The Next Big Step: Guiding Seniors Through the Real Estate Process
maturing adults; whether they’re relocating, selling, buying or refinancing. Each year, the SRES® Council selects one or more outstanding senior-focused real estate professionals, highlighting their achievements by recognizing them with the Outstanding Service Award.
Exceeding the Needs of Maturing Adults CALIFORNIA REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONAL RECOGNIZED Field’s passion for ensuring that the elderly feel safe and secure durBY THE SRES® COUNCIL FOR PROVIDING OUTSTANDING ing real estate transactions can be SERVICE TO SENIORS traced back to the mid-’70s, when her own parents moved from southBy Barbara Pronin ern New Jersey to a senior community in California. ceanside, California, REALTOR® Ginni Field, who “I was living and selling in her nearly 40-year career has served in multiple real estate in New York at the time, but it opened my facets of the real estate industry, has been selected ® eyes to the special needs as the 2021 recipient of the Seniors Real Estate Specialist of older people when they (SRES®) Outstanding Service Award. move,” says Field. “By the time I moved to OceanThe SRES® designation is offered of REALTORS® (NAR). The side in 1998, I knew I had Field through the Center for REALTOR® community of designees is found my market niche.” Development, a wholly owned sub- comprised of REALTORS® who are Older people, she notes, often sidiary of the National Association dedicated to the real estate needs of feel insecure, not just about the
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