Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty in Ridgefield (formerly Prudential Adamo Realty) recently announced real estate veteran Jeffrey David Halpern as Branch Manager.
“I am very excited to be part of the BHG team,” boasts Halpern, “and especially heading up this highly productive, highly professional real estate office.”
Mr. Halpern started his real estate career in 1985, with The Cirkus Real Estate Group, in Clifton, a condominium conversion and new construction specialist. Within the first year was named Manager of the Residential/Resale Division, becoming a NJ licensed Broker in 1987. Within his 9 years at the company, he was a property manager, uncertified appraiser, member of the condominium conversion and new construction team and their Director of Marketing.
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From there he was with start-up real estate firm for a management company in Wayne, known as Real Estate Concepts also becoming involved with the Board of Realtors as the Chairperson of the Cultural Diversity Committee. In 1996 he became Broker-Manager of Prudential Prime Realty in Wayne. During this time he was the foreclosure specialist for Anchor Savings & Dime Savings Bank.
He joined Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage as a salesperson in 1998 in which he attained Gold Level of the Circle of Excellence and Platinum and Gold Level of the NJ Builders Assoc. Then named Broker-Manager of Coldwell Banker’s Metuchen-Edison office, of which he oversaw 85 sales associates.
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He was hired by Prudential New Jersey Properties to manage their Morristown Office in March 2007, and as Director of Referral Associates of New Jersey, then most recently was Vice President of Coccia Realty, opening their fourth office, this one in Madison. There he hired over 20 Realtors within one year. At the same time as Director of Success Referrals, LLC.
“My passion for real estate lead me to this position with Better Homes and Gardens,” continuesJeffrey. “Rand is a family owned company with all the resources of the Realogy real estate companies, the largest real estate company in the country. Their tools and support, as well as their CORE values gives their clients and their agents all that is necessary to be successful. I also found their compensation for agents to be most generous.”
Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty, founded in 1984, is the #1 real estate brokerage in the Greater Hudson Valley with over 30 offices serving Westchester, Rockland, the Greater Hudson Valley and Northern N.J. Rand with nearly 1000 residential real estate sales associates, as well as Rand Commercial - a commercial real estate company, and Hudson United - our affiliated Mortgage, Title and Insurance companies.
Jeff is a Morris County resident with his wife Lorraine and 2 children. He is a Certified ContinuingEducation Instructor in Code of Ethics, Certified Mediator and Fair Housing Instructor, as well as a member of the Board of Trustees as Treasurer for the North Central Jersey Association of Realtors. He has written several articles in newspapers and magazines on the topic of real estate. His blog in GETREALestate can be found in The Patch and other sites.
For any of your real estate needs or employment opportunities with Better Homes and Garden Rand Realty, please contact Mr. Halpern at 201-945-7484 x845 or Jeffrey.halpern@randrealty.com or follow him on www.twitter.com/jdhalpern or stop by their office at 742 Bergen Boulevard, Ridgefield.
