RISMedia Announces 2018 Real Estate Newsmaker Award Winners

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RISMedia Announces 2018 Real Estate Newsmaker Award Winners

NORWALK, Conn., May 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RISMedia, the leader in real estate information and publisher of Real Estate magazine, will honor seven industry luminaries during the 2018 Real Estate Newsmaker Awards Reception & Dinner, to be held on May 17 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., in conjunction with the National Association of REALTORS® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo taking place that week.

RISMedia's first annual Real Estate Newsmaker Awards are designed to recognize those individuals making headlines as a result of their newsworthy contributions to the real estate industry. RISMedia's 2018 Real Estate Newsmakers are: National Association of REALTORS® Chief Executive Officer Bob Goldberg ; HomeServices of America Chairman and CEO Ron Peltier ; Howard Hanna Real Estate Services Chief Executive Officer Helen Hanna Casey ; HSF Affiliates Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion Teresa Palacios Smith ; RE/MAX Boone Realty CEO and National Association of REALTORS® 2018 President Elizabeth Mendenhall ; Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Rand Realty General Manager and Chief Creative Officer Joseph Rand ; and HomeSmart International Founder and Chief Executive Officer Matt Widdows . According to RISMedia President and CEO John Featherston, "RISMedia's Real Estate Newsmaker Awards will honor the industry's real newsmakers: the people who are positively affecting our industry and the millions of consumers we serve. Our industry promotes and provides consumers with a pathway to responsible homeownership. Over the past three-plus decades, RISMedia has covered, chronicled and celebrated the professionals making news in real estate, and we are honored to be formalizing these honors starting with the first annual RISMedia Real Estate Newsmaker Awards." Designed specifically for a select group of more than 100 broker/owners, brand executives and real estate service leaders, the Real Estate Newsmaker Awards Reception & Dinner is an invitation-only event. Earlier on May 17, RISMedia will be hosting its annual  Power Broker Forum  discussion panel during the REALTORS® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo. The Forum, " Adapt, Compete, Win: How to Wow Customers—and Agents—in a Changing Real Estate World ," will take place from 10:30-11:30 a.m. in the Virginia Suite at the Marriott Wardman Park hotel in Washington, D.C. The Forum is open to all full and day NAR Conference attendees. About RISMedia RISMedia was founded in 1980 by CEO and Publisher John E. Featherston as the residential real estate industry's definitive source for news and information for real estate's most profitable and productive professionals. For over 35 years, RISMedia has provided the industry with news, trends, and strategies through Real Estate magazine and  RISMedia.com , its blog, Housecall, and its renowned networking and educational events, including RISMedia's Real Estate CEO Exchange; the Real Estate Newsmaker Awards Reception & Dinner; and the Power Broker Forum, Reception & Dinner.

About RISMedia's Real Estate Newsmaker Awards RISMedia's Real Estate Newsmaker Awards are designed to recognize those individuals making headlines as a result of their newsworthy contributions to the residential real estate industry, and their efforts to positively affect real estate professionals and the consumers and communities they serve. For more than three decades, RISMedia has been covering those making news in real estate through its print and online media vehicles, and is now formally honoring those individuals through the annual Newsmaker Awards Reception & Dinner. The inaugural group of Newsmakers will be recognized at this event in Washington, D.C. in May 2018, followed by the announcement of hundreds of 2019 Newsmakers in the December 2018 issue of RISMedia's Real Estate magazine.

Media Inquiries: Maria Patterson Executive Editor RISMedia 203-855-1234, ext. 127 maria@rismedia.com  

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