- Michael R. Good, CEO, Sotheby’s International Realty
Inman News™, the leader in real estate and technology news, today released its annual report of the real estate industry’s 100 most influential people in real estate.
Known as the “Inman 100,” the list showcases those who have risen to the challenge through the real estate downturn and whose actions have helped change the industry. It also includes individuals from outside of the real estate industry who impact the business of buying and selling homes.
Categories in this year’s Inman 100 include: brokers, technologists, trade group and multiple listing service representatives, government officials, journalists, economists, academics, consultants, mortgage industry and title company executives, bloggers and social media experts.
This year the list recognized Michael Good, CEO, Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates as a Power Broker, one of 100 Most Influential Real Estate Leaders of 2010.
Michael R. Good, a 33-year real estate industry veteran, has led Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates as CEO since February 2004. From 1997-2004 Good served as executive vice president and chief operating officer for NRT Inc., which oversees Realogy Corp’s company-owned brokerage operations and the largest U.S. brokerage company. Before launching his real estate career, Good served as a teacher and was a high school and collegiate wrestling coach in Minnesota. He was twice named an All-American in wrestling. Realogy’s former parent company, Cendant, in 2004 entered into an agreement with Sotheby’s Holdings Inc. to create the Sotheby’s franchise real estate network. The network has about 11,000 sales associates and 500 offices in 42 nations and territories spanning the globe.