Mark Hite with Keller Williams Realty is photographed in their offices Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016, in Chattanooga, Tenn.About GCAR
Founded: 1912Membership: More than 1,700Area served: Hamilton and Sequatchie counties in southeast Tennessee and Catoosa, Dade and Walker counties in northwest Georgia.Affiliation: GCAR is one of more than 1,400 local boards and associations of Realtors nationwide that comprise the National Association of RealtorsOffice: 2963 Amnicola Highway
About Mark Hite
Job: Realtor and owner of Mark Hite team for Keller Williams RealtyAge: 51New position: 2017 president of the Greater Chattanooga Association of RealtorsEducation: Graduate of the University of KentuckyCareer: He came to Chattanooga in 1983 as store manager for Proffitts, served as regional vice president of stores for Saks Inc., and became a Realtor in 2002, first with Prudential Realty Center and then with Keller Williams.
For the second time in the past five years, Mark Hite will serve this year as president of the Greater Chattanooga Association of Realtors.
Hite, a 15-year Realtor who has built one of the biggest residential real estate teams in Chattanooga, succeeded Nathan Waldorf as the top volunteer leader of the local Realtors group, which includes more than 1,700 Realtor members. Hite said he expects Chattanooga’s real estate market to continue to improve in 2017, and he is eager to help work to upgrade the professionalism of the real estate profession.
Hite’s own team, which sells under the Keller Williams franchise, expects to sell about 500 homes and do about $90 million in total sales this year, up nearly 20 percent from last year. Hite has grown his real estate team to 20 members, using the philosophy promoted by Keller Williams founder Gary Keller in his 2004 book, “The Millionaire Real Estate Agent.” Hite has not only used Keller’s bock as a blueprint for his own business but was interviewed by Keller last spring as one of those who has successfully used the team-building concept to build real estate services.