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Four Connecticut brokerage executives have landed spots on an influential ranking of the top figures in the American real estate industry.
The Swanepoel Power 200, published annually by brokerage consultancy T3 Sixty, bills itself as “the definitive ranking of the residential real estate industry’s executives and leaders.”
To make the cut, among other qualifications, someone must lead or be a senior executive at a brokerage company with more than $3 billion in annual sales volume, at a real estate tech firm with a large user base – for example, over 1,000 broker or team clients or 50,000 agent users – or at an MLS organizations with over 40,000 subscribers, a local Realtor association with over 20,000 members or a state Realtor association with more than 50,000 members.
Ryan and Chris Raveis, co-CEOs of Shelton-based William Raveis Real Estate, the combined brokerage, insurance firm and mortgage lender that their father founded in 1974, took the highest spot on the 200-person list, ranking No. 33.
Next came BHHS New England Properties President and CEO Candace Adams, at No. 73. Her brokerage has 2,600 agents in 63 offices in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island.
Third, William Pitt | Julia B. Fee Sotheby’s International Realty Chairman and CEO Paul Breunich, at No. 91. The 1,100-agent firm does around $6 billion in annual sales in Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts.
And last among Connecticut’s representatives on the Power 200 list, but not least, Elizabeth Nunan. The president and CEO of 1,450-agent, 32-office New York and Fairfield County luxury brokerage Houlihan Lawrence ranked No. 150.
“The leaders featured in the SP 200 really showed what it takes to be a strong and dynamic leader in 2023. Despite facing some of the toughest challenges in their careers, they refused to pull back or back down. Instead, they embraced action, laying the foundation for innovation, expansion and growth. These are precisely the qualities we acknowledge in the SP 200,” Jack Miller, president and CEO of T3 Sixty, said in a statement.
