With a sure hand these last 16 years, Nancy Everett has steered a steady course through the often-turbulent local real estate seas. As a sailor, she knows the importance of keeping calm and carrying on.
By Robin Jovanovich
With a sure hand these last 16 years, Nancy Everett has steered a steady course through the often-turbulent local real estate seas. As a sailor, she knows the importance of keeping calm and carrying on.
Straight out of Skidmore College, where she majored in American Studies and minored in Art History, she worked as a paralegal and then a probate administrator at a probate law firm. When her husband Nick, a landscape architect, was offered a job in Australia, she followed him, with their first child in tow.
In 1985, the Everetts moved back to Rye, where both grew up. Nancy did a lot of volunteer work while raising her three children, now 30, 27, and 22. While serving on the Rye YMCA Board, she got to know Don Bomann, who with his wife Joan, owned Realty 3.
“I was looking for something I could do and still be home when my kids walked in the door after school,” said Everett. “I enjoyed working with Don and he made the real estate business seem very appealing.”
When Realty 3 was bought by Raveis a few years ago, the transition was smooth for Everett. “We’re still a wonderful close-knit group.” She was appointed to Raveis’ agent/advisory committee, which she finds enormously helpful. “It’s a sounding board.”
While 2011 wasn’t a banner year for home sales in and around Rye, Everett said the market picked up dramatically in the last quarter, especially November and December. “We’re waiting for inventory. Pent-up demand is driving our market.”
Things really picked up for Everett at year’s end. She had the buyer for a record-breaking sale on Milton Point.
Preferring not to share details on the buyer or the purchase, she said, “One part of being a realtor is keeping a client’s confidence; that’s something I value. I know my clients value it too.”
For Everett, “clients become your friends, or were your friends to begin with.” She’s built a rock-solid reputation mostly through personal referrals. “They’re the best.”
Even though the holidays are knocking on our doorsteps, Everett is busy building business for next year.
Wishing her all the best in the New Year. She’s earned it.
