CHAPEL HILL -- Jane Hathaway has been named Multi-Builder Representative for Coldwell Banker Advantage New Homes, working with multiple builders in multiple neighborhoods to sell new homes. Under this program, neighborhoods in the sell-out phase are offered services such as open houses and fliers to general brokerage agents; small developments with 25 homesites or less are offered a full service specialized program.

Originally from Massachusetts, Hathaway graduated from American International College with a degree in biological science. After relocations to New York City and Atlanta, she settled with her family in Boca Raton, Fla., and began her real estate career in 1989. She enjoyed a nine-year real estate career in Florida before moving in 1998 to become a Triangle resident.

Hathaway is a member of the Chapel Hill Board of Realtors, the Raleigh Regional Association of Realtors, the NC Association of Realtors, and the National Association of Realtors. She is also a member of the Home Builders Association of Raleigh-Wake County and of Durham, Orange, and Chatham Counties, the North Carolina HBA, and the National Association of Home Builders.

Bakst certified property expert

CHAPEL HILL -- Over 6 million homeowners are either more than a month late on their mortgage payments or in the foreclosure process. Sometimes the answer to this problem can be a "short sale" -- when the lender agrees to accept less than owed and the homeowner gets out of debt. Owners in foreclosure or pre-foreclosure should seek out the services of a Distressed Property Expert.

Jodi Bakst is one of 850 agents nationally (out of 1.4 million Realtors in the United States) designated as a CDPE, giving her a full understanding of the complexities of short sales, pre-foreclosure and foreclosures. She focuses on residential real estate in Orange, Durham and Chatham counties. She can be reached at Jodi@TeamJodi.com or 888-326-5634.

Chapel Hill native wins 'Top Gun' award

CHAPEL HILL -- Martha Lee Realty announced the Top Gun Award winner at a private ceremony Dec. 6. The Top Gun Award is given annually to the Company Realtor with the most sales. The 2008 Top Gun Award winner was Chapel Hill native Lee Hauser.

Born in Winston-Salem, raised in Fayetteville, Hauser was a radio broadcaster prior to beginning his real estate career in February 2006. In between he made hundreds of trips to Brunswick County for annual vacations, fishing trips and as the former co-owner of WCCA FM, Beach 106.3, Shallotte. His career in radio spanned 35 years in sales, management and ownership at radio stations in Chapel Hill, Wilmington, Wilson, Morehead City, Raleigh, Shallotte, Lumberton and Elizabethtown where he was 50 percent co-owner and general manager of WBLA AM and WGQR FM, Oldies and Beach 105.7 for 15 years.

Hauser is a past president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro and the Elizabethtown-White Lake Chambers of Commerce. He has also served as president of several Rotary Clubs in communities where he has lived.

Other awards presented at the ceremony included Million Dollar Round Table winners Bob Lawrence, Barbara Andrews of Carrboro, Jerry Donnelly, Kent Lee, Lee Hauser, Mike Hatter, and Employee of the Year Barbara Howard.