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Contact: Kerry Park
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Email: kerry@rirealtors.org

 

RI Association of REALTORS® Announce 2015 Officers

Bruce Lane Named 2015 RIAR President

Warwick, RI, October 28, 2014 …Bruce D. Lane of Williams and Stuart Real Estate in Cranston has been elected the 2015 President of the Rhode Island Association of Realtors (RIAR).  He assumes his duties of the 4000-member professional group when he returns from the Annual Convention of the National Association of Realtors in November.

Lane was the President of the Greater Providence Board of Realtors and the Realtor of the Year for both the local board and the statewide Rhode Island Association of Realtors in 2011.  He has served on the RIAR Board of Directors since 2010, as well as the State-Wide Multiple Listing Service board.  An active participant on numerous Realtor committees at the local, state and national levels, Lane was a recipient of a Lear Award, the highest honor a Realtor board can bestow upon a member for their service to the Realtor association. He is a resident of North Kingstown, Rhode Island.

Other 2015 RIAR officers are President-Elect, Arthur Yatsko of the Salisbury Agency in Warwick; Vice President, Brenda Marchwicki of BisMarc Properties in Providence; Treasurer, Danielle Thompson of RE/MAX River’s Edge in Bristol; Secretary, Joseph Luca of RE/MAX Preferred in North Providence; and Immediate Past President, Robert Martin of Century 21 Crossroads in Woonsocket.

Newly appointed voting Directors of the RIAR board include Patricia Lenihan of Coldwell Banker Res. Brokerage of East Greenwich and Newport; Greg Dantas of RI Real Estate Services in East Greenwich; Leann D’Ettore of Next Home Real Estate in Cranston; Thomas Sweeney of Sweeney Real Estate & Appraisal in Providence; Belinda Nattress of Keller Williams Realty Newport; and Paul Ryan Antrop of Residential Properties, Ltd. in Cumberland.

 

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.