Need a Spanish Speaking Loan Officer in Orlando? Look No Further!

Need a Spanish Speaking Loan Officer? Synergy Mortgage Services, LLC is proud to announce Rene Ledesma has joined their team!

Rene worked with Synergy Mortgage Services, LLC from 2004 - 2006 as an original team member. Synergy Mortage is partnered with Keller Williams Advantage Realty in Oviedo, Fl. After persuing other goals, he realized that Synergy Mortgage is where he is meant to be! Rene recently renewed his License and is eager to work with bilingual clients!

Whether you’re a first-time homebuyer, or looking to buy your next home, our licensed mortgage professionals are here to answer all of your questions and guide you through the home buying process. Synergy Mortgage Services has a highly experienced staff that specializes in residential mortgage lending.We work closely with nationally recognized wholesale lenders in order to offer you an extensive list of loan programs and the best possible interest rates to finance your home. Before you get started with the home search though, you’ll want to be pre-approved.

The pre-approval is a free consultation. It is typically done by phone or you can “apply now” on our secure website. In approximately 15 minutes, we can gather the necessary information for most buyers. We then use the data collected and our superior technology to select the right loan product for you and to obtain an automated underwriting pre-approval. We make it that simple! Most pre-approvals can be issued the same day. Once you are pre-approved, we’ll provide you with some written examples to help demonstrate the rates available, down payment, estimated closing costs and estimated monthly payments for homes in your price range. Your mortgage professional will continue to communicate and provide support to both you and your realtor as you shop for homes and make offers with your pre-approved loan.

Feel free to contact Rene at 407-359-1255!

Contact Rick Bosley for more information on how to work with a Keller Williams Advantage II Realty agent at 407-393-5901!

Keller Williams® Realty, Inc. Announces Expansion into Indonesia, Southern Africa

AUSTIN, TX (September 20, 2012) — Keller Williams Realty, Inc., the second largest real estate company in the United States, announced today at its annual Mega Camp event that its continuing international franchise expansion now includes Indonesia and the Southern Africa region. Mega Camp, held in Austin, TX, boasts more than 11,000 registrations across three major sessions (Mega Technology Camp, Mega Agent Camp, and Mega Leadership Camp) featuring interviews and panels with industry experts and top producing agents.

KW Worldwide President, Chris Heller, announced the signing of the company’s latest overseas master franchisees. “We are always looking for the right people to foster and grow the Keller Williams Realty mission, vision and culture. When we find the right leadership, our goal is to leverage our proven models, systems, and trainings to serve our international communities at the highest level,” said Heller. “We welcome aboard our partners in Indonesia and the Southern Africa region, which includes South Africa, Namibia, Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, and Mozambique. We are excited to see them experience the same momentum and growth we have seen in North America.”

Preparations for the newest international market centers are already underway and are located in Pretoria, South Africa and Jakarta, Indonesia. “We are extremely excited and cannot wait for our opportunity to offer the South African real estate industry the Keller Williams value proposition,” said master franchisor, Johan Gouws. “We simply cannot carry on in the South African real estate industry the way things are now. Keller Williams is the company of change for us; the company for agents, by agents. Over the past year [my master franchising partner, Niel Cronje] and myself have become very fond of our Keller Williams friends and their value system of ‘God, family, then business.’”

“This is not just another international brand,” added Cronje. “This a real American company with a uniquely nontraditional, interdependent model that is growing globally. This is the most innovative real estate brand in the world, the one that is committed to building ‘careers worth having, businesses worth owning, and lives worth living,’ and the only brand that is truly for the agents. We can certainly see that the Keller Williams culture will sit very well with our market.”

Gouws has over 30 years of experience in the South African real estate market including overseeing gated developments and land acquisition for commercial and residential developments in Pretoria. Cronje also brings extensive business experience to the team with over 21 years of experience in both national and international real estate, as well as setting up and running his own profitable franchise operation. “The missing link in my business,” he pointed out, “was Keller Williams.”

Tertius Zitzke, CEO and owner of AccTech Systems, is the partner responsible for managing the technology and will be integrating the South African and Keller Williams systems. Completing the master franchise team is real estate industry icon Stefan Swanepoel, the New York Times Best-Selling Author of Surviving Your Serengeti: 7 Skills to Master Business & Life and renowned inspirational speaker on topics including leadership, personal development, technology, and annual real estate trends.

The two new KW Worldwide teams, led by Gouws, Cronje, Zitzke, and Swanepoel in the Southern Africa region and Tony Eddy in Indonesia, join nearly 77,000 associates and 675 offices in the United States and Canada, where the company has been franchising since 1991. “We are proud to be joining a company with such a strong system of beliefs and policy of putting real estate agents first,” said Eddy. “We are excited to see how we’ll thrive in the Indonesian market with the support of our new Keller Williams partners.”

Eddy, Chairman and CEO of Tony Eddy & Associates (TEA), has more than 14 years in the real estate project marketing consulting business, covering the Jakarta and Bali markets. Eddy received his MBA in Finance, Investment & Banking as well as his MSc in Real Estate and Urban Economics from University of Wisconsin – Madison, and is a former Real Estate Credit Manager with Citibank – Jakarta. Eddy is also a member of the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the first and only CIPS residing in Indonesia, and a member of the Indonesian Association of Real Estate Brokers (AREBI), where he serves as President for Bali Chapter.

In 2010, Keller Williams Realty CEO Mark Willis announced the expansion of Keller Williams Realty beyond North America and earlier this year, the company awarded its first overseas franchise in Vietnam. Negotiations with potential franchisees in several other countries continue as Keller Williams Realty intends to add 50,000 associates worldwide over the next 10 years.

“We’ve been asked why we’ve chosen worldwide expansion in the current market, and the answer is simple: momentum! Our proven models and systems allow our associates and offices to succeed in any real estate market,” said Willis. “As we continue to see years of unprecedented growth and technological innovation, expanding our opportunities abroad signifies the next logical step towards our growth as a company.”

Visit kwworldwide.com for more on the growing global opportunities happening at Keller Williams Realty.

Contact Team Leader, Rick Bosley for more information on Keller Williams Realty in Waterford Lakes.