Mount Pleasant Magazine March/April 2016

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David Kent runs his
business a bit differently than most
people who make their living in the
Lowcountry’s booming real estate
industry, representing buyers but
not sellers in one of the most
lucrative
housing
markets in the country. His
penchant for swimming against
the tide has done little to affect
his standing among his peers,
however. The Mount Pleasant
resident is currently serving a
one-year term as president of the
South Carolina Association of
Realtors.
Kent, broker-in-charge of The
Real Buyer’s Agent in Mount
Pleasant, was inaugurated at
the SCR’s annual meeting last
September and officially assumed
his presidential duties Nov. 17,
2015. His responsibilities include
focusing on the group’s strategic
plan and budgeting for an organization that represents
more than 17,000 Realtors in the Palmetto State. An SCR
director since 2003 who has held various other leadership
positions in the past 13 years, he obviously has intimate
knowledge about how the organization works. He credits
Nick Kremydas, chief executive officer since 2006, with
making sure everything runs smoothly.
“Nick keeps us going in the right direction,” Kent
commented.
Kent’s duties as SCR president will take him around
the state and across the country. He recently hit the road to
install the officers of four local associations, and he attends
eight meetings a year in Columbia, in addition to the state
convention. He also participates as a director at meetings
of the National Association of Realtors. Since 2007, he has
held leadership positions in that organization as well.
A former president of both the Charleston Trident
Association of Realtors and the local Multiple Listing
Service, Kent has garnered a long list of industry awards
and honors: Realtor of Distinction; Realtor of the Year
in 2008; Leadership Trident with the Charleston Trident
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Ask the Experts
A Home Buyer’s
Best Friend
SCR President David Kent
By BrIan SHerMan
Photo by Brian Sherman.