The Greater Boston Association of REALTORS® (GBAR) has named Marie Presti Broker/Owner of the Presti Group in Newton, as the 2017 Greater Boston REALTOR® of the Year. Presti received the award during the association's annual awards breakfast at the Granite Links Golf Club in Quincy last month.
The REALTOR® of the Year Award was first presented locally in 1957, and it honors members for their volunteerism and industry work over the prior 18 months in three specific areas: participation and service to the REALTOR® organization on the local, state and national levels; community involvement, including volunteerism in community service projects and membership and support of civic and charitable organizations; and outstanding business and real estate industry accomplishments.
Presti has been actively involved in the REALTOR® organization since 2003. She currently serves as GBAR president-elect, chair of is Forms Committee and member of the Executive, Mediation, and Professional Standards Committees. She also served two consecutive one-year terms as GBAR treasurer in 2015 and 2016. Additionally she is a director of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board and has served on its Finance Committee.
On the state level, Presti serves on the Massachusetts Association of REALTORS® (MAR) Mediation and Professional Standards committees and on its Homelessness Presidential Advisory Group and task force. A member of the MAR Board of Directors since 2009, she chaired the MAR Mediation Committee in 2016 and is a 2006 graduate of the MAR Leadership Academy.
Presti is a National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) certified mediator and is a frequent attendee of the NAR Legislative Meetings and NAR Annual Convention. She has also been a REALTOR® Political Action Committee (RPAC) Sterling R Major Investor for the past five years.
She is an active member of both the Newton and Stoneham communities, serving in multiple roles at civic and service clubs and charitable organizations. She is a director and past president of the Newton Rotary Club, a director of the Newton Mother's Forum, and is actively involved with the Newton Historical Society, the Newton-Needham Chamber of Commerce and Stoneham PTO. Additionally, she is a Newton Community Education instructor and actively volunteers with Newton at Home, Community Servings, and the St. Patrick's Church of Stoneham. Professionally, she has earned the real estate specialty designations of Accredited Buyer Representative (ABR), Certified Residential Specialist (CRS), GREEN, and Seniors Real Estate Specialist (SRES), as well as the Loss Mitigation Certification (LMC).
The Greater Boston Association of REALTORS® is a private trade association with more than 9,000 REALTOR® members who specialize in residential real estate in Eastern Massachusetts. GBAR is the largest of five divisions of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board (GBREB), and a local chapter of the Massachusetts and National Associations of REALTORS® (NAR). REALTOR® is a federally-registered trademark reserved exclusively for members of NAR.
