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Schneider joins Greenway's team to expand auction services
COVINGTON - Greenway's Real Estate and Auction Co. has announced that Steve Schneider has joined its team of real estate professionals and auctioneers to help expand the market for its services beyond the Allegheny Highlands.
"I couldn't be more excited to have Steve Schneider now a part of our team," said Tommy Garten, owner, broker and auctioneer for the more than 60-year-old company. "His extensive worldwide sales and marketing experience blended with strong relationships built over the past eight years as a local businessman and realtor are ideally suited to our goal of growing Greenway's from a leading local company to a regional enterprise serving clients in many states."
Most recently Schneider was a realtor with Virginia Hot Springs Realty LLC and Clarkson and Wallace in Warm Springs. While there he served since 2004 as sales and marketing director for Homestead Preserve, a 2,300-acre conservation based residential community in Bath County, where sales exceeded $60 million during his tenure. Previously he served as senior vice president of sales and marketing for Lowrance Electronics, Tulsa, Okla., and as vice president of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Magellan Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., before moving to Bath in 2000.
"It is no secret that today's real estate market bears little resemblance to what existed just a couple years ago," said Schneider. "Sales via the traditional 'list and wait' process are certainly taking longer, bringing lower offers, and often costing sellers much more than during most of the past 10 years when real estate was booming. It will always be a cyclical market, but right now real estate auctions offer many property owners - and lenders - a sales solution that is faster, less complicated, and generates cash in a shorter period of time. The market is ideally positioned for us to take what Greenway's has done successfully for local customers over decades and create win-win-win solutions for sellers, buyers and lenders throughout the southeastern U.S.," he added.
Schneider will also serve real estate clients in Bath and Highland counties, and plans to reopen a Greenway's office in the Hot Springs or Warm Springs area later this year.
A past president and current board member of the Bath County Chamber of Commerce, Schneider resides in Warm Springs with his wife, Tina, and six children.
Greenway's Real Estate and Auction Inc. is a provider of realty and auction services based in Covington. The company also has an office in Lewisburg, W.Va.
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