Hot Markets. New Technology. Shifting Regulation. GTR has Your Back.
With this edition of the Tampa Realtor Magazine, the Greater Tampa REALTORS® community begins its 111th year of supporting the aspirations and potentials of the region’s real estate industry and marketplace. 2021 will go down in history for a broad range of successes and notable events including its status as GTR’s second year of operating under several restricted COVID-19 related pandemic precautions and limitations. Under the leadership of 2021 President Ellie Lambert, the association achieved and set several records and accomplishments, including expanding to more than 15,000 members.
Last year also was distinguished by the performance and success of GTR’s members in a historic market that will forever be known at the “Hot Market,” distinguished by the incorporation of many new procedures and protocols, as well as a record level of residential and commercial properties sales.
In 2021, the association completed the first year of its three-year business plan with a new approach to member participation utilizing a contemporary structure of task forces, organizational excellence, improved governance efficiency, and a significant level of financial security. Further, we reorganized and streamlined our staff positions, and incorporated new member service technologies and procedures, which assisted the association in delivering hundreds of thousands of successful member service contacts last year alone.
But, perhaps most important, in 2021 GTR laid the foundation for continued improvement and success in 2022. The Tampa marketplace started off the year with news from the Zillow Group that Tampa would be the single hottest housing market in the country.
GTR is proud to announce that it is fully engaged at the altitude and speed necessary to support its membership through the challenges of this amazing distinction. GTR leadership and its staff are prepared to support our association’s members as they engage the challenges created by higher levels of market competition, new competency and skill set requirements, new regulatory programs, the strain of increased litigation, the opportunities created by working with the increased expectations of a rapidly changing real estate consumer, and the realities of climate change.
As we begin what promises to be year of historic progress, I want to take this moment to encourage all GTR members to participate within the new GTR Task Force program. When we gather to celebrate the achievements of 2022, this is the program which will have made the difference. There are dozens of exciting and stimulating positions for relevant member involvement as we work together to create a new post pandemic Tampa area real estate marketplace. Give us a call, you will not want to miss the adventures of 2022.
DENNIS MACDONALD
Chief Executive Officer/AE 813-769-7180
