarize us with various small islands to the networking and web support we get daily. It's the team that is number one".
Since 2001, ERA Dupuch Real Estate has since become the first franchise outside the US to earn luxury market status. It has been the top-performing ERA affiliate in the Caribbean three years running, beating competition in Turks & Caicos, Aruba, the Dominican Republic, Cayman Islands and Puerto Rico.
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