Long Realty's Kaiserman is tops again

January 15, 1998 - Long Realty's Kaiserman is tops again
by Ernie Heltsley

Robin Sue Kaiserman is the top-selling Tucson real estate agent for the fifth year in a row, with more than $19 million in sales last year.

Kaiserman won despite moving to Long Realty in the waning days of 1996 from Coldwell Banker Success Realty, where she was the leading seller of houses for seven years in a row.

Also notable is that Long Realty agents took the top five spots of the top 10 selling agents in the city, according to the Tucson Association of Realtors' Multiple Listing Service figures.

Behind Kaiserman, in order, are runner-up Reta Cox, then Madeline Friedman, Russell Long, and Laurie Kaye.

Tucson Realty & Trust Co. agents took three of the next four spots, with William Rose at No. 6, followed by Janell Jellison. Michael Harris was eighth. Rob Lamb of Realty Executives was seventh between Jellison and Harris.

Larry L.B. Bender, a Prudential Aegis agent, was 10th. Bender also had the most transactions of any of the top 10 agents. He had 76 for an average of $111,032 on $8,438,468 in sales.

Tucson Realty's Jellison had the fewest transactions, 27, but her $10.1 million in sales averages $374,490, roughly the same as Kaiserman's average of $375,080 on 51 transactions and $19.1 million.

Although Kaiserman doesn't specialize in luxury-priced homes, some higher-priced homes - one toward the end of the year - put her over the top for 1997.

Among those homes were the two highest-priced ever sold in Tucson, one in Skyline Country Club and the other in Finisterra, west of Ventana Canyon. They went for $1.57 million and $1.6 million, respectively.

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