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Contact: Kerry Park
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RI Association of REALTORS® Announces 2008 RI REALTOR of the Year

 

Karl Martone
RI Realtor of the Year
2008

 

November 5, 2008, Warwick, RI - Every year, the Rhode Island Association of Realtors (RIAR) recognizes one of approximately 4500 Realtors with the RI Realtor of the Year Award, the highest annual honor awarded by the state association. 

The winner is chosen from five Realtors who have received a Realtor of the Year Award from one of five local Rhode Island Realtor boards.

This year’s winner is Karl Martone of RE/MAX Properties in Smithfield, who received the Greater Providence Board of Realtors (GPBOR) 2008 Realtor of the Year Award.  Martone has held numerous positions in the local, state and national associations including his most recent post as President Elect of the statewide association. He has also served as President of the Greater Providence Board of Realtors and the State-Wide Multiple Listing Service (MLS). 

He is a two-time Lear Award recipient by the GPBOR, the highest honor that a Realtor can receive for outstanding service to the Board, the real estate community and the community at large.Martone has been the driving force behind the GPBOR’s Annual Charity Golf Tournament, helping to raise more than $200,000 for charities like the Childlife Program at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Special Olympics, Barbara Lombardi Domestic Violence Coalition, RI Community Food Bank and RI Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He is the 2009 President-Elect of the RI Association of REALTORS®.

Other candidates for the RI Realtor of the Year award included Rebecca Moniz, the recipient of the Kent-Washington Association of Realtors 2008 Realtor of the Year award; Richard Carrubba, recipient of the Newport County Board of Realtors 2008 Realtor of the Year award; Kevin Dumont, the Northern RI Board of Realtors 2008 Realtor of the Year award winner; and Donald Morash, winner of the RI Commercial & Appraisal Board of Realtors 2008 Realtor of the Year award.

 

About the Rhode Island Association of REALTORS®

The Rhode Island Association of REALTORS®, one of the largest trade organizations in Rhode Island with more than 5,000 members in nearly 1,000 offices, has been serving Rhode Islanders since 1948. Advocating for Rhode Island's property owners, the Rhode Island Association of REALTORS® provides a facility for professional development, research and exchange of information among its members and to the public and government for the purpose of preserving the free enterprise system and the right to own real property. Last year, RI Realtors transacted $6.9 billion in residential real estate sales and $7.1 billion in total sales and rentals including commercial transactions.

The Association is one of more than 1,500 boards and associations that comprise the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR). The National Association of Realtors®, “The Voice for Real Estate,” is America's largest trade association, representing over 1.5 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries and who subscribe to a strict Code of Ethics.

REALTOR® is a federally registered collective membership mark which identifies a real estate professional who is member of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® and subscribes to its strict Code of Ethics.