Six Associates at Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty Named 2012 Five Star Professionals

ORLANDO, Fla. --- Six Associates at Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty were certified 2012 Five Star Professionals in a recent poll of all Orlando-area home buyers who bought homes valued at more than $150,000. Roger Soderstrom, founder and owner of Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty, said associates Judy Werth, Teresa Parker, Matt McDonald, Naresh Mistry, Sally Taylor and Emily White earned the Five Star Real Estate Agent Award from Five Star Professional, an independent market research company based in Minneapolis that measures professional services quality. Soderstrom said Five Star Professional polled every buyer who bought a home in the Orlando area in since May 1, 2012 valued at more than $150,000. Respondents were asked to evaluate real estate associates based on nine criteria. Both negative and positive evaluations were included in the scoring. “Five Star Professional has been conducting area-wide surveys since 2003 to determine the quality of professional services in real estate,” Soderstrom said. “In 2012, Five Star Professional surveyed the real estate industry in 45 markets in the U.S. and Canada,” Soderstrom said. The survey was commissioned by Orlando Magazine. “We are delighted that six of our associates were named Five Star Professionals,” Soderstrom said. “We know they are the best trained, best educated and best resources real estate professionals in the Central Florida region and it is now apparent that their clients think as highly of them as we do,” he said.