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Leadership matters

Jackson Herlong

We want to congratulate our own Jackson Herlong for graduating Leadership Greenville this week.

Leadership Greenville, known as LG locally, is not your average program. This is an intense cohort that annually brings together wide swaths of local business and community leaders to learn more (and experience more) about Greenville. This year-long program covers almost every facet of our local economy, community and political spectrum.

You come out a much better leader at the end.

Why does this matter for real estate?

This shows that Herlong Sotheby’s International does more than list and sell. We cultivate. We create. We learn.

That is what we bring to the table.

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‘Match Day’ signals start of spring market

This story originally ran in the Greenville Journal. They are an outstanding source of local news.

The Ides of March are full of portent for fourth-year medical students across the U.S. They await Match Day with bated breath. So do Upstate Realtors … those “in the know” anyway.

What is Match Day? It’s when med students, those soon to be an M.D., match with one of their chosen residency programs — and the Upstate has lots of residencies. This year it’s March 20th.

Why would a Realtor care? While manufacturing remains the Upstate’s largest industry, health care is our largest employer, and it’s growing faster. We welcome an influx of newly minted M.D.‘s in search of housing every March. Most residents rent — they’re largely compensated by the benefit of EXPERIENCE — but Match Day triggers a domino effect. Doctors seasoned by their residencies and fellowships in the Upstate also start house-hunting as they shift into private practice.

If you’re a typical Upstate seller who assumes you should wait to sell “when my azaleas are in bloom” (in April, for 10 minutes …) you may want to rethink that. Match Day marches us into the spring market.