Anne-Marie Hayward and Robert Gonzalez to Lead New Mark Spain Real Estate Florida Operations

ORLANDO, Fla. - April 1, 2021 - PRLog -- Hayward and Gonzalez will each have the title director of sales and are responsible for launching residential real estate operations in Orlando and Tampa. Their responsibilities include agent acquisition, training, development, coaching and expanding the Florida sales team.

Mark Spain Real Estate has earned the top real estate team ranking for closed transactions by the Wall Street Journal and Real Trends three straight years, selling more homes than any other Realtor/team in the nation. In 2020, it closed a record $1.4 billion.

Anne-Marie Hayward has 19 years' management experience and 15 years of sales, organizational development, training and coaching. In five years of leadership with Keller Williams, Hayward grew a new franchise from 14 to 140 agents in just 18 months and had a franchise office named one of the top 10 franchises nationally.

Hayward and her family moved to Orlando in 2017 and reside in Seminole County. She is  a College of Disney Knowledge graduate and completed Disney's Approach to Quality Service program via the Disney Institute. Hayward serves on the board of the Florida chapter of Fellowship of Women Leaders.

Robert Gonzalez has an extensive background as a sales and marketing leader/expert. He has a proven track record of team building, expansion and training. A long-time resident of Florida currently living in Winter Garden, Gonzalez has extensive senior sales management experience in the timeshare industry and served as vice president of sales and marketing at a healthcare company. He has a proven history of acquiring and developing high-performance sales teams.

"We are fortunate to have Anne-Marie and Robert leading our sales team expansion efforts in Florida," said Chairman and CEO Mark Spain. "They both exemplify our core value of leading with a servant's heart and will be great assets in our team-building efforts in Orlando and Tampa."

Mark Spain Real Estate typically only hires one in 10 real estate applicants, after conducting a multi-step assessment and interview process. Hayward and Gonzalez will be responsible for selecting talent to join Mark Spain Real Estate who embody the company's value of having an attitude of excellence in serving the company's clients.

The new Mark Spain Real Estate Orlando (https://markspain.com/orlando) office is located at 300 S Orange Avenue, Suite 1000 and the Tampa (https://markspain.com/tampa) office is at 401 E Jackson St Suite 3300 and plans to employ more than 100 people in Florida.. Mark Spain Real Estate has six locations in Georgia—five in metro Atlanta and an office in Athens, and locations Charlotte, Raleigh, Nashville, and new branches in Orlando and Tampa.