OUR BLOWING ROCK REAL ESTATE BROKERS
Experience the difference in ALTITUDE and ATTITUDE !
Blowing Rock Properties combines old fashioned service and dedication to excellence with the latest technology... and the friendly, easy-going atmosphere found where folks truly enjoy their work. Our brokers will take the time and expend the effort to see that your real estate needs are met with unmatched service and professionalism.
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Gwen Steele Broker ABR, SRES, GRI, CRS, CSSS
2012 was a banner year for Gwen.
She closed $12,000,000 and was in the top 1% of all agents in the entire region.
Once again Gwen was the Top Producer for 2010 -- AND AGAIN FOR 2011 AND 2012! She has consistently been among the Top Producers in the High Country since the beginning of her career as a real estate agent. She has consistently averaged over $10 million in sales. The key to her success is exceeding the hopes and expectations of her clients by her reliability, trustworthiness, and unwavering commitment to doing her best.
Gwen, a native of Spartanburg, SC, graduated from St. Mary’s College in Raleigh and obtained a BA in English and Fine Arts from University of South Carolina. She continued her concentration in English studies in graduate school at The University of Georgia.
After two years of teaching English in Georgia, and flying for Pan American Airlines, Gwen joined IBM in Charlotte. Her career with IBM included sales, marketing, and management. She was a Staff Instructor for Sales Training in IBM’s training headquarters in Dallas, Texas, and a Marketing Manager in New Orleans and Washington, D.C. After living in New York, Washington, Boston, and Chicago, Gwen and her husband, Jim, moved to Greensboro where she served as a manufacturer’s representative for several high-end bed linen companies.
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Robert Novacek Broker
Robert Novacek has been Blowing Rock Properties Top Producer for 6 out of 7 years running. His volume averages $10 million in sales per year. His secrets? Number one, listening to you. Number two, hard work. He lives and breathes real estate--constantly previewing properties, checking tax rolls, and working with other realtors to find distinctive properties for clients.
Blowing Rock is unique, and Robert’s years in the business have given him deep experience. So when you explain what you want, Robert will likely know more about the property than a computer can tell you. Who owned it last, what contractor built it, how it was renovated, whether the winter access is good.
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Gail Smart Principal Broker
President and principal broker of Blowing Rock Properties, Inc., Gail is a native North Carolinian who grew up in Rutherfordton, NC?arriving in Blowing Rock in 1970. She attended Wake Forest University and graduated magna cum laude from Appalachian State with her degree in psychology. After several years working as a counselor with Vocational Rehabilitation,
Gail sold her worldly goods and headed out for a 6 year adventure sailing the Bahamas and the Caribbean in an old but seaworthy Zeeland yawl. It was during this time that she had her first “sales” position - working as a top producing sales agent for a local tour operator in St. Thomas. Returning to Blowing Rock in 1986, she entered the real estate field and, in 1991, opened Blowing Rock Properties.
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Carol Knapp
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Carol has been a broker with Blowing Rock Properties since 1995, starting her real estate career in 1990. Carol is the firms most experienced agent. She has to her credit over 335 sold transactions to draw wisdom from.
Carol’s entire career has been in sales. She owned a business machine supply company that she sold in 1989 and then chose to make Blowing Rock her full time home. She grew up on the rural Eastern Shore of Maryland and learned to appreciate old architecture, agriculture, small towns and crab feasts.
Her interests are gardening, music, traveling and family. She lives in town with her spoiled cat Jezzabelle.
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Pam Winkler
A 5th generation native of Watauga County, Pam will love showing you why she loves these beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, and the wonderful mountain people. Pam’s ancestors were educators and visionaries who were involved in bringing better education, transportation, medical care, and the arts to the mountain people. They were instrumental in the early founding of what is now Appalachian State University in Boone. Other contributions are the founding of The Southern Appalachian Historical Association, the creation of “The Horn in the West” outdoor drama, and the Daniel Boone Native Botanical Gardens, building of the Blue Ridge Parkway in western North Carolina, and the founding of what is now Watauga Medical Center.
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