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Broker Spotlight: Joy Martin
Name: Joy C. Martin
Title: Broker-owner
Experience: 35 years
Location: Florida Keys, Key Largo, Islamorada
Brokerage name: American Caribbean Real Estate
Team size: 30
Transaction sides: 158 (2023)
Sales volume: $202,271,250 (2023)
Background:
- President and founder of a 501(c)(3) pet rescue in 2007, operated administratively from my real estate office for 15 years
- Baptist Health Mariners Hospital Board of Directors, Operating Board
- Past president, Key Largo Chamber of Commerce
- Past director, Habitat for Humanity
- Past director, Island Dolphin Care 501(c)(3)
What are 3 things you’d like readers to know about you and your brokerage?
- We are a boutique brand with big connections, leveraging our networks and partnerships while maintaining a company culture of collaboration, service and community.
- We offer a client-centric approach that prioritizes the needs, preferences and satisfaction of the client throughout the entire business relationship.
- We are a Christie’s International Real Estate affiliate and the luxury leader in the Florida Keys with a record-breaking sale in 2023 for $23,000,000.
How did you get your start in real estate?
Started by selling property ads in a real estate magazine to the real estate brokers in our area and determined I could do what they were doing better.
How did you choose your brokerage?
It offered me the opportunity to run a company for one of the pioneer brokerages in our community. This later became an ownership opportunity for me and allowed me to do what I love on a higher level.
What’s your top tip for freshly licensed brokers?
Develop a company culture and hire for that culture.
What’s one thing you wish every agent knew?
The market does not determine your success. Your mindset does.
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