The Corcoran Group announced on Mar. 9 that Mercedes Saewitz has been named regional vice president for Florida.
Saewitz, a Miami native with more than 25 years of experience in the real estate industry, will lead Corcoran’s Miami Beach and Surfside offices. She will also support other Corcoran offices across Florida, including locations in Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Delray Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Hobe Sound, 30A, St. Petersburg, Sarasota and Panama City.
This appointment follows recent changes in South Florida real estate leadership after the Compass-Anywhere Real Estate merger. Last month, Jeff Polashuk left his position as Compass’ regional vice president for Florida to join Gideon Strategic Partners.
Saewitz began her career by founding M Realty in 2003 and later joined One Sotheby’s International Realty after selling her business in 2007. In 2015, she became a founding agent at Compass’s Miami office and eventually rose to principal broker of Florida and national head representative of brokers at Compass. She left Compass last year to serve as senior vice president of operations at Aperture Global Real Estate before being approached by Pam Liebman this winter.
“When you get a call from Pam Liebman, it’s sort of a career-defining moment,” Saewitz said. “She’s someone you don’t say no to.”
Saewitz said she plans to focus on agent experience and support in her new role and hopes to expand the firm’s agent base rapidly throughout the state. “I’d love to see Corcoran double agent count in a year,” she said.
When asked about expanding into new markets within Florida, Saewitz said it would depend on where company leadership saw opportunity but added: “I have a lot of dream-bigs.”
