From Staff
Greg Matovina, owner of Matovina & Co., has been selected as chairman of the Florida Home Builders Association’s Governmental Affairs Committee for 2014-15, the association reported.
A past president of the Northeast Florida Builders Association, Matovina founded Matovina & Co. in 1991 and has since been involved in the development of over 10,000 home sites, targeting customers that range from first-time home buyers to luxury buyers in higher-end communities.
Key issues Matovina will follow in the upcoming session include water-related policies that will impact stormwater rules, septic tank use and springshed protection. In addition, there will be technical fixes and conflict resolution of building and fire codes, a continued push for full funding of the Sadowski Affordable Housing Trust Fund, and proposals that would subject residential developments to homeowners association regulations that now are limited to condos.
Pat Day, Andrew Michael and Suzanne Trammell
Re/Max Unlimited Ponte Vedra Beach hired agents Pat Day, Andrew Michael and Suzanne Trammell.
Day was previously a certified financial manager for Merrill Lynch’s Global Private Client Group in Ponte Vedra Beach. He also is a former CEO of Premier Transportation, a multimillion-dollar luxury transportation company. He also played college football at Tulane University.
Michael comes from the Fort Lauderdale area, where he worked 14 years for the Broward County Sheriff’s Department. In his past two years, he also worked part time as a Realtor.
He attended college at The Citadel in South Carolina and enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserves in 1998.
As a Realtor, Michael specializes in assisting active-duty military, reserves and veterans.
Trammell previously specialized in selling luxury properties in the Buckhead area in Atlanta, and has consistently been in the top 1 percent of producing agents in former real estate offices.
Prior to joining the real estate industry, Trammell sold software to large corporations. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in industrial organizational psychology from the University of Alabama.
Shawn Budd
AV Homes has named industry veteran Shawn Budd as its vice president of operations in Jacksonville.
Budd will oversee homebuilding operations, land development and acquisition as part of AV’s recent expansion into Northeast Florida.
Budd has more than 20 years of experience in the industry, including a family-run building company in New Jersey and founding both a land development consulting group and a custom homebuilding company.
Scottsdale, Ariz.-based AV Homes recently announced plans for its first community in the Jacksonville market, Old Still, planned as an urban park community with front porches overlooking winding boulevards. The company also recently joined the select homebuilder program in Nocatee, offering six home designs in its Cypress Trails neighborhood.
Ian MacDonald
Regions Bank welcomed mortgage loan officer Ian MacDonald back to Jacksonville.
MacDonald brings 10 years of experience to his role. He worked for Regions as a mortgage banker in the Jacksonville and Saint Augustine markets, and since 2008, served as a Regions vice president in Naples, Florida.
Under MacDonald’s leadership, the Naples market quickly became one of Regions’ most successful mortgage production centers.
He is a graduate of the University of Central Florida, a six-time Chairman’s Club award winner and was a 2012 recipient of the prestigious Regions Bank “Better Life Award.”
William Sharp Jr.
EXIT No. 1 Stop Realty’s William Sharp Jr. recently ranked number one in the Top 50 Agents in Buyers Sales Volume for all of EXIT Realty Florida. The ranking was for closed transactions from Sept. 1-30.
In achieving the rank, Sharp competed with agents from 64 EXIT Realty offices throughout Florida.
Other top agents from EXIT 1 Stop Realty included Walter Collins, ranked ninth; Steve Duce, ranked 20; and Julie Weiss Childers, ranked 28.
Yasmin Molina
Davidson Realty hired Yasmin Molina, who earned a certification in International Commerce from the University of Miami. She launched Forumiuris, a foundation focused on organizing Spanish-speaking conventions and seminars, according to a news release.
Molina expanded the foundation to include Venezuela, Colombia and the United States.
“We are happy to welcome another valuable Spanish-speaking agent to our team,” said Davidson Realty President Sherry Davidson.