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WRRE is ranking No. 9 by sales volume in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.realtrends.com\/rankings\/real-trends-500-by-volume-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RealTrends 500 brokerage rankings<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, William Raveis entered the Florida market by acquiring <strong>The Fite Group Luxury Homes<\/strong>, based in Palm Beach, Florida. The real estate juggernaut hosts 134 offices and over 4,000 agents in the north and southeast, including Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont, but has been expanding into the hot Florida market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/08\/Unknown-1.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"Unknown-1\" class=\"wp-image-16848\" width=\"537\" height=\"359\"\/><figcaption>From Left to Right: Matt Lane (General Manager of William Raveis Florida), Keith Redding, Susan Saltalamacchia (Key Solutions), Brian Tresidder\u00a0(Key Solutions), Paul Bocka (William Raveis VP of Business Development) and Molly Lane\u00a0(General Manager of William Raveis Florida).\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFlorida is hot in more ways than one,\u201d said William \u201cBill\u201d Raveis, Chairman and CEO of WRRE,\u00a0who founded the company 47 years ago. \u201cAs more and more people from the northeast buy primary or vacation homes in Florida, we plan to expand throughout Florida for many years, further strengthening our luxury network.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of people moving south continues to go up. According to Florida\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/edr.state.fl.us\/Content\/resource-demand\/index.cfm\"><u>office <\/u><\/a>of Economic and Demographic Research, an estimated 329,717 new residents settled in Florida between April 2020 and April 2021. William Raveis said his family\u2019s company is following their clients. There have been 22 sales over $40 million in Palm Beach Country since March\u2014 and 35 over $30 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/palm-beach-florida-real-estate-housing-market-11626972941\">a 177.8% <\/a>spike in luxury sales compared with the same quarter last year, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/palm-beach-florida-real-estate-housing-market-11626972941\"><u>Wall Street Journal<\/u> <\/a>article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are going deep into the luxury markets on the east coast, especially areas with shifting demographics with an inflow of population which we are seeing in Florida, and it serves our customer base well,\u201d said co-president Ryan Raveis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Relocation to Florida isn\u2019t slowing down. Residents from the northeast continue to migrate to Palm Beach county, especially New Yorkers. 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